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Five Questions With Darren Lyons
By Nicole Drayton / in Current Students, Fiction, Graduates, 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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A Memory Becomes a Prize and a Legacy, Rafnsdóttir receives inaugural Bette Howland Nonfiction Prize
By Creative Writing at The New School / in MFA, Nonfiction, TNS Lit Scene / May 18, 2017Written 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...
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MFA Creative Writing Alumni Skillshare
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Graduates, MFA, TNS Lit Scene / January 18, 2017MFA 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...
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Q&A WITH MFA ALUM AMY KURZWEIL
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Fiction, Graduates, MFA, TNS Lit Scene / November 9, 2016Elisha 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...
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JAKE ADLER RECEIVES BOREN FELLOWSHIP
By Creative Writing at The New School / in MFA, Poetry / October 24, 2016New 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 ...
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New York City Poetry Festival 2016
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Graduates, MFA, TNS Lit Scene / July 26, 2016The 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...
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The Phantasmagoria of Offense: Interview with Jess Irish (MFA ’15)
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Graduates, MFA, TNS Lit Scene / July 20, 2016Censorship, “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...
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Sean Speers Wins 6th Annual Paul Violi Prize in Poetry
By Creative Writing at The New School / in MFA, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / April 7, 2016The 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...
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