Events

The 2nd-year DMT graduate students will present their internship experiences for 60 minutes, followed by a 30-minute Q&A session. Join us and learn how DMT is integrated into children’s hospitals, community youth programs, psychiatric hospitals, and special-needs schools.

This virtual mini Writers Week workshop is open to young writers ages 14 to 18. It's intended for writers who want to understand what they should write about (in any genre) and beginners who are curious about how to get started. Led by longtime Writers Week Instructor Arriel Vinson, author of Under The Neon Lights, this writing class will use generative prompts and examine the honesty of short stories, essays, and poems. We’ll discover how to let the writing guide us to the truth. · February 17 - February 20, 2026 · Tuesday - Friday (4 days) · 10:00 am - 12:00 pm EST, on Zoom.

Arriel Vinson is a Reese's Book Club LitUp Fellow and Midwesterner who writes about being young, Black, and in search of freedom. Her debut YA novel-in-verse, Under the Neon Lights (PenguinTeen) was released in June, 2025. She earned her MFA in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in Kweli Journal, Catapult, The Rumpus, Waxwing, and others. A Tin House YA Scholar, Highlights Foundation scholarship recipient, 2020 Walter Grant recipient, and 2019 Kimbilio Fellow, her work has been nominated for Best New Poets 2020, Best of the Net 2019, and a Pushcart Prize. You can connect with her on Twitter and Instagram @arriwrites.

Join us Tuesday afternoon for an enchanting musical tribute to Aaron Copland, american composer, critic, writer, teacher, pianist, and conductor. Joyce Hammann, violin and Bari Mort, piano.

This virtual mini Writers Week workshop is open to young writers ages 14 to 18. It's intended for writers who want to understand what they should write about (in any genre) and beginners who are curious about how to get started. Led by longtime Writers Week Instructor Arriel Vinson, author of Under The Neon Lights, this writing class will use generative prompts and examine the honesty of short stories, essays, and poems. We’ll discover how to let the writing guide us to the truth. · February 17 - February 20, 2026 · Tuesday - Friday (4 days) · 10:00 am - 12:00 pm EST, on Zoom.

Arriel Vinson is a Reese's Book Club LitUp Fellow and Midwesterner who writes about being young, Black, and in search of freedom. Her debut YA novel-in-verse, Under the Neon Lights (PenguinTeen) was released in June, 2025. She earned her MFA in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in Kweli Journal, Catapult, The Rumpus, Waxwing, and others. A Tin House YA Scholar, Highlights Foundation scholarship recipient, 2020 Walter Grant recipient, and 2019 Kimbilio Fellow, her work has been nominated for Best New Poets 2020, Best of the Net 2019, and a Pushcart Prize. You can connect with her on Twitter and Instagram @arriwrites.

Please join us for a reading and Q&A with Fonda Lee, followed by book sales and signing.

Fonda Lee is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of the Green Bone Saga, consisting of the novels Jade City, Jade War, and Jade Legacy, along with a prequel novella The Jade Setter of Janloon and a short story collection, Jade Shards. She is the author of the fantasy novella, Untethered Sky and several young adult novels.

Fonda is a winner of the World Fantasy Award, the Locus Award, and a six-time winner of the Aurora Award, as well as a multiple finalist for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Oregon Book Award. Jade City has been translated into fifteen languages, named to TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Fantasy Books of All Time, and optioned for television development.

She has also written acclaimed short fiction and been an instructor at writing workshops including Clarion West, Viable Paradise, and Aspen Words. Fonda is a former corporate strategist and black belt martial artist who loves action movies and Eggs Benedict. Born and raised in Canada, she resides in the Boston area.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

This virtual mini Writers Week workshop is open to young writers ages 14 to 18. It's intended for writers who want to understand what they should write about (in any genre) and beginners who are curious about how to get started. Led by longtime Writers Week Instructor Arriel Vinson, author of Under The Neon Lights, this writing class will use generative prompts and examine the honesty of short stories, essays, and poems. We’ll discover how to let the writing guide us to the truth. · February 17 - February 20, 2026 · Tuesday - Friday (4 days) · 10:00 am - 12:00 pm EST, on Zoom.

Arriel Vinson is a Reese's Book Club LitUp Fellow and Midwesterner who writes about being young, Black, and in search of freedom. Her debut YA novel-in-verse, Under the Neon Lights (PenguinTeen) was released in June, 2025. She earned her MFA in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in Kweli Journal, Catapult, The Rumpus, Waxwing, and others. A Tin House YA Scholar, Highlights Foundation scholarship recipient, 2020 Walter Grant recipient, and 2019 Kimbilio Fellow, her work has been nominated for Best New Poets 2020, Best of the Net 2019, and a Pushcart Prize. You can connect with her on Twitter and Instagram @arriwrites.

Fonda Lee is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of the Green Bone Saga, consisting of the novels Jade City, Jade War, and Jade Legacy, along with a prequel novella The Jade Setter of Janloon and a short story collection, Jade Shards. She is the author of the fantasy novella, Untethered Sky and several young adult novels.

Fonda is a winner of the World Fantasy Award, the Locus Award, and a six-time winner of the Aurora Award, as well as a multiple finalist for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Oregon Book Award. Jade City has been translated into fifteen languages, named to TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Fantasy Books of All Time, and optioned for television development.

She has also written acclaimed short fiction and been an instructor at writing workshops including Clarion West, Viable Paradise, and Aspen Words. Fonda is a former corporate strategist and black belt martial artist who loves action movies and Eggs Benedict. Born and raised in Canada, she resides in the Boston area.

This event is colloquium credit eligible. Register here for the Zoom livestream. 

This virtual mini Writers Week workshop is open to young writers ages 14 to 18. It's intended for writers who want to understand what they should write about (in any genre) and beginners who are curious about how to get started. Led by longtime Writers Week Instructor Arriel Vinson, author of Under The Neon Lights, this writing class will use generative prompts and examine the honesty of short stories, essays, and poems. We’ll discover how to let the writing guide us to the truth. · February 17 - February 20, 2026 · Tuesday - Friday (4 days) · 10:00 am - 12:00 pm EST, on Zoom.

Arriel Vinson is a Reese's Book Club LitUp Fellow and Midwesterner who writes about being young, Black, and in search of freedom. Her debut YA novel-in-verse, Under the Neon Lights (PenguinTeen) was released in June, 2025. She earned her MFA in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in Kweli Journal, Catapult, The Rumpus, Waxwing, and others. A Tin House YA Scholar, Highlights Foundation scholarship recipient, 2020 Walter Grant recipient, and 2019 Kimbilio Fellow, her work has been nominated for Best New Poets 2020, Best of the Net 2019, and a Pushcart Prize. You can connect with her on Twitter and Instagram @arriwrites.

The Precollege team at Sarah Lawrence team will present a comprehensive overview of the program and answer your questions regarding the application and registration process, academic curriculum, and campus experience.

Meet the Admissions team and the lead faculty member. Have all your questions answered! Register here.