Five Questions With Susan Shapiro

Susan 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...

Valeria Luiselli and mónica teresa ortiz on Borders and Belonging

Join the Creative Writing Program, in collaboration with The New School's Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, on Wednesday, April 18 for an evening of readings and conversation by renowne...

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 ...

LIT 28 Launch: Saturday, November 14

LIT Issue 15 Preview

Check out the cover for the new issue of LIT featuring art by Kristen Liu-Wong. The issue launches here at The New School on Nov 14, 5:30pm in Wollman Hall.  

A Profile of Gowanus Author Joseph Alexiou by Sara-Kate Astrove

New School continuing education alum Joseph Alexiou’s debut book examines one of the nation's most contaminated bodies of water, unearthing the fascinating backstory of a troubled New York basin. Gowa...

Ben Mirov (MFA ’09) wins Slope Editions 14th Annual Book Prize

  ghost machines by Ben Mirov (MFA '09) was chosen as the winner of Slope Editions 14th Annual Book Prize by Douglas Kearney. A descendant of Mirov’s previous collections, “Collected Ghost”...

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...

MFA ’14 Alum Stephanie Danler Sells Two Books to A. A. Knopf

MFA '14 Fiction alum Stephanie Danler has sold two books to Alfred A. Knopf, as reported in the New York Times! Sweetbitter, the first to be published (in 2016) was Danler's creative thesis at The New...

Paul Florez, MFA ’15, in Conversation with Sharisse Tracey, MFA ’13

Sharisse T. Smith graduated from The New School’s Nonfiction Writing Program in 2013. Since then she has published with The New York Times and Ebony.com, among other publications. Her work will next a...

Recap: 12th Street Journal Issue #7 Launch

Congratulations to the Riggio Honors Program's 12th Street Journal staff and contributors, who packed the house at the Union Square Barnes & Noble this spring for the launch of print issue #7. Fea...

John Eller, Riggio Scholar, talks to Sarah Gerard, MFA ’12, about Things I Told My Mother (Von Zos)

Sarah Gerard's novel Binary Star is forthcoming from Two Dollar Radio in January 2015. Her chapbook Things I Told My Mother was published in 2013. Short works have appeared in the New York Times, the ...

Anna Witiuk, Riggio Scholar, talks to Jennifer Sky, Riggio Scholar, about Queen of the Tokyo Ballroom (The Atavist, 2014)

In 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 "...

Matthew Futterman, MFA ’15, talks to Coe Booth, MFA ’06

Coe 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 ...

Alex Bennett, MFA ’13, talks to Brooke Ellsworth, MFA ’13, about Thrown (The New Megaphone, 2014)

Last 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) ...

Dianca London Potts, MFA ’15, talks to Nicole Steinberg, MFA ’06, Getting Lucky (Spooky Girlfriend Press)

he 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.

Susan Marque, MFA ’14, talks to Jenny Feldon, MFA ’06, about Karma Gone Bad (Sourcebooks, 2013)

Jenny 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.

Syed Khader, MFA ’14, talks to Helen Wan, Continuing Education, about The Partner Track (St. Martin’s)

Helen Wan is Associate General Counsel at the Time Inc. division of Time Warner Inc. Before that, she practiced corporate law and media law at law firms in New York.  Born in California and raised nea...

Riggio Forum: Mario Alberto Zambrano, Riggio Honors Fellow

Author and Riggio Program alum Mario Alberto Zambrano joined moderator and New School Writing Program Director Luis Jaramillo to discuss Zambrano’s debut novel, Lotería. Zambrano explained that...