The Writers Studio

If You Are New to The Writers Studio Take Remote Level 1 Writing Workshop Creative Writing Workshop with Richard Leis starts Saturday, July 17. ... Class meets via Google Meet Saturdays 10:00am-12:30pm PST. Richard's poetry has been published in Impossible Archetype, The Laurel Review, and Manzano Mountain Review. His fiction has been published in Cold Creek Review. His essays about fairy tales and technology have been published online at Tiny Donkey and Fairy Tale Review’s Fairy-Tale Files. He was a finalist in the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards in 2018 and a semi-finalist in 2019. https://www.writerstudio.com//tucson-workshop-leis-summer/

Online Journal Writing with a Persona taught by Mark Peterson. Class starts August 25 and meets via Google Meet Wednesdays 7:30-9:30 pm EDT <2 spots open>. Imagine writing about a personal subject you’ve never really been able to deal with before, overcoming whatever emotional barriers you’ve previously encountered. This six week class provides the private space and opportunity to explore our most intimate feelings about our most important subjects. The journal form frees us from our more self-conscious ambitions imagine using such literary personalities and masks as Kafka, Peter Handke, Virginia Woolf, Dostoevsky or any of our more contemporary poets and writers as a lens through which to view our own lives and subject matters. https://www.writerstudio.com//online-journal-writing-with/

Online Writing About Childhood -- a new 6-Week Class Just Added -- Open to All Childhood from the perspective of an adult writer can seem like another country, a strange land where our powers, responsibilities and perceptions were vastly different. And yet it is the place we all come from. And while the lens through which we viewed the world as children may have seemed innocent and magical, our sensibilities were always vulnerable to the hard truths of encroaching adulthood.... In this class, we will examine techniques and voices crafted by celebrated writers of poetry and prose such as Sandra Cisneros, Seamus Heaney, and Ray Bradbury. How did they use imagination and memory to regain a foothold in childhood’s not-so-distant realm, conjuring its wonder, joy, and pain? Whether working in poetry, prose, or creative nonfiction, can we apply similar voices and techniques to our own unique material? Let’s bring the world and experience of childhood to vibrant life again through our creative work. This class is open to all writers of poetry and prose, including those who are new to The Writers Studio as well as those who have already taken classes. Students will respond to weekly exercises, posting their assignments to an online class space where feedback will also be posted by other students and the teacher. Our class will then meet for a one-hour online video discussion focusing on the technique described in the exercise using the Google Meet. No special software needed, and no transcript will be available for those who miss the discussion. Six-week class, taught by Philip Ivory, starts Monday July 26. For more info and to register, go to https://www.writerstudio.com//online-writing-about-childh/

Marystina Santiestevan First Book Prize--Poetry "A prize of $1,500, publication by Conduit Books & Ephemera, and 30 author copies is given annually for a debut poetry collection. Bob Hicok will judge. Submit a manuscript of 48 to 90 pages with a $25 entry fee." Deadline 7/5 https://www.conduit.org/book-prizes

Online Advanced Memoir is half-full! This special hybrid online-video class is open to writers who have previously taken at least two terms of Online Memoir at The Writers Studio and are ready to move forward with a longer manuscript. Class starts 7/6. For more info and to register, go to https://www.writerstudio.com//online-advanced-memoir-work/

William Faulkner Literary Competition Fiction & Poetry -- Deadline 7/15 "The William Faulkner Literary Competition offers five categories for submission: Novel, One Act Playwriting, Short Story, Poem and Student Short Story." https://williamfaulknerliterarycompetition.com/submission-/

Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations naturally. They have been out and about, on people’s lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today that they are so stored with meanings, with memories, that they have contracted so many famous marriages. So begins a recording by Virginia Woolf, first broadcast by the BBC on 29 April 1937 as part of a series called Words Fail Me. Just eight minutes of the original remain and it is believed to be the only surviving recording of the British writer." https://www.bbc.com//20160324-the-only-surviving-recording

Announcing the 2021 PEN America Literary Grant Winners https://pen.org//grants-fellowships/2021-pen-america-lit/

The New Yorker Union decided on a walkout on Thursday January 21st, after a recent round of negotiations with management failed... https://www.nytimes.com//med/new-yorker-union-walkout.html

"Join PEN America for a free workshop with leading agents who will share an inside look at the role of the literary agent and the importance of representation in the path to publication." https://pen.org/event/it-takes-two/

Tonight @ 7 PM! Reading by beloved Writers Studio faculty and students: Lisa Bellamy Sally McDaniel Michele Herman... Peter Krass Whitney Porter Register for this free reading here: https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_tB4_mVhsQGyMda6kGPEcnw

Journalists’ word choices are shaped by colonialism. This article shares approaches to change that. https://thetyee.ca//2/01/17/Copy-Editor-Indigenous-Style/

Don't miss the Writers Studio Student Faculty Winter Reading, this Sunday 1/24 @ 7 PM, featuring an amazing line up of readers, including long-time Writers Studio Faculty Michele Herman. Michele's Online Level I workshop and Online Memoir workshop are open for registration. The reading is free and open to the public. Register in advance to attend this season's event. https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_tB4_mVhsQGyMda6kGPEcnw

"Bhanu Kapil has won the most valuable award in British poetry, the TS Eliot prize, for her radical and arresting collection How to Wash a Heart, in which she depicts the uncomfortable dynamics between an immigrant and her white, middle-class host." https://www.theguardian.com//bhanu-kapil-wins-ts-eliot-pri

Whitney Porter, former Master Class student and Writers Studio faculty, will be reading alongside Writers Studio faculty and students Lisa Bellamy, Sally McDaniel, Michele Herman, and Peter Krass this Sunday, January 24th at 7 PM EST. Be sure to register for the reading here: https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_tB4_mVhsQGyMda6kGPEcnw

This Sunday's Winter Student Faculty Reading features Peter Krass, long-time teacher and former Master Class Student. The reading is free and open to the public. Just don't forget to register: https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_tB4_mVhsQGyMda6kGPEcnw

"I only need a reason to write and there is no shortage of reasons. The truth is that I really write whenever, wherever and however." And now he's adding column writing to his repertoire ... The weekly column was initiated by Kooser and is supported by the Poetry Foundation and the Library of Congress." https://journalstar.com//article_68297f74-5d27-5871-a053-2

Don't miss the upcoming Writers Studio reading! On Sunday January, 24th @ 7 PM, Writers Studio faculty and students Lisa Bellamy, Sally McDaniel, Michele Herman, Peter Krass & Whitney Porter will be reading together on Zoom. Be sure to register in advance: https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_tB4_mVhsQGyMda6kGPEcnw