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: Deborah Brodie, Douglas Martin, Madge McKeithen, Sharon Mesmer, Kathleen Ossip, and John Reed.

2008 VISITING WRITERS: Legendary novelist Russell Banks; 2007 National Book Award finalist Lydia Davis; New York Times Notable Book author Honor Moore, celebrated essayist Phillip Lopate; National Book Critics Circle finalist Major Jackson; Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Muldoon; international best-selling children’s book author Bruce Coville; and twice Newbery Medal winner Patricia Reilly Giff. Previous summers’ guests have included John Ashbery, Billy Collins, Mary Gaitskill, Adam Haslett, Edward P. Jones, Rick Moody, Joyce Carol Oates, James Tate, and Cólm Toibín.

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.