Take part in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry workshops and literary salons with renowned faculty members, visit legendary literary venues, and meet authors, editors, and agents at the center of the contemporary American literary scene. Undergraduates can earn 6 credits in three intensive weeks. The Summer Writers Colony is also open to noncredit students.
2012 Workshop Faculty: Kathleen Ossip, Madge McKeithen, Sharon Mesmer, Director Robert Polito.
2012 Visiting Writers: Includes Pulitzer Prize winner Jeffrey Eugenides, winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize Fanny Howe, award-winning investigative journalist and memoirist Lucette Lagnado, Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, and Whiting Award winner and Laughlin Award winner Tracy K. Smith.
The Writing Program The New School has been a vital center for writing since 1931. Over decades of steady innovation, our writing/literature faculty has included many of America's most acclaimed poets, novelists, and nonfiction writers.
The program offers an MFA in creative writing with concentrations in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and writing for children, and also offers an extensive program of writing workshops every fall, spring, and summer term in its adult continuing education curriculum.
Writing Workshops, Literary Salons, Writers Life Colloquium. Faculty readings, craft lectures, private conferences with faculty, excursions to literary venues, readings & discussion forums.
Program Length
20 days
Group Size or S:T Ratio
12 students/class
Program Focus
Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Publishing
Faculty
Visiting writers includes John D’Agata, Jonathan Dee, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Lynn Emanuel, Nicole Krauss, Darin Strauss. Faculty has included poets, novelists, & nonfiction writers.
Costs
$5,808 ($3,845) credit (non-credit)
U.S. Locations
New York, New York
Months
June
Contact
The New School Summer Writers Colony
66 West 12th Street
New York, NY 10011
United States
Phone: 212-229-5611
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