John Murillo, Joanna Yas, Helen Schulman, Irini Spanidou,Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Matthew Rohrer, Elissa Schappell, Darin Strauss, Chuck Wachtel, Rachel Zucker

Writers in New York (May 29–June 21, 2012) offers poets and fiction writers an opportunity to develop their craft while living the writer's life in Greenwich Village. Daily workshops and craft seminars are supplemented by readings and lectures by New York-based writers and publishing professionals. Field trips, cultural activities, readings, and guest lectures constitute an integral component of the program.

Classes and readings are held in the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, home of the NYU Creative Writing Program. Located on one of the most beautiful blocks in Greenwich Village, this historic townhouse hasLVCWH2.jpg been a gathering spot for artists and intellectuals since the 1870s. It was in this building that members of the Tile Club, a group of notable painters, sculptors and architects, met and conducted their famous symposia. Today, the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House allows students to learn and write in the same neighborhood where many writers—including Mark Twain, E. E. Cummings, James Baldwin, Willa Cather, Marianne Moore, Richard Wright, and Frank O'Hara—have lived and worked.

Classes meet in the afternoons (2:30pm-5:00pm), Tuesday-Friday during the program's first week, and then Monday-Thursday for the remaining three weeks. Evenings (6:00pm-8:00pm) after class feature readings, lectures, panel discussions, and special events. The schedule includes time for writing, reading, and exploring New York. The program culminates in a celebratory reading showcasing student work. This is a four-week program carrying eight points of undergraduate credit; a noncredit option is also available. Enrollment in the entire program is required.

Because Paris is so rich in history, almost every step outside of the classroom will reveal a tidbit of art, architecture, or historical fact hiding around the corner, waiting for discovery. Literary walking tours of Paris and field-trips to sites frequented by Hemingway, Proust, Zola, Balzac, Hugo, Stein, Fitzgerald, Wilde, Voltaire, Diderot, Verlaine, Sartre, Kerouac, Joyce and other writers, will provide a sense of the literary history of the city. In addition, students may decide to take advantage of subsidized tickets to opera, ballet or concerts in Paris's famous theatres. Students may also visit museums with special guided tours to learn more about current exhibitions.
Academics

Students who participate in Writers in Paris choose to focus on either poetry or fiction and attend daily writing workshops and craft seminars. Students are mentored by accomplished professional writers and attend readings and special seminars led by visiting writers and editors. Writing and reading assignments are designed to encourage immersion in the city. For example, poets might visit the Louvre to write ekphrastic poems or create Parisian street sonnets by taking a 14-block walk of the St. Denis area, where François Villon lived, and generating a line of poetry per block. Fiction writers might study dialogue by listening for overheard speech at a sidewalk café or learn about description and setting by writing a story set in the neighborhood where Hemingway lived and worked. Students in the program work intensively to generate new writing and also attend a lively series of readings, lectures, literary walking tours, and special events.

Classes are held at the NYU in Paris Center, which is located in a beautiful residential area of the 16th arrondissement. The center is near both the Passy and La Muette metro stops as well as the Eiffel Tower and the Trocadéro. NYU in Paris at Passy is only a short ride away from the center of Paris.

A Tuscan Retreat for Emerging Writers

In this literary retreat for undergraduates, students work intensively to generate new writing in the enchanting, historically rich setting where so many writers—from Dante to E. M. Forster—have found literary inspiration. Students participate in daily workshops and craft seminars, and attend readings and special lectures on all aspects of the writer's life. On weekends, students have the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of their literary predecessors: they might walk along the Arno River, view the sunset from Piazzale Michelangelo, or visit Tuscan gardens and vineyards. Classes and events are held at Villa La Pietra (pictured). Bequeathed to NYU in 1994 by Sir Harold Acton, the Florentine campus consists of 5 historic villas and 57 acres of gardens and olive groves.