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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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Five Questions with Ellen Hagan
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / November 13, 2019Ellen Hagan is a writer, performer, and educator. She is the author of two poetry collections: Crowned and Hemisphere, and Watch Us Rise, a YA collaboration with Renée Watson. She has a poetry co...
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Five Questions With medina
By Nicole Drayton / in Fiction, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene / May 7, 2019medina is a nonbinary queer Latinx writer (they/them/their). They are a third-year MFA Creative writing student concentrating in both Writing for Children and Young Adults and Nonfiction. They ar...
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Five Questions With Sarah Jospitre
By Nicole Drayton / in Current Students, Fiction, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / August 20, 2018Sarah Jospitre is a second-year student in the Writing For Children & Young Adults section of the MFA Creative Writing Program. Recently, she has completed an internship in the editorial dep...
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The New School In Conversation with We Need Diverse Books
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Current Students, Faculty, Graduates, Lit, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / April 29, 2015Written by Alison Doherty, a first year student in The New School’s Writing for Children MFA program. More than half of the students in US schools are people of color, but the latest available stud...
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Audiograph: A.S. King and Eliot Schrefer
By Luke Wiget / in Audiograph, Graduates, New & Forthcoming, Past Events, People, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / October 31, 2013A.S. King and Eliot Schrefer at The New School moderated by Patricia McCormick, 10/22/2013, audio, reading and interview. The Audiograph series broadcasts digital audio about the people, publicat...
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Writing for Children Forum: Gayle Forman and Steven Sheinkin
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Past Events, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / September 18, 2013The New School's Patricia McCormick moderated a fact/fiction panel discussion with YA novelists Gayle Forman, author of If I Stay, and Steven Sheinkin, author of BOMB: The Race to Build and Steal the ...
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Writing for Children Forum: Nadia Aguiar-Hasselbring
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Past Events, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / September 17, 2013Nadia Aguiar-Hasselbring joined us Monday evening for the first Writing for Children event of the semester. The Lost Island of Tamarind, the first in a series, tells the story of three orphans who lan...
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MFA Alum Morgan Matson Wins 2013 California Book Award
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Graduates, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / May 9, 2013MFA Writing for Children Alum Morgan Matson has won a gold medal in the Commonwealth Club's 2013 California Book Award for her young adult novel, Second Chance Summer. Second Chance Summer has also ho...
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Rachel Cohn at The New School
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Past Events, Writing for Children and Young Adults / April 3, 2013Acclaimed Young Adult author Rachel Cohn, recent judge for the New School MFA chapbook competition and author of the recently published YA novel Beta, visited the New School to share her insight about...
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NYC Teen Author Festival Now Underway
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Graduates, MFA, New & Forthcoming, Past Events, People, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / March 18, 2013The celebrated NYC Teen Author Festival begins today, Monday, March 18th and will continue for the rest of the week. The festival is managed and moderated by our own MFA faculty member, David Levitha...
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Maryrose Wood Reads at The New School
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Past Events, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / March 6, 2013Maryrose Wood, author of the acclaimed series, The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, visited the School of Writing Tuesday March 5th to read and discuss her newest addition to the series, The Uns...
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New School Alum Patricia McCormick named a Finalist for the National Book Awards
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Graduates, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / November 11, 2012Never Fall Down by The New School Alum Patricia McCormick, has been named a finalist for the National Book Awards in the category of Young People's Literature. "Well-written and heart-breaking, t...
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