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Five Questions With Alexandra Kleeman
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / February 25, 2019Alexandra Kleeman is the author of the novel You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine (Harper, 2015) and Intimations (Harper, 2016), a short story collection. Her fiction has been published ...
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Interview with 2019 NBCC Autobiography Finalist Nicole Chung
By Creative Writing at The New School / in NBCC Autobiography Finalist Interviews 2019 / February 21, 2019By Mary Kinney 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 facul...
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Interview with 2019 NBCC Criticism Finalist Stephen Greenblatt
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 2019 NBCC Finalist Interviews, NBCC Criticism Finalist Interviews 2019 / February 21, 2019By Michael Sullivan 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...
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Interview with 2019 NBCC Nonfiction Finalist Francisco Cantu
By Creative Writing at The New School / in NBCC Nonfiction Finalist Interviews 2019 / February 21, 2019by Melanie Odelle 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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Five Questions With Daniel Gee Husson
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Fiction, Poetry, Riggio Honors / February 19, 2019Daniel Gee Husson is a playwright, director, and dramaturg who also writes short stories and the occasional poem. He was a Riggio scholar and graduated from the New School in 2015. He recently recei...
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Five Questions With Dianca London Potts
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, Fiction, Writing for Children and Young Adults, MFA / February 11, 2019Dianca London Potts earned her MFA in Fiction from The New School. She is a 2015 Pushcart Prize Nominee and a Best Small Fictions finalist for 2016. She is a Kimbilio Fiction fellow, the former pros...
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Five Questions With Antonia Wright
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, People, Poetry, MFA / February 1, 2019Antonia Wright is a Cuban-American artist born in Miami, Florida. Wright received her MFA in Poetry from The New School in New York City in 2005 as well as at the International Center of Photogra...
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Ignite Fellows for Spring and Fall 2019
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / January 31, 2019We are thrilled to announce the selection of the two Ignite Fellows for 2019. Danicia Dominguez will serve this spring and Virginia Collins this fall. Fellows work ten hours a week as "internal journ...
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Five Questions With Madge McKeithen
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Fiction, MFA, Summer Writers Colony / January 29, 2019Madge McKeithen began teaching nonfiction writing at the New School in 2006, shortly after completing her MFA in the low-residency program at Queens University in Charlotte, NC, and publishing her fir...
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Five Questions With Candice Ralph
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / January 22, 2019Candice Ralph is a second-year MFA Creative Writing student concentrating in Writing for Children and Young Adults at The New School with a BA in English Language and Literature from The University of...
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2018 Creative Writing Alumni and Faculty Books
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Graduates, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Writing for Children and Young Adults, MFA / January 17, 2019The New School Creative Writing Program is proud to announce its list of 2018 alumni and faculty book publications. This year, 30 books have been published by alumni and former students of t...
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Five Questions With Helen Schulman
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, People, Fiction, MFA / January 14, 2019Helen Schulman was born in New York City, where she lives, writes, teaches. She received a BA at Cornell University and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. She has published six nov...
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Five Questions with Theodore Kerr
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Undergraduate / January 9, 2019Canadian born Theodore (Ted) Kerr is a white, HIV negative, non-trans, gay man who lives in Brooklyn and works as writer, organizer, and educator, focusing primarily on HIV/AIDS and community. He fini...
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Five Questions with Kelly McHugh-Stewart
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Nonfiction, MFA / December 17, 2018Kelly McHugh-Stewart graduated from the MFA in Creative Writing Program in May of 2018. Formerly a sports journalist, Kelly focused on nonfiction during her time at The New School and is cu...
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Five Questions with Keisha Bush
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Fiction, MFA / December 12, 2018Keisha Bush was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts and currently lives in East Harlem. She received her MFA in creative writing from The New School, where she was a Riggio Honors Teaching Fell...
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Five Questions With Nico Rosario
By Nicole Drayton / in Graduates, People, Fiction, MFA / December 7, 2018Nico Rosario is an artist, researcher, and activist, whose work meets at the intersections of creative arts, politics, culture, and education, with a focus on youth and subcultures. A writer and p...
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Five Questions With Richard Tayson
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, People, Poetry, MFA / November 29, 2018Richard Tayson’s essays “Language Sideways: The Poetry of Addiction” and ”the volcano sequence as Fragmentary, Postmodern (and Yes, Feminist) Text” appear this fall in TheFix.com an...
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Five Questions with Mira Jacob
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, People, Fiction, MFA / November 20, 2018Mira Jacob is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, which was a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers pick, shortlisted for India’s Tata F...
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Sigrid Nunez Wins National Book Award
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Fiction / November 15, 2018MFA Creative Writing faculty member Sigrid Nunez has won the 2018 National Book Award for her novel The Friend. Announced last night at the National Book Award Ceremony in lower Manhattan, the pr...
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Five Questions With Victoria Richards
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene, Current Students, People, Fiction, Poetry, MFA, Lit / November 7, 2018Victoria Richards is a poet, freelance writer and second-year MFA Creative Writing student at The New School. She holds a BS degree in Public Relations from St. John’s University. Victoria has a passi...
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