Six writers from New York and across the U.S. have been welcomed into the extended family of the Stony Brook Southampton MFA in Creative Writing and Literature program as members of the inaugural class of the Southampton Children’s Lit Fellows. All six will be completing their course of study in the new certificate program during [...]

Screenwriter Bill Collage will be the next guest in the spring Writers Speak Wednesdays series of free author talks and readings open to the public at Stony Brook Southampton. Collage will be interviewed by screenwriter, producer, professor and Southampton Arts Screenwriting Conference Director Annette Handley Chandler on Wednesday, February 27, at 7 pm in the [...]

Interested in creative writing, children’s literature, theatre or filmmaking? Then apply now for Southampton Arts Summer 2013, which runs from July 10 through July 28. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and with only 12 participants per workshop, spaces fill up quickly. Apply early for a better chance to secure your seat. April 15: [...]

Alfred A. Knopf senior editor Robin Desser will be the next guest in the spring Writers Speak Wednesdays series of free author talks and readings open to the public at Stony Brook Southampton. She will be interviewed by former New Yorker fiction editor Dan Menaker on Wednesday, February 20, at 7 pm in the Radio [...]

Stony Brook Southampton faculty member Christine Vachon, co-founder of indie film production powerhouse Killer Films, attended the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, to support two films she produced that were screened at the Festival. But she also spent her time spreading the word to industry insiders and her peers about the new film [...]

Stony Brook Southampton will celebrate the holiday season with the annual Windmill Lighting on Friday, December 7, from 5 pm to 7 pm. The Voices of Southampton High School will sing holiday classics as the exterior of the Windmill is lit. Guests are then invited to a reception in Chancellors Hall. Enjoy hot cocoa, holiday treats, a [...]

Learn more about Semester by the Sea at Stony Brook Southampton, featuring two unique 15-credit undergraduate residential programs — Stony Brook Marine Science and Southampton Arts. Immerse yourself in marine studies for 16 weeks and explore Long Island’s bays, estuaries, salt marshes, beaches and open ocean. You’ll work side by side with renowned marine science [...]

Come to the Open House and film screening for Southampton Arts Semester by the Sea Fall 2012 on Saturday, November 17, at 2 pm in Duke Lecture Hall at Chancellors Hall on the Stony Brook Southampton Campus. There will be a brief information session for prospective students, a film screening and a short reception afterwards [...]

The once rich shellfish beds of Shinnecock Bay may thrive again thanks to an ambitious environmental restoration project funded in part by a philanthropic gift from the Laurie Landeau Foundation matched by a gift from the Simons Foundation for a total impact of $3 million. These targeted funds will be used by Stony Brook’s School [...]

Legendary producer and indie film powerhouse Christine Vachon of Killer Films has joined the Stony Brook Southampton faculty, moving the vibrant and emerging campus a giant step closer to the goal of establishing a new, innovative graduate program in film. “Adding Vachon to the faculty is especially exciting,” said Associate Provost Robert Reeves, “because she [...]