EUGENE LANG COLLEGE PRESENTS
11th ANNUAL YOUNG WRITERS CONFERENCE
YOUTH WRITING ON THE EDGE
SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2003

(New York, NY – April 14, 2003) Eugene Lang College, a division of New School University, will sponsor its 11th Annual Young Writers Conference, Youth Writing on the Edge, on Saturday, May 10, 2003 from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., at Eugene Lang College, 65 West 11th Street, NYC.

Youth Writing on the Edge is a free, one-day event that brings together writing professionals, outstanding college writers and the broader community of young writers. The conference serves to introduce high school sophomores and juniors to the extraordinary range of mediums and opportunities that young writers can work with as we move through the 21st Century. No application is necessary to participate in this program; registration is open to all interested students. Individual participants can sign up for one intensive writing workshop. All workshops are interactive, hands-on, and use a specific theme as their focus – performance, production, fiction, poetry, personal essay and critique.

For further information on this event and Eugene Lang College, contact Mojeje Omuta, Admission Counselor, at 212-229-5665 or e-mail: [email protected] and include YWC in the subject line.

		"Blessed Rage: Where Poet and Poem Meet the World"
		"People on the Page: Writing Great Characters"
		"Performance Poetry"
		"The Fiction of Science"
		"Writing Lives: Memoirs Alive in Complex Times"
		"Writing the City: A Brief Introduction to Investigative Reporting"
		"Writing the Future, Reading our Lives and Times"
		"Writing Through Personal Experience"

The workshop leaders include: Eleanor J. Bader, freelance journalist; Jan Clausen, Eugene Lang College faculty member and author of several books, including a memoir, Apples and Oranges; Renequa Johnson, teacher of humanities at Washington Irving High School; Carrie Leiser-Williams, Eugene Lang College senior; Catherine McKinley, Associate Director of the Publishing Certificate Program at City College and editor of Afrekete and Memoir of the Book of Sarahs; Miguel Angel Quijada, teacher at the Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice in the South Bronx; Mustafa Shakir, poet; Phil Silva, writer and journalist; Mark Statman, Eugene Lang College faculty member and author; Donte Swinson, poet; Gregory Tewksbury, Eugene Lang College faculty member and author; and Ana Maria Nichim Luna Toporek, teacher at El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice in Brooklyn.

****

Eugene Lang College, an undergraduate liberal arts college, is a division of New School University. Eugene Lang College offers an interdisciplinary curriculum organized into twelve areas of concentration: Education Studies; Science, Technology and Society; Psychology; Philosophy; Writing; Theater and Dance; Arts in Context; Religious Studies; Literature, Social and Historical Inquiry; Urban Studies; and Cultural Studies. In addition to the B.A. degree, the College offers joint B.A/B.F.A. programs in conjunction with Parsons School of Design and New School University's Jazz and Contemporary Music Program. Students may also combine study toward bachelor's and master's degree programs in media studies at The New School and in urban policy, health, non-profit management and human resources through the Milano Graduate School. Currently, there are more than 600 students enrolled in Eugene Lang College. For more information, visit the Web site at www.newschool.edu.

New School University, with 7,000 matriculated students and 25,000 continuing education students, is a New York City university committed to critical scholarship, artistic integrity, and ethical responsibility in the social sciences, humanities, the arts and design. It is comprised of a liberal arts foundation of three schools: The New School, Eugene Lang College and the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, and five professional schools: Parsons School of Design, Mannes College of Music, Actors Studio Drama School, Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, and New School University Jazz. New School Online University offers one of the largest selections of online courses in the nation. For further information about admission to New School University, call (877) 5Ave-321 or go to the Web site at www.newschool.edu.