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possess the skills and a sucient body o quality work to advance
to graduate-level study. Details about the portolio and other applicationmaterials are provided on the website.
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Situated in New York Citys Greenwich Village,
The New School has been a vital center or
writing and writing instruction since 1931.
In that year, Gorham Munson, a Manhattan editor
and infuential member o the Alred Stieglitz
circle, introduced his now-legendary workshop
in creative writing.
We cant claim a rst, Munson subsequently
recalled. Credit or the rst goes to Amherst or
inviting Robert Frost to be a poet-in-residence.
But when The New School began to oer writing
courses, the proessional writer was a rare animal
on the classroom platorm. We led the way in
revolutionizing the teaching o writing. For notice
that all o us in those years were practicing
writers. We washed the typewriter ink o our
hands as we started or class.
The New School Writing Program oers the
opportunity to study the crat o writing under
the direction o master teachers who are
themselves distinguished practitioners. The
approach emphasizes the study o literature
as a vital artistic discipline, a creative activity,
rather than as a eld or historical analysis or an
object or interpretation, as in English, literary
ceAtvewtnAT TE NEWSCOOEight Decades of Innovation
studies, or comparative literature departments.
In seminars and workshops, writing teachers who
operate in The New Schools practitioner tradition
approach works o art rom the inside out, moving
inevitably rom close attention to language, crat,
and orm into history and culture, engaging the
ull complexity o a work, and resisting critical
narrowness, insularity, and reduction.
The tradition o experienced writers refecting
on their own practices and disciplines oers
a uniquely powerul vantage or the study o
literature o the past, since or writers learning
or tracking their art, the past is inescapably
the present. Think o W.G. Sebald, in 1999,
discovering how to write The Rings of Saturn by
reading Sir Thomas Brownes ydriotaphia, Urn
Burial; or, A Discourse o the Sepulchral Urns
ately Found in Norolk o 1658. Think o young
Elizabeth Bishop creating her early poems under
the spectral tutelage o George erbert and
Gerard Manley opkins.
Through nearly eight decades o continuous
innovation, the New School Writing Program
has welcomed a vivid and diverse whos who
o American poets, novelists, and e ssayists,
including, rom the past to the present, RobertFrost, W.. Auden, Robert owell, Amiri Baraka,
Frank Oara, Kenneth Koch, Stanley Kunitz,
Kay Boyle, May Sarton, orace Gregory,
Marguerite Young, William Goyen, Richard
Yates, John F. Bardin, Edward oagland, David
Ignatow, Alred Kazin, Anatole Broyard, Carolyn
Kizer, Daniel alpern, Carol Muske Dukes, and
Gilbert Sorrentino. More recent aculty include
ilton Als, Pearl ondon, ayes Ja cobs, ugh
Seidman, Jhumpa ahiri, Bernadette Mayer,
David Trinidad, David Markson, Bob olman,
1934.Gertrude Stein
ectures in America
1940.
W.. Auden
Poetry and Culture
1961.
Robert owell
English Poetry rom
Wyatt to Yeats
1962.
Frank Oara
Poetry Workshop
1963.
eRoi Jones
(Amiri Baraka)
American Poetry
1995
1961
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1963
2005
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David Rosenberg, Nicholas Chr
Shinder, Susan Wheeler, Peter C
and iam Rector.
When we launched the MFA in C
the 1990s, our aim was to ass
distinguished and emerging wri
described as the contemporary
brilliant legacy.
The other crucial component o
graduate writing program is, o
students. When we started the
Writing program, one aspiration
advantage o our geographical
York Cityhome to so many gi
so many vital magazines and pu
achievements o our graduates
and numerous that we can only
the Alumni and Friends section
at www.newschool.edu/writing/
their books, CDs, stories, poem
notable literary journals they ha
the lively reading series they cu
The New School Writing Program
workshop method o teaching:
writer-teacher gives guidance toocusing on their manuscripts a
creative acts o revision and se
workshops and individual cone
program provides a ramework
blocks o time or students to
developing their crat and creat
body o work. Both in the class
readings and lectures by disting
the New School Writing Program
and intensiy the writers lie.
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Since 1996, Te New School hasoered the Master of Fine Arts(MFA) in Creative Writing, withconcentrations in ction, poetry,nonction, and writing for children.
1970.John Ashbery and
Pearl ondon
1995.
ucille Cliton
2005.
Philip Gourevitch
2006.
