People
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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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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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5 Questions With Justin Sherwood
By Nicole Drayton / in Graduates, People, Poetry, Summer Writers Colony / June 19, 2018Justin Sherwood is the author of various poems and essays, including the poetry chapbook Low Theory (Seven Kitchens Press, 2016). He is a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at T...
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Remembering Bean Haskell
By Creative Writing at The New School / in People, Poetry, Riggio Honors, Undergraduate / June 1, 2018It is with great sadness that we share news that New School student Bean River Haskell passed away on April 12, 2018, after a long illness. Bean was 31 years old, and earning their undergradu...
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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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