Events

Join us for a conversation with award-winning poet and teacher Bobby Elliott ’11 on writing and assembling first books of poetry. Exploring the ins and outs of the process, Elliott will examine what it takes to go from a strong group of poems to a full-length manuscript, how to begin thinking through questions of sequencing and structure and the importance of a sustained writing practice after the MFA. A full Q&A and book signing will follow. 

Register here for the Zoom livestream. 

Megan Milks is the author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction, and Slug and Other Stories, both published by Feminist Press in 2021. Their personal history of early online music fandom, Tori Amos Bootleg Webring, was published in 2021. With Marisa Crawford, they co-edited the anthology We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers (Chicago Review Press, 2021). They live in Brooklyn and teach writing at The New School and in the Low-Residency Creative Writing MFA program at Pacific Northwest College of Art. Their next book, Mega Milk: Essays, is forthcoming in January 2026.

Register here for the Zoom livestream. 

Join us online on September 25th at 5 pm EST for our Writing Institute Community Reading! This reading is open to current or former Writing Institute students. Readers have 3 to 4 minutes to read (or 650 words). Interested in reading? Sign up! Our featured instructor reader will be Suzanne Wise!

Join the Writing Institute and the MFA Writing program for a weekend of creative writing craft talks and community! Choose from sessions on everything from writing compelling openers, using folklore as inspiration, writing experimental fiction, the art of visual poetry, and so much more. Keynote speakers include Chloé Caldwell, author of the memoir Trying, and Daria Lavelle MFA ’21, author of the debut novel Aftertaste.

This hybrid event features on-campus programming as well as virtual programming, and tickets are available for Saturday, Sunday, or both days. Alumni can take $25 off their ticket with the code “SLCalumni” (limit one discount per ticket). REGISTER HERE. 

We invite you to join us October 11th, 2025 at 2pm EST to celebrate the Art of Teaching program's 40th Anniversary! We will hear remarks from Art of Teaching co-founder and former Director Mary Hebron and current Director Jerusha Beckerman, along with several notable alumni. Together, we'll think about the the program's role in the history, present, and future state of teacher education-and of teaching and education in general. There will be time to share stories, photos and videos, and to connect with old friends and form new connections during our reception over food and drinks.

RSVP HERE

Sarah Lawrence College is an Approved CTLE Sponsor and offers 4 CTLE hours for this program.

Join the Writing Institute and the MFA Writing program for a weekend of creative writing craft talks and community! Choose from sessions on everything from writing compelling openers, using folklore as inspiration, writing experimental fiction, the art of visual poetry, and so much more. Keynote speakers include Chloé Caldwell, author of the memoir Trying, and Daria Lavelle MFA ’21, author of the debut novel Aftertaste.

This hybrid event features on-campus programming as well as virtual programming, and tickets are available for Saturday, Sunday, or both days. Alumni can take $25 off their ticket with the code “SLCalumni” (limit one discount per ticket). REGISTER HERE.