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.

WORKSHOP FACULTY: Douglas Martin, Cate Marvin, Carolyn MacCollough, Madge McKeithen, John Reed .

2009 VISITING WRITERS: Joan Acocella, New Yorker staff writer and National Book Critics Circle nominee; Don Brown, best-selling children’s book author; Mark Doty, 2008 National Book Award winner; Linda Gregg, Whiting Award winner; Sarah Manguso, whose memoir was named an Editors’ Choice by the New York Times Sunday Book Review; Joseph O’Neill whose novel Netherland was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2008 by the New York Times; celebrated novelist Benjamin Taylor; and award-winning children’s book writer Elizabeth Winthrop.

THE WRITING PROGRAM at 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, 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. 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.

The New School also offers an extensive program of writing workshops every fall, spring, and summer term, open to non-credit students and matricululated and non-matriculated undergraduates, in its adult continuing education curriculum.