TNS Lit Scene
Lit news aggregated by the School of Writing at the New School
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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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New School Chapbook Series 2017 Winners Announced
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Writing for Children and Young Adults / February 1, 2018The MFA in Creative Writing Program at The New School is proud to announce the winners of the 2017 New School Chapbook Series! Each year, alumni from the most recent cohort of graduates are invit...
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Creative Writing Faculty Member Dave Johnson Receives Grant for Free Verse project
By Ben Fama / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Undergraduate / January 22, 2018The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs has awarded New School Creative Writing faculty member Dave Johnson's Free Verse journal a grant to expand its programing with the NYC Depart...
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Alumna Deirdra McAfee’s Anthology ‘Lock & Load: Armed Fiction’ Examines America’s Obsession with Guns
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, Fiction / December 19, 2017"Nothing says America louder than a gun." The new anthology Lock & Load: Armed Fiction, published by the University of New Mexico Press and co-edited by Deirdra McAfee (MFA '04), examine...
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2017 CREATIVE WRITING ALUMNI AND FACULTY BOOKS
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Writing for Children and Young Adults, MFA / December 6, 2017The Creative Writing Program is proud to announce the list of 2017 alumni and faculty book publications. This year, 39 books have been published by alumni of the MFA in Creative Writing...
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Finding Family in Middle Grade Literature: An Evening with WFC/YA Alumni
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / November 27, 2017By: Michelle Lee and Sophia N. Lee, MFA 2018 Earlier this fall, the Graduate Writing Program welcomed back Celeste Lim and Caela Carter, two authors from the New School’s Writing for Children &...
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Profile of Former New School Student Zack McDermott
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene / October 16, 2017By Sara-Kate Astrove When Zack McDermott came back to his old New School class, he was holding his new book, Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love (Little Brown). Recently o...
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Best American Poetry 2017 Reading
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Poetry / October 9, 2017Every year, poets travel to The New School from near and far to celebrate the launch of the yearly Best American Poetry anthology. This year, series editor and MFA faculty David Lehman introduced the ...
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10 Books by MFA Alumni and Faculty You Need to get Your Hands on this Summer
By Kelly Stewart / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Graduates / June 9, 2017Whether you’re traveling around the world or enjoying a staycation this summer, there’s no better time to enjoy a good book. In the past few months, the MFA in Creative Writing Program at The New Scho...
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