The Writers Studio

Ready for #CraftClass? Starts Tues, Sept. 24th, 6:30-8 pm ET. Register & start reading now. SPECIAL GUESTS: Three-time US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky on Tues, Oct 15 and poet & editor Meg Sexton on Tues, Oct 29 courses.writerstudio.com/collections/cr… #FridayReads #fiction #memoir #shortstory

Join us this Sunday, Sept 15th at 5 pm ET / 2 pm PT for our fall faculty reading. Amy Arutt, Doug Crowell, Linda Drach, Gail Ford, Hani Khalil, and Betsy Mahaffey will read their original work. Please register here to attend: bit.ly/3XqQ2KC #fiction #memoir #poetry

Writers read their rejected work. We all know #rejection. Come out and hear these writers read their "scorned satire, bad headlines, jokes that don't land, and other art smacked with the cruel hand of rejection." caveat.nyc/events/rejecte…

Last month Eleanor Kedney, founder & former director of The Writers Studio Tucson, read #poems from her latest book TWELVE DAYS FROM TRANSFER. Here's the video if you missed it: youtu.be/NVn4KR3AJuI?fe…

Writers Studio teacher Lorraine Babb's story "Funny" appears in The Good Life Review and her story "Wasted" appears in Peatsmoke Journal. Enjoy! peatsmokejournal.com/summer-2024-fi… thegoodlifereview.com/issue-fifteen/… #FridayReads #shortstory #shortstories #fiction #WSSuccess

Eleanor Kedney, former director of The Writers Studio Tucson, will read #poems from her book TWELVE DAYS FROM TRANSFER on Thurs 8/15 at 5 pm at Stonington Free Library in Stonington, CT. Watch the live stream on the Stonington Free Library YouTube channel. stoningtonfreelibrary.org/event/author-r…

Writers Studio teacher @JulianneBond has had two stories published in @gooseberrypie99. Read the stories here: gooseberry-pie.com/issue-14/ Congratulations, Julianne! #FridayReads #WSSuccess #shortstory #shortstories #fiction

Taking Craft Class in the fall in conjunction with your workshop? Make the Craft Class reading list your summer reading and get a head start on the fall reading. Find the reading list here: writerstudio.com/craft-class-re… #SummerReading2024 #summerreading #fiction #poetry #memoir

Those perfect literary gems in @GooseberryPie99 's Issue 14, include two stories by Writers Studio teacher @JulianneBond! gooseberry-pie.com/issue-14/

Read the Bay Area with @leilamottley who includes @_Tongogara_ & Chinaka Hodge & Bob Kaufman as writers to check out nytimes.com/2024/03/13/boo…

“Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.” —William Faulkner buff.ly/48C16rT

We’re pleased to share that Ann Chinnis, poet and Writers Studio student, has a chapbook POPPPET, MY POPPET, forthcoming from @FLPress. We couldn't be prouder. Congratulations, Ann! Visit finishinglinepress.com/product/poppet… to pre-order the book, out January 26, 2024. #WSSuccess #poetry

Mandelstam lived in exile under Stalin’s dictatorship, and yet, according to #poet Ilya Kaminsky, Mandelstam wrote some of his “best (and most joyful) writing [during] his darkest personal hours.” Join us Tuesday, December 17th to find out how he did it. courses.writerstudio.com/collections/cr…

During next week's #CraftClass, Writers Studio founder and director Philip Schultz will lead a discussion of techniques used by Osip Mandelstam in STOLEN AIR, a collection of his selected #poems. #FridayReads #poetry #poem #poets

Enjoy readings of special poems presented by Elizabeth Acevedo, @kwamedawes, @Oliver_delaPaz, @denicefrohman & more at GATHER IN POEMS, a virtual reading shared in the spirit of community. This Thurs., 12/14 at 7pm ET. RSVP free: eventbrite.com/e/2023-gather-…

This Weds at 11am PT and 2pm ET ! Registration info below!

For @lithub, I picked my 10 favorite book *reviews* for the sixth year running. Criticism is literature! lithub.com/the-10-best-bo…

@nytimes called the memoir “alternately harrowing and mordantly funny.” Register for #CraftClass to attend this class and receive the recordings of all eight classes: courses.writerstudio.com/collections/cr… #FridayReads

We've all got our harrowing stories, but how do you make it engaging for a reader? Join us this Tuesday, December 12, as Lesley Dormen discusses techniques used by @jennettemccurdy in her coming-of-age #memoir I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED.

This spring Lynn Schmeidler, former Writers Studio student, will publish her debut #shortstory collection HALF-LIVES, winner of @AutumnHousePrs’s Rising Writer Prize. Congratulations, Lynn! Pre-order the book here: autumnhouse.org/books/half-liv… #fiction #WSSuccess