Continuing Education
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Summer Photo Contest #LiterarySwag
By Nicole Drayton / in Continuing Education, Current Students, Faculty, Fiction, Graduates, MFA, Nonfiction, Summer 2018 Events, TNS Lit Scene, Undergraduate, Writing for Children and Young Adults / June 19, 2018This summer, join the #LiterarySwag movement, launched on Instagram by Yahdon Israel, MFA Creative Writing graduate (2016), by sharing your most creative photograph that brings together liter...
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Cyber Show: “Playing with Time”
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education / October 25, 2017Poems and Photography | Part 1 Poet Helene Swarts, alumna of the Continuing Education program at The New School and attendee of Pearl London’s famous seminar “Meeting Poets and Poetry” (1970–1998), r...
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New School Publishing Institute Provides Students, Professionals Inside Look at NYC Publishing Industry
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education / August 6, 2017[caption id="attachment_53810" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Students and professionals attending the annual New School Publishing Institute learn how to break into the world of New York City Publi...
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Meeting Poets and Poetry: Helene Swarts and Pearl London
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / July 25, 2016From 1970 to 1998, Pearl London taught a now-famous poetry seminar, “Meeting Poets and Poetry,” at The New School. London invited poets — including luminaries such as Stanley Kunitz, Maxine Kumin, Joh...
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Summer Writers Colony 2016: Nonfiction
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, Summer Writers Colony, Undergraduate / April 27, 2016Discover the writer's life in New York City. The 2016 Summer Writers Colony at The New School will meet Monday, June 6 through Thursday, June 23rd. This intensive three-week program of workshops, lite...
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Summer Writers Colony 2016: Multi-Genre Workshop and Poetry Salons
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Summer Writers Colony, Undergraduate / April 20, 2016Discover the writer's life in New York City. The 2016 Summer Writers Colony at The New School will meet Monday, June 6 through Thursday, June 23rd. This intensive three-week program of workshops, lite...
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#6WordMemoir Winners from Woodstock Writers Festival 2016
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, People, TNS Lit Scene / April 12, 2016This year, The New School Creative Writing program was a featured presenter at the Woodstock Writers Festival. We challenged festival attendees to tweet us their best #6WordMemoir, and we got some gre...
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Aspen Matis: Twenty Five and Thriving, by Christina Berke
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, MFA, New & Forthcoming, Nonfiction / January 20, 2016In under 400 pages, Aspen Matis chronicles her 2,650-mile walk from Mexico to Canada. Her trek along the Pacific Crest Trail was one of peril, romance and suspense. But it was a psychological journey ...
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Summer Writers Colony 2016: Fiction
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, Faculty, Fiction, Summer Writers Colony, Undergraduate / January 15, 2016Discover the writer's life in New York City. The 2016 Summer Writers Colony at The New School will meet Monday, June 6 through Thursday, June 23rd. This intensive three-week program of workshops, lite...
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Beginner’s Mind: Intro-Level Workshops at The New School
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, TNS Lit Scene, Undergraduate / December 9, 2015Creative Writing at The New School has a long history of encouraging trans-disciplinary and cross-genre study. Introductory level workshops at The New School welcome both first-time writers and experi...
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New for Spring: Creative Writing at The New School
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, TNS Lit Scene / December 3, 2015Registration for spring continuing education courses in creative writing at The New School opens on Tuesday, December 8! Many new classes are available this spring, including multi-genre and multi-med...
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Honoring Veterans Day: Interview with CE Student Victoria Moy
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, Nonfiction, TNS Lit Scene / November 11, 2015Guest post by Continuing Education student Haig Chahinian I’m embarrassed to say I’ve often ignored Veterans Day. That is, until I met Victoria Moy, author of Fighting for the Dream, an eye-opening...
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A Profile of Gowanus Author Joseph Alexiou by Sara-Kate Astrove
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, New & Forthcoming, TNS Lit Scene / October 16, 2015New School continuing education alum Joseph Alexiou’s debut book examines one of the nation's most contaminated bodies of water, unearthing the fascinating backstory of a troubled New York basin. Gowa...
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Kickstart Your Writing This Summer at The New School
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry / May 8, 2015Kickstart your writing this summer at The New School! These creative writing workshops are designed to get students producing high-quality writing in short order. Classes begin the first week of June ...
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Summer 2015 in Creative Writing at The New School
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Summer Writers Colony, Writing for Children and Young Adults / April 17, 2015Writing at the New School offers Continuing Education courses in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, dramatic writing, journalism, writing for children and special topics. Our short form students go on to publish articles with national newspapers and magazines, from The New York Times to Cosmopolitan to Vice. A great many of our long-form students have gone on to sell books to large and small publishers. In 2013, our students, alumni and faculty published over 35 books; in 2014, over 40.
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The Bosnia List by Kenan Trebincevic and Susan Shapiro (Penguin Books, 2014)
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, Faculty, MFA, TNS Lit Scene / September 15, 2014Trebincevic, now an American citizen working as a physical therapist in Manhattan, met his coauthor Susan Shapiro in Greenwich Village, when she needed treatment for a back injury. Shapiro is a Jewish memoirist and long-time journalism teacher at The New School, where I took her class. I recently spoke with both of them about war, writing, fate and why they call their collaboration a “Jewish/Muslim book of healing.”
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The New School at the Harlem Book Fair
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, Current Students, MFA, People, Riggio Honors / July 8, 2014Writing at The New School will be exhibiting at the Harlem Book Fair! On Saturday, July 12, from 10am to 5pm you can find Writing Program and New School staff, as well as current students and alumni o...
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A Look Back at the Summer Writers Colony 2014
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, Current Students, Faculty, Summer Writers Colony / June 23, 2014The Summer Writers Colony 2014 at The New School brought together a tremendous group of students, faculty, visiting instructors, and visiting authors. For 3 weeks, students studied Nonfiction, Fiction...
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Writing at The New School, Continuing Education, Summer 2014
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, Current Students, Fiction, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / April 28, 2014Our Continuing Education catalog is making the rounds! Here's a PDF of our Spring 2014 courses in Writing: Summer Courses in Writing at The New School. You can also head straight to The New School...
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The New School, Book Party 2013
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, Current Students, Faculty, Graduates, MFA, Past Events, People, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene, Undergraduate, Writing for Children and Young Adults / April 17, 2014In 2013, The New School Writing Program's faculty and alumni published a staggering 50+ books. Last Thursday night at Wollman Hall, to honor the occasion, Writing at The New School held its First Ann...
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