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Five Questions with Alex Vara
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / September 21, 2020Alex is a Fiction/Nonfiction dual MFA student at the New School, a WriteOn Teaching Fellow, public speaking teacher, and the host of TNS After Hours. She is currently sheltering-in-place in her N...
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TNS After Hours Tonight! September 18, 7pm ET
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene / September 18, 2020The next TNS After Hours is tonight, Friday, September 18th from 7 - 8:30 pm ET. This month will be co-hosted by the fabulous Jessa Nagamoto (Fiction '21). Hope to see you all in the virtual Red ...
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Black Lives Matter
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene / June 3, 2020Image courtesy of https://blacklivesmatter.com/ Dear Creative Writing Community,I'm writing to check in with you during this heart wrenching time. I really appreciated President McBr...
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Five Questions with Jhon Valdes Klinger
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / May 28, 2020Jhon Valdes Klinger is a Colombian storyteller, filmmaker, educator, and writer. He is currently an MFA candidate in Fiction from the New School’s Writing Program. He was a Riggio Writing and Dem...
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Interview with TNS After Hours Coordinators
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene / May 26, 2020Interview with TNS After Hours Coordinators by Carissa Chesanek Virginia “Vinny” Valenzuela and Alex Vara open up about the off-campus reading series, the literary bar it’s held at, and the w...
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Five Questions with LaVonne Roberts
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / May 19, 2020LaVonne Elaine Roberts is an American short story writer, essayist, and memoirist. She is LIT Magazine’s Live with LIT Editor, Cagibi Lit’s Interviews Edit...
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Five Questions with Jessica Gross
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / May 13, 2020Jessica Gross has contributed to The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and Longreads, among other places. Her debut novel, Hysteria, comes out in Augus...
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Interview with Creative Writing Alumni Sam Farahmand by Carissa Chesanek
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene / May 6, 2020Sam Farahmand on “Standing Out From the Sameness of Everything” By Carissa Chesanek New School MFA alum, Sam Farahmand recently published his debut novel, Chimero in January 2020. Carissa C...
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Five Questions with Whitney Kenerly
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / May 6, 2020Born in North Carolina and based in New York City, Whitney Kenerly is a writer, music critic, and journalist. 1. Who is your favorite villain, and who is your favorite protagonist in literatur...
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Summer Book Salons and Workshops Now Available for Credit and Noncredit
By Ben Fama / in TNS Lit Scene / May 5, 2020Due to community concerns about COVID-19, the 2020 Summer Writers Colony cannot run as planned. In lieu of an on-campus offering, we are offering Summer Online Writing Immersion workshops in fict...
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Five Questions with Jochebed Smith
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / April 23, 2020Jochebed "Jo" Smith is a senior and Riggio scholar in the undergraduate BPATS program. She currently serves as the fiction editor for 12th Street Journal. Her dog, Kershaw, enjoys crashing z...
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Five Questions With Matthew Futterman
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / April 16, 2020Matthew Futterman is a native New Yorker, who earned his MFA in Writing for Children from The New School in 2015. He also holds a Masters in Mechanical and Bio Engineering from Georgia Tech, have...
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Alice Eve Cohen Wins New School Distinguished Teaching Award
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / April 14, 2020New School Creative Writing Program faculty member Alice Eve Cohen has won a 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award. Alice is a solo theater artist, playwright and memoirist who is also a 1999 graduat...
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MFA Alum Jessica Gross on Her Debut Novel “Hysteria”
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene / April 14, 2020By Carissa Chesanek Jessica Gross is a New School MFA alum, writer, and soon-to-be published author. Carissa Chesanek sat down with Gross to chat about her forthcoming book, Hysteria, her revision...
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Creative Writing: Spring 2020 Online Events
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene / April 7, 2020The New School Creative Writing Program has moved four of our upcoming writing forum events online. Click each link below to register and receive information about how to attend, via livestream. ...
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Five Questions With Honor Moore
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, People, Nonfiction, MFA / April 6, 2020Honor Moore's Our Revolution: a Mother and Daughter at Midcentury has just been published by WW Norton and her first collection of poems Memoir (1988) was reissued last fall, ...
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Five Questions With Minerva Martinez
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / April 1, 2020Minerva Martinez is a writer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has appeared in Evergreen Review, W42ST Magazine and Newtown Literary Journal. 1. Who is your favorite villain, and who...
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LIT MAGAZINE INTERVIEW SERIES WITH TEDDY WAYNE
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Publications of the School of Writing, MFA, Lit, MFA Creative Writing Events / March 30, 2020JOIN US TUESDAY, MARCH 31 AT 6 p.m. LIT Magazine has just launched a new book review and interview series. In this series, we offer a book review, a PDF of part of the book (when possible), and a ...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC BIOGRAPHY FINALIST CHARLES KING
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, MFA Creative Writing Events, 2019 NBCC Finalist Interviews, NBCC Biography Finalist Interviews 2019, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 16, 2020by Zach Schwab 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 facu...
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Interview with 2019 NBCC Criticism Award Winner Saidiya Hartman
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2019 NBCC Finalist Interviews, NBCC Criticism Finalist Interviews 2019, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 13, 2020by Yannise Jean Saidiya Hartman’s book Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval, is a radical, lyrical and intimate examination of the lives of the “ordinary...
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