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New York City Poetry Festival 2017
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Poetry / July 1, 2017The seventh annual New York City Poetry Festival commences later this month on Governors Island. The two-day festival runs from 11am to 5pm on Saturday, July 29 and Sunday, July 30. Co-founded by New ...
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10 Books by MFA Alumni and Faculty You Need to get Your Hands on this Summer
By Kelly Stewart / in Faculty, Graduates, TNS Lit Scene / 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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A Memory Becomes a Prize and a Legacy, Rafnsdóttir receives inaugural Bette Howland Nonfiction Prize
By Creative Writing at The New School / in MFA, Nonfiction, TNS Lit Scene / May 18, 2017Written by MFA in Creative Writing faculty member and nonfiction coordinator Honor Moore In the winter of 1977, I went to the MacDowell Colony for the first time. I had just had my first work – a mem...
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WriteOnNYC Fellows Cap Semester with George Jackson Academy Reading
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students / May 18, 2017"Every time I walked out of that classroom at GJA, I left having learned just as much as our students did, if not more. This talented and inspired group of boys has taught me so much over the past y...
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Writing Program and NYC Events: May 2017
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene / May 9, 2017INSCRIBING GRIEF W/ MARTHA COOLEY, CHARLES BOCK, MAX WINTER AND MIRA JACOB Wednesday May 10, 2017, 7:00 PM The Center for Fiction 17 E 47th St, New York, NY 10017 Three writers whose latest works ...
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Writing Opportunities: Summer 2017
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene / May 9, 2017Calling all writers! From internships to contests to calls for submission, there's something for everyone on this list. Check out this month's upcoming writing opportunities: CONTESTS CONTEST: JANET...
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MFA Alum Sarah Gerard Shares Advice with Emerging Writers
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Graduates / May 2, 2017By Valerie Smith When Sarah Gerard returned to The New School to speak with Susan Shapiro’s Writing for New York City class, she was nothing like the whimsical photo found on the back of her books...
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MFA Student Julia Lynn Rubin Under Contract with Debut YA Novel
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Writing for Children and Young Adults / May 1, 2017MFA student Julia Lynn Rubin showed up at The New School in the fall of 2015 with one book written, one in the process of being written and an idea for a third. A student in the Writing for Children a...
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Writing Opportunities: April/May 2017
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene / April 25, 2017Calling all writers! From internships to contests to calls for submission, there's something for everyone on this list. Check out this month's upcoming writing opportunities: CONTESTS COSMONAUTS AVE...
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MFA Alum Alyson Gerber Walks Tall
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Graduates, Writing for Children and Young Adults / April 25, 2017By Iva deMartelly When New School alumni Alyson Gerber walked back into to her old classroom on West 12th street holding up her new book, Braced, she was standing tall. Ten years before, as a 22...
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20 Years of Monday Night Poetry at KGB Bar | Part 6
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Graduates, Poetry / April 25, 2017[caption id="attachment_44082" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Current Monday Night Poetry hosts John Deming and Matthew Yeager at KGB Bar[/caption] We’re celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Mon...
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Keri Smith Wins 7th Annual Paul Violi Prize in Poetry
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Poetry / April 17, 2017The 7th annual Paul Violi Prize in Poetry has been awarded to New School MFA in Creative Writing student Keri Smith. The second-prize winner is Joseph McClure, and honorable mention goes to Lea Anders...
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20 Years of Monday Night Poetry at KGB Bar | Part 5
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Poetry / April 17, 2017We’re celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Monday Night Poetry Series at KGB Bar with spotlights on the poets who have hosted the series. Megin Jiménez hosted the series from 2009–2012. She speaks ...
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Dale Peck’s Resistance Bookshelf
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Resistance Bookshelf / April 4, 2017Resistance Bookshelf is a new series for the MFA in Creative Writing Program, in which faculty and students share their reading lists and advice for being aware of and learning to fight fascism and fo...
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20 Years of Monday Night Poetry at KGB Bar | Part 4
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Poetry / April 3, 2017We’re celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Monday Night Poetry Series at KGB Bar with spotlights on the poets who have hosted the series. Laura Cronk and Michael Quattrone hosted from 2007 until 20...
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WriteOn Fellow celebrates student’s NYC Scholastic Art & Writing Award
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students / March 31, 2017On Sunday, March 19th, WriteOn fellow and MFA student KrisAnne Madaus attended the NYC Scholastic Art & Writing Awards as an educator to celebrate the success of seventh grade student Neil Baidan ...
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Hettie Jones’ Resistance Bookshelf
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Resistance Bookshelf / March 27, 2017Resistance Bookshelf is a new series for the MFA in Creative Writing Program, in which faculty and students share their reading lists and advice for being aware of and learning to fight fascism and fo...
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MFA Student Activism: Parrish Turner
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Undergraduate / March 22, 2017By Parrish Turner I wrote this piece as part of Lisa Freedman's Breathe Write Meditate group immediately after leaving the protests outside of the Stonewall the day the of the executive order which...
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An Interview MFA Alum Kerri Arsenault
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene / March 21, 2017By Kelly Stewart [caption id="attachment_41879" align="aligncenter" width="640"] View from the house where MFA alum Kerri Arsenault grew up. February 2010. (Photo courtesy of Kerri Arsenault)[/capt...
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Interview with NBCC Nonfiction Winner Matthew Desmond
By Creative Writing at The New School / in NBCC Finalist Interviews 2017, NBCC Nonfiction Finalists - 2017 / March 17, 2017Thanks 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 able to provide intervi...
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