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Sigrid Nunez Wins National Book Award
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Fiction, TNS Lit Scene / November 15, 2018MFA Creative Writing faculty member Sigrid Nunez has won the 2018 National Book Award for her novel The Friend. Announced last night at the National Book Award Ceremony in lower Manhattan, the pr...
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Five Questions With Robert Polito
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, Lit, MFA, People, Poetry, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene / October 29, 2018Robert Polito is a poet, essayist, editor, and biographer. Recent books include the poetry collection Hollywood & God and Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber. He...
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Sigrid Nunez Named National Book Award Finalist
By Ben Fama / in Faculty, Fiction, TNS Lit Scene / October 11, 2018Three cheers to Sigrid Nunez, a long-time faculty member in the Creative Writing Program, whose novel The Friend has been nominated for the National Book Award in Fiction. Sigrid has been on...
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Five Questions With Aditi Sriram
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, Fiction, Graduates, MFA, People, Summer Writers Colony, TNS Lit Scene / September 24, 2018Aditi Sriram teaches Critical Thinking and Creative Writing at Ashoka. She has written for several international publications including The Washington Post, The New York ...
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Five Questions With Susan Shapiro
By Nicole Drayton / in Current Students, Faculty, MFA, New & Forthcoming, Nonfiction, People, TNS Lit Scene / 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 John Reed
By Nicole Drayton / in Current Students, Faculty, Fiction, Graduates, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene / September 19, 2018John Reed is author of A Still Small Voice (Delacorte), The Whole (Simon & Schuster), Snowball's Chance (Melville House); All The World's A Grave (Penguin); Tales of Woe (MTV Press); Free Boat...
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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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Benjamin Taylor wins L.A. Times Book Prize
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Nonfiction, TNS Lit Scene / February 27, 2018Benjamin Taylor, long-time faculty member of the MFA in Creative Writing Program, has been awarded the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose from the L.A. Times Book Prizes for his me...
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THE NEW SCHOOL @ AWP 2018
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Graduates, TNS Lit Scene / February 12, 2018The New School will once again be featured at #AWP18, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference. This year's conference will be held in Tampa, Florida, from Wedne...
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Creative Writing Faculty Member Dave Johnson Receives Grant for Free Verse project
By Ben Fama / in Faculty, TNS Lit Scene, Undergraduate / January 22, 2018The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs has awarded New School Creative Writing faculty member Dave Johnson's Free Verse journal a grant to expand its programing with the NYC Depart...
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Best Books of 2017
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Fiction, Graduates, MFA, Nonfiction, Writing for Children and Young Adults / December 18, 2017Of the 37 books published by Creative Writing Program alumni in 2017, and the 10 books published by program faculty, eight books have landed on Best Books of 2017 lists. Best Books Lists featuring New...
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Remembering The Hour Before Puberty: An Interview with Benjamin Taylor
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty / October 2, 2017By Felicity LuHill Benjamin Taylor is one of a very select few who can say he shook the hand of a president on the day that president was assassinated. And so starts his new memoir, The Hue and Cry...
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10 Books by MFA Alumni and Faculty You Need to get Your Hands on this Summer
By Kelly Stewart / in Faculty, Graduates, TNS Lit Scene / June 9, 2017Whether you’re traveling around the world or enjoying a staycation this summer, there’s no better time to enjoy a good book. In the past few months, the MFA in Creative Writing Program at The New Scho...
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Hettie Jones’ Resistance Bookshelf
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Resistance Bookshelf / March 27, 2017Resistance Bookshelf is a new series for the MFA in Creative Writing Program, in which faculty and students share their reading lists and advice for being aware of and learning to fight fascism and fo...
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Patrick McGrath’s Resistance Bookshelf
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Resistance Bookshelf / March 1, 2017Resistance Bookshelf is a new series for the MFA in Creative Writing Program, in which faculty and students share their reading lists and advice for being aware of and learning to fight fascism and fo...
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WRITING FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS ALUMNI, FACULTY FORM STRONG BOND
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Graduates, Writing for Children and Young Adults / February 14, 2017Alumni of the Creative Writing Program’s Writing for Children and Young Adults concentration have created a bond that far surpasses graduation. These alumni and faculty have built a community and supp...
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2016 Creative Writing Alumni & Faculty Books
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Graduates, TNS Lit Scene / February 7, 2017As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Creative Writing MFA Program at The New School, we are proud to announce the list of 2016 alumni and faculty book publications. This year, 42 books have bee...
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BEST BOOKS OF 2016 BY MFA ALUMNI & FACULTY
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Graduates, TNS Lit Scene / December 20, 2016Congratulations to The New School Creative Writing alumni and faculty members who made best of 2016 book lists! These books are among the 40 books published by Creative Writing alumni and 13 published...
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VAL VINOKUR TALKS ABOUT NEW DOCUMENTARY: FINDING BABEL
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty / November 2, 2016Val Vinokur, Associate Professor of Literary Studies and translation workshop instructor for the Creative Writing program at The New School, was recently interviewed about his work on the new docu...
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Brooklyn Book Festival 2016
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Graduates, TNS Lit Scene / September 13, 2016Creative Writing at The New School will be well-represented at the Brooklyn Book Festival again this year. New School alumni and faculty will be featured at the book fair, on children's day, and at Bo...
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