Creative Writing MFA Events

Join us for Manhattanville MFA’s Spring Poetry Festival!  Poets Kristina Andersson Bicher '03, Maya Marshall, Georgia Popoff, and Malcolm Tariq will visit campus to read their work, discuss their work as poets, and provide individual critiques. The festival runs from 1 PM to 5 PM at Barat House. The Manhattanville Ville’age Store will be on hand to sell books and poets will be available after the reading to sign books. The event is free and open to the public.  See you on campus as we celebrate the contemporary flowering of American poetry!

The Writers’ Hub at Manhattanville University is a literary home for the local Westchester County and Hudson Valley community. Each semester, the Manhattanville University MFA Program develops a series of creative writing workshops, panel discussions, and readings that are open to local community members and program alumni as well as to current MFA students. These events are designed to dig deeply into a specific element of the craft of writing and to help participants hone their skills.  All events take place at Barat House, home of the O’Dowd-Gorman Creative Writing Center, tucked away on Manhattanville’s vibrant campus. Please see this semester’s offerings below. We look forward to hosting you at Barat House. Come tell your story with us!

A summer tradition at Manhattanville! At the end of June, the MFA Program offers week-long intensive workshops in Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Screenwriting. The event builds a tight-knit community of participants who take workshops in the morning while attend craft sessions and readings in the afternoon.  Summer Writers' Week is the perfect vehicle for launching yourself into a summer of writing!