Events

Join us Monday, September 23 from 6:00-7:00 pm for a virtual information session (on Zoom) to learn more about the MFA Dance program at Sarah Lawrence College. Hosted by John Jasperse, Dance Program Director. REGISTER HERE. 

Author and literary organizer Michelle Tea touches on the different components that create a writer's life, from community to discipline to slacking off to creating ritual. What is the most helpful way to think about your work and regard your efforts? What to do when a practice becomes toxic? How to keep going when inspiration flags? Tea will draw from her own experience as well as lessons from other lifelong writers for a talk that will leave the audience psyched about the writing life.

This event is colloquium credIt eligible and will be held in person and over Zoom. Register for the Zoom livestream HERE. 

Learn more about the Genetic Counseling Master's degree program at Sarah Lawrence College. Established in 1969, the program was the first of its kind in the United States. It remains the largest graduate program in genetic counseling in the world. REGISTER HERE. 

Michelle Tea is the author of over a dozen books of memoir, fiction, poetry and children's lit — including her latest, Knocking Myself Up. Her memoir Valencia won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction, even though it was obviously all true. It was also made into a sprawling, feature-length art film using nearly 20 different directors and different Michelles. Her recent-ish essay collection, Against Memoir, was awarded the PEN/America Diamonstein-Speilvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She is also the recipient of the legendary Rona Jaffe Awards, and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow. In addition to her writing, Michelle has instigated many cultural interventions aimed at increasing access and visibility for queer writers and artists. She is the founder of RADAR Productions, the Bay Area literary non-profit, and worked as Executive Director for over a decade, running a monthly reading and conversation series at the San Francisco Public Library, organizing a free, queer literary retreat in the Yucatan, operating an annual poetry chapbook contest, and many other events. Michelle's last move as ED was to conceptualize Drag Queen Story Hour, the kid's lit event that has since become a global sensation. She is the co-founder of the international performance tour Sister Spit, and founding editor-at-large for the online parenting zine Mutha. Michelle produces and hosts the mystical Spotify podcast Your Magic, and fronts a weekly live tarot show on Spotify Live. Her 30-plus years as a tarot reader is encapsulated in her popular how-to book, Modern Tarot.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Join YPL and the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College for an evening with award winning author and Yonkers native James Hannaham at the Yonkers Public Library. His most recent novel, Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta (Little, Brown), won the 2023 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction and was hailed as “wondrous” and “a hilarious, righteous transgender remix of The Odyssey.” A celebration of public libraries, and the Will library in particular, don’t miss this special event on the power of reading and storytelling.

This event will include a reading and conversation with Sarah Lawrence College faculty Joseph Earl Thomas, including audience Q & A. REGISTER HERE. 

What happens when a character in a story pauses to tell a story to another character? How does this affect a narrative? This talk will discuss examples of stories in stories in all kinds of sources from fairy tales to club/bar tales to cinema and more, and explore what purposes these nested narratives might serve, with special attention to their tricky, warping effect on the characters, the story, and reality itself.

Alice Sola Kim’s writing has appeared in The Cut, McSweeney's, Lightspeed Magazine, The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, and other publications. She is a 2016 Whiting Award winner and the recipient of a Hermitage artist residency as well as grants from MacDowell and the Elizabeth George Foundation.

This event is colloquium credit eligible. Register HERE for the Zoom livestream.