THE NEW SCHOOL PUBLIC PROGRAMS: Literary eventsSPRING 2012 |
NEW YORK, January 19, 2012 - The New School, New York City's premiere presenter of literary readings, panels, and lectures, announces its Spring 2012 program. Highlights include "Truth and Consequences: Getting it Right in Long-Form Narrative," a Riggio Forum discussion featuring National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novelist Nicholson Baker (House of Holes, The Mezzanine, Fermata), journalist Ted Conover (The Routes of Man), Harper's James Marcus and others (Feb. 2). EDITOR'S NOTE: CLICK HERE FOR A FULL CALENDAR OF EVENTS. All public programs are subject to change. "Our reading series is very important to us, for alongside our distinguished faculty roster and strong course offerings we are also a cultural resource for New York City," said Robert Polito, Director of the Graduate Program in Creative Writing. "Creative Writing at The New School is distinguished by our longstanding focus on fresh and challenging voices. The range of visiting authors this spring reflects our connections to cutting-edge literary communities from Greenwich Village and Brooklyn to London and Cape Town." The New School's partnership with leading African-American poetry collective Cave Canem continues with Toi Derricotte (Feb. 15), Tim Seibles (Apr. 11), and Tracy K. Smith and Patrick Rosal (Apr. 26). Another ongoing series that explores the literature of the African diaspora, Women Writers of the Diaspora, will welcome performer Pamela Jackson (Mar. 29), poet Monica Hand (Apr. 5), and journalist and fiction writer Diana McCaulay (Apr. 19). EDITOR'S NOTE: CLICK HERE FOR A FULL CALENDAR OF EVENTS. All public programs are subject to change. Nonfiction Forum guests will include poet and essayist Caryl Phillips (Jan. 30), whose work has earned the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book; and George Scialabba (Feb. 9), winner of the National Book Critics Circle 2010 Nona Balakian Excellence in Reviewing Award. The Poetry Forum series will welcome Martha Rhodes (Feb. 21), Jason Schneiderman (Feb. 28), Jill Alexander Essbaum (Apr. 3), Terence Winch (Apr. 10), and David Trinidad (Apr. 18). And Fiction Forums will feature Ghita Schwarz (Feb. 6), author of Displaced Persons published in 2010; Marlon James (Feb. 8), author of John Crow's Devil; Alex Gilvarry (Apr. 17), author of Memoirs of A Non-Enemy Combatant, and others. Other spring literary events at The New School include discussions of careers in writing. Life After the MFA (Apr. 24) will bring writers as well as editors and agents to discuss the writing life, while Writing for Children: Getting Published 2012 (Apr. 24), will feature Tim Ditlow, Vice-President, Brilliance Audio; Louise May, Editorial Director, Lee & Low Books; and Linda Pratt, Literary Agent, Wernick & Pratt Agency. In keeping with its place at the center of New York writing, university will host three prestigious writing awards. The National Book Critics Circle Awards Ceremony 2012 (finalists' reading, Mar. 7, awards ceremony, Mar. 8), honors the Circle's top choices for in the categories of Fiction, General Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, and Criticism; The Story Prize Awards Ceremony 2012 (Mar. 21) honors three finalists from a collection of over 70 short stories published in 2011; and the Publishing Triangle Awards 2012 (Apr. 19) lauds the best gay- and lesbian-themed books from the previous year. EDITOR'S NOTE: CLICK HERE FOR A FULL CALENDAR OF EVENTS. All public programs are subject to change.
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About the New School Writing Program The New School has been a vital center for writing and its instruction since 1931, when Gorham Munson, a Manhattan editor and influential partisan of the Alfred Stieglitz circle, introduced his now-legendary workshop in creative writing. Since 1996, The New School has offered a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree with concentrations in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and writing for children. Founded by poet and biographer Robert Polito, the MFA program marks the latest transformation in the school's commitment to creative writing. Over seven decades of steady innovation, The New School's writing faculty has featured many of America's most important poets, novelists, literary critics, and editors, including Robert Frost, W.H. Auden, Robert Lowell, and Frank O'Hara. The current faculty includes Francine Prose, Helen Schulman, Stephen Wright, Dale Peck, Vivian Gornick, Susan Cheever, Abigail Thomas, Honor Moore, Suzanna Lessard, and David Lehman. For more information, visit www.writing.newschool.edu. |
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