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The Writers Studio
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The Writers Studio, founded in 1987 by Philip Schultz, offers ongoing writing workshops for both beginner and experienced fiction writers and poets. With a focus on nurturing individual voices, The Writers Studio believes that anyone can learn the craft of writing and express themselves creatively.

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The Writers Studio

2 classes in-person in NYC have spots left, and 4 classes live online are available.

Level 1 Intro to Fiction and Poetry

The Writers Studio @ Instructor-led Online Learning, New York, NY

Explore the transformative power of persona writing in this introspective workshop at The Writers Studio. Discover how borrowing the voices of accomplished writers can unlock your most intimate stories and turn difficult subject matter into inspiration for fiction and poetry. Broaden your literary style and approach as you deepen your understanding of technique.

(7) Beginner 18 and older
$435

8 sessions

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Memoir Workshop

The Writers Studio @ Instructor-led Online Learning, New York, NY

Unlock the power of your personal story in the Memoir Workshop at The Writers Studio. Discover the techniques used by successful memoir writers to shape their charged experiences into captivating narratives. Emulate the voices of acclaimed authors and find your unique storytelling style in this immersive eight-week course.

(7) All levels 18 and older
$435

8 sessions

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Online Level 1 Intro to Fiction and Poetry

The Writers Studio @ Google Meet

Unlock your most intimate and private stories through personal writing in this online workshop. Develop narrative and lyric voices to turn even the most difficult subject matter into inspiration for your fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. Broaden your sense of what is possible in your own work and receive constructive critiques from teachers and fellow students.

(7) Beginner 18 and older
$435

8 sessions

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Online Level 1 Intro to Fiction

The Writers Studio

Unleash your potential with The Writers Studio's transformative online course, where you'll learn the art of persona writing and discover new styles and approaches. Develop narrative and lyric voices to unlock your most intimate stories and turn them into powerful works of fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. Join our supportive community of writers.

(7) Beginner 18 and older
$435

8 sessions

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Online Memoir Workshop

The Writers Studio

Discover the power of storytelling and learn to distill your life experiences into a memoir that captivates readers. Join this immersive online workshop to explore narrative techniques and find your unique voice, while receiving personalized feedback from a seasoned memoirist. Unleash your creativity and embark on a transformative writing journey.

(7) All levels 18 and older
$385

6 sessions

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Online Level 1 Intro to Poetry

The Writers Studio @ Google Meet

Develop your narrative and lyric voices in this introductory poetry workshop. Broaden your sense of what is possible in your work as you explore various literary styles and approaches. Join us online to deepen your understanding of the technique and receive constructive critiques from both teachers and fellow students.

(7) All levels 18 and older
$435

8 sessions

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Writing the Immigrant Story

The Writers Studio @ 272 W 10th St, New York, NY

Ours is a country of immigrants, united in the search for something better but uniquely formed by the culture and history from which we originated. Exiles and entrepreneurs, sojourners and refugees, immigrants straddle worlds old and new. In this six-week workshop for fiction and memoir writers, we will explore different approaches to writing the immigrant experience. What lens do we bring to bear on life-altering events? How do we...

(7) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$325

6 sessions

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Online Writers In Seclusion

The Writers Studio @ Instructor-led Online Learning, New York, NY

In this 6-week online class we will study how writers in seclusion and exile have turned their fear and anxiety into creative inspiration. Each week, we will try writing exercises based on fiction writers and poets such as Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust. In the weekly chats, we will discuss the week’s exercise and explore the model’s basic technical issues. Chat transcripts are always available to students unable to attend.  ...

(7) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$325

6 sessions

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Hudson Valley Introduction To Poetry (Online)

The Writers Studio

This class meets by live video; students are not required to live in the area.  Students in The Writers Studio Hudson Valley Introduction to Poetry Workshop learn how to create a “persona” or “narrator” for the poetic form. Through the use of Writers Studio exercises, students learn to recognize what makes a poem engaging and entertaining to the reader. While creating a persona narrator is a primary focus of the workshop, students will...

(7) Beginner 18 and older
No upcoming schedules

Online Crafting Fantastic and Imaginative Worlds

The Writers Studio

Your favorite writers and poets of speculative literature (including science fiction, fantasy, and horror) use narrative techniques like persona narrators, point of view, mood, and tone as well as worldbuilding to craft fantastic and imaginative worlds that parallel, reflect, and critique our own real world. Imagining utopias, dystopias, dinosaurs, aliens, monsters, magical beings and systems, sentient cities and starships to speculate about past...

(7) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules

Online Essays and the Persona Narrator

The Writers Studio @ Instructor-led Online Learning, New York, NY

Do you live with realities that shock, delight, or implore you? Do you have expertise, confusion, curiosities, appreciations, or denunciations that you want to share in a way that others can hear? In this 6-week class, we will look at essays by James Baldwin, Joan Didion, Brian Doyle, Maya Angelou, and Rebecca Solnit to see how their use of a persona narrator and other elements of craft help them to welcome the reader. This class will be conducted...

(7) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$325

6 sessions

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Online Journal Writing With A Persona

The Writers Studio

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...

(7) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules

Online Memoir Workshop

The Writers Studio @ Instructor-led Online Learning, New York, NY

The Writers Studio has been helping writers online for 20 years using our custom, easy to use online classrooms. Our online students publish, win awards, and achieve full creative expression. Students get personal feedback from the teacher every week. How do you write a good memoir? You apply the narrative techniques of fiction and poetry: you take the fascinating, messy raw material of your life and build a frame for it. You distill. You find...

(7) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$325

6 sessions

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Online Writing About Everyday Life

The Writers Studio @ Instructor-led Online Learning, New York, NY

Writers often find their richest material in their everyday lives. This material is easy to overlook as too pedestrian because it’s hard to see what’s so close to us. The exceptional poet James Schuyler revealed his longing for home in writing about his breakfast and Yannis Ritsos revealed his and his fellow prisoners’ anguish in exile in writing about daily life in a prison camp. In this six-week class, we’ll try out different narrative...

(7) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$325

6 sessions

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Online Writing In A Pandemic

The Writers Studio @ Instructor-led Online Learning, New York, NY

How do you write during a global pandemic? One way: Turn to earlier writers for help. While the coronavirus may be new, pandemics aren’t. From past pandemics both real and imagined, there’s a wealth of good writing you can use as a model for your own work. This six-week online writing workshop follows The Writers Studio’s approach to teaching creative writing by offering exercises based on the personas used in works by published writers. For...

(7) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$325

6 sessions

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