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Writers in Paris (Summer 2010 Info Coming In January)

This summer, live and write in Paris.

To learn more about this program, please visit the Writers in Paris page on the NYU Summer Study Abroad website. There you will find detailed information on Writers in Paris academics, housing, and costs, as well guidelines for submitting your application and writing sample.

FACULTY

We are delighted to announce that Darin Strauss, an international bestselling novelist and clinical associate professor at NYU, and Joshua Beckman, an award-winning poet and an editor at Wave Books, will be joining the Writers in Paris faculty. Two previously listed faculty, Helen Schulman and Anne Carson, will not be teaching in the program this summer.

Joshua Beckman (Poetry Craft Seminar) was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of six books, including Take It (forthcoming in 2009), Shake and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer: Nice Hat. Thanks. and Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He is an editor at Wave Books and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose, including Poker by Tomaz Salamun, which was a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award. He is also the recipient of numerous other awards, including a NYFA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize.

Jonathan Safran Foer (Fiction Workshop) is the author of the bestselling novels Everything Is Illuminated, named Book of the Year by The Los Angeles Times and the winner of numerous awards, including The Guardian First Book Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Prize, and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Foer was one of Rolling Stone's "People of the Year" and Esquire's "Best and Brightest."

Matthew Rohrer (Poetry Workshop) is the author of They All Seemed Asleep, Rise Up and A Green Light, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin International Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Satellite, Nice Hat. Thanks (with Joshua Beckman) and A Hummock in the Malookas, a winner of the National Poetry Series. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Hopwood Award for Poetry and an M.F.A from the University of Iowa.

Darin Strauss (Fiction Craft Seminar) is the author of the international bestseller Chang and Eng, and The New York Times Notable Book The Real McCoy, one of the New York Public Library's "25 Books to Remember of 2002." His latest novel, More Than It Hurts You, was published in June, 2008. His work has been translated into fourteen languages, and he teaches writing at New York University, for which he won a 2005 "Outstanding Dozen" teaching award. Darin was awarded a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction writing.

Deborah Landau (Director) is the author of Orchidelirium, which won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, and Blue Dark (forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press). Her poems, essays, and reviews appear in Grand Street, The Paris Review, Tin House, The Antioch Review, American Literature, The Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, The Best American Erotic Poems, Poetry Daily, and Women’s Studies Quarterly, among other publications. She was educated at Stanford, Columbia, and Brown, where she was a Javits Fellow and received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature. For many years she co-directed the KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Series. She co-hosts the video interview program Open Book on Slate.com and is the Director of the NYU Creative Writing Program.

Program Dates
June 27-July 25, 2009

Program Schedule
Monday-Thursday
3:30pm-6:00pm: Daily workshops and craft classes in either fiction or poetry
6:30pm/7:30pm: Nightly readings & talks by acclaimed guest writers and editors

8 Points of Undergraduate Credit
Open to eligible NYU and Non-NYU Students

Writers in Paris 2009 READINGS & EVENTS

V39.9818.001 Writers in Paris: Fiction (Writing Workshop w/ Jonathan Safran Foer)
V39.9818.001 Writers in Paris: Fiction (Craft Seminar w/ Darin Strauss)

V39.9819.001 Writers in Paris: Poetry (Writing Workshop w/ Matthew Rohrer)
V39.9819.001 Writers in Paris: Poetry (Craft Seminar w/ Joshua Beckman)

CONTACT INFORMATION

NYU Creative Writing Program
Telephone: 212-998-7584
Email: writers.in.paris@nyu.edu

Mail or deliver your completed and signed application form and any supplemental materials for this program to:

NYU Center for Study Abroad & Special Sessions
110 East 14th Street
New York, NY 10003-4170

	Joshua Beckman (Poetry Craft Seminar) was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of six books, including Take It (forthcoming in 2009), Shake and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer: Nice Hat. Thanks. and Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He is an editor at Wave Books and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose, including Poker by Tomaz Salamun, which was a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award. He is also the recipient of numerous other awards, including a NYFA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize.
	Jonathan Safran Foer (Fiction Workshop) is the author of the bestselling novels Everything Is Illuminated, named Book of the Year by The Los Angeles Times and the winner of numerous awards, including The Guardian First Book Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Prize, and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Foer was one of Rolling Stone's "People of the Year" and Esquire's "Best and Brightest."
	Matthew Rohrer (Poetry Workshop) is the author of They All Seemed Asleep, Rise Up and A Green Light, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin International Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Satellite, Nice Hat. Thanks (with Joshua Beckman) and A Hummock in the Malookas, a winner of the National Poetry Series. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Hopwood Award for Poetry and an M.F.A from the University of Iowa.
	Darin Strauss (Fiction Craft Seminar) is the author of the international bestseller Chang and Eng, and The New York Times Notable Book The Real McCoy, one of the New York Public Library's "25 Books to Remember of 2002." His latest novel, More Than It Hurts You, was published in June, 2008. His work has been translated into fourteen languages, and he teaches writing at New York University, for which he won a 2005 "Outstanding Dozen" teaching award. Darin was awarded a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction writing.
	Deborah Landau (Director) is the author of Orchidelirium, which won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, and Blue Dark (forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press). Her poems, essays, and reviews appear in Grand Street, The Paris Review, Tin House, The Antioch Review, American Literature, The Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, The Best American Erotic Poems, Poetry Daily, and Women’s Studies Quarterly, among other publications. She was educated at Stanford, Columbia, and Brown, where she was a Javits Fellow and received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature. For many years she co-directed the KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Series. She co-hosts the video interview program Open Book on Slate.com and is the Director of the NYU Creative Writing Program.