A trailer and full length interview of the November 14th talk, Joyce Carol Oates, in Conversation with Mark J. Mirsky is now available on our YouTube Channel: Trailer Interview To see other English Department videos, visit our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@EnglishCityCollegeNY
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MFA IN CREATIVE WRITING THE RIFKIND CENTER for the Humanities and Arts present Joyce Carol Oates Photo Credit: Dustin Cohen in Conversation with Mark J. Mirsky Thursday, November 14th 6:00-7:30 pm Shepard Hall 95 Video of livestream now available Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of the […]
MFA in Creative Writing at the City College of New York presents the Chai and Chat Reading Series MFA Director Michelle Valladares In Conversation with Kima Jones Author, Professor, and Literary Agent Wednesday, November 6th 6:30PM-7:30PM Rifkind Center, NAC 6/316 Join us as we discuss the stages of literary publishing […]
Professor Lyn Di Iorio has a new novelette, Maritza and Carmen, published in the fall issue of The Georgia Review. https://thegeorgiareview.com/shop/issues/fall-2024/
Professor Keith Gandal has published a new memoir: Firsthand: How I Solved a Literary Mystery and Learned to Play Kickass Tennis while Coming to Grips with the Disorder of Things. Published by Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024. You can get 30% off the $25 cost for the paperback […]
Harlem In The Woods Retreat Stephen & Betsy Corman Harriman Outdoor Center Fri-Sun 10/4-10/6 Thesis Workshop 1 – General Information 4:00pm-5:00pm In The Rifkind Center, NAC 6/316 Wed 10/16 Thesis Workshop 2 – For Fa24 Thesis Students 4:00pm-5:00pm – On Zoom Wed 10/23 Chai and Chat With […]
We are thrilled to announce that Prof. Soraya Palmer, who teaches fiction in the MFA Program at CCNY, has just received the NYSCA/NYFA Award for Fiction. Palmer is the author of The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts. She is a Flatbush-born-and-raised writer and licensed social worker who has worked […]
Gutbucket, by Emily Raboteau At the end of the world, rituals offer a lifeline I AM A MOTHER raising Black children in New York City, which is unceded Munsee Lenape territory. Often, I am afraid for my children’s lives. Where my family lives, the storms are growing worse, and the water […]
The Deadline for Fall Applications to our Creative Writing MFA program has been extended until March 1 2024. Learn more Apply online
Professor Emily Raboteau’s launch for her new book, Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “The Apocalypse” will be on Thursday, March 14, 7PM at The Center for Fiction.
MFA Professor Mark Mirsky, author, founder and editor of Fiction magazine and the former director of the Creative Writing Program, has a two-part interview in Collidescope this fall. Here are part one and part two.
A reading and conversation to celebrate his new book, Live in Suspense. Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024 New Date Wednesday, April 10th, 2024 5:00-6:30 pm Rifkind Center, 6/316 NAC building David Groff’s third book of poems Live in Suspense, was published in 2023 from Trio House Press. He has previously published Clay, […]
Thesis Workshop #1 General Info Session Thesis Workshop #2 SP24 Thesis Students Only Thursday, February 29th, 2024 4:00-5:00PM 6/209 NAC building MFA faculty will speak about the process of writing a thesis. All current MFA students should attend. Wednesday, March 13th, 2024 4:00-5:00PM On Zoom All MFA students currently writing […]
Tuesday, February 6th, 20245:00-6:30 pmRifkind Center, 6/316 NAC building Brian Tart will discuss the publishing industry with emerging writers. Free and open to the publicSponsored by The David Dortort Fund for Creative Writing Brian Tart was named president and publisher of Viking in January 2015, and Penguin Books in 2020. […]