Walter Mosley
2008.
John Ashbery,
David ehman,
Robert Polito
(standing)
2010.
Rae Armantrout
2010.
Robert Pinsky
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Writing programs, whatever else they might
involve, are communities, and those communities
emanate rom the talent, seriousness, and
commitment to teaching o the aculty.
Ours is an active and widely published aculty,
many o whom work in multiple literary genres
and artistic disciplines. Ours is a aculty
galvanized by their lives as teachers and mentors
at The New School.
ed by director Robert Polito, a prize-winning
biographer and poet, ction coordinator elen
Schulman, and poetry coordinator David ehman,
the New School graduate writing aculty is
unsurpassed anywhere in the United States.
To list our aculty is to represent the richness and
variety o modern American ction, nonction,
poetry, and childrens literature.
Find detailed biographical inormation about all
current members o the aculty on the website
at www.newschool.edu/writing.
TE WRITINGFAculty
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Divina Trace
My Grandmothers
Erotic Folktales
03.cari Bar
Into Perect
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The Artul Edit
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Mar Bibbi
The Dance o No
ard Feelings
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Someday This Pain
Will Be Useul to You
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sa cr
American Bloomsbury
08.
Jaa d
The Privileges
09.
eai eqi
Ripple Eect
Voice-Over
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dai a
The Wonders o the
Invisible World
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Jir h
Funny
12.
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The Red Thread
13.
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14.
Zia Jar
The Invisibles
15.
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ettie Jones
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Jam la
Its Beginning
to urt
17.dai lma
Yeshiva Boys
A Fine Romance
18.
szaa lar
The Architect
o Desire
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dai lia
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Boy Meets Boy
20.
pii la
The Art o the
Personal Essay
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Trauma
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Daughter
Poems romthe Womens
Movement
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Farber on Film
A Readers Guide
to James Merrills
The Changing Light
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ollywood & God
Savage Art
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a day at the beach
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Mean Margaret
29.
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A Monsters Notes
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Jesus Saves
31.
Bjami tar
Tales Out o School
32.
Ja tar
The Blue Orchard
33.
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Overnight
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So B. It
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awthorne
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23.Meghan ORourke
24.Dale Peck
25.Darryl Pinckney
26.Robert Polito
27.elen Schulman
28.Tor Seidler
29.aurie Sheck
30.Darcey Steinke
15.ettie Jones
16.James asdun
17.David ehman
18.Suzannah essard
19.David evithan
20.Phillip opate
21.Patrick McGrath
22.onor Moore
08.Jonathan Dee
09.Elaine Equi
10.David Gates
11.Jennier Michael echt
12.Ann ood
13.Shelley Jackson14.Zia Jarey
01.Jeery Renard Allen
02.Robert Antoni
03.Catherine Barnett
04.Susan Bell
05.Mark Bibbins
06.Susan Cheever07.Peter Cameron
31.Benjamin Taylor
32.Jackson Taylor
33.Paul Violi
34.Sarah Weeks
35.Brenda Wineapple
36.Stephen Wright
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The New School Writing Program refects the
amplitude and diversity o the writers lie in New
York City. Students in the program maintain their
own reading series and edit and publish their
own journal, LIT. The New School has established
creative partnerships with many other New York
City cultural institutions and every year a host o
distinguished writers take part in wide variety o
events that enhance the classroom experience
o our students. The program enjoys lively
collaborations with the Poetry Society o America,
the Academy o Ame rican Poets , PEN, CMP,
Poets ouse, and Cave Canem, among others.
Presenting as many as 100 literary events each
academic year, The New School is proud o what
may be the preeminent university public reading
series in the nation. Every all, The New School
hosts the National Book Award reading, and in
the spring we present both the National Book
Critics Circle Award Reading and host the gala
awards ceremony the ollowing night. Recently we
staged a estival in honor o poet John Ashbery,
a tribute to New Yorkereditor Alice Quinn, and
the Ghana Writers Conerence Reading. The New
School Writing Program also believes writers
must engage all artshence lm estivals
spotlighting Samuel Fuller, Edgar G. Ulmer, and
experimental documentaries; celebrations o
writer/artists Manny Farber and Joe Brainard; a
lecture series on music and democratic speech,
curated by Greil Marcus; a series o talks on theConstitution in Crisis eaturing Cass Sunstein,
Eric Foner, Elaine Scarry, and Bryan Stevenson;
and Robert Pinsky reading his poems as part o a
quartet with musicians Vijay Iyer, Ben Allison, and
Andrew Cyrille.
