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Interview with 2018 NBCC Criticism Finalist Carina Chocano
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 2018 NBCC Finalist Interviews, NBCC Criticism Finalist Interviews – 2018 / March 12, 2018By Katy Hershberger 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 Fiction Finalist Jesmyn Ward
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 2018 NBCC Finalist Interviews, NBCC Fiction Finalist Interviews - 2018 / March 12, 2018By Erik Kristman 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, ...
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Interview with 2018 NBCC Nonfiction Finalist Frances FitzGerald
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 2018 NBCC Finalist Interviews, NBCC Nonfiction Finalist Interviews - 2018 / March 12, 2018By Luke Hodina 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...
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Interview with 2018 NBCC Criticism Finalist Edwidge Danticat
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 2018 NBCC Finalist Interviews, NBCC Criticism Finalist Interviews – 2018, TNS Lit Scene / 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 Faculty, Nonfiction, TNS Lit Scene / 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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THE NEW SCHOOL @ AWP 2018
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Graduates, TNS Lit Scene / February 12, 2018The New School will once again be featured at #AWP18, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference. This year's conference will be held in Tampa, Florida, from Wedne...
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Now Available To View: Readings by Eileen Myles and Margot Livesey
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Fiction, Nonfiction, TNS Lit Scene / 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 Fiction, Graduates, Nonfiction, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene, 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 Faculty, TNS Lit Scene, 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 Fiction, Graduates, TNS Lit Scene / 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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Best Books of 2017
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Fiction, Graduates, MFA, Nonfiction, Writing for Children and Young Adults / December 18, 2017Of the 37 books published by Creative Writing Program alumni in 2017, and the 10 books published by program faculty, eight books have landed on Best Books of 2017 lists. Best Books Lists featuring New...
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#literaryswag | An Interview with MFA Alum Yahdon Israel
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Graduates, Nonfiction / December 11, 2017By Wynne Kontos Yahdon Israel, Brooklyn Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, makes the concept of the literary and what’s swaggy seem like a natural pairing. Widely known for his web series, “LIT,” the mont...
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2017 CREATIVE WRITING ALUMNI AND FACULTY BOOKS
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Fiction, Graduates, MFA, Nonfiction, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / 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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Cyber Show: “Playing with Time”
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Continuing Education / October 25, 2017Poems and Photography | Part 1 Poet Helene Swarts, alumna of the Continuing Education program at The New School and attendee of Pearl London’s famous seminar “Meeting Poets and Poetry” (1970–1998), r...
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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 Poetry, TNS Lit Scene / 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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Remembering The Hour Before Puberty: An Interview with Benjamin Taylor
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty / October 2, 2017By Felicity LuHill Benjamin Taylor is one of a very select few who can say he shook the hand of a president on the day that president was assassinated. And so starts his new memoir, The Hue and Cry...
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WriteOn Celebrates Issue 6 of Pen & Pencil
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Graduates / September 25, 2017By KrisAnne Madaus, 2017 MFA alum In Spring of 2017, I climbed the painted blue staircases of George Jackson Academy on St. Marks with scotch tape in hand to hang posters--calls for submissions--on...
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Brooklyn Book Festival 2017
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Fall 2017 Events / September 5, 2017Creative Writing at The New School will be well-represented at the Brooklyn Book Festival again this year. New School alumni and faculty will be featured at the book fair, on children's day, and a...
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