Graduates
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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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Alex Bennett, MFA ’13, talks to Brooke Ellsworth, MFA ’13, about Thrown (The New Megaphone, 2014)
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Graduates, MFA, New & Forthcoming, People, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / March 28, 2014Last winter, I read iterations of Thrown while collaborating with Brooke Ellsworth in our second-year thesis group. I recently read the complete text (enamored with the beauty of the language, again) ...
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Book Trailer: Truth or Dare by Jacqueline Green MFA ’09 (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Fiction, Graduates, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / February 20, 2014Jacqueline Green grew up in Wynnewood, PA, where she devoured books the way other kids did candy. She never stopped loving those books she read as a kid, so after receiving her BA from Cornell Univers...
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Interview with Jen Benka, MFA ’07, Executive Director of the Academy of American Poets
By Justin Sherwood / in Graduates, MFA, People, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / February 19, 2014By the time she arrived at The New School, Jen Benka, MFA Creative Writing '07, had five years of experience as Managing Director of Poets & Writers behind her, and had already published book of p...
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Book Trailer: You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon MFA ’00 (Putnam)
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Book Trailer, Fiction, Graduates, MFA, People / February 19, 2014Siobhan Fallon is the author of You Know When the Men Are Gone, which was listed as a Best Book of 2011 by The San Francisco Chronicle, Self Magazine, Los Angeles Public Library, Janet Maslin of The New York Times, and won a 2012 Indies Choice Honor Award, the Texas Institute of Letters Award for First Fiction, and the 2012 Pen Center USA Literary Award in Fiction.
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Book Trailer: Getting Lucky by Nicole Steinberg MFA ’06 (Spooky Girlfriend Press)
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Book Trailer, Graduates, People, Poetry / February 18, 2014Nicole Steinberg is the author of Getting Lucky (Spooky Girlfriend Press, 2013) and two chapbooks forthcoming in 2014:Undressing from dancing girl press and Clever Little Gang, winner of the Furniture...
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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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University Center Open House
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, Current Students, Faculty, Graduates / January 8, 2014Students, alumni, faculty, friends, and neighbors of The New School are cordially invited to the University Center Open House! On Saturday, January 25, doors to the University Center at 63 Fifth Av...
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Audiograph: A.S. King and Eliot Schrefer
By Luke Wiget / in Audiograph, Graduates, New & Forthcoming, Past Events, People, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / October 31, 2013A.S. King and Eliot Schrefer at The New School moderated by Patricia McCormick, 10/22/2013, audio, reading and interview. The Audiograph series broadcasts digital audio about the people, publicat...
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Audiograph: Mario Alberto Zambrano
By Luke Wiget / in Audiograph, Faculty, Fiction, Graduates, New & Forthcoming, Past Events, People, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene / October 23, 2013Mario Alberto Zambrano at The New School moderated by Luis Jaramillo, 10/14/2013, audio, reading and interview. The Audiograph series broadcasts digital audio about the people, publications, and...
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Ricky Tucker, Riggio ’14, talks to Jacob Severn, Fiction ’13
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students, Graduates, MFA, New & Forthcoming, People, TNS Lit Scene / 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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Gabriel Don, Fiction ’13, talks to Amanda Smeltz, Poetry ’11, and Robert Siek, Poetry ’99
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Fiction, Graduates, MFA, New & Forthcoming, People, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / October 17, 2013Robert Siek's poems have appeared in journals such as The Columbia Poetry Review, Court Green, Mary, Assaracus, and Chelsea Station. In 2002, the New School published his chapbook Clubbed Kid, and i...
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MFA Chapbook Contest Reading, Class of 2012
By Justin Sherwood / in Graduates, MFA, New & Forthcoming, Past Events, People, TNS Lit Scene / October 15, 2013On Thursday, October 10, the Writing Program hosted the 2012 MFA Chapbook Contest Reading, featuring the winners of this year's chapbook contest. Hosted by fiction coordinator Helen Schulman, this ann...
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Interview with Leah Umansky, Author of “Domestic Uncertainties”
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, Current Students, Graduates, New & Forthcoming, People, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / 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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Audiograph: Alysia Abbott, MFA ’03
By Luke Wiget / in Audiograph, Graduates, MFA, Past Events, People, TNS Lit Scene / October 7, 2013Alysia Abbott at The New School, moderated by Honor Moore, 9/23/13, audio reading and interview. The Audiograph series broadcasts digital audio about the people, publications, and events of Writing...
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Interview with John Bengan, MFA ’11, Author of “Armor”
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Fiction, Graduates, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene / October 3, 2013Reading John Bengan's short story "Armor" I found myself thinking about literary awards, and how few I follow. This story won the 2013 Carlos Palanca Memorial Award, a prestigious accolade for literat...
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At the Brooklyn Book Festival
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 12th Street, Faculty, Graduates, Lit, Past Events, People, Publications of the School of Writing, TNS Lit Scene / October 1, 2013On Sunday, September 22, Borough Plaza in Downtown Brooklyn transformed from public square into a vibrant literary community with the arrival of the Brooklyn Book Festival. The annual event brought to...
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Nonfiction Forum: Alysia Abbott, ’03
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Graduates, MFA, New & Forthcoming, Nonfiction, Past Events, TNS Lit Scene / September 25, 2013It's been ten years since New School alum, Alysia Abbott, walked these halls as a MFA Nonfiction student. She debuts her memoir, Fairyland, which saw its early beginnings right here in nonfiction work...
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