This Thursday, April 29, at 7pm, please come through for a reading by Legacy Russell, followed by a conversation with Hari Kunzru. Come on through and see us before the spring reading series winds down!

Come and see us on Friday, April 26th, at 5pm for the launch of our latest issue of West 10th, the NYU Creative Writing Program’s undergraduate literary journal. We'll have readings from student contributors and guest interviewee, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh.

Join us for readings to celebrating Issue 51 of the Washington Square Review on Thursday, April 25, 7 pm at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House. Peek the cover art by Woo Hannah, IG: Hannah.flashed.that. (Tweet text and image sourced from Insta: @washington_square_review)

This Saturday, April 20th at 2pm, we’re hosting an Online Event: NYU Veterans Writing Workshop Reading with Elliot Ackerman. There’ll be readings by participants of the Veterans Writing Workshop, which offers free classes to recent veterans. Link to come.

Friday, April 19th, at 5pm, Darin Strauss is hosting an Alumni Fiction & Poetry Reading. Come for the sights and sounds of Matthew Broaddus, Kate Doyle, Alisha Kaplan, and Alexandrine Ogundimu! The event will be followed by a reception/signing. We'd love to see you!

Thursday, April 18th, at 7pm, come to MFA Junction: A Joint Reading From the English and Spanish Language MFA Programs. With headliner Brenda Peynado, students read pieces in English and Spanish. Note: the event is located at the King Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South

Thursday, April 18th at 12pm, it's a meeting of great minds when Claudia Rankine hosts a Literary Lunch with Richard Deming and John Yau! This event includes a small lunch buffet and a book signing. We'd love to have you there!

Tremendous congratulations to Creative Writing Program alumni Elisa Gonzalez, Charif Shanahan, and Javier Zamora, recipients of the 2024 Whiting Awards! We're so grateful the world gets to see the amazing things you do!

Friday, April 12th, 7pm, it's the Emerging Writers Reading Series, featuring Mona Awad. The featured ‘emerging’ writers include current NYU Creative Writing graduate students Lucy Ackman, Zoe Briscoe, Ross Green, Rachel Stone, and Layhannara Tep. Hosted by Shay Martin-Jones.

Get ready for more brilliant fiction readings this Thursday, April 11th, at 7pm with Temim Fruchter and Hanna Pylväinen. With a reception/signing to follow, a good time will be had by all. We'd love to see you there!

On Friday, April 5th at 5pm, Matthew Rohrer is hosting a poetry reading with Adrienne Chung, Lisa Holstein, and Rachel Zucker. The event will be followed by a reception/signing. You are promised some fantastic writers!

Thursday! April 4 at 7pm! A reading by Tyree Daye, hosted by NYU MFA Creative Writing students Dasia Moore and Tariq Thompson, followed by a reception/signing. It's a night of many talents!

Friday, March 29, at 7pm, come see the legendary Marie Howe read with our sparkling emerging writers, the graduate students! Get future bragging rights by spending time with the words of Kristian Davis Bailey, Andrew Lorenzen, Evelyn Kodak, Daniella Ndubuisi-Ike, & Ezra Zhang.

Thursday, March 28th, we’re hosting The New Salon: Leslie Jamison in Conversation with Darin Strauss. Head on over to the Creative Writers House for a fantastic reading by Leslie Jamison, and a conversation with the excellent Darin Strauss. We hope to see you there!

NYU is back from Spring Break and we have some luminaries reading this week! Join us on Wednesday, March 27, at 12pm for a Literary Lunch with Cathy Park Hong, hosted by Claudia Rankine. Your time with us will include an informal lunch buffet.

International students! The deadline for our very popular summer program Writers in NY is coming up soon on March 17! And May 5 for US students. APPLY NOW! as.nyu.edu/departments/cw…

At 7pm on Thursday March 14th, stop by for another installment of our Fiction Reading Series, with readings by John Manuel Arias and Isle McElroy. You're in for a treat with these two! The event will be followed by a reception/signing.

Thursday, March 14th at 12pm, come brighten your afternoon with a Lunchtime Poetry Reading at the Lillian Vernon House, 58 West 10th Street, featuring the renowned Nam Le and Gregory Pardlo. It's a treasure to see such talent in the middle of the day!

We have some luminaries on the roster this week! Friday, March 15th at 5pm, we’re hosting a Poetry Reading with Victoria Chang and Matthew Zapruder at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street; followed by a reception/signing!

Friday March, 8th at 5pm, join us at the Lillian Vernon House (58 West 10th Street) for a poetry reading by Mira Rosenthal & Tomasz Różycki, hosted by Matthew Rohrer. This event is supported by the Polish Cultural Institute New York and The Kosciuszko Foundation.