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The Best American Poetry Reading 2013
By Justin Sherwood / in TNS Lit Scene, Past Events, Poetry / September 17, 2013Each year, MFA poetry coordinator David Lehman brings The Best American Poetry Reading to The New School for an unparalleled celebration of the previous year of American poetry publishing. Lehman, who...
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Julia Cohen’s Collateral Light Now Available for Preorder
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Poetry / September 15, 2013Collateral Light, by MFA Poetry alum Julia Cohen's (you'll remember her essay in response to a controversial article by Mark Edmunson), is due 10/15 from Brooklyn Arts Press. To preorder, visit the...
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Alysia Abbott Publishes Her Debut Memoir, Fairyland
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Nonfiction, MFA, New & Forthcoming / June 11, 2013Alysia Abbott, a 2003 MFA alum, has published a striking memoir about growing up in the "post-hippie" Haight of San Francisco. Fairyland, navigates the complexities of her relationship with her widow...
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Interview with Hot Street
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, MFA, New & Forthcoming / June 3, 2013Hot Street is a literary journal started by New School alumni Emily Jacobs, Elisha Wagman, Sarah Smetana, and Ian Brown. Their first issue is now available for order online. (You can also check in with Hot Street via their website, Facebook or Twitter.) Recently, I caught up with the Hot Street editorial team about their first issue, the unseen obstacles of publishing, and the community they hope to engender.
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Interview with Julie Sarkissian, Author of Dear Lucy
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Fiction / May 21, 2013Julie Sarkissian's debut novel, Dear Lucy (Simon & Schuster), to quote Joyce Carol Oates, "introduces a young writer with a most original voice and a tenderly eccentric vision. Julie Sarkissia...
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Loren Moreno Wins the 2012 Gertrude Press Chapbook Prize
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Fiction, MFA, New & Forthcoming / April 4, 2013New School MFA alum Loren Moreno's award winning chapbook, Aaron & Keoni, is now available to order from Gertrude Press. Congratulations to Loren! In Aaron & Keoni, Loren Moreno takes us into...
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Mario Zambrano’s “Lotería” Previewed on LibraryJournal
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, People, Fiction, Riggio Honors, New & Forthcoming / March 6, 2013Mario Zambrano, who graduated from the Riggio Honors Program in 2011, has had his upcoming debut novel, Lotería, previewed on Library Journal's Fiction Previews list. Library Journal refers to the...
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The Next Big Thing: Amy Lawless
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Graduates, Poetry, MFA, New & Forthcoming / March 5, 2013Recently, MFA '07 alum Amy Lawless participated in The Next Big Thing project where she talked about her upcoming book of poems, My Dead (Octopus Books 2013). She has graciously agreed to allow us to ...
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Give Me Everything You Have by James Lasdun is Now Available
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, People, Nonfiction, New & Forthcoming / March 5, 2013MFA faculty member James Lasdun's new memoir, Give Me Everything You Have, is now available from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. On the Lasdun's memoir, Joyce Carol Oates wrote: “Here is a chilling acc...
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Luis Jaramillo’s The Doctor’s Wife Chosen as a Best Book of 2012
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Graduates, People, Fiction, Continuing Education, MFA / November 6, 2012New School faculty member and alum Luis Jaramillo's The Doctor's Wife, winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection prize, and an Oprah's Book of the Week, has been selected as a Best Book of 2012 o...
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New School Faculty Member Craig Teicher Publishes ‘To Keep Love Blurry’
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, People, Poetry, Continuing Education, MFA / August 22, 2012New School faculty member, Craig Morgan Teicher, has published his third book with BOA Editions: To Keep Love Blurry. The collection deftly brings lyrical innovation and refreshing formalism together...
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Associate Director Laura Cronk Wins 2011 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Faculty, Graduates, People, Poetry, Riggio Honors, MFA / May 4, 2012We're delighted to report that School of Writing Associate Director and MFA alum Laura Cronk has been awarded the 2011 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize for her recently released first collection of poe...
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