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SUMMER WRITERS COLONY
LITERARY SALONS
Workshops in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry
June 1–18, 2015
Literary Salon: Nathan Englander (NWRW0551) What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne
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A | Mon, Tue & Thu, 6–7:50 pm, beg. June 1
(3 sessions) | Andrew Zornoza
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Discover the writer's life in New York City. This
intensive three-week program provides a
supportive yet challenging atmosphere in which to
develop as a writer, whether you are embarking on
a new writing project or developing a work-inprogress. !
Workshop classes are limited to 12 students.
Registrants for the Summer Writers Colony sign up
for one workshop and one literary salon per week.
For advising, contact
[email protected]. Register at: www.newschool.edu/summerwriters
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Summer Writers Colony: Poetry (NWRW3590)
A | Mon thru Thu, 2:30–5 pm, beg. June 1 (12
sessions) | Kathleen Ossip
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Literary Salon: Brando Skyhorse (NWRW0552) Take This Man
A | Mon, Tue & Wed, 6–7:50 pm, beg. June 1
(3 sessions) | Karen McKinnon
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Literary Salon: Leslie Jamison (NWRW0553)
The Empathy Exams
A | Mon, Tue & Wed, 6–7:50 pm, beg. June 8
(3 sessions) | Madge McKeithen
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Literary Salon: Jericho Brown (NWRW0554) The New Testament
A | Mon, Tue & Thu, 6–7:50 pm, June 8
(3 sessions) | Kathleen Ossip
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Summer Writers Colony: Nonfiction
(NWRW3590)
B | Mon thru Thu, 2:30–5 pm, beg. June 1 (12
sessions) | Madge McKeithen
Summer Writers Colony: Fiction (NWRW3590)
C | Mon thru Thu, 2:30–5 pm, beg. June 1 (12
sessions) | Sharon Mesmer
Noncredit tuition is $4,340. Tuition for credit is
$7,260 for 6 credits. Academic records are
maintained and transcripts are available for
credit students. Tuition includes a workshop
and one Literary Salon per week.
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Literary Salon: Dorothea Lasky (NWRW0555) ROME
A | Mon, Tue & Wed, 6–7:50 pm, June 15
(3 sessions) | Justin Sherwood
Literary Salon: Justin Torres (NWRW0556) We The Animals
A | Mon, Tue, 6-7:50 pm, Thu, 12:30–2 pm, beg
June 18 (3 sessions) | Jenny Zhang
Individual Literary Salons are available for
continuing education students. Each threesession salon is $230 for noncredit students.
Writing at The New School
Summer 2015
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Continuing Education 66 W. 12th Street
for advising: 212.229.5611
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Register online or by telephone: newschool.edu/ce
Writing at the New School offers
Continuing Education courses in poetry,
fiction, nonfiction, dramatic writing,
journalism, writing for children and special
topics. Our short form students go on to
publish articles with national newspapers
and magazines, from The New York Times
to Cosmopolitan to Vice. A great many of
our long-form students have gone on to
sell books to large and small publishers. In
2013, our students, alumni and faculty
published over 35 books; in 2014, over 40.
Our authorial successes include some of
the biggest names in writing: Mario Puzzo
to Jack Kerouac to Madeleine L’Engle.
And our faculty is made up of an exciting
array of contemporary authors who are
also dedicated teachers.
Additionally, Creative Writing at The New
School offers an internationally renowned
Master of Fine Arts, and a Summer Writers
Colony, open to both degree students of
the School of Undergraduate Studies and
Continuing Education students.
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INTENSIVES
NONFICTION
FICTION
Pick Up Your Pens: Kick-Start Your Writing Routine
(NWRW2625)
A | Tue & Thu, 6–7:50 pm, beg. June 2 (15 sessions)
Jessica Sholl
Fiction and nonfiction writers at any stage of a project
(from the blank page to a polishing a draft), use exercises,
writing prompts, and a constructive critiquing process to
improve their writing practice as well as their work.
Introduction to Creative Nonfiction (NWRW24010)
A | ONLINE | June 1–July 31 (10 weeks)
Lisa Freedman
This workshop is for serious beginners as well as more
experienced writers who want to delve into the stillevolving genre of creative nonfiction, which includes
personal essay, memoir, documentary, and literary
journalism.
Introduction to Fiction (NWRW2301)
A | ONLINE | June 1–July 31 (10 weeks)
Jessica Sholl
This course is intended to encourage and guide students
who are starting to explore the many creative possibilities
fiction affords. The majority of class time is spent
reviewing projects by students, which are workshopped
on a weekly basis. Readings include works by Rick
Moody, Jhumpa Lahiri, Tim O'Brien, Lorrie Moore, and
Michael Cunningham.
