Join us on November 10 from 5:00 – 6:00PM in the Rifkind Center (NAC 6/316) for a free workshop with Yahdon Israel, senior editor at Simon & Schuster, on what the book proposal is, why it matters, and how to master the form. Yahdon Israel is an educator, entrepreneur, editor, […]
2022
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For the second semester, students from the City College of New York’s MFA and MA program participated in a weekend artists residency at the Stephen & Betsy Corman Harriman Outdoor Center. As it was in the first semester, the retreat was designed to both offer our students an escape from […]
Abdoh will be discussing his latest novel "Out of Mesopotamia" with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges.
Natera and her publisher Ballantine are also donating 50 copies of Natera's "Neruda on the Park" to CCNY students who attend the readinf
Salar Abdoh, novelist and professor in CCNY's MFA, offers a dispatch from the frontlines of the war in Ukraine.
Pamela L. Laskin, director of The City College of New York’s 50-year-old Poetry Outreach Center, is the recipient of a 2022 Freedom Through Literacy Board Option Award for her work to enable children to unload their grief and to empower voices through poetry. The international award was established by the Pennsylvania-based Judith’s […]
Michael Montali, current CCNY MFA Candidate in fiction, entered the program already well established as a singer songwriter, and joining the MFA has not meant a surrender of his musical career. In fact, this August, his band Fantastic Cat performed on CBS Saturday Morning. Fantastic Cat is the product of […]
Nicole Treska (MFA Class of ’10) followed a winding road through life from Chicago to Hawaii, and Hawaii to New York, ultimately finding her way to CCNY’s MFA in Creative Writing. And following that, her path from student to memoirist under contract with Simon & Schuster, although less perilous, was […]
This fall, we’re excited to feature a full slate of in-depth readings and discussions with authors and journalists, and conversations on how to navigate the publishing industry and prepare to land your first book deal.
Harlem in the Woods: The CCNY Writers’ Nature Retreat at the Stephen & Betsy Corman Harriman Outdoor Center in Upstate New York “Harlem in the Woods was one of the most powerful experiences the school has offered––a retreat from city life that offers connection with nature, one another, and ourselves. […]
WRITERS ON IRAN FEAT. MIKHAL DEKEL Join Mikhal Dekel, Salar Abdoh and the CCNY MFA program to discuss Tehran Children, a historical memoir that the New York Times Book Review hailed as “Not simply another detail of the Holocaust but a matter of enduring existential, psychological and moral reflection.” MIKHAL […]
Join us this semester for conversation with the award-winning author Mikhal Dekel, and poet David Mills, along with workshops on how to successfully complete your MFA thesis, and sage wisdom from David Groff on how to transition from writer to author. WRITERS ON IRAN FEAT. MIKHAL DEKEL Join Mikhal Dekel, […]
The deadline to apply for the fall 2022 semester is fast approaching! Join Michelle Valladares, director of the CCNY MFA Program in Creative Writing, on Thursday, February 7, to answer any questions you might have about the program or the application process. Access the event via zoom using this link
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 […]
