Poets & Writers

The Writers Studio at Thirty

I poet Philip Schultz and his wife, sculptor Monica Banks, started holding small, informal writing workshops in the living room of their tiny apartment in New York City’s West Village. In the thirty years since, these workshops have blossomed into the Writers Studio, an organization that hosts writing workshops throughout the United States and abroad and has helped shape the work of writers such as Jennifer Egan and Martha Southgate. “Our goal is to help anyone with a desire to write creatively acquire the technique necessary for full imaginative expression,”

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