Read on for announcements, interviews, event recaps, and more from our Writing Institute community.
Celebrating Twenty Five Years of Writers Week
October 4, 2024
This past summer we celebrated our 25th season of Writers Week. In collaboration with the Sarah Lawrence College Theatre Program, Writers Week is our largest program at the Writing Institute. The program offers a week-long immersive experience in creative writing and performance art to young writers 14 to 18 from across the country and (with our virtual week) around the world.
Finding Inspiration as a Disabled Writer at The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College
June 18, 2024
I wrote my memoir alone for seven years. I wrote at my desk. I wrote at the kitchen table. I wrote in bed. After my son Noah was born, I then began writing in between naps. However, I never wrote personal stories in a group setting before Kathy Curto’s Memoir Intensive class through the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College.
Express Yourself. How the Writing Institute Supports MFA Students and Yonkers Teens
May 23, 2024
When a spring storm shook 45 Wrexham’s windows, Master of Fine Arts in Writing candidates and Yonkers middle school students did what many do during inhospitable weather: they swapped stories.
Meet New Writing Institute Instructor Ben Purkert
May 15, 2024
We’re so excited to welcome Ben Purkert as a Writing Institute instructor this summer! He’ll be teaching a one day course, Winning at the Finish Line.
Event Recap: Writers and Cats at AWP 2024
February 10, 2024
If there's one thing we know about writers, it's that they love cats! Or at least we had a pretty good hunch when we decided to host “Writers on Cats: an AWP Offsite Reading” earlier this month at the 2024 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, held in Kansas City, Missouri.
2023 Year in Review
December 31, 2023
As we close out the year, we wanted to celebrate all of our accomplishments in 2023, our 40th anniversary year. Read on for our year in review, and we hope you'll take a moment to recognize your own writing milestones this year.
Angie Hunt Interview
November 15, 2023
Angie Hunt, a Writing Institute student, sat down for a conversation with classmate Lucia Greenhouse, author of the recently published fathermothergod: My Journey Out of Christian Science.
Event Recap: 40th Anniversary Event with Jami Attenberg
October 15, 2023
When it came time to plan our 40th anniversary celebration we could think of no better writer to embody the tenacity and altruism of our community than Jami Attenberg. The author of more than ten books and creator of the grassroots #1000WordsofSummer writing accountability group, Jami knows the value of writing together.
Trina Traster in Conversation with Carolyn O'Laughlin on Her Memoir
September 15, 2023
"It was an intense privilege," says Tina Traster, "to be able to sit and think and write about the most important thing." The writer says it was during the week she spent at the 2009 Summer Seminar for Writers that seeds were planted for her memoir about her family's story of adopting a Russian child.
Stephanie Cooper and Howard Weinberg Interview
August 15, 2023
Stephanie Cooper and Howard Weinberg talk about their experiences at The Writing Institute and discuss what it's like taking a class with their significant other.
Books on the Barge
July 1, 2023
On June 17, 2023, the Writing Institute co-hosted the first Books on the Barge event with Groundwork Hudson Valley and Tables of Contents. This unique literary event focused on climate fiction, with small bites inspired by Allegra Hyde’s short story collection The Last Catastrophe.