Creative Writing Program Announcements

We'll have someone from the creative writing program come in to give us all more detail about this on Thursday, but I thought some of you might like to have the information early, particularly anyone who would like to take a tour of the Gray Gallery. (The tours are offered on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.)  Enjoy!

CWP Undergraduate Prizes

Gallery Prize

Student submissions for the undergraduate Gallery Prize are due by February 20th. This competition recognizes the best poem or short prose piece written by an NYU undergraduate in response to the exhibition Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg, on view at the Grey Art Gallery from January 15 through April 6, 2013. The Creative Writing Program will award $200 to the winner and $100 to the runner-up, and both authors will be asked to read their entries at a special event at the Grey Art Gallery at 6:30pm on March 6, 2013. The winning entries may also be published on the NYU Creative Writing Program website and on The Grey Art Gallery's blog, The Grey Area. 

The Grey Art Gallery will be offering special exhibition tours for creative writing students and faculty on Tuesday, February 5th (from 12pm to 1pm), and on Wednesday, February 6th (from 1pm to 2pm). If you would like to attend a tour, please RSVP as soon as possible.

You may also be interested in the following upcoming Grey Art Gallery event:

Harpsichords, Hipsters, and Other Ecstatic Topics: A Dialogue About Ginsberg 

Monday, February 4, 6:30 pm Silver Center, Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place) 

Featuring Ulrich Baer and Shelley Rice, this ”gabfest” will be a free-ranging discussion about poetry, photography, music, spirituality, and friendship between NYU professors whose wide-ranging interests include visual media, literature, psychic phenomena, scholarship, and Kung Fu. Co-sponsored by NYU’s Departments of Art History, Creative Writing, English, Photography & Imaging (TSOA), and Social & Cultural Analysis; Humanities Initiative; Fine Arts Society (a student organization); and Grey Art Gallery.

Academy of American Poets Judith Lobel Arkin Poetry Prize

Student submissions for the undergraduate Academy of American Poets Judith Lobel Arkin Poetry Prize are due by February 22nd. The recipient(s) of this prize will receive a cash award, a one-year membership to the Academy of American Poets, and recognition in the Academy’s newsletter. Students may submit up to two poems.

CWP Summer Programs

Writers in New York  Four Weeks (May 28-June 20), 8 Points

With Thomas Beller, Fiona Maazel, John Murillo, Matthew Rohrer, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Helen Schulman, Irini Spanidou, Darin Strauss, Joanna Yas, and Rachel Zucker

Writers in Paris  Four Weeks (June 22-July 20), 8 Points  

With Chris Adrian, Catherine Barnett, Nathan Englander, Deborah Landau, Meghan O’Rourke, ZZ Packer, Matthew Rohrer, Helen Schulman, and Darin Strauss

Writers in Florence Four Weeks (June 15-July 13), 8 Points  

With Yusef Komunyakaa, Maaza Mengiste, Dorothea Lasky, and Elissa Schappell

On-Campus Writing Workshops  

Six Weeks (May 28-July 6 & July 8-August 17), 4 Points each

Introductory and intermediate writing workshops offered throughout the summer