An Evening of Readings

February 23 7-9pm Fiction Bar 308 Hooper St. Brooklyn, NY 11211 Featuring: Nina Capelli Tim Coover Kelly Dasta Mave Goren Samantha Hernandez Sarah Bess Jaffe Micaela Macagnone Gabriel Noel F.M. Papaz Presented by The Writer’s Foundry & The City College of New York

Spring 2025 Calendar of Events – MFA in Creative Writing

The Langston Hughes Festival THURS 2/13 – FRI 2/14 THESIS WORKSHOP – For SP25 Thesis Students MON 2/24 5:00pm-6:00pm – ON ZOOM THESIS WORKSHOP – General Information WED 3/5 6:30pm-7:30pm in the Rifkind Center, NAC 6/316 MFA Reading Series featuring Andrew Krivák TUES 3/18 6:30pm-7:30pm in the Rifkind Center, NAC 6/316 Reading by Emily Raboteau …

Video now available of Joyce Carol Oates talk

A trailer and full length interview of the November 14th talk, Joyce Carol Oates, in Conversation with Mark J. Mirsky is now available on our YouTube Channel: Trailer Interview To see other English Department videos, visit our YouTube channelhttps://www.youtube.com/@EnglishCityCollegeNY

Joyce Carol Oates in Conversation with Mark J. Mirsky

Thursday, November 14th 6:00-7:30 pm Shepard Hall 95  Event Videos now available here Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of the Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the Jerusalem Prize. She is the author of Butcher (Knopf, May 2024) as well as the national …

Chai & Chat Reading Series with Kima Jones

MFA in Creative Writing at the City College of New York presentsthe Chai and Chat Reading Series MFA Director Michelle Valladares  In Conversation with Kima JonesAuthor, Professor, and Literary Agent Wednesday, November 6th6:30PM-7:30PMRifkind Center, NAC 6/316 Join us as we discuss the stages of literary publishing and book advocacy from sending out the query letter …

MFA in Creative Writing Events, Fall 2024

Harlem In The Woods Retreat Stephen & Betsy Corman Harriman Outdoor Center Fri-Sun 10/4-10/6 Thesis Workshop 1 – General Information 4:00pm-5:00pm In The Rifkind Center, NAC 6/316 Wed 10/16 Thesis Workshop 2 – For Fa24 Thesis Students  4:00pm-5:00pm – On Zoom Wed 10/23 Chai and Chat With Kima Jones  6:30pm-7:30pm In The Rifkind Center, NAC …

MFA 2024 Photographs - Faculty

MFA 2024 Photographs

Some photos of the Creative Writing MFA program that students and faculty have shared through the semester

CCNY-MA-Student-Conference-Call-for-Submissions

Graduate Department: Call for Papers:

FOREIGN BODIES The 2024 Annual CCNY English Graduate ConferenceConference Date: May 17, 2024Submission Deadline: May 1, 2024 Download Poster PDF In Orientalism, Edward Said states, “Knowledge means rising above immediacy, beyond self, into the foreign and distant.” For Said, this ecstatic process then is not just about foreignness but about definitions concerning otherness, too. That …