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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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Paul Florez, MFA ’15, in Conversation with Sharisse Tracey, MFA ’13
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students, Graduates, MFA, New & Forthcoming, Nonfiction, People, TNS Lit Scene / 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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Recap: 12th Street Journal Issue #7 Launch
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 12th Street, Current Students, Faculty, Fiction, Graduates, New & Forthcoming, Nonfiction, Past Events, People, Poetry, Publications of the School of Writing, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene, Undergraduate / June 7, 2014Congratulations to the Riggio Honors Program's 12th Street Journal staff and contributors, who packed the house at the Union Square Barnes & Noble this spring for the launch of print issue #7. Fea...
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The Summer Writers are Here!
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students, Faculty, Fiction, Nonfiction, People, Poetry, Summer Writers Colony / June 2, 2014The New School's incoming Summer Writers Colony class of 2014! Follow the Summer Writers Colony on Instagram at @summerwriters for an inside look at the craft sessions, Literary Salons, and rea...
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Welcome, MFA Class of 2016
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students, MFA, People / May 15, 2014Current students of The New School MFA in Creative Writing welcome the incoming class of 2016!
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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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Pictograph: Anna Fridlis
By Pictograph / in Current Students, MFA, Nonfiction, Past Events, People, Pictograph, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene / April 23, 2014Anna Fridlis, MFA '14 and Riggio T.A., at The New School's Writing Program Book Party, Publishing Year 2013. Photo by John Reed. Part of Pictograph: Portraits of The School of Writing at The New Sch...
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Adam Gidwitz, a New York YA minute
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students, Fiction, People, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / April 22, 2014“Quickly now! Okay, you, Matt, go!” Adam exclaimed. I had less than a minute to come up with a problem for a book. Any problem. I was flustered. I was nervous. It was wonderful. And in less than te...
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Agent Mixer
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students, Fiction, MFA, Nonfiction, Past Events, People, Writing for Children and Young Adults / April 21, 2014Emerging writers are always worrying about two things: finishing that book, and finding an agent. For MFA students at the School of Writing, many of whom are in their final weeks of writing their thes...
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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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John Eller, Riggio Scholar, talks to Sarah Gerard, MFA ’12, about Things I Told My Mother (Von Zos)
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students, Graduates, MFA, New & Forthcoming, People, Riggio Honors / April 7, 2014Sarah Gerard's novel Binary Star is forthcoming from Two Dollar Radio in January 2015. Her chapbook Things I Told My Mother was published in 2013. Short works have appeared in the New York Times, the ...
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Anna Witiuk, Riggio Scholar, talks to Jennifer Sky, Riggio Scholar, about Queen of the Tokyo Ballroom (The Atavist, 2014)
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students, Faculty, Graduates, MFA, New & Forthcoming, Nonfiction, People, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene / March 31, 2014In the summer of 1991 Jennifer Sky, then only fifteen years old, flew to Tokyo on the promise of a glamorous and successful career in modeling. What met her instead was what she describes as the "...
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Matthew Futterman, MFA ’15, talks to Coe Booth, MFA ’06
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students, Fiction, Graduates, MFA, New & Forthcoming, People, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / March 28, 2014Coe Booth graduated from The New School MFA program in Writing for Children in 2005. Her books include Tyrell, Kendra, and Bronxwood. She has won numerous awards including 2007 Los Angeles Times Book ...
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Summer Writers Colony 2014 Nonfiction: Madge McKeithen, Alysia Abbott, Lynne Tillman
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, Current Students, Faculty, Nonfiction / March 13, 2014The Summer Writers Colony at The New School is an intensive three-week program in which students share and critique one another's ongoing projects in a daily writing workshop moderated by a member of...
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#AWP14 Round-Up: The New School Does Seattle
By Justin Sherwood / in 12th Street, Current Students, Lit, People, Publications of the School of Writing, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene / March 3, 2014The New School Writing Program set up shop in Seattle, Washington for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference 2014. On Thursday, LIT Magazine launched issue #25 at Office ...
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The New School at AWP Conference 2014 in Seattle
By Justin Sherwood / in 12th Street, Current Students, Lit, People, Publications of the School of Writing, TNS Lit Scene / February 25, 2014The New School Writing Program will be at the AWP Conference and Bookfair! This year, the AWP Conference (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) will be held in Seattle, Washington from Wedne...
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Free Verse #2 Released!
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students, Faculty, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / February 20, 2014Congratulations to all involved in Free Verse #2, a journal of prose and poetry created by and for probation clients in the South Bronx Neighborhood Opportunity Network (NeON). This project is led by ...
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Dianca London Potts, MFA ’15, talks to Nicole Steinberg, MFA ’06, Getting Lucky (Spooky Girlfriend Press)
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students, Graduates, MFA, New & Forthcoming, People, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / January 31, 2014he other source was another poet, Bruce Covey, who runs Coconut Books. I heard him read two poems a few years ago that had been inspired by People magazine’s ‘Most Beautiful People’ issue. He took the editorial copy related to all of the male celebrities and wrote one poem, then another one using editorial copy related to female celebrities. It was astounding to hear the differences in the tone and the language we use to describe the two genders. That really struck me. Lucky magazine is one of my guilty pleasures.
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Susan Marque, MFA ’14, talks to Jenny Feldon, MFA ’06, about Karma Gone Bad (Sourcebooks, 2013)
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students, Graduates, MFA, New & Forthcoming, Nonfiction, People / January 21, 2014Jenny Feldon: As a blogger, I thought I had the whole nonfiction thing figured out when I sat down to write this manuscript. But blogging and memoir are really, really different! I had to draw out the narrative arc, just like in fiction, but without the freedom of creating my own characters or being able to manipulate the plot. Searching for the story within my own story while remaining honest to the experience was challenging. On the other hand, not needing to create everything from scratch was liberating, too. Writing this memoir has helped me grow as a fiction writer, and I am really eager to continuing exploring and building my skills in both mediums.
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