Current Students
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Adam Gidwitz, a New York YA minute
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Current Students, People, Fiction, 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 Past Events, Current Students, People, Fiction, Nonfiction, Writing for Children and Young Adults, MFA / 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 TNS Lit Scene, Past Events, Faculty, Graduates, Current Students, People, Writing for Children and Young Adults, Continuing Education, Riggio Honors, MFA, Undergraduate / 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 Graduates, Current Students, People, Riggio Honors, MFA, New & Forthcoming / 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 TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Graduates, Current Students, People, Nonfiction, Riggio Honors, MFA, New & Forthcoming / 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 TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, Current Students, People, Fiction, Writing for Children and Young Adults, MFA, New & Forthcoming / 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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Free Verse #2 Released!
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Current Students, Poetry / 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 TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, Current Students, People, Poetry, MFA, New & Forthcoming / 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 Graduates, Current Students, People, Nonfiction, MFA, New & Forthcoming / 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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AUDIOGRAPH: National Book Awards Reading 2013 / Part 2
By Luke Wiget / in Past Events, Faculty, Audiograph, Current Students, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Writing for Children and Young Adults, MFA / December 31, 2013National Book Awards 2013 at The New School, 11/19/2013. The Audiograph series broadcasts digital audio about the people, publications, and events of Writing at The New School.
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In Conversation with Ivan Vladislavić
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students, People, Fiction, Continuing Education / December 9, 2013Ivan Vladislavić made his way past the police barriers on Halloween for an engaging Q&A at The New School with John Reed’s Advanced Fiction workshop. A South African author, Vladislavić was in New...
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Ricky Tucker, Riggio ’14, talks to Jacob Severn, Fiction ’13
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, Current Students, People, MFA, New & Forthcoming / October 22, 2013Waxing poetic, I'd call his world "Haunted Shout Machine." Jacob Severn's simultaneous dedication to text and visual art is a lesson in aesthetic singularity. Recently, I caught up with Jacob (The Ne...
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Interview with Leah Umansky, Author of “Domestic Uncertainties”
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, Current Students, People, Poetry, Continuing Education, New & Forthcoming / October 14, 2013Leah Umansky, poet, writer and curator / host of COUPLET: a poetry and music series (and regular in Patricia Carlin's poetry workshop in The New School's Continuing Education Program) shows us all the...
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12th Street Journal Issue #6 Launch
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Publications of the School of Writing, Current Students, Riggio Honors, Undergraduate, 12th Street / April 25, 2013Please join us this Friday as we celebrate Issue # 6 of 12th Street Journal. The event will be held at the Union Square Barnes and Noble this Friday, April 26th at 7:00 pm. The evening features readi...
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New School MFA Student Raven Jackson Wins the Vera List Writing Award
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Current Students, Poetry, MFA / April 18, 2013The Vera List Center for Arts and Politics has announced MFA student Raven Jackson (class of 2014) as the winner for their annual Art Collection Writing Award! Here's their note about this year's them...
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Interview with Adam Fitzgerald, Author of The Late Parade
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Current Students, People, Poetry, MFA, New & Forthcoming / April 5, 2013New School MFA student Brooke Ellsworth caught up with Adam Fitzgerald about his new poetry collection The Late Parade. Renowned poet John Ashbery exclaimed: "Adam Fitzgerald is a master of defeating...
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Interview with David Weisberg, editor of DEATH HUMS
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Current Students, Poetry, MFA, New & Forthcoming / March 25, 2013Last week our own indefatigable Ian Brown (MFA class of 2013) sat down with David Weisberg (MFA class of 2014) to chat about the literary magazine he co-founded, DEATH HUMS. Here's a brief excer...
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