The New School demonstrates its commitment
to progressive publishing through literary
evenings devoted to anthologies and journals
like The Believer, Tin House, Conjunctions,
McSweeneys, Fence, Open City, BOMB, Artforum,
Agni, Best American Poetry, and Best American
Movie Writing.
New School writing students have recently heard
such established and emerging writers, critics,
and artists as ydia Davis, Yuse Komunyakaa,
Paul Auster, C.K. Williams, Anne Carson, Peter
Carey, George Saunders, Caryl Phillips, Bradord
Morrow, Jo Ann Beard, Kate Braveman, Kelly
ink, ucie Brock-Broido, James Ellroy, Susan
Choi, Nathaniel Mackey, Joanna Klink, Terese
Svoboda, Joe Wenderoth, Steve Erickson.
Jacqueline Woodson, Walter Dean Myers, ynne
Tillman, Wayne Koestenbaum, Michael arper,
John Ashbery, arry Matthews, Fanny owe, Frank
Bidart, Dana Gioia, ou Reed, James Tate, Marie
Ponsot, Jorie Graham, Richard oward, Robert
Creely, Charles Bernstein, Jane irsheld, Jayne
Cortez, Mark Doty, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Mary Karr,
Jonathan Saran Foer, Nick Flynn, Percival Everett,
Philip Gourevitch, Brenda illman, Charles Simic,
Ann auterbach, and John Edgar Wideman.
Upon graduation, writers are encouraged to
submit selections rom their writing theses to
a chapbook contest sponsored by the Writing
Program. The winners are chosen by a panelo independent judges. Each winner receives
100 copies o a 250-copy chapbook press run
published by The New School. Many o these
chapbooks have subsequently led to book
contracts and ull-length publications.
The Writing Program honors the historic
legacy o The New School as a home or the
public intellectual in the tradition initiated here
by writing instructors Anatole Broyard, Robert
owell, and Frank Oara in the early 1960s.
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Founded in 1919
Chartered as a university in 1934
ocated in New York City
University enrollment: 10,000 students
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The New School is a private university in New
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continuing education programs in the liberal arts
and social sciences, management and policy
analysis, design, and the perorming arts.
The academic divisions o the university are The
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Creative Writing in person. Group and individualinormation sessions are held throughout the
year at which you can discuss the program o
study, career directions, costs, and nancial aid.
Admission representatives also travel to other
cities in the United States to meet prospective
students who cannot come to New York City.
earn about and sign up or upcoming admission
events at www.newschool.edu/writing.
deee eQueMents
The MFA curriculum is a 36-credit course o
study, currently with our concentrations: ction,
nonction, poetry, and writing or children. The
program emphasizes literature as a vital artistic
discipline, a creative activity. Writing workshops
are balanced with literature seminars or the rst
three semesters. Workshops are always in the
students concentration, but you may elect to take
some seminars outside your own eld.
In your nal term o residence, you work closely
with an advisor or advisors in independent study
leading to the completion o both a Writing Thesis
and a iterature Project within your concentration:
ction, nonction, poetry, or writing or children.
Every semester in residence, you also earn
one credit or the Writers ie Colloquium.
This requirement is met by participation in a
minimum o eight approved literary or related
events at The New School, including crat
seminars (Fiction Forum, Poetry Forum, etc.),
special readings, publishing roundtables, and
visiting writer residencies.
For a ull description o concentrations,
workshop and seminar requirements, and the
nal writing thesis and literature project, visitwww.newschool.edu/writing.
The creative writing graduate program is designed
to be completed in two years o ull-time study.
All courses and most Writers ie Colloquium
events are conveniently scheduled in the evening.
At this time, part-time study is not an option,
and, due to the integral nature o the curriculum,
transer credits are not accepted.
The New School is an Armative Action/EqualOpportunity Institution.
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Visit www.newschool.edu/studentservices to
see current tuition and ee schedules.
All applicants are considered or merit
scholarships. US residents and permanent
residents should le the Free Application or
Federal Student Aid, available online at www.
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The New School participates in all ederal and
New York State need-based nancial assistance
programs, including campus employment
and student loans. All need-based nancial
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Toward the end o the second semester, MFA
students can apply or teaching assistantships
in the Riggio onors Program, a program or
gited undergraduates unded by the eonard and
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