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Five Questions With Nico Rosario
By Nicole Drayton / in Fiction, Graduates, MFA, People / December 7, 2018Nico Rosario is an artist, researcher, and activist, whose work meets at the intersections of creative arts, politics, culture, and education, with a focus on youth and subcultures. A writer and p...
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2018 Creative Writing Alumni and Faculty Books
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Fiction, Graduates, MFA, Nonfiction, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / December 5, 2018The New School Creative Writing Program is proud to announce its list of 2018 alumni and faculty book publications. This year, 26 books have been published by alumni of the MFA in Creative Writing Pro...
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Five Questions With Honor Moore
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, MFA, Nonfiction, People / December 4, 2018Honor Moore's most recent book is The Bishop's Daughter, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent collection of poems is Red Shoes. She was a chief consultant f...
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Five Questions With Richard Tayson
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, MFA, People, Poetry / November 29, 2018Richard Tayson’s essays “Language Sideways: The Poetry of Addiction” and ”the volcano sequence as Fragmentary, Postmodern (and Yes, Feminist) Text” appear this fall in TheFix.com an...
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Five Questions with Mira Jacob
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, Fiction, MFA, People / November 20, 2018Mira Jacob is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, which was a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers pick, shortlisted for India’s Tata F...
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Five Questions With Victoria Richards
By Nicole Drayton / in Current Students, Fiction, Lit, MFA, People, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / November 7, 2018Victoria Richards is a poet, freelance writer and second-year MFA Creative Writing student at The New School. She holds a BS degree in Public Relations from St. John’s University. Victoria has a passi...
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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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Five Questions With Darren Lyons
By Nicole Drayton / in Current Students, MFA, People, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / October 15, 2018Darren Lyons is from Akron, OH. He's rambled since, but he's currently an MFA student in the Creative Writing Program of The New School in New York, NY and is the MFA Saturday Workshop Coordinator thi...
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Five Questions with Leah Iannone
By Nicole Drayton / in Graduates, MFA, People, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / October 2, 2018Leah Iannone received her MFA in poetry from The New School’s Creative Writing Program. She currently works as Director of Academic Planning at The New School. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, 12th ...
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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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Sigrid Nunez – National Book Awards Longlist
By Nicole Drayton / in Fiction, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene / September 19, 2018Creative Writing faculty, Sigrid Nunez’s novel The Friend has been nominated for The National Book Foundation’s 2018 National Book Awards Longlist. Sigrid is currently teaching an MFA fiction...
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Creative Writing Program at 2018 Brooklyn Book Festival
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Fall 2018 events, Fiction, Graduates, Lit, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / September 7, 2018The Creative Writing program will be tabling at this year's Brooklyn Book festival. Come by booth 124 and say 'hello.' We also have several alumni or faculty participating in events and panels this...
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Five Questions With Sarah Jospitre
By Nicole Drayton / in Current Students, Fiction, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / August 20, 2018Sarah Jospitre is a second-year student in the Writing For Children & Young Adults section of the MFA Creative Writing Program. Recently, she has completed an internship in the editorial dep...
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The Inquisitive Eater Anthology is Here
By Creative Writing at The New School / in MFA, TNS Lit Scene / July 16, 2018The Inquisitive Eater anthology is here! Editor Felicity LuHill says: "this is some of the best of what The Inquisitive Eater has to offer. The Inquisitive Eater has been flourishing since 2012 a...
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5 Questions with Ricky Tucker
By Nicole Drayton / in 12th Street, Graduates, Lit, MFA, Nonfiction, People, Riggio Honors, Summer 2018 Events, Summer Writers Colony, TNS Lit Scene, Undergraduate / June 26, 2018Ricky Tucker is a North Carolina native, storyteller, essayist, and art critic. His work explores the imprints of art and memory on narrative, and the absurdity of most fleeting moments...
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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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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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2017 CREATIVE WRITING ALUMNI AND FACULTY BOOKS
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Fiction, Graduates, MFA, Nonfiction, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / December 6, 2017The 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...
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