TNS Lit Scene
Lit news aggregated by the School of Writing at the New School
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MFA students respond to New York Times “This is 18” Prompt
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene / January 2, 2020What does it mean to be an 18-year-old girl around the world? The New York Times asked young women photographers this question. The result was “This Is 18,” a portrait of girlhood across six cont...
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Current MFA student John Kazanjian Responds to Mike Kelley’s Timeless Painting Show @ Hauser & Wirth
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene / December 5, 2019On Mike Kelley’s Timeless Painting by John Kazanjian This Fall semester, Ben Fama conducted a trio of masterclasses on Art Writing for students of the MFA in Creative Writing. A component of t...
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Five Questions with Ellen Hagan
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / November 13, 2019Ellen Hagan is a writer, performer, and educator. She is the author of two poetry collections: Crowned and Hemisphere, and Watch Us Rise, a YA collaboration with Renée Watson. She has a poetry co...
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Five Questions with Roberto Montes
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / November 4, 2019Roberto Montes is the author of I DON'T KNOW DO YOU, named one of the Best Books of 2014 by NPR. His poetry has appeared in The Lambda Literary Spotlight, Guernica, PEN America Poetry Series, and...
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Five Questions with Kate Cox
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / October 22, 2019Kate Cox is editor of The New Food Economy, an award-winning nonprofit newsroom, where she leads a team of reporters and editors in investigating the forces shaping how and what we eat. She ...
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Fall 2019 Creative Writing Common Reading List
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / October 14, 2019The Creative Writing Program is embarking on something new this fall. We are sharing a common reading list with students, faculty, and staff by notable contemporary writers on issues of diversity...
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The Phaistos Project Announces Its First Writer In Residency
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene / October 14, 2019A visual communication design project started at Parsons goes transdisciplinary as it expands to include creative writing students. The first Writer In Residence, MFA 2020 candidate Pune Dracker, sha...
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Five Questions with Charlotte Slivka
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / October 9, 2019* Illustration Credit: Lisa Brown Charlotte Slivka is from Manhattan and now lives in Brooklyn with her daughter, two cats and her partner (cast in order of appearance). She likes to think ab...
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100 Books by Creative Writing Alumni
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Graduates, MFA, TNS Lit Scene / September 27, 2019Guest post by Robert Polito, Founding Director of The New School Graduate Writing Program, and past President of the Poetry Foundation (2013-2015). List compiled by Justin Sherwood, MFA Creative Writ...
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How to Make the Most of the Brooklyn Book Festival (And Other “Bookish” Events”)
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene / September 20, 2019Guest post by MFA student Kate Tooley Brooklyn Book Festival. Photo by Jasmina Tomic. When I first moved to New York almost four years ago, I knew I wanted to write, but I also was aware that I...
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National Book Award 2019 Longlist
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene / September 16, 2019(Updated Friday, September 19) Each morning this week, National Book Foundation is announcing one of the five Longlists for the 70th National Book Awards! We'll be updating this post as the bo...
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Five Questions With Joyce Chen
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / September 13, 2019Joyce Chen is a writer/editor/creator from LA who spent a decade in NYC before relocating back to the West Coast in fall 2017. She has covered entertainment and human interest stories for Ro...
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THE NEW SCHOOL @ BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL
By Nicole Drayton / in 12th Street, Faculty, Graduates, Lit, MFA, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene / September 10, 2019Writing at The New School is proud to be featured at the Brooklyn Book Festival once again this year! Find us at the book fair on Sunday, September 22nd from 10AM to 6PM (booth #335), w...
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Five Questions With Laura Cronk and David Wilson
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / September 5, 2019Laura Cronk is a poet and essayist and is the Associate Director of the Creative Writing Program at The New School. David Wilson is a teacher, writer, and the lead singer, gui...
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Five Questions With Basil Soper
By Nicole Drayton / in People, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene, Undergraduate / May 14, 2019Basil is a southern man of transgender experience, writer, photographer, and the Executive Director of Transilient. He’s an astrology enthusiast and he grew up in rural South Carolina and was hom...
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Five Questions with Cheree Stevenson
By Nicole Drayton / in Current Students, Fiction, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / May 9, 2019My name is Cheree', I am second year Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA student in my thesis semester! I have an undergraduate degree in history education and I write speculative fiction i...
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Five Questions With medina
By Nicole Drayton / in Fiction, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene / May 7, 2019medina is a nonbinary queer Latinx writer (they/them/their). They are a third-year MFA Creative writing student concentrating in both Writing for Children and Young Adults and Nonfiction. They ar...
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Five Questions With Christopher X. Shade
By Nicole Drayton / in Fiction, Graduates, People, TNS Lit Scene / May 1, 2019The writer Christopher X. Shade (USA), New York, New York, May 25, 2018. Photograph by Beowulf Sheehan. Christopher X. Shade is author of the novel The Good Mother of Marseille (Paloma Press, 201...
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Five Questions with Rocky Halpern
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / April 24, 2019"Rocky Halpern is a writer, sex educator, lifelong nomad, and second year MFA creative writing candidate with a concentration in nonfiction. He is the 2019 recipient of the Bette Howland Nonficti...
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Interview with MFA Alum Sean Manning
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Fiction, Graduates, MFA, TNS Lit Scene / April 16, 2019Sean Manning (MFA Fiction ’03) came to the Creative Writing Program at The New School fresh out of undergraduate studies at the University of Tampa not knowing what to expect; he’d never had the ...
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