Current Students
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Where I Write: With Gina Chung
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Current Students, Fiction, MFA / March 9, 2021Writing spaces are as varied as the individuals who occupy them. The range of “space” we enter for our writing practice is a wide, wild field from tidy to random, from Maya Angelou in a sparse hotel ...
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Where I Write: with Chloe Colvard
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Current Students, Riggio Honors / December 1, 2020Writing spaces are as varied as the individuals who occupy them. The range of “space” we enter for our writing practice is a wide, wild field from tidy to random, from Maya Angelou in a sparse hotel ...
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Five Questions with Cheree Stevenson
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Current Students, People, Fiction, Writing for Children and Young Adults, MFA / May 9, 2019My name is Cheree', I am second year Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA student in my thesis semester! I have an undergraduate degree in history education and I write speculative fiction i...
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Five Questions With Mae Coyiuto
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Current Students, People, Fiction, Writing for Children and Young Adults, MFA / March 12, 2019Mae Coyiuto is a Chinese-Filipino writer, born and raised in the Philippines. She is a second-year MFA Creative writing student concentrating in Writing for Children and Young Adults. She loves w...
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Five Questions With Victoria Richards
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Current Students, People, Fiction, Poetry, MFA, Lit / November 7, 2018Victoria Richards is a poet, freelance writer and second-year MFA Creative Writing student at The New School. She holds a BS degree in Public Relations from St. John’s University. Victoria has a passi...
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Five Questions With Darren Lyons
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Current Students, People, Poetry, MFA / October 15, 2018Darren Lyons is from Akron, OH. He's rambled since, but he's currently an MFA student in the Creative Writing Program of The New School in New York, NY and is the MFA Saturday Workshop Coordinator thi...
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Five Questions With Susan Shapiro
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Current Students, People, Nonfiction, MFA, New & Forthcoming / September 20, 2018Susan Shapiro is the bestselling author/co-author of 12 books including the acclaimed memoirs “Five Men Who Broke My Heart,” “Lighting Up” (Random House) and “The Bosnia List” (Penguin Books.) Her...
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Five Questions With Sarah Jospitre
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Current Students, People, Fiction, Writing for Children and Young Adults, MFA / August 20, 2018Sarah Jospitre is a second-year student in the Writing For Children & Young Adults section of the MFA Creative Writing Program. Recently, she has completed an internship in the editorial dep...
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Summer Photo Contest #LiterarySwag
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Graduates, Current Students, Fiction, Nonfiction, Writing for Children and Young Adults, Continuing Education, MFA, Undergraduate, Summer 2018 Events / 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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WriteOnNYC Fellows Cap Semester with George Jackson Academy Reading
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students / May 18, 2017"Every time I walked out of that classroom at GJA, I left having learned just as much as our students did, if not more. This talented and inspired group of boys has taught me so much over the past y...
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WriteOn Fellow celebrates student’s NYC Scholastic Art & Writing Award
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students / March 31, 2017On Sunday, March 19th, WriteOn fellow and MFA student KrisAnne Madaus attended the NYC Scholastic Art & Writing Awards as an educator to celebrate the success of seventh grade student Neil Baidan ...
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WRITEON FELLOWS SPEND SEMESTER TEACHING AT GEORGE JACKSON ACADEMY
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Current Students / December 15, 2016[caption id="attachment_37046" align="aligncenter" width="640"] MFA students Elise Burchard and KrisAnne Madaus pose with their George Jackson Academy Creative Writing Class after an end of semester r...
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Michael Goldstein MFA ’16 featured in The New York Times
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Current Students / May 29, 2015[caption id="attachment_10882" align="alignright" width="272"] An illustration by Chip Boles in Michael Goldstein’s “Yokai Character Collection.”[/caption] MFA student Michael Goldstein's writing w...
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The New School In Conversation with We Need Diverse Books
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Graduates, Current Students, People, Writing for Children and Young Adults, MFA, Lit / April 29, 2015Written by Alison Doherty, a first year student in The New School’s Writing for Children MFA program. More than half of the students in US schools are people of color, but the latest available stud...
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Author-Illustrators Visit Writing for Children
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students, Writing for Children and Young Adults / April 15, 2015Written by Lauren La Torre, a first-year candidate, the MFA in Creative Writing, Writing for Children concentration. Name the top three most dangerous animals. Go ahead, name them. If...
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NBCC Criticism Finalist Lynne Tillman in Conversation with Joyce Chen
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Current Students, MFA, NBCC 2015 Finalist Interviews / March 11, 2015Thanks 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...
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Writing at The New School Incoming MFA Class of 2014
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Current Students, People, MFA / February 25, 2015Ok, we’re a little behind on this. But welcome to the incoming MFA class of 2015! Selects from orientation …
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2014 Alumni and Faculty Book Publications
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Graduates, Current Students, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Writing for Children and Young Adults, Riggio Honors, MFA / December 15, 2014Writing 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...
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Tatiana Serafin (MFA ’15) Wins Front Page Award
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Current Students, Nonfiction, MFA / October 9, 2014Tatiana Serafin, MFA '15, has been awarded a Front Page Award by the Newswomen's Club of New York. Serafin is receiving the award in the Online-Blog category for her series of articles for Forbes.com ...
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Paul Florez, MFA ’15, in Conversation with Sharisse Tracey, MFA ’13
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, Current Students, People, Nonfiction, MFA, New & Forthcoming / June 12, 2014Sharisse T. Smith graduated from The New School’s Nonfiction Writing Program in 2013. Since then she has published with The New York Times and Ebony.com, among other publications. Her work will next a...
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