About Nanci

Hi, Writers!

I’m Nanci Panuccio, director of the Emerging Writers Studio, a private writing school in New York that provides workshops, one-on-one coaching and editorial services for writers of fiction and memoir.

I’ve been writing professionally since 1997 and have written everything from web and ad copy, newsletters, brochures and advertorials to audio-visual scripts, feature articles and short stories. My non-fiction articles on travel, food, business, motherhood, and nature have been published in THE NEW YORKER, REDBOOK, BACKPACKER and the Italian lifestyle magazine INIZIO, as well as several newspapers and journals in New York and London. My short stories have been finalists in the Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize, Inkwell Journal’s Fiction Prize, and the Gulf Coast Fiction Award.

I’ve lectured for graduate students at Vermont College and have written several essays on narrative craft including “In Praise of Metaphor” and “Sweating the Small Stuff: Why Details Matter.” I hold an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts where I wrote my short story collection, Anatomy of the Invisible.

My aim isn’t to tell you how to write your story, but to help you through the process. I want to inspire you to write more and write joyfully. My greatest hope in sharing my thoughts with you is that you develop an ongoing dialogue with your prose—that you engage with it in a spirit of play, experimentation, purpose, and discovery.