* Registration for the Summer Writers Colony opens December 12, 2012
June 3-20, 2013
Workshops in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry
Discover the writer's life in New York City. This intensive three-week summer program provides a supportive yet demanding atmosphere in which to develop as a writer. Students are offered the chance to embark on a new writing project or to devote a substantial amount of time to developing a work-in-progress. Writing workshop instructors guide discussion of student work and provide detailed written feedback. Summer literary salons bring notable writers into conversation with the students and faculty of the colony. In supplemental sessions, students try everything from experimental fiction to children's writing to writing walking poems during a literary tour of New York City's Greenwich Village. The Summer Writers Colony community gathers for celebratory readings of student and faculty work.
Courses meet from 12:00 noon to 8:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday. Mornings and weekends are reserved for regular writing practice. Undergraduate students can earn 6 credits. The Writers Colony is also open to noncredit students.
2013 Summer Writing Workshop Faculty
Kathleen Ossip, Madge McKeithen, Sharon Mesmer
2013 Visiting Writers
We are pleased to feature Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham and her new collection of poems, Place; Chad Harbach and his novel, The Art of Fielding, a New York Times Book Review Book of the Year; Ben Lerner and his novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, winner of the Believer Book Award; James Laughlin Award winning poet Brenda Shaughnessy and her new collection of poems, Our Andromeda; and Whiting Writers Award winner John Jeremiah Sullivan and his nonfiction collection, Pulphead.
The School of Writing 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. The writing faculty today includes Jeffrey Allen, Susan Cheever, Hettie Jones, Honor Moore, David Lehman, Jonathan Dee, Sigrid Nunez, Dale Peck, Helen Schulman, Laurie Sheck, Lynne Tillman, Tiphanie Yanique, and Director Robert Polito.
The New School offers the MFA in Creative Writing with concentrations in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and writing for children. For New School undergraduates, the School of Writing 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.