The New School Summer Writers Colony in New York, New York

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center h3 June 4-21, 2012 New York City center h3 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. b 2012 Workshop Faculty b Kathleen Ossip, Madge McKeithen, Sharon Mesmer, Director Robert Polito. b 2012 Visiting Writers b 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. b The Writing Program b 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. center b For more information, call 212-229-5611, email a href mailto summerwriters newschool.edu summerwriters newschool.edu a , or visit our website at a href http writing.shawguides.com TheNewSchoolSummerWritersColony website http www.newschool.edu summerwriters a Writing Workshops, Literary Salons, Writers Life Colloquium. Faculty readings, craft lectures, private conferences with faculty, excursions to literary venues, readings discussion forums. Year Established: Number of Programs/Year: 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 Global Locations: Months: June Click for more information: http://writing.shawguides.com/TheNewSchoolSummerWritersColony/

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The New School Summer Writers Colony in New York, New York