2011 Summer Writers Colony
The 2010 Summer Writers Colony ended June 24. Check back in December for the 2011 program, including next year's lineup of workshop faculty and visiting writers.
2010 Summer Writers Colony
Take part in workshops and literary salons with renowned New School 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. Housing is available within walking distance of The New School.
2010 WORKSHOP FACULTY: Cate Marvin, Madge McKeithen, Sharon Mesmer.
2010 VISITING WRITERS: Mary Jo Bang, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; Peter Carey, two time Booker Prize winner; Stephen Elliott, a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lion Award; celebrated poet Maggie Nelson; David Shields, winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship; and Colson Whitehead, recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.
The Writing Program at The New School
The New School has been a vital center for writing since 1931. Over decades of steady innovation, our writing and literature faculty has included many of America's most acclaimed poets, novelists, and nonfiction writers. Today's distinguished writing faculty includes Jeffrey Allen, Susan Cheever, Hettie Jones, Honor Moore, David Lehman, Jonathan Dee, Francine Prose, David Gates, Dale Peck, Helen Schulman, Paul Violi, and Director Robert Polito.
Today, the Writing Program offers an MFA in creative writing with concentrations in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and writing for children. For New School undergraduates, the program offers the Riggio Honors Program: Writing and Democracy, an innovative curriculum of writing workshops and seminars culminating in a thesis project.
The New School continues to offer every fall, spring, and summer term an extensive program of writing workshops in its adult continuing education curriculum open to noncredit students and matriculated and nonmatriculated undergraduates.