Writing at The New School Incoming MFA Class of 2014

Ok, we’re a little behind on this. But welcome to the incoming MFA class of 2015! Selects from orientation …

NBCC Nonfiction Finalist Hector Tobar in Conversation with Demetri Raftopoulos

Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and The School of Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and faculty, we are able to provide in...

NBCC Criticism Finalist Claudia Rankine in Conversation with Dianca London Potts

Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and The School of Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and faculty, we are able to provide in...

NBCC Biography Finalist Miriam Pawel in Conversation with Anthony Roberts

Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and The School of Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and faculty, we are able to provide interviews with each of the NBCC Awards Finalists for the publishing year 2014.

Anthony Roberts, on behalf of the The School of Writing at The New School and the NBCC, interviewed Miriam Pawel about her book The Crusades of Cesar Chavez (Bloomsbury), which is among the final five selections, in the category of Criticism, for the 2014 NBCC awards.

NBCC Autobiography Finalist Lacy M. Johnson in Conversation with Jennifer Morell

Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and The School of Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and faculty, we are able to provide interviews with each of the NBCC Awards Finalists for the publishing year 2014.

Jennifer Morell, on behalf of the The School of Writing at The New School and the NBCC, interviewed Lacy M. Johnson about her book The Other Side (Tin House), which is among the final five selections, in the category of Autobiography, for the 2014 NBCC awards.

2nd Annual Alumni & Faculty Book Party

Writing at The New School will host its 2nd Annual Alumni & Faculty Book Party on Thursday, February 26, at The New School. This year the MFA in Creative Writing Program and the Riggio Honors P...

Audiograph: Jess Row with Jeffery Renard Allen

Jess Row, acclaimed author of the new novel Your Face in Mine and the short story collection The Train to Lo Wu, read and discussed his work in a Fiction Forum at The New School on January 28, 2015. T...

NBCC Criticism Finalist Eula Biss in Conversation with Haley Sledge (MFA ’15)

Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and The School of Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and faculty, we are able to provide in...

Audiograph: Mark Bibbins and Kathleen Ossip

Mark Bibbins and Kathleen Ossip, MFA poetry alumni and current faculty of the Writing Program, read from their latest collections in a Poetry Forum on December 10, 2014. Mark Bibbins' They're Don't...

Updated: A Tribute to Paul Violi at The New School

Updated 2/20/15: MFA student Danielle Chin profiled this event over at the Best American Poetry Blog: On February 11th, over a hundred colleagues, family, friends, former students, and admirers gathe...

Audiograph: Paul Auster with Honor Moore

Paul Auster, the internationally acclaimed author of Sunset Park, The Invention of Solitude and The New York Trilogy, among many other works of fiction, poetry, memoir and translation, joined faculty ...

Tiphanie Yanique Featured at BAM Literary Festival

[caption id="attachment_9117" align="alignright" width="300"] Image via BAM.org[/caption] Tiphanie Yanique, Writing professor at The New School, will be featured at BAM in Brooklyn as part of the E...

The Poetry Brothel

Stephanie Berger and Nicholas Adamski, graduates of the MFA program at The New School, founded The Poetry Society of New York in 2007 around the time they completed their MFAs. Among their initiatives...

Announcing Literary Salons for Summer Writers Colony 2015

The Summer Writers Colony at The New School is an intensive three-week creative writing program in which students share and critique one another's ongoing projects in a daily writing workshop moderate...

Amira Thoron in Conversation with Tolly Wright

In Amira Thoron’s first book, For My Father, the reader is transported to the poet’s childhood in Cairo and Martha’s Vineyard. The poet, with sparse and graceful lines, remembers her father, who died while she was still young, and her often difficult interactions with her paternal grandmother. The collection is a haunting impression of a man whose absence loomed large. Thoron graduated from The New School’s MFA poetry program in 2006. Over a series of emails, we discussed her family, her influences, and her body of work.

2014 MFA Chapbook Competition Winners

Writing at The New School is proud to announce the winners of the 2014 Chapbook Competition! The competition is open each year to the graduating MFA class. Winners are selected by acclaimed writers wh...

2014 Alumni and Faculty Book Publications

Writing at The New School alumni and faculty have had another incredible year of publication. By our preliminary count, 36 MFA and Riggio: Writing & Democracy alumni and students published 39 book...

Audiograph: Kass Morgan with Caron Levis

Kass Morgan, best-selling author of The 100, in conversation with MFA Writing for Children coordinator Caron Levis. The Audiograph series, produced by MFA alum Luke Wiget, broadcasts digital audio ...

Creative Writing MFA Information Session January 7

Creative Writing MFA Information Session: Meet faculty, current students, and alumni of the MFA in Creative Writing Program for an information session and reception on Wednesday, January 7, 2015.  The...

Tiphanie Yanique Wins Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize

Tiphanie Yanique, Assistant Professor of Writing, has won the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize! Yanique received the award for her critically acclaimed novel Land of Love & D...