TNS Lit Scene
Lit news aggregated by the School of Writing at the New School
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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 TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, Fiction, MFA / 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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Helen Schulman Named 2019 Guggenheim Fellow
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Fiction, MFA / April 16, 2019Helen Schulman, professor of writing and chair of the MFA in Creative Writing fiction program, has been named a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction. The prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, presen...
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Five Questions with Ivan Brave
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, MFA / April 16, 2019Iván Brave lives in New York, where he writes poetry, reviews, and novels, as well as teaches English to international students. He is a graduate of New School, earning his Master in Fine Arts for C...
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Five Questions With Randy Winston
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Fiction, MFA / April 9, 2019Randy Winston is the Associate Fiction Editor at Slice Literary Magazine, creator of Milkshake Scholar, and a first grade hula hoop champion ('92-'93). He earned his MFA in Creative Writing ...
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Interview with 2019 NBCC Biography Finalist Christopher Bonanos
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / April 9, 2019By Liz Sheldon Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and facul...
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Five Questions With Mishka Anthony
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Poetry, Writing for Children and Young Adults, Riggio Honors, MFA, Lit / April 1, 2019Mishka Anthony is an MFA poetry candidate at The New School currently living in Flushing, Queens. She is working on a collection of poetry and essays on the transgender experience and has become ...
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After Effects: A Response To School Shootings
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / March 29, 2019Aditya Goenka came to New York City to pursue a MFA in fiction from The New School, on a sabbatical from his job as a police officer in Meghalaya, in northeast India, where he has worked since 20...
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Interview with Alia Malek
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / March 22, 2019In April of 2018, Alia Malek spoke with Zia Jaffrey at a nonfiction forum event at the New School. Malek read from her memoir The Home That Was Our Country, a book about Syria, published in ...
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New School at #AWP19, Portland
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene / March 19, 2019The Creative Writing Program will be represented at this years AWP conference. Come by booth 9041 to say hello Thursday March 28-30. Below is a list of events including our faculty and students: ...
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Interview with 2019 NBCC Fiction Winner Anna Burns
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene / March 15, 2019By Aubrey Moraif Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and faculty, we are ab...
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Five Questions With Mae Coyiuto
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Current Students, People, Fiction, Writing for Children and Young Adults, MFA / March 12, 2019Mae Coyiuto is a Chinese-Filipino writer, born and raised in the Philippines. She is a second-year MFA Creative writing student concentrating in Writing for Children and Young Adults. She loves w...
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Interview With 2019 NBCC Fiction Finalist Rachel Kushner
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2019 NBCC Finalist Interviews, NBCC Fiction Finalist Interviews 2019 / March 12, 2019by Emily Behnke Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and ...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC BIOGRAPHY FINALIST CRAIG BROWN
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2019 NBCC Finalist Interviews, NBCC Biography Finalist Interviews 2019 / March 12, 2019by Lori Wieczorek Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and fa...
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Five Questions With Caron Levis
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, People, Fiction, Writing for Children and Young Adults, MFA / March 7, 2019Caron Levis is the author of the picture books, Stop That Yawn! (Atheneum, 2018); May I Have A Word? (FSG), Stuck with the Blooz (HMH), and Ida, Alwa...
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WRITEON 2019-2020 CREATIVE WRITING FELLOWS
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / February 25, 2019WriteOn is a New School Fellowship program helping MFA candidates obtain hands-on, paid teaching experience while providing low-income New York City children with high-quality education opportunities...
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Five Questions With Alexandra Kleeman
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / February 25, 2019Alexandra Kleeman is the author of the novel You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine (Harper, 2015) and Intimations (Harper, 2016), a short story collection. Her fiction has been published ...
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Five Questions With Daniel Gee Husson
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Fiction, Poetry, Riggio Honors / February 19, 2019Daniel Gee Husson is a playwright, director, and dramaturg who also writes short stories and the occasional poem. He was a Riggio scholar and graduated from the New School in 2015. He recently recei...
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Five Questions With Dianca London Potts
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, Fiction, Writing for Children and Young Adults, MFA / February 11, 2019Dianca London Potts earned her MFA in Fiction from The New School. She is a 2015 Pushcart Prize Nominee and a Best Small Fictions finalist for 2016. She is a Kimbilio Fiction fellow, the former pros...
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Five Questions With Antonia Wright
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, People, Poetry, MFA / February 1, 2019Antonia Wright is a Cuban-American artist born in Miami, Florida. Wright received her MFA in Poetry from The New School in New York City in 2005 as well as at the International Center of Photogra...
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