News and Events

October 1, 2020
At 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 1, there will be a public conversation via Zoom with Albert Woodfox, the author of Solitary. Woodfox’s account of the forty years he...
Meghan O'Rourke
September 24, 2020
Zoom Info Session and Q&A September 30, 2020, 4:00pm Meghan O’Rourke is the editor of The Yale Review and the author of the best-selling memoir The Long Goodbye. A...
Samuel Delany
September 14, 2020
With this year’s Windham-Campbell festival cancelled due to the pandemic, the prize’s organizers have found a new way to honor the eight recipients and their craft. The...
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
May 11, 2020
May 22, 2020, 7:00pm-8:00pm To celebrate the paperback release of Susan Choi’s sensational novel, Trust Exercise, winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction,...
May 11, 2020
This week, we are thinking about Italy. As the country cautiously begins to reopen after the longest lockdown in Europe, we look toward Venice, guided by the acclaimed poet...
April 17, 2020
This event has been moved online. Live stream link: https://youtu.be/Rl1KwkSB-jk The Writing Concentrators of the Yale English Department cordially invite you to the Creative...
Robert Hass © Shoey Sindel
February 27, 2020
This event has been canceled. The Foundational Courses Reading Series in conjunction with the Schlesinger Visiting Writers Series present a reading by Robert Hass. Wednesday...