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New School Faculty Robert Polito Featured on New PBS series “Poetry In America”
By Ben Fama / in Faculty, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / May 9, 2018Watch as Robert Polito, Frank Gehry, Zhang Xin, & Elisa New do a powerful deep-dig close reading of Carl Sandburg’s surprising poem, “Skyscraper,” on the latest episode of the new PBS series POETR...
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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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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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Best Books of 2015 By MFA Alumni and Faculty
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Graduates, TNS Lit Scene / December 14, 2015Congratulations to The New School Creative Writing alumni and faculty members who made best of 2015 book lists! We will update this post as more best-of lists are published. New York...
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Creative Writing Alumni and Faculty Book Publications 2015
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Graduates, TNS Lit Scene / December 7, 2015Creative Writing at The New School is proud to announce the list of 2015 alumni and faculty book publications. This year, 27 books have been published by alumni of the MFA in Creative Writing and Rigg...
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Interview with Susan Cheever by Sara-Kate Astrove
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, MFA, Nonfiction / October 28, 2015New School MFA Creative Writing faculty member Susan Cheever's latest book, Drinking in America: Our Secret History, just out from Hachette Book Group, examines our nation's tumultuous relationship wi...
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Poets Forum at The New School Featuring Elaine Equi
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / September 29, 2015Creative Writing continues its partnership with the Academy of American Poets this year by hosting their annual Poets Forum. The Poets Forum brings together the Chancellors of the academy, a group of ...
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Faculty Member Candy Schulman Profiled in ‘Literary Mama’
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, TNS Lit Scene, Undergraduate / September 16, 2015Creative Writing faculty member Candy Schulman has been teaching nonfiction and memoir writing at The New School for more than 25 years. Last spring, Schulman served as a mentor for the Association of...
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