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In conversation with Poets: Danielle Pafunda and Peter Davis
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Past Events, Graduates, People, Poetry / September 12, 2013In our first poetry forum of the semester, Danielle Pafunda, author of Maneater and My Zorba, and Peter Davis, author of Poetry! Poetry! Poetry! and Tina, inspired the audience with wit and humor. I...
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Ted Kerr Interviews Alysia Abbott About Her Memoir, Fairyland
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Nonfiction / August 6, 2013Nonfiction MFA alum Alysia Abbott was recently interviewed by Riggio alum Ted Kerr for the Lambda Literary organization about her memoir, Fairlyand: A Memoir of My Father. The interview covers Abbott...
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Julia Cohen’s Open Letter to Mark Edmunson
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Poetry / June 26, 2013Harper's Magazine recently published a controversial essay by Mark Edmunson titled "Poetry Slam" wherein Edmunson criticizes the state of contemporary poetry and which poets are being valued. The essa...
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Alysia Abbott Publishes Her Debut Memoir, Fairyland
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Nonfiction, MFA, New & Forthcoming / June 11, 2013Alysia Abbott, a 2003 MFA alum, has published a striking memoir about growing up in the "post-hippie" Haight of San Francisco. Fairyland, navigates the complexities of her relationship with her widow...
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Interview with Hot Street
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, MFA, New & Forthcoming / June 3, 2013Hot Street is a literary journal started by New School alumni Emily Jacobs, Elisha Wagman, Sarah Smetana, and Ian Brown. Their first issue is now available for order online. (You can also check in with Hot Street via their website, Facebook or Twitter.) Recently, I caught up with the Hot Street editorial team about their first issue, the unseen obstacles of publishing, and the community they hope to engender.
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Interview with Julie Sarkissian, Author of Dear Lucy
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Fiction / May 21, 2013Julie Sarkissian's debut novel, Dear Lucy (Simon & Schuster), to quote Joyce Carol Oates, "introduces a young writer with a most original voice and a tenderly eccentric vision. Julie Sarkissia...
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MFA Alum Morgan Matson Wins 2013 California Book Award
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Writing for Children and Young Adults, MFA / May 9, 2013MFA Writing for Children Alum Morgan Matson has won a gold medal in the Commonwealth Club's 2013 California Book Award for her young adult novel, Second Chance Summer. Second Chance Summer has also ho...
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Director Robert Polito Receives Arts Alumni Award
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, People / May 7, 2013School of Writing Director Robert Polito was recently in his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts to be honored with the Arts Council's 2013 Arts Alumni Award at Boston College in recognition for his acc...
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Interview with Kathleen Ossip
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, People, Poetry, Continuing Education / April 30, 2013Kathleen Ossip is the celebrated author of The Cold War (named one of Publisher's Weekly 100 Best Books of 2011), The Search Engine (which was selected by Derek Walcott for the American Po...
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Interview with Adam Fitzgerald, Author of The Late Parade
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Current Students, People, Poetry, MFA, New & Forthcoming / April 5, 2013New School MFA student Brooke Ellsworth caught up with Adam Fitzgerald about his new poetry collection The Late Parade. Renowned poet John Ashbery exclaimed: "Adam Fitzgerald is a master of defeating...
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Craig Morgan Teicher and Lisa Russ Spaar Read at The New School
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Past Events, Faculty, People, Poetry, Continuing Education / April 4, 2013Last night, as part of The New School's ongoing Poetry Forum, Craig Morgan Teicher and Lisa Russ Spaar read from their work and shared their insights. Teicher and Spaar agreed that one of the most vit...
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Loren Moreno Wins the 2012 Gertrude Press Chapbook Prize
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Fiction, MFA, New & Forthcoming / April 4, 2013New School MFA alum Loren Moreno's award winning chapbook, Aaron & Keoni, is now available to order from Gertrude Press. Congratulations to Loren! In Aaron & Keoni, Loren Moreno takes us into...
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Faculty Member Candy Schulman’s Essay “Raising My Mother” Named Essay of the Year
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, People, Nonfiction / March 14, 2013School of Writing faculty member Candy Schulman's essay "Raising My Mother" has been named Essay of the Year by The American Society of Journalists and Authors. The piece, first published in the Ch...
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Mario Zambrano’s “Lotería” Previewed on LibraryJournal
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Fiction, Riggio Honors, New & Forthcoming / March 6, 2013Mario Zambrano, who graduated from the Riggio Honors Program in 2011, has had his upcoming debut novel, Lotería, previewed on Library Journal's Fiction Previews list. Library Journal refers to the...
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Give Me Everything You Have by James Lasdun is Now Available
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, People, Nonfiction, New & Forthcoming / March 5, 2013MFA faculty member James Lasdun's new memoir, Give Me Everything You Have, is now available from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. On the Lasdun's memoir, Joyce Carol Oates wrote: “Here is a chilling acc...
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MFA Student Dianne Masucci Interviews NBCC Winner Andrew Solomon
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, People, Nonfiction, MFA, NBCC 2014 Finalist Interviews / March 2, 2013Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the New School Graduate Writing Program, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and faculty, we are able to provide for...
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MFA Student Halle Murcek Interviews NBCC Winner Ben Fountain
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, People, Fiction, MFA, NBCC 2014 Finalist Interviews / March 2, 2013Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the New School Graduate Writing Program, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and faculty, we are able to provide for...
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MFA Student Brooke Ellsworth Interviews NBCC Winner D. A. Powell
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, People, Poetry, MFA, NBCC 2014 Finalist Interviews / March 2, 2013Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the New School Graduate Writing Program, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and faculty, we are able to provide for...
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New School Alum Patricia McCormick named a Finalist for the National Book Awards
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Writing for Children and Young Adults, MFA / November 11, 2012Never Fall Down by The New School Alum Patricia McCormick, has been named a finalist for the National Book Awards in the category of Young People's Literature. "Well-written and heart-breaking, t...
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Luis Jaramillo’s The Doctor’s Wife Chosen as a Best Book of 2012
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Graduates, People, Fiction, Continuing Education, MFA / November 6, 2012New School faculty member and alum Luis Jaramillo's The Doctor's Wife, winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection prize, and an Oprah's Book of the Week, has been selected as a Best Book of 2012 o...
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