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Tiphanie Yanique Featured at BAM Literary Festival
By School of Writing / in Faculty, Fiction, TNS Lit Scene / January 23, 2015[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...
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The Poetry Brothel
By School of Writing / in MFA, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / January 20, 2015Stephanie 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...
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Announcing Literary Salons for Summer Writers Colony 2015
By School of Writing / in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Summer Writers Colony / January 7, 2015The 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...
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Amira Thoron in Conversation with Tolly Wright
By School of Writing / in Graduates, MFA, Poetry, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene / December 19, 2014In 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.
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2014 MFA Chapbook Competition Winners
By School of Writing / in Fiction, Graduates, Nonfiction, Poetry, Publications of the School of Writing, Writing for Children / December 17, 2014Writing 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...
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2014 Alumni and Faculty Book Publications
By School of Writing / in Current Students, Faculty, Fiction, Graduates, MFA, Nonfiction, Poetry, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children / December 15, 2014Writing at The New School alumni and faculty have had another incredible year of publication. By our preliminary count, 35 MFA and Riggio: Writing & Democracy alumni and students published 38 book...
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Audiograph: Kass Morgan with Caron Levis
By School of Writing / in Audiograph, MFA, Writing for Children / December 15, 2014Kass 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 ...
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Creative Writing MFA Information Session January 7
By School of Writing / in Fiction, MFA, Nonfiction, Poetry, Writing for Children / December 11, 2014Creative 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...
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Tiphanie Yanique Wins Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize
By School of Writing / in Faculty, Fiction, TNS Lit Scene / December 10, 2014Tiphanie 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...
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Best Books of 2014
By School of Writing / in Faculty, Graduates, TNS Lit Scene / December 8, 2014Writing at The New School has had another milestone year of alumni and faculty publications! Before we unveil the complete list of books published by MFA and Riggio: Writing & Democracy faculty, s...
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Audiograph: Tiphanie Yanique with Luis Jaramillo
By School of Writing / in Audiograph, Faculty, Fiction / December 8, 2014Tiphanie Yanique, Assistant Professor of Writing and author of the new novel Land of Love & Drowning, in conversation with School of Writing director Luis Jaramillo for a Fiction Forum. The Au...
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Cave Canem Poets Geffrey Davis, Dawn Lundy Martin, Arisa White
By School of Writing / in Past Events, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / December 1, 2014Cave Canem poets Geffrey Davis, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Arisa White shared new works as part of an ongoing collaboration between Writing at The New School and Cave Canem on Thursday, November 6, 2014 a...
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Audiograph: Paul Muldoon with Greil Marcus
By School of Writing / in Audiograph, Poetry, Riggio Honors / December 1, 2014Paul Muldoon, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and poetry editor of the New Yorker in conversation with Greil Marcus for a Riggio: Writing & Democracy Forum. The Audiograph series, produced by MFA a...
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Book Trailer: Binary Star by Sarah Gerard MFA ’12 (Two Dollar Radio)
By School of Writing / in Book Trailer, Fiction, Graduates, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene / November 15, 2014Sarah Gerard’s novel Binary Star is forthcoming from Two Dollar Radio in January 2015. Her essay chapbook Things I Told My Mother was published by Von Zos. Other fiction, criticism, and personal essay...
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Audiograph: Masha Gessen with Greil Marcus
By School of Writing / in Audiograph, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene, Undergraduate / November 10, 2014Masha Gessen, author of Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot (Riverhead, 2014) in conversation with Greil Marcus for a Riggio: Writing & Democracy Forum. The Audiograph series, pr...
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Audiograph: Mira Jacob (MFA ’01) with Luis Jaramillo
By School of Writing / in TNS Lit Scene / November 3, 2014Mira Jacob, author of The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing (Random House, 2014) in conversation with School of Writing director Luis Jaramillo. The Audiograph series, produced by MFA alum Luke Wi...
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MFA ’14 Alum Stephanie Danler Sells Two Books to A. A. Knopf
By School of Writing / in Fiction, Graduates, New & Forthcoming, People, TNS Lit Scene / October 31, 2014MFA '14 Fiction alum Stephanie Danler has sold two books to Alfred A. Knopf, as reported in the New York Times! Sweetbitter, the first to be published (in 2016) was Danler's creative thesis at The New...
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The New School @ Texas Book Festival
By School of Writing / in Faculty, Graduates, MFA, People, Riggio Honors, Summer Writers Colony, TNS Lit Scene, Undergraduate / October 14, 2014Writing at The New School will be featured at the Texas Book Festival in Austin this year! Associate Director (and MFA nonfiction alum) Lori Lynn Turner will represent the program at the book fair on ...
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Incoming MFA Class of 2016, Group Photo
By School of Writing / in Current Students, MFA, TNS Lit Scene / October 9, 2014The New School welcomes the incoming MFA in Creative Writing Class of 2014!
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Lisa Graff (MFA ’06) in conversation with Laura Elizabeth Hernandez
By School of Writing / in Fiction, Graduates, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children / October 9, 2014There is nothing ordinary about third grader Sophie Simon. She spends her time thinking about getting her little hands on a graphing calculator for Calculus and reading The Principles of Civil Disobedience (for fun). Which is why I was drawn to Lisa Graff’s book, Sophie Simon Solves Them All, in the first place.
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