Audio Tour Transcript
You're currently standing outside a contemplative spot where many of our writing students come to think and compose. Look up and you'll notice the windows to some of our prestigious writing professors' offices.
Sarah Lawrence College is practically synonymous with creative writing. Your writing professors here are published authors, actively producing new work as they nurture yours. The line edits you get back on your story might be from a former New Yorker Editor, praise on your latest poem from someone who's graced the New York Times bestseller list. You'll receive narrative feedback at the conclusion of all your classes and not just in writing.
Writing at SLC traverses disciplines. You can flex your creative writing muscles in a physics class just as much as an English course. One creative writing student reflected on how a women's history seminar informed the way she looked at her own female characters and how they related to each other. Meanwhile, her art history course taught her to analyze images and open up new ways of employing color and symbolism in her work.
Regardless of how you fill your schedule each semester, you'll learn to express your ideas succinctly and creatively in any and every class, which is what makes our alumni such powerful communicators. You'll engage in small workshops, working directly with published authors across genres; fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, speculative fiction, journalism, writing for the stage and screen, and more. The peers around your seminar table will help you hone your voice, the same peers whose work you'll one day see in the window of your local bookstore.
Sarah Lawrence writers commit to their craft. And every year alumni publish across genres, many utilizing the connections they made as students with agents, editors and publishers. Guest writers regularly give public readings and talks on campus. And students are well integrated into the New York literary scene, interning at some of the biggest publishing houses and magazines in the world.