Best Books of 2017

Of 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...

2017 CREATIVE WRITING ALUMNI AND FACULTY BOOKS

The Creative Writing Program is proud to announce the list of 2017 alumni and faculty book publications. This year, 39 books have been published by alumni of the MFA in Creative Writing...

A Memory Becomes a Prize and a Legacy, Rafnsdóttir receives inaugural Bette Howland Nonfiction Prize

Written by MFA in Creative Writing faculty member and nonfiction coordinator Honor Moore In the winter of 1977, I went to the MacDowell Colony for the first time. I had just had my first work – a mem...

MFA Creative Writing Alumni Skillshare

MFA CREATIVE WRITING ALUMNI SKILL-SHARING SEMINARS As part of the 20th anniversary of the MFA in Creative Writing Program, we are rolling out new initiatives featuring alumni. We're pleased to announ...

Q&A WITH MFA ALUM AMY KURZWEIL

Elisha Wagman sits down at the Think Coffee on 4th Avenue with Amy Kurzweil, her good friend and fellow alumni of the MFA program at The New School, to discuss Flying Couch,  Kurzweil’s graphic memoir...

JAKE ADLER RECEIVES BOREN FELLOWSHIP

New School MFA in Creative Writing student Jake Adler was recently awarded the Boren Fellowship and will spend 2017 in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, studying the Bengali language. An initiative of ...

New York City Poetry Festival 2016

The sixth annual New York City Poetry Festival commences this weekend on Governors Island. The two-day festival runs from 11am to 5pm on Saturday, July 30 and Sunday, July 31. Co-founded by New School...

The Phantasmagoria of Offense: Interview with Jess Irish (MFA ’15)

Censorship, “Obscene Art,” and Trigger Warnings: The Thought-Provoking New Film Lyric by Jess Irish Guest post by MFA student Julia Lynn Rubin Last Thursday, I attended the debut screening o...

Sean Speers Wins 6th Annual Paul Violi Prize in Poetry

The 6th annual Paul Violi Prize in Poetry has been awarded to New School MFA in Creative Writing student Sean Speers. The second-prize winner is Thomas Moody, and honorable mention goes to Marissa Blo...

WRITING PROGRAM AND NYC EVENTS: APRIL 6-APRIL 13

CREATIVE WRITING EVENTS Nonfiction Forum: Dale Peck Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm Klein Conference Room, Room A510, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall Room 510, 66 West 12th Street,...

The New School @ AWP 2016

The New School will once again be featured at #AWP16, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference! This year's conference will be held in Los Angeles, California, from Wednesday, ...

New School Chapbook Series 2015 Winners Announced

Creative Writing at The New School is proud to announce the winners of the 2015 New School Chapbook Series! Poetry Winner: Mariam Zafar, Blackout Selected by Yona Harvey, author of Hemming the...

Aspen Matis: Twenty Five and Thriving, by Christina Berke

In under 400 pages, Aspen Matis chronicles her 2,650-mile walk from Mexico to Canada. Her trek along the Pacific Crest Trail was one of peril, romance and suspense. But it was a psychological journey ...

Interview with Laura Leigh Abby, Author of the Kindle Single ‘The Rush’

Laura Leigh Abby, MFA '13, has been busy since she graduated from The New School. The year after graduation, she was selected by John D'Agata for the MFA in Creative Writing Chapbook Contest for her n...

LIT 28 Launch: Saturday, November 14

Alumni Interviews: Keysha Whitaker with Sincere Brooks

MFA Nonfiction '11 alum Keysha Whitaker has a voice for radio. But instead of announcing slow jam dedications, Whitaker interviews writers on her podcast, Behind the Prose. Since January 2015, she has...

New Debut Publications Announced from Recent MFA Alumni

Congratulations to recent MFA in Creative Writing alumni Nick Comilla and Brooke Ellsworth, whose debut books have been selected for publication! MFA '14 Fiction and Poetry alum Nick Comilla's debu...

Interview with Susan Cheever by Sara-Kate Astrove

New 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...

MFA Chapbook Series Winners Read at The New School

Winners of the annual New School Chapbook Series competition will be featured at a special event hosted by Creative Writing on Tuesday, October 20th. MFA '14 alumni Anna Fridlis, Steven Klett, Gillian...

Audiograph: MFA in Creative Writing Faculty Reading V. 2

A new episode of Audiograph, the podcast series of the The New School's MFA in Creative Writing program, features a second installment of readings by New School MFA faculty members and alumni. The res...