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Where I Write: With Kate Tooley
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, MFA / October 27, 2020Where I Write, a series of short interviews with current students, faculty, and alumni of the Creative Writing Program. It is a discussion of place in writing. What our writing spaces look like can b...
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Five Questions With Honor Moore
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, People, Nonfiction, MFA / April 6, 2020Honor Moore's Our Revolution: a Mother and Daughter at Midcentury has just been published by WW Norton and her first collection of poems Memoir (1988) was reissued last fall, ...
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LIT MAGAZINE INTERVIEW SERIES WITH TEDDY WAYNE
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Publications of the School of Writing, MFA, Lit, MFA Creative Writing Events / March 30, 2020JOIN US TUESDAY, MARCH 31 AT 6 p.m. LIT Magazine has just launched a new book review and interview series. In this series, we offer a book review, a PDF of part of the book (when possible), and a ...
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100 Books by Creative Writing Alumni
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, MFA / September 27, 2019Guest post by Robert Polito, Founding Director of The New School Graduate Writing Program, and past President of the Poetry Foundation (2013-2015). List compiled by Justin Sherwood, MFA Creative Writ...
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THE NEW SCHOOL @ BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Graduates, Riggio Honors, MFA, Lit, 12th Street / September 10, 2019Writing at The New School is proud to be featured at the Brooklyn Book Festival once again this year! Find us at the book fair on Sunday, September 22nd from 10AM to 6PM (booth #335), w...
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Five Questions with Cheree Stevenson
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Current Students, People, Fiction, Writing for Children and Young Adults, MFA / May 9, 2019My name is Cheree', I am second year Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA student in my thesis semester! I have an undergraduate degree in history education and I write speculative fiction i...
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Five Questions With medina
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, People, Fiction, MFA / May 7, 2019medina is a nonbinary queer Latinx writer (they/them/their). They are a third-year MFA Creative writing student concentrating in both Writing for Children and Young Adults and Nonfiction. They ar...
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Interview with MFA Alum Sean Manning
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, Fiction, MFA / April 16, 2019Sean Manning (MFA Fiction ’03) came to the Creative Writing Program at The New School fresh out of undergraduate studies at the University of Tampa not knowing what to expect; he’d never had the ...
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Helen Schulman Named 2019 Guggenheim Fellow
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Fiction, MFA / April 16, 2019Helen Schulman, professor of writing and chair of the MFA in Creative Writing fiction program, has been named a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction. The prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, presen...
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Five Questions with Ivan Brave
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, MFA / April 16, 2019Iván Brave lives in New York, where he writes poetry, reviews, and novels, as well as teaches English to international students. He is a graduate of New School, earning his Master in Fine Arts for C...
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Five Questions With Randy Winston
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Fiction, MFA / April 9, 2019Randy Winston is the Associate Fiction Editor at Slice Literary Magazine, creator of Milkshake Scholar, and a first grade hula hoop champion ('92-'93). He earned his MFA in Creative Writing ...
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Five Questions With Mishka Anthony
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Poetry, Writing for Children and Young Adults, Riggio Honors, MFA, Lit / April 1, 2019Mishka Anthony is an MFA poetry candidate at The New School currently living in Flushing, Queens. She is working on a collection of poetry and essays on the transgender experience and has become ...
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Five Questions With Mae Coyiuto
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Current Students, People, Fiction, Writing for Children and Young Adults, MFA / March 12, 2019Mae Coyiuto is a Chinese-Filipino writer, born and raised in the Philippines. She is a second-year MFA Creative writing student concentrating in Writing for Children and Young Adults. She loves w...
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Five Questions With Caron Levis
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, People, Fiction, Writing for Children and Young Adults, MFA / March 7, 2019Caron Levis is the author of the picture books, Stop That Yawn! (Atheneum, 2018); May I Have A Word? (FSG), Stuck with the Blooz (HMH), and Ida, Alwa...
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Five Questions With Dianca London Potts
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, Fiction, Writing for Children and Young Adults, MFA / February 11, 2019Dianca London Potts earned her MFA in Fiction from The New School. She is a 2015 Pushcart Prize Nominee and a Best Small Fictions finalist for 2016. She is a Kimbilio Fiction fellow, the former pros...
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Five Questions With Antonia Wright
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, People, Poetry, MFA / February 1, 2019Antonia Wright is a Cuban-American artist born in Miami, Florida. Wright received her MFA in Poetry from The New School in New York City in 2005 as well as at the International Center of Photogra...
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Five Questions With Madge McKeithen
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Fiction, MFA, Summer Writers Colony / January 29, 2019Madge McKeithen began teaching nonfiction writing at the New School in 2006, shortly after completing her MFA in the low-residency program at Queens University in Charlotte, NC, and publishing her fir...
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2018 Creative Writing Alumni and Faculty Books
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Graduates, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Writing for Children and Young Adults, MFA / January 17, 2019The New School Creative Writing Program is proud to announce its list of 2018 alumni and faculty book publications. This year, 30 books have been published by alumni and former students of t...
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Five Questions With Helen Schulman
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, People, Fiction, MFA / January 14, 2019Helen Schulman was born in New York City, where she lives, writes, teaches. She received a BA at Cornell University and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. She has published six nov...
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Five Questions with Kelly McHugh-Stewart
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Nonfiction, MFA / December 17, 2018Kelly McHugh-Stewart graduated from the MFA in Creative Writing Program in May of 2018. Formerly a sports journalist, Kelly focused on nonfiction during her time at The New School and is cu...
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