The New School's Creative Writing Program curates a series of forums and special events throughout the academic year, featuring new and established writers. The forums in Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Writing for Children & YA, explore work from a writerly perspective, featuring a reading, a moderated discussion, and a Q&A with the audience. The program also hosts a variety of literary events in partnership with organizations like The National Book Foundation, the National Book Critics Circle, Cave Canem, and Kundiman.

Bruce Handy is a journalist, essayist, and humorist. He is the author of Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature, published in 2017 by Simon & Schuster. His next book, also for S&S, will be a social and cultural history of modern America as told through the lens of teen movies. His first children’s picture book The Happiness of a Dog With a Ball in Its Mouth, illustrated by Hyewon Yum, will be published in March 2021.Handy has also worked as a writer-editor at Vanity Fair, Time, Esquire, and Spy and has written for the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, New York, and the New Yorker, as well as other publications that don’t have New York in their titles, including The Atlantic and the Wall Street Journal.

Pamela Paul is the editor of the Book Review and oversees all books coverage at The Times. She is the author of seven books, "My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues," “By the Book,” “Parenting, Inc.,” “Pornified," “The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony” and "How to Raise a Reader," co-written with Maria Russo. Her newest book is "Rectangle Time," a picture book for children. She is also the host of the weekly Book Review podcast. Before joining The New York Times, she was a contributor to Time magazine and The Economist, and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post and Vogue.

Moderated by Caron Levis, Faculty, Creative Writing Program.