June 25-29, 2012

 
Manhattanville College's 29th Annual Summer Writers' Week offers the opportunity to spend an intensive week writing and working closely with some of the country's finest writers and teachers of writing.  Enjoy workshops in Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction (Memoir/Autobiography), Children's/YA, and Fantasy/Speculative Fiction.

Participants at all stages of development, novice to experienced, sign up for one of five workshops that meet for three hours every morning. Participants also have private conferences with their workshop leaders. Our 2012 workshop leaders include...

FICTION: Justin Torres

CREATIVE NONFICTION/MEMOIR/AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Kao Kalia Yang

POETRY: Mark Nowak

CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT: Rita Williams-Garcia

FANTASY/SPECULATIVE FICTION: Nnedi Okorafor

Summer Writers' Week at Manhattanville College also features a keynote reading and public conversation with National Book Critics Circle Award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Philip Gourevitch and Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist Joby Warrick. Additionaly, Writers' Week workshop students can participate in sessions with journal editors, seminars on applying for writer's retreats, and craft workshops on various aspects of writing and editing. Special guests include Ken Chen, Sonya Chung, Joel Whitney, and Cara Benson. Summer Writers' Week concludes with a reading by student writers who have participated in the week-long workshops.

WHO PARTICIPATES

Aspiring writers who want to create new work or refine a project already in progress join seasoned writers at every level.

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Students registering for morning workshops are required to submit (with their Registration form), not more than 10 pages of sample writing (completed or work in progress). This work serves to introduce yourself and your writing to the workshop leader.

REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATE CREDIT

At the final class of Writers' Week, students seeking graduate credit will be required to submit a piece of revised work-in-progress to the workshop leader.

MASTER OF ARTS IN WRITING

Manhattanville offers a 32-credit Masters of Arts in Creative Writing degree for writers and aspiring writers. Credits for Writers' Week are applicable toward the degree. For more information, call (914) 323-5239 or e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . 

ABOUT MANHATTANVILLE

Founded in 1841, Manhattanville College is a coeducational, independent liberal arts institution. There are 1600 undergraduates studying for Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, or Bachelor of Music degrees in more than 50 academic areas. The college offers Bachelor of Science degrees in Organizational Management, Behavioral Studies and Communications Management for adult students who want to complete their undergraduate degrees part-time, and accelerated degrees, including a BA/MA in Creative Writing.

Manhattanville also serves 1500 graduate students, working toward the following degrees: Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, Master of Arts in Writing, Master of Science in Organizational Management and Human Resource Development, Master of Science in Leadership and Strategic Management, Master of Science in Integrated Marketing Communications, Master of Science in International Management, Master of Science in Sport Business Management, Master of Arts in Teaching, and Master of Professional Studies.

DIRECTIONS 

Located on 100 acres in Westchester County, Manhattanville College is five minutes from White Plains, 45 minutes from New York City, and five minutes from the Connecticut border.

By train from New York City: Metro North from Grand Central Station to White Plains, #12 bus or taxi to campus.

By car - from the south: Hutchinson River Parkway to Exit 27 (Route 120 - Purchase Street), turn left to College, entrance on left.

From the north: Merritt Parkway to Hutchinson River Parkway to Exit 27 (Route 120 - Purchase Street), turn right to College, entrance on left.Or Route 684 to Manhattanville Road (Exit 2 - Westchester county Airport Exit), at top of hill make a left onto Route 120 - Purchase Street.College entrance on left.

From the west: Cross Westchester Expressway (Rte. 287) to Exit 8E (Westchester Avenue), left on Anderson Hill road to light at Purchase Street (Route 120), turn right on Purchase Street to College, entrance on right.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Camille Rankine, Assistant Director of Graduate Creative Writing
Manhattanville College
2900 Purchase Street
Purchase, NY 10577
Phone: (914) 323-5239  /  e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it