Events

Literary agent Ashley Lopez MFA ’18 (Massie McQuilkin & Altman) will talk us through the basic do’s and don’ts around drafting query letters, including recognizing if you’re ready to query agents and how to find an agent’s client list and manuscript wish-list. Students will walk away with an understanding of a basic query letter structure they can adapt and personalize, as well as several examples of successful query letters.

Ashley Lopez received her MFA in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College and has over a decade of publishing experience. Formerly the Director of Foreign Rights and an agent at WLA Books, she has worked on international and New York Times bestsellers, bringing a global perspective to her authors. She loves writers who aren’t afraid to raise the stakes, and smart people sharing their obsessions. Ashley is a member of AALA. She represents literary and book club fiction, grounded speculative, horror, thrillers, narrative and practical nonfiction, as well as select poetry and YA.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Note: Graduating students who plan to participate in the student-agent pairings in May are highly encouraged to attend this talk.

Please join us for a poetry reading and Q&A with Wo Chan, followed by book sales and signing.

Wo Chan who performs as The Illustrious Pearl is a poet and drag artist. They are a winner of the 2020 Nightboat Poetry Prize and the author of TOGETHERNESS which won the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature, and was a finalist for the 2023 CLMP Firecracker Award. Wo has received fellowships from MacDowell, New York Foundation of the Arts, Kundiman, The Asian American Writers Workshop, Poets House, and Lambda Literary. As a member of the Brooklyn based drag/burlesque collective Switch N' Play, Wo has performed at The Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, National Sawdust, New York Live Arts and elsewhere. They hold a BA from the University of Virginia and an MFA in Poetry from New York University. Born in Macau, Wo lives in Brooklyn, New York. Find them at @theillustriouspearl

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

The Precollege team at Sarah Lawrence team will present a comprehensive overview of the program and answer your questions regarding the application and registration process, academic curriculum, and campus experience.

Meet the Admissions team and the lead faculty member. Have all your questions answered! Register here.

Joseph Earl Thomas is the author of Sink, A Memoir (Grand Central Publishing, 2023), longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Writing Prize; the novel God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer (Grand Central Publishing, 2024), longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Literary Excellence, finalist for the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award, winner of the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize; and the forthcoming story collection Leviathan Beach (Penguin Random House, 2027). His prose and poetry has been published or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, The Verge, Harper’s, Virginia Quarterly Review, Vanity Fair, The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Dilettante Army.

His honors include the 2020 Chautauqua Janus Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Fellowship in Writing and Publishing, and fellowships from Kimbilio, VONA, Tin House and Bread Loaf. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s MFA program in prose, he earned his PhD in English from The University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College as well as low residency MFA programs at Holy Family and Randolph Colleges, and teaches courses in Black Studies, Poetics, Video Games, Queer Theory and more at The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Book by George Furth 

Directed by Lauren Reinhard

On the night of her 35th birthday, Bobby  struggles to think of a wish to make as she blows out her birthday candles. Singled and surrounded by “those good and crazy people” -- her married friends -- Bobby is uncertain whether she should simply be happy with her lot or whether she should wish for her own romantic partner. Over a series of dinner parties, first dates, and thoughtful conversations, Bobby attempts to understand the pros and cons of marriage from her diverse and frequently hilarious friends, and begins to make sense of her own persistent single life. Company, Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking modern musical, is a mature, intelligent, and wildly funny look at relationships, vulnerability, and “being alive.”

REGISTER HERE. 

The Spring Musical is presented through special arrangement with the Musical Theatre International and supported by The Berelle Katz Samuel Theatre Fund. 

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Book by George Furth 

Directed by Lauren Reinhard

On the night of her 35th birthday, Bobby  struggles to think of a wish to make as she blows out her birthday candles. Singled and surrounded by “those good and crazy people” -- her married friends -- Bobby is uncertain whether she should simply be happy with her lot or whether she should wish for her own romantic partner. Over a series of dinner parties, first dates, and thoughtful conversations, Bobby attempts to understand the pros and cons of marriage from her diverse and frequently hilarious friends, and begins to make sense of her own persistent single life. Company, Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking modern musical, is a mature, intelligent, and wildly funny look at relationships, vulnerability, and “being alive.”

REGISTER HERE. 

The Spring Musical is presented through special arrangement with the Musical Theatre International and supported by The Berelle Katz Samuel Theatre Fund. 

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Book by George Furth 

Directed by Lauren Reinhard

On the night of her 35th birthday, Bobby  struggles to think of a wish to make as she blows out her birthday candles. Singled and surrounded by “those good and crazy people” -- her married friends -- Bobby is uncertain whether she should simply be happy with her lot or whether she should wish for her own romantic partner. Over a series of dinner parties, first dates, and thoughtful conversations, Bobby attempts to understand the pros and cons of marriage from her diverse and frequently hilarious friends, and begins to make sense of her own persistent single life. Company, Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking modern musical, is a mature, intelligent, and wildly funny look at relationships, vulnerability, and “being alive.”

REGISTER HERE. 

The Spring Musical is presented through special arrangement with the Musical Theatre International and supported by The Berelle Katz Samuel Theatre Fund.