Events

Ilana Masad is a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and criticism. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, NPR, The Atlantic, StoryQuartlerly, Catapult, Buzzfeed, Joyland, The Account, and many more. She is the author of the novel All My Mother’s Lovers and the forthcoming Beings. Masad holds a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has taught a wide variety of creative writing and literature courses, and also provides editorial services to authors.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

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 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.

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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. 

Please join us for readings from fiction MFA alums Karissa Chen MFA ’12  and Denne Michele Norris MFA ’12, who will each read from their recently published debut novels, followed by a conversation with MFA faculty member Carolyn Ferrell. Audience Q&A and book sales and signings to follow.

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

This craft talk will focus on strategies for collaborating with words as living beings. How do we make ourselves available to their arrival? How do we treat them when we meet? What do they desire? What do they hate? We'll look to possible clues from poets, writers, and critics who knew language before us, as well as theories nabbed from neuroscience and predictive coding. We will not actually answer the question posed in the talk's title, which is borrowed from the Scottish poet W. S. Graham, but we will marvel at the sensations (and writings) it can produce.

Heather Christle is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Paper Crown. She has also published two works of nonfiction: In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf and The Crying Book. Her work has appeared in London Review of Books, The Nation, The New Yorker, and Poetry. She teaches creative writing at Emory University.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Heather Christle is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Paper Crown. She has also published two works of nonfiction: In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf and The Crying Book. Her work has appeared in London Review of Books, The Nation, The New Yorker, and Poetry. She teaches creative writing at Emory University.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Daniel Saldaña París is the author of four novels—Among Strange Victims, Ramifications, The Dance and the Fire, and My Father’s Names—as well as a collection of personal essays, Planes Flying Over a Monster. His work has been translated into multiple languages and earned him a place in Bogotá39, a selection of the best Latin American writers under 40. He has received numerous fellowships and residencies, including from the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires, Art Omi, MacDowell, and the Jan Michalski Foundation. He was also awarded the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writers Award in the UK and was a finalist for the Herralde Prize in 2021. In 2022, he was a Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and he is currently a Fellow at the Borchard Foundation Center on Literary Arts.

This event is colloquium credit eligible. Register here. 

Renowned pianist Mateusz Borowiak makes his second appearance at Sarah Lawrence College. Borowiak will perform works by Karol Szymanowski, Louis Pelosi, and Frédéric Chopin. 

Come join us for coffee and great conversation with professor Carolyn Ferrell in the Library's Rainbow Reading Room! Carolyn is the author of the novel Dear Miss Metropolitan, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the PEN Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Directed by Gianna Morin ’26, The Skriker is a dark, surreal tale of myth and modernity, blending folklore and reality. Following a shape-shifting faerie’s pursuit of two vulnerable young women, the play explores madness, desire, and devastation with lyrical, fragmented language and haunting imagery. It’s a fierce, unsettling journey through love and destruction.

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