Summer Magazine Writing Course Offered by the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College

The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville is offering a five-session, summer evening course entitled “Magazine Writing: Getting Your Work Into Print.” Classes begin on July 13 and conclude on August 10, 2016. The fee is $450.

Each student will workshop an article and prepare a targeted query letter.

The course, to be taught by Melissa Faliveno, is intended for poets, fiction writers and creative nonfiction writers. To be covered are types of freelance articles that magazines seek, identifying viable outlets for articles, and crafting a successful query letter. Attendees read personal essays, articles, and reviews from a wide variety of publications and analyze opportunities for getting their work published or posted online.

Instructor Faliveno is a senior editor at Poets & Writers Magazine and she edits, assigns and acquires articles for this publication. She also produces, edits and co-hosts Ampersand: The Poets & Writers Podcast.

She developed a weekly creative writing workshop for incarcerated men, ages 16-24, as part of the Right to Write Young Offenders Program at the Westchester County Correctional Facility. She also designed a curriculum and conducted a creative writing class for high school freshmen at the Baccalaureate School in Queens, New York.

Her essays, articles, profiles, and reviews have appeared in DIAGRAM, Isthmus, Lumina, Green Mountains Review, Martin Magazine, and Midwestern Gothic and in the book Derby Life, an anthology of essays about women’s roller derby published in 2015 by Gutpunch Press.

She earned a BA degree in English and creative writing from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an MFA degree in nonfiction writing from Sarah Lawrence College.

Faliveno was an editor for Trail Books, Big Earth Publishing and a writing fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she worked in its College of Letters and Science as a peer tutor helping undergraduate students research, write and revise papers.

To register for this class, click here.

For more information, call 914-395-2205 or email sorefice@sarahlawrence.edu.

Photo: Instructor Melissa Faliveno