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Writing on Location: Writing from Art at the MET
(NWRW3445)
A | Mon thru Thu, 11–4 pm, beg. June 1 (8 sessions)
Star Black
The class splits its time between The New School, where
we share our writing, and the city’s preeminent art
museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art where we
spend two explore the collection and respond to the art by
writing flash fiction, ekphrastic poems and prose poems.
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WRITING FUNDAMENTALS
Mechanics of Writing (NWRW1011)
A | Mon & Wed, 6–7:50 pm, beg. June 1 (15 sessions)
Randi Ross
B| ONLINE | June 1–July 31 (10 weeks)
Noelle Kocot-Tomblin
We examine the sentence, looking at syntax, the parts of
speech, and other aspects of grammar. Later we look
ahead to considerations of effectiveness and style.
Students for whom English is a foreign language should
take the relevant English as a second language course
instead of this course.
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Writing for Artists (NWRW1030)
A | ONLINE | June 1–July 31 (10 weeks)
Rebecca Reilly
Writing is performance. Visual artists, designers,
musicians, writers, dancers, filmmakers, actors, artists of
every kind come together in a supportive workshop
environment to practice the skills that benefit critical
pieces as well as the kinds of writing they will likely have to
produce as professional artists or critics in the field.
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Academic Writing (NWRW1104)
A | Tue & Thu, 6–7:50 pm, beg. June 2 (15 sessions)
Margaret Fiore
This course teaches the foundations of academic writing:
research; criticism, analysis, and argumentation; revision;
correct grammar and American English usage. Students
for whom English is a foreign language should take ESL
Academic Writing instead of this course.
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Literary Nonfiction: Art in the Everyday (NWRW3405)
A | ONLINE | June 1–July 31 (10 weeks)
Christopher Pastore
Students explore selected forms of creative nonfiction: the
personal essay, reportage, biography, travel writing, food
writing, profile, memoir, and linked fragments. Discussions
about the forms, techniques, and history of nonfiction are
supplemented by readings from work by Joan Didion, V.S.
Naipaul, Jamaica Kincaid, W.G. Sebald, Sherman Alexie,
and Abigail Thomas.
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The Experimental Essay (NWRW3520)
A | ONLINE | June 1–July 31 (10 weeks)
Robert Lopez
The experimental essay trespasses on poetry, fiction, and
nonfiction. Our aim is to discover how, because of its
ability to engage with and mimic a variety of forms and
genres, the essay is the most radical, experimental,
comprehensive, and inventive of the literary genres.
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Personal Essay and Memoir (NWRW3545)
A | Mon & Wed, 6–7:50 pm beg. June 10 (15 sessions)
Candy Schulman
This workshop is designed for writers looking to use the
first person point of view to illuminate larger themes in
essay or memoir. Writers develop a compelling voice and
point of view, creating dramatic tension and scenes with
sensual detail. Discussions include what makes essays
and memoirs publishable in today’s market.
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Writing for New York City Newspapers and Magazines
(NWRW3601)
A | Mon, 6–10 pm, beg. June 1 (10 sessions)
Susan Shapiro
Taught by a writer whose work has appeared in more than
100 publications, this course reveals the secrets of
breaking in. Topics covered include tailoring pieces to
specific columns, writing a perfect cover and pitch letter,
contacting editors, following up, and getting clips.
Speakers include top Manhattan editors.
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The tuition for each 15-session onsite or 10-week
online course for noncredit students is $730. All of
these courses may also be taken for 3 credits at a cost
of $3,630.
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Fiction Writing: Creating a Compelling Narrative
(NWRW3315)
A | ONLINE | June 1–July 31 (10 weeks)
Carol Goodman
What marks the difference between a story that is merely
serviceable and one we can't put down? This is a class
for fiction writers who want to learn the basic elements of
storytelling and examine the way these elements work
together to create mystery and tension.
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Advanced Fiction Writing: Revise and Polish
(NWRW4310)
A | Tues & Thu, 8–9:50 pm, beg. June 2 (15 sessions)
John Reed
The intention of the course is to help individuals prepare
themselves and their work for the next phase of their
vocation, be it approaching editors, agents, and literary
journals or applying to graduate schools. These subjects
are addressed realistically and reasonably, with the quality
of the writing always foremost on the agenda.
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POETRY
Poetry: The Language of Music (NWRW3205)
A | ONLINE | June 1–July 31 (10 weeks)
John Johnson
This study of musical poetics focuses on the buried
linguistic and musical structures of poetry and on the way
these structures create voice and meaning in a poem.
This course is open to poets at all levels, but beginners
are especially welcome.
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From Silence to Poem NWRW3204
A | ONLINE | June 1–July 31 (10 weeks)
Richard Tayson
Beginning and advanced writers work on dismantling
silences in their lives and generating poems from
personal experience. We work to follow the poem's
impulse in order to break old habits and write something
challenging and difficult.