Roundtable Discussion, Film Screening and Award Ceremony February 1, 2024 at Aaron Davis Hall The Symposium 12:30 pm – 1:45pm Roundtable Discussion featuring The PaperFilm Screening of The Five Demands following the symposium The Ceremony: 6:00 pm – 8:00P pm Musical Performance by Ariel Reign, Memphis Music Ambassador RSVP https://www.eventbrite.com/e/45th-annual-langston-hughes-festival-honors-colson-whitehead-tickets-798761456017 Contact Info: Black […]
CCNY’s MFA Program in Creative Writing Presentsa Publishing Workshop with Yahdon Israel Senior Editor, Simon & Schuster and Guest Professor Craft as Brand: Authoring Your Career This workshop will help the emerging writer craft their career as a writer. Tuesday November 28th from 7:00 – 8:00 pm Rifkind Room NAC 6/316 Yahdon Israel is […]
The CCNY MFA in Creative Writing Presents Chai & Chat Reading Series FA23 A Conversation with Carlos Aguasaco Poet, Professor and Director of the Americas Poetry Festival Moderated by Prof. Michelle Valladares Tuesday, November 14th5 – 7 pmRifkind Center, NAC 6/316 Sponsored by the Estate of the Kenneth Kowald Fund […]
CCNY’s MFA in Creative Writing Reading Series Fall 2023 presents: David Unger Novelist, Translator & Professor A Reading and Conversation to Celebrate the English Translation of his Book, In My Eyes, You Are Beautiful Thurs. Nov 9 2023s:oo-6:oo pmRifkind Center NAC 6/316 David Unger received Guatemala’s Miguel Angel Asturias National […]
Soccer Diplomacy Comes to the Middle East Iran is rehabilitating the image of a once bitter adversary, Saudi Arabia, in public life. by Salar Abdoh and Reza Ghobeishavi theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/saudi-arabia-iran-soccer-diplomacy/675558/ On the night of September 1, 2023, a Saudi Pro League soccer game was broadcast directly into Iranian homes. Less […]
The Good Life What can we learn from the history of utopianism? Professor Emily Raboteau reviews Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life, by Kristen R. Ghodsee https://www.thenation.com/article/society/kristen-ghodsee-utopia/ In the desert of Saudi Arabia, between Jordan and the Red Sea, Crown Prince […]
AT THE END OF A STORY he wrote about the greatest medieval commentator of Aristotle, Borges noted: The instant I stop believing in him, Averroes disappears. As Borges observed, Averroes, who knew everything, could not understand one thing, and that was theater. And so it happened that when he came […]
CCNY’s MFA in Creative WritingReading Series Fall 2023 A Reading and Conversation with Rahna Reiko Rizzuto — Guest Professor, Novelist and Memoirist Monday, October 16, 20235:00 – 7:00pmRifkind Center, NA 6/316 The MFA in Creative Writing at City College invites you to a reading and conversation with Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, […]
On his War Books podcast, MFA alum AJ Woodhams interviews Prof. Salar Abdoh about his novel Out of Mespootamia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8e-9mtMg5w You can check out out all the episodes of his podcast series at ajwoodhams.com/warbookspodcast
In their article How to Be a Man in Iran, published in The Atlantic this month, CCNY Professor Salar Abdoh and Tehran-based journalist Vali Khalili describe how the return of morality police to city streets is a testing ground for women’s rights and everyone’s courage. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/08/morality-police-iran-women/674927/
Kay Bell, adjunct assistant professor in the Department of English and academic advisor in the Division of Humanities and the Arts at The City College of New York, is the 2023-2025 Bronx Poet Laureate. Read more…
In December 2022, Michelle Valladares, director of the MFA and Aybike Ahmedi, a current MFA student, were interviewed on the CUNY TV program Urban U
CCNY Professor William Gibbons was interviewed by the BBC for their Sunday Feature program. Click the link above to learn more.
Many of our MFA alumni have gone on to create literary journals. Here are three online journals: 433 433 is a journal of literature, art and commentary that began as a running collection of “moments of silence” from various places around the world, experienced in isolation, in the midst of […]
