TNS Lit Scene
Lit news aggregated by the School of Writing at the New School
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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 TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Graduates, Riggio Honors, MFA, Lit, 12th Street / 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 TNS Lit Scene, People, Riggio Honors, 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 TNS Lit Scene, Current Students, People, Fiction, Writing for Children and Young Adults, MFA / 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 TNS Lit Scene, People, Fiction, MFA / 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 TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Fiction / 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 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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