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.

Literary agent Ashley Lopez MFA ’18 (Massie McQuilkin & Altman) will talk us through the basic do’s and don’ts around drafting query letters, including recognizing if you’re ready to query agents and how to find an agent’s client list and manuscript wish-list. Students will walk away with an understanding of a basic query letter structure they can adapt and personalize, as well as several examples of successful query letters.

Ashley Lopez received her MFA in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College and has over a decade of publishing experience. Formerly the Director of Foreign Rights and an agent at WLA Books, she has worked on international and New York Times bestsellers, bringing a global perspective to her authors. She loves writers who aren’t afraid to raise the stakes, and smart people sharing their obsessions. Ashley is a member of AALA. She represents literary and book club fiction, grounded speculative, horror, thrillers, narrative and practical nonfiction, as well as select poetry and YA.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Note: Graduating students who plan to participate in the student-agent pairings in May are highly encouraged to attend this talk.

Please join us for a poetry reading and Q&A with Wo Chan, followed by book sales and signing.

Wo Chan who performs as The Illustrious Pearl is a poet and drag artist. They are a winner of the 2020 Nightboat Poetry Prize and the author of TOGETHERNESS which won the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature, and was a finalist for the 2023 CLMP Firecracker Award. Wo has received fellowships from MacDowell, New York Foundation of the Arts, Kundiman, The Asian American Writers Workshop, Poets House, and Lambda Literary. As a member of the Brooklyn based drag/burlesque collective Switch N' Play, Wo has performed at The Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, National Sawdust, New York Live Arts and elsewhere. They hold a BA from the University of Virginia and an MFA in Poetry from New York University. Born in Macau, Wo lives in Brooklyn, New York. Find them at @theillustriouspearl

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

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.

Joseph Earl Thomas is the author of Sink, A Memoir (Grand Central Publishing, 2023), longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Writing Prize; the novel God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer (Grand Central Publishing, 2024), longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Literary Excellence, finalist for the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award, winner of the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize; and the forthcoming story collection Leviathan Beach (Penguin Random House, 2027). His prose and poetry has been published or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, The Verge, Harper’s, Virginia Quarterly Review, Vanity Fair, The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Dilettante Army.

His honors include the 2020 Chautauqua Janus Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Fellowship in Writing and Publishing, and fellowships from Kimbilio, VONA, Tin House and Bread Loaf. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s MFA program in prose, he earned his PhD in English from The University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College as well as low residency MFA programs at Holy Family and Randolph Colleges, and teaches courses in Black Studies, Poetics, Video Games, Queer Theory and more at The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Book by George Furth 

Directed by Lauren Reinhard

On the night of her 35th birthday, Bobby  struggles to think of a wish to make as she blows out her birthday candles. Singled and surrounded by “those good and crazy people” -- her married friends -- Bobby is uncertain whether she should simply be happy with her lot or whether she should wish for her own romantic partner. Over a series of dinner parties, first dates, and thoughtful conversations, Bobby attempts to understand the pros and cons of marriage from her diverse and frequently hilarious friends, and begins to make sense of her own persistent single life. Company, Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking modern musical, is a mature, intelligent, and wildly funny look at relationships, vulnerability, and “being alive.”

REGISTER HERE. 

The Spring Musical is presented through special arrangement with the Musical Theatre International and supported by The Berelle Katz Samuel Theatre Fund. 

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Book by George Furth 

Directed by Lauren Reinhard

On the night of her 35th birthday, Bobby  struggles to think of a wish to make as she blows out her birthday candles. Singled and surrounded by “those good and crazy people” -- her married friends -- Bobby is uncertain whether she should simply be happy with her lot or whether she should wish for her own romantic partner. Over a series of dinner parties, first dates, and thoughtful conversations, Bobby attempts to understand the pros and cons of marriage from her diverse and frequently hilarious friends, and begins to make sense of her own persistent single life. Company, Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking modern musical, is a mature, intelligent, and wildly funny look at relationships, vulnerability, and “being alive.”

REGISTER HERE. 

The Spring Musical is presented through special arrangement with the Musical Theatre International and supported by The Berelle Katz Samuel Theatre Fund. 

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Book by George Furth 

Directed by Lauren Reinhard

On the night of her 35th birthday, Bobby  struggles to think of a wish to make as she blows out her birthday candles. Singled and surrounded by “those good and crazy people” -- her married friends -- Bobby is uncertain whether she should simply be happy with her lot or whether she should wish for her own romantic partner. Over a series of dinner parties, first dates, and thoughtful conversations, Bobby attempts to understand the pros and cons of marriage from her diverse and frequently hilarious friends, and begins to make sense of her own persistent single life. Company, Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking modern musical, is a mature, intelligent, and wildly funny look at relationships, vulnerability, and “being alive.”

REGISTER HERE. 

The Spring Musical is presented through special arrangement with the Musical Theatre International and supported by The Berelle Katz Samuel Theatre Fund. 

Songs of the Valley is an evocative musical project that weaves the intricate textures of Chamber-jazz with the vibrant rhythms of World music. Created by composers Oren Neiman and Gilad Ephrat, the ensemble features a seamless dialogue between acoustic guitar, double bass, violin, percussion, and wordless vocals.The group creates a cinematic soundscape where every instrument has its moment to shine. Songs of the Valley offers a performance that is both technically brilliant and deeply resonant, inviting the audience into a unique world of global sounds and modern musical exploration. Register Here.

Please join us tomorrow, Tuesday March 17^th for a lecture by Naomi Fry.

Naomi Fry is a staff writer at the New Yorker, where she writes about popular culture, books, and art. She is also a co-host of the magazine's culture podcast, Critics at Large. Fry has taught at New York University and the Rhode Island School of Design.