Events

Melissa Faliveno MFA '11 will read from her new novel, Hemlock. Book sales and signing to follow.

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

Join Writing Institute Director Courtney Gillette as she shares more about the Writers Week program, what to expect, highlights for this summer, and answers questions from parents and students about the experience. Register here. 

President Cristle Collins Judd invites you to join her for a timely conversation with New York Times columnist, podcast host, and author Ezra Klein focused on how we can collectively move beyond polarization toward shared solutions. 

This event is sponsored by the Margaret Shepherd ’69 Presidential Fund and the Social Sciences Faculty Group through the Donald C. Samuel Fund for Economics and Politics. 

REGISTER HERE. 

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. Register here. 

Join us in the Library's Rainbow Reading Room  for a live recorded podcast with Victoria Redel! We will be discussing Victoria's novel I Am You. There will be copies of the book available for purchase and signing, as well as light refreshments. 

Join Diane Goettel, Executive Editor of Black Lawrence Press to learn about all aspects of the small press world—how to navigate it, how to make the most of this rich corner of the literary world, and what to expect from small press publishers. We will discuss the publishing landscape at large, the current state of affairs in small press publishing, small press editing and management, and more.

Diane Goettel is the Executive Editor of Black Lawrence Press. Her writing has recently appeared in Club Plum, Ethel, Border Crossings, Grimoire, and The Laurel Review. She lives in Mt. Vernon, New York with her family.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Westchester Chamber Soloists play Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, Hummel's Trumpet Concerto (Michael McSpedon, soloist), and works by Florence Price and Stephen Moshman.

Visit the Westchester Chamber Soloists website for more information. 

Free admission for Sarah Lawrence College faculty, staff and students. Please show SLC ID at the door.

Elaine Hsieh Chou is a Taiwanese American author and screenwriter from California. Her debut novel Disorientation was a New York Times Editors' Choice Book, NYPL Young Lions Finalist and Thurber Prize Finalist. Her short story collection Where Are You Really From was named a 2025 Best-of-Year Selection by Time, Electric Literature and NPR. Her Pushcart Award-winning short fiction appears in Guernica, Black Warrior Review, Tin House Online, Ploughshares and The Atlantic, while her essays appear in The Cut and Vanity Fair. She is the recipient of the 2023 Fred R. Brown Literary Award and has been supported by the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Sundance Institute and the Hedgebrook writers-in-residence program.

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

Join us for a free seminar with Writing Institute instructor Maeve Barry. All writers welcome! Register here.

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.