TNS Lit Scene
Lit news aggregated by the School of Writing at the New School
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Five Questions with Leah Iannone
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Poetry, MFA / October 2, 2018Leah Iannone received her MFA in poetry from The New School’s Creative Writing Program. She currently works as Director of Academic Planning at The New School. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, 12th ...
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Five Questions With Aditi Sriram
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Graduates, People, Fiction, MFA, Summer Writers Colony / September 24, 2018Aditi Sriram teaches Critical Thinking and Creative Writing at Ashoka. She has written for several international publications including The Washington Post, The New York ...
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Five Questions With Susan Shapiro
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Current Students, People, Nonfiction, MFA, New & Forthcoming / 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 TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Fiction / September 19, 2018[caption id="attachment_78832" align="alignright" width="300"] Photo credit: Natalie Keyssar[/caption] John Reed is author of A Still Small Voice (Delacorte), The Whole (Simon & Schuster),...
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Sigrid Nunez – National Book Awards Longlist
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, People, Fiction, MFA / 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 TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Fiction, Writing for Children and Young Adults, MFA, Lit, Fall 2018 events / 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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Jenny Han’s (MFA ’05) Young Adult Series Debuts on Netflix
By Ben Fama / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, Writing for Children and Young Adults / August 23, 2018Jenny Han, MFA in Creative Writing alumna (Writing for Children and Young Adults '05) is a prolific YA author. Her books include the trilogy To All the Boys I've Loved Before, P.S. I Still L...
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Five Questions With Sarah Jospitre
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Current Students, People, Fiction, Writing for Children and Young Adults, MFA / 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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The Inquisitive Eater Anthology is Here
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, MFA / July 16, 2018The Inquisitive Eater anthology is here! Editor Felicity LuHill says: "this is some of the best of what The Inquisitive Eater has to offer. The Inquisitive Eater has been flourishing since 2012 a...
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5 Questions with Ricky Tucker
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Nonfiction, Riggio Honors, MFA, Undergraduate, Lit, 12th Street, Summer Writers Colony, Summer 2018 Events / 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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Summer Photo Contest #LiterarySwag
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Graduates, Current Students, Fiction, Nonfiction, Writing for Children and Young Adults, Continuing Education, MFA, Undergraduate, Summer 2018 Events / June 19, 2018This summer, join the #LiterarySwag movement, launched on Instagram by Yahdon Israel, MFA Creative Writing graduate (2016), by sharing your most creative photograph that brings together liter...
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5 Questions with Jeff Vasishta
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Fiction, Riggio Honors, Undergraduate, Summer Writers Colony / June 13, 2018Five Questions with Jeff Vasishta Jeff Vasishta is a writer, music publisher and journalist who has interviewed many musicians including Prince, Beyonce, Quincy Jones and Herbie Hancock. He...
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Sarah Schulman Publishing Triangle Award Speech
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Past Events / April 27, 2018Last night at The New School, Sarah Schulman accepted the 2018 Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Publishing Triangle. We are honored to publish the text of her speech, as delivere...
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MFA Alum Sharisse Tracey Featured in Roxane Gay’s New Anthology: NOT THAT BAD
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates / April 23, 2018By Kelly McHugh-Stewart MFA alum Sharisse Tracey's latest essay "Picture Perfect" will be featured in the forthcoming anthology, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (Harper Collins...
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Valeria Luiselli and mónica teresa ortiz on Borders and Belonging
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Fiction, Nonfiction, New & Forthcoming / April 12, 2018Join the Creative Writing Program, in collaboration with The New School's Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, on Wednesday, April 18 for an evening of readings and conversation by renowne...
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Visiting Writer Layli Long Soldier wins National Book Critics Circle Award
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene / March 27, 2018Congratulations to 2018 Summer Writers Colony visiting writer Layli Long Soldier who has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry! Layli's award winning book WHEREAS: Poems will be...
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Interview with NBCC Nonfiction Nominee Dr. Adam Rutherford
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene / March 14, 2018By Plamena Malinova 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 facult...
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Interview with 2018 NBCC Criticism Finalist Edwidge Danticat
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2018 NBCC Finalist Interviews, NBCC Criticism Finalist Interviews – 2018 / March 7, 2018By Kelly McHugh-Stewart 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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Benjamin Taylor wins L.A. Times Book Prize
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Nonfiction / February 27, 2018Benjamin Taylor, long-time faculty member of the MFA in Creative Writing Program, has been awarded the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose from the L.A. Times Book Prizes for his me...
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Now Available To View: Readings by Eileen Myles and Margot Livesey
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Fiction, Nonfiction / February 8, 2018The New School Creative Writing Program is now live-streaming select readings hosted here on campus. The videos remain available through our Facebook page to view at your leisure. Watch Eilee...
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