Masthead 2024-25
Eve Michelson-Bianco, Editor-in-Chief
Matthew Mattila, Managing Editor
Tierney Auerbach, Poetry Editor
Michelle Berry, Nonfiction Editor
Gil Bittner, Staff Editor
Fatou Hymes, Fiction Editor
Past
In the days of my youth, in the days of my youth,
I lay in West Twelfth Street, writhing with Truth.
–E.B. White
12th Street began in the 1940s and was relaunched in 2008. In 2011, 12th Street won the Director’s Prize award for both design and content at the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference (AWP). The journal was relaunched in the spring of 2008. 12th Street is produced annually by students enrolled in The New School’s Writing and Democracy Honors Program.
The WDH Program (formerly the Riggio Program) is designed to offer an innovative and comprehensive literary education through a curriculum of writing workshops (fiction, nonfiction, poetry) and literature seminars, culminating in a thesis project. The program creates and fosters a cohesive community of undergraduate writers through regular student readings and other peer group activities, including 12th Street, edited and published by New School undergraduates. In addition, an ongoing series of public readings, literary forums, lectures, symposiums and panel discussions add depth to the program. Scholarships are available for WDH students.
Can I publish on this site?
All matriculating undergraduate students at The New School, as well as WDH/Riggio program alumni, are urged to submit!
If you have suggestions or requests, email faculty advisor Seth Graves at sgraves@newschool.edu.
Image credit: Walter Houmere (1945 student)