Hello, First-Years!
We hope your first week of classes is going well! Please see below for a note from Professor Ken Chen, the associate director of creative writing at Barnard!
Dear students,
I wanted to let you know that, if you missed the fall application deadline, you can still sign-up for a fiction, poetry, or playwriting workshop this week!
It's easy. Just email one of our friendly workshop instructors this week to ask if you can join their class--and attach a short writing sample (only 3-6 pgs. long depending on the genre). More details below!
Build your writing process. Meet other young writers in a creatively stimulating, supportive space. And take the special chance to work with our fabulous instructors, who include:
- A poet who just served as the Poet Laureate of New York;
- An acclaimed novelist whose books explore grief, the life of Vincent Van Gogh, and narrative medicine;
- A playwright who adapts classical Greek texts and who originated the role of the Angel in Tony Kushner's Angels in America on Broadway;
- A poet who's received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Cave Canem and was a finalist for Lambda's Lesbian poetry award;
- A fiction-writer who received a lengthy profile in The New Yorker for being a pioneer in the autofiction genre; and
- A Pultizer prize-winning poet who's been called "the most significant English language poet born since the second World War."
If the class you want is full, try writing another one of our wonderful faculty members in the same genre. Hope you can make time for your own creativity, self-expression, and writing this semester!
Warmly,
Professor Chen
We hope you give it a shot!
The First-Year Team
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