The Writers Studio to Celebrate 30th Anniversary This May

The Writers Studio, the landmark school for creative writing and thinking founded and directed by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Philip Schultz, celebrates its 30th anniversary with the release of the 400-page anthology, The Writers Studio at 30 (Epiphany Editions).

The book is a compilation of fiction and poetry by current and former faculty and students, as well as The Writers Studio's Advisory Board members Jennifer Egan, Robert Pinsky, Edward Hirsch, Carl Dennis, Matthew Klam, Rosanna Warren, and others. It also includes an introduction by Schultz on his unique approach to writing, which made the school a success.

The anniversary celebration will take place at the Strand Bookstore on Saturday, May 6, 2017 (7 p.m.) and will showcase readings and comments from The Writers Studio's community of dedicated writers. Participants include Philip Schultz, Lisa Bellamy, Lesley Dormen, Therese Eiben, Rebecca Gee, Odette Heideman, Michele Herman, Joel Hinman, Lucinda Holt, Liz Kingsley, Peter Krass, Nancy Matsunaga, Mark Peterson, and Cynthia Weiner.

The Strand Bookstore is located at 828 Broadway (corner of East 12th Street) in New York City. Tickets are $20 (includes a copy of the Writers Studio anthology) or $15 (Strand Bookstore gift card). To order tickets.

For the last three decades, The Writers Studio has offered technique-based writing workshops to writers of literary fiction and poets on nearly every continent. What started as an informal workshop in a small West Village living room has grown organically into a school with four locations (New York, Hudson Valley, San Francisco, and Tucson), one of the first online writing programs, and a nonprofit branch that provides free workshops to teens in Bedford Stuyvesant (Brooklyn) and dyslexic students in the US and abroad. More than 1,000 students register every year to the ongoing 10-week workshops and to the craft class-an offering integral to the school's method and teaching students how to read as "writers."

The Writers Studio's mission is to help anyone with a desire to write creatively acquire the technique necessary for full imaginative expression. Unlike any other writing program, it has developed a unique teaching method by encouraging students to "try on" different narrative voices or personas. As the understanding of craft deepens, so does the emotional power of the writing. Hundreds of book and magazine publications, awards, fellowships and residencies have been earned by current and past members, and are a testament to the effectiveness of this original method.

In addition to its yearly roster of workshops, the school has an acclaimed reading series, which includes a yearly celebration of the Pushcart Prize and a U.S. literary journal such as Five Points, The Gettysburg Review, The Georgia Review, The Hudson Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and The Yale Review, among others.

For more information on The Writers Studio and its method, visit: www.writerstudio.com.