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PHOTOS: 2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FINALISTS READING
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Past Events, People, TNS Lit Scene / November 16, 2016The MFA in Creative Writing Program at The New School was honored to host the 67th National Book Awards 2016 Finalists Reading on Tuesday, November 15, 2016. One of the most anticipated events of the ...
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#6WordMemoir Winners from Woodstock Writers Festival 2016
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, People, TNS Lit Scene / April 12, 2016This year, The New School Creative Writing program was a featured presenter at the Woodstock Writers Festival. We challenged festival attendees to tweet us their best #6WordMemoir, and we got some gre...
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New titles from Bloof Books
By Creative Writing at The New School / in People, Poetry / October 26, 2015Bloof Books (edited by '02 poetry alumni Shanna Compton) has announced their fall titles: Sharon Mesmer, Greetings from My Girlie Leisure Place Jennifer L. Knox, Days of Shame & Failur...
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Teacher-Student Book Tour: Susan Shapiro and Aspen Matis
By Creative Writing at The New School / in People, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene / September 8, 2015This week, New School student Aspen Matis will embark on any young writer's dream: a joint book tour with her teacher, bestselling author Susan Shapiro. Shapiro, a Distinguished Teaching Award reci...
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MFA ’03 Alum Sean Manning of Rhapsody Magazine Featured in The New York Times
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Fiction, Graduates, Nonfiction, People / May 6, 2015MFA in Creative Writing '03 alum Sean Manning was profiled in a New York Times feature of Rhapsody Magazine, for which he serves as Executive Editor. Rhapsody Magazine brings literary fictio...
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The New School In Conversation with We Need Diverse Books
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students, Faculty, Graduates, Lit, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / April 29, 2015Written by Alison Doherty, a first year student in The New School’s Writing for Children MFA program. More than half of the students in US schools are people of color, but the latest available stud...
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Luis Jaramillo Talks to Heather Abel, Author of Gut Instincts
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, People, TNS Lit Scene / April 10, 2015MFA in Creative Writing Director Luis Jaramillo talked with Heather Abel, MFA ‘01, about her recent Kindle Single, Gut Instincts: Dispatches From the Wide-Open Space Between Sickness and Healt...
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Writing at The New School Incoming MFA Class of 2014
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene / February 25, 2015Ok, we’re a little behind on this. But welcome to the incoming MFA class of 2015! Selects from orientation …
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Book Trailer: Binary Star by Sarah Gerard MFA ’12 (Two Dollar Radio)
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Book Trailer, Fiction, Graduates, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene / November 15, 2014Sarah Gerard’s novel Binary Star is forthcoming from Two Dollar Radio in January 2015. Her essay chapbook Things I Told My Mother was published by Von Zos. Other fiction, criticism, and personal essay...
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MFA ’14 Alum Stephanie Danler Sells Two Books to A. A. Knopf
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Fiction, Graduates, New & Forthcoming, People, TNS Lit Scene / October 31, 2014MFA '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...
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The New School @ Texas Book Festival
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Graduates, MFA, People, Riggio Honors, Summer Writers Colony, TNS Lit Scene, Undergraduate / October 14, 2014Writing at The New School will be featured at the Texas Book Festival in Austin this year! Associate Director (and MFA nonfiction alum) Lori Lynn Turner will represent the program at the book fair on ...
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New School MFA Creative Writing Info Session
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students, Faculty, Fiction, Graduates, MFA, Nonfiction, People, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / October 2, 2014Are you considering an MFA in Creative Writing? The Writing Program at The New School offers a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program with concentrations in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Writi...
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What’s the Big Deal?
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Graduates, MFA, People / August 2, 2014Exposure to agents and editors is often one of an M.F.A. program’s major selling points. The New School, UC-Irvine, Columbia College, Michigan, and Houston all make no secret of their efforts to introduce students to industry insiders. Sonja Condit first made contact with her agent, Jenny Bent, when Bent was visiting Converse College’s M.F.A. low-residency program while Condit was a student there. Starter Home, Condit’s debut, was published by Morrow in December 2013. […] Sarabande Books, a 20-year-old indie, just released Praying Drunk, the second collection of stories by Kyle Minor, a graduate of the M.F.A. programs at Ohio State and Iowa. Many poets have found their publishing home at Sarabande, too, including Kathleen Ossip (New School ’00), Rick Bursky (Warren Wilson), and the genre-defying Ander Monson (Alabama).
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Workshop to Editor’s Desk
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Graduates, MFA, People / August 2, 2014New York City M.F.A. programs do seem to result in a formidable number of grads who go on to careers in the industry. The New School’s program has seen many students rise through the ranks in houses big and small; Kianoosh Hashemzadeh, editor at Atavist Books; Christopher Beha, deputy editor of Harper’s; Melanie Cecka, associate publishing director at Knopf; Elizabeth Koch, founder of Black Balloon Books; Emma Komlos-Hrobsky, assistant editor at Tin House; Justin Marks, a founder of the poetry press Birds L.L.C.; Jen Benka, executive director of the Academy of American Poets: all of them New School M.F.A.s.
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Writing at The New School @ New York City Poetry Festival
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Graduates, MFA, People, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / July 17, 2014The New York City Poetry Festival is a two-day festival showcasing the diverse, talented, and dedicated group of poets who make their home in New York City. Founded in 2011 by New School MFA poetry al...
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The New School at the Harlem Book Fair
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education, Current Students, MFA, People, Riggio Honors / July 8, 2014Writing at The New School will be exhibiting at the Harlem Book Fair! On Saturday, July 12, from 10am to 5pm you can find Writing Program and New School staff, as well as current students and alumni o...
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Paul Florez, MFA ’15, in Conversation with Sharisse Tracey, MFA ’13
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students, Graduates, MFA, New & Forthcoming, Nonfiction, People, TNS Lit Scene / June 12, 2014Sharisse 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...
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Recap: 12th Street Journal Issue #7 Launch
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 12th Street, Current Students, Faculty, Fiction, Graduates, New & Forthcoming, Nonfiction, Past Events, People, Poetry, Publications of the School of Writing, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene, Undergraduate / June 7, 2014Congratulations 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...
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The Summer Writers are Here!
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students, Faculty, Fiction, Nonfiction, People, Poetry, Summer Writers Colony / June 2, 2014The New School's incoming Summer Writers Colony class of 2014! Follow the Summer Writers Colony on Instagram at @summerwriters for an inside look at the craft sessions, Literary Salons, and rea...
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Welcome, MFA Class of 2016
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students, MFA, People / May 15, 2014Current students of The New School MFA in Creative Writing welcome the incoming class of 2016!
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