Sarah Lawrence College Graduate Writing Program
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| Motto: | Wisdom with Understanding |
| Established: | 1989 |
| Type: | Private Liberal Arts |
| President: | Michele Tolela Myers |
| Location: | Yonkers, NY, USA |
| Website: | http://www.slc.edu/index.php?pageID=3643 |
Sarah Lawrence College's nationally recognized Graduate Writing Program offers its students a minimum of two academic years of intensive study of creative writing in either poetry, creative nonfiction, or fiction. Successful completion of the program makes the student eligible for the conferral of the Master of Fine Arts degree by the college president, at the recommendation of the faculty.
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[edit] Program overview
Sarah Lawrence College’s Graduate Writing Program offers a full-time or a part-time concentrated study on the art and craft of writing Creative Nonfiction, Fiction or Poetry.
Program Requirements
- 4 Graduate Writing Workshops (one per semester)
- 2 Craft of Writing Seminars
- 2 Liberal Arts Electives
- Thesis Advisory Conference
- Masters Thesis or Manuscript
Workshop
"In workshops, students practice their writing and critique each other’s work. During their course of study, they take four workshops, one per semester, usually with four different writers. This approach encourages students to explore an array of distinctive perspectives and techniques that will extend their own writing ability, whatever their preferred genre.
"Workshops include a biweekly one-on-one conference between student and teacher — one of the program’s distinguishing features. These conferences provide students with close, continual mentoring and guidance. Teachers critique their students’ writing and develop a reading program selected specifically to augment or challenge each student’s work. In conferences, student and teacher chart a course of study that best allows individual students to pursue subjects and issues that interest them, to develop their own voice, to hone their techniques, and grow at their own pace."[1]
Examples of workshop themes include
Craft and Elective Courses
"Students also participate in small craft-of-writing seminars, in which they analyze and discuss writing, and learn to read critically as writers. In addition, they select two liberal arts elective courses that may feed their work as writers." [2]
[edit] Lumina and The Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival
Lumina, the program's literary journal publishes creative nonfiction, fiction and poetry. Previous issues have featured works from Rick Moody, Amy Hempel, Thomas Lux, Billy Collins, Stephen Dobyns as well as emerging talents. In addition, the journal sponsors an annual contest.
The Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival began in 2004 by then-student Liz Irmiter. The festival continues to be entirely student-run.
[edit] Distinguished faculty
- Kate Knapp Johnson (Director, Graduate Program in Poetry)
- Mary LaChapelle (Director, Graduate Program in Fiction)
- Vijay Seshadri (Director, Graduate Program in Creative Nonfiction)
- Gerry Albarelli
- Jo Ann Beard
- Laure-Anne Bosselaar
- Kurt Brown
- Melvin Jules Bukiet
- Tina Chang
- Rachel Cohen
- Stephen Dobyns
- Thomas Sayers Ellis
- Carolyn Ferrell
- Suzanne Gardinier
- Myra Goldberg
- Matthea Harvey
- Amy Hempel
- Joshua Henkin
- Kathleen Hill
- Cathy Park Hong
- Marie Howe
- Thomas Lux
- Jeffrey McDaniel
- Ernesto Mestre
- Mary Morris
- Brian Morton
- Dennis Nurkse
- Stephen O’Connor
- Kevin Pilkington
- Victoria Redel
- Martha Rhodes
- Lucy Rosenthal
- John Burnham Schwartz
- Joan Silber
- Alice Truax
- Lawrence Weschler
- Penny Wolfson
- Carol Zoref
[edit] Notable alumni
- Ann Cefola
- Mary Cornish
- Melissa Crowe
- Ross Gay
- Gwendolyn Gross
- Marie Holmes
- Jee Leong Koh
- Cynthia Lowen
- Nelly Reifler
- Patrick Rosal
- Dalia Sofer
- Preston Mark Stone
- Penny Wolfson
