MFA in Creative Writing As an MFA student at The New School, you can choose your concentration in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, or Writing for Children and Young Adults and receive personalized faculty mentorship and faculty and peer critiques. Innovative courses in publishing and multimedia storytelling engage you in the development of literature. Popular graduate minors include Impact Entrepreneurship and Transmedia and Digital Storytelling. Or you can apply to WriteOn NYC!, a New School–funded fellowship program providing MFA students with high-quality teaching experience in area middle schools and high schools. All students benefit from evening classes and events, which enable them to work or attend responsibilities during the day while enrolled in a full-time program. Learn more
Related Programs In addition to the renowned MFA in Creative Writing, The New School offers other programs and opportunities for writing students. These include noncredit courses and summer intensives, as well as an undergraduate major in the Bachelor’s Program for Adults and Transfer Students, the Writing and Democracy Honors Program, and undergraduate minors in related fields.Summer Writing IntensiveContinuing Education CoursesWriting & Democracy Honors ProgramBA in Creative WritingUndergraduate Creative Writing Courses
100 Best YA Books TYRELL is a young adult novel by Coe Booth, part-time faculty at the Creative Writing Program. The novel was named one of the 100 Best YA Books of All Times by TIME Magazine. Learn More
Zakiya Dalila Harris '16 To Adapt Debut Novel for Hulu Zakiya Dalila Harris, a 2016 graduate of the MFA Creative Writing Program, has signed a deal to co-write and executive-produce an adaptation of her debut novel, The Other Black Girl, for Hulu. The novel will be published by Atria Books in 2021. Learn More
Mira Jacob’s ‘Good Talk’ Selected for #NewSchoolBookClub Mira Jacob, an assistant professor of writing and 2010 graduate of the MFA Creative Writing Program, has been chosen as the featured author for the inaugural #NewSchoolBookClub. The New School community will read Jacob’s book Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations and join a Q&A with Jacob via @TheNewSchool's Instagram account. Learn More
2019 Alumni and Faculty Book List The Creative Writing Program is proud to announce its list of 2019 alumni and faculty book publications. In 2019, more than 30 books were published by alumni of the Creative Writing Program, and 12 books were published by faculty. Learn More
Netflix Announces Adaptation of Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton’s 'Tiny Pretty Things' Netflix announced the adaptation of Tiny Pretty Things (HarperTeen, 2015), a YA novel co-authored by 2012 MFA alumni Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton. A ten-episode hour-long drama series, Tiny Pretty Things is set to air on the streaming platform in 2020. Learn More
Safia Elhillo '15 Awarded 2019-2021 Stegner Fellowship in Poetry Safia Elhillo, a 2015 alumna of the MFA Creative Writing Program, has been awarded a 2019-2021 Stenger Fellowship in Poetry by Stanford University. Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), which won the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and the 2018 Arab American Book Award. Learn More
Helen Schulman Awarded 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship Professor Helen Schulman, who chairs the MFA Fiction program, was awarded a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship in the category of Fiction. The fellowship recognizes individuals who have demonstrated exceptional creative ability in the arts. Learn More
Faculty The New School's faculty for writing and literature is a veritable who's who of American writers. Core faculty serve as coordinators and advisors for each genre of study offered by the program. The MFA program's extensive roster of full-time, part-time, and visiting faculty members include award-winning poets, novelists, essayists, and visual artists who also work across and between genres. Meet our faculty
The Writer’s Life in NYC Creative Writing students come to The New School from across the United States and around the world to live the writer's life in New York City. Evenings with agents and editors, exclusively for MFA students, provide informal opportunities to meet publishing professionals. Get hands-on experience in the publishing industry through internships and opportunities with pioneering literary publications. Learn more
Good Talk Mira Jacob, Faculty and MFA '01 "[A] showstopping memoir about race in America" Kirkus Reviews
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