Marie-Helene Bertino

Creative Writing Program (MFA)

About

The New School offered the first academic creative writing workshop in 1931 and pioneered a new philosophy of education. The idea: Students would make their own lives and their own stories part of their education. Today, The New School continues to celebrate and cultivate daring and diverse new voices through its creative writing program.

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Curriculum

The Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing offers concentrations in Arts Writing, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, or Writing for Children and Young Adults.

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Faculty

The Creative Writing faculty is a veritable who’s who of American writers, including award-winning poets, novelists, essayists, and visual artists who also work across and between genres.

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Community

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, joining a prestigious community of writers who are experimenting and evolving together.

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Outcomes

Alumni of the MFA program write, edit, and publish an average of 40 books each year, as well as essays, poems, and short stories in literary journals and magazines. Along with being published writers, our graduates go on to become celebrated teachers, editors, publishers, and media professionals.

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Admission & Funding

When you apply to the Creative Writing Program at The New School, you take an important step toward making a serious commitment to your writing life. Our graduate admission team is available to assist you in selecting the right program and learning about funding opportunities.

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Marie-Helene Bertino

Part-time Lecturer

Email
bertinom@newschool.edu

Office Location
A - 66 West 12th Street

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Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of the novels Parakeet (NY Times Editors' Choice) and 2 a.m. at The Cat's Pajamas (NPR Best Books 2014), and the story collection Safe as Houses (Iowa Short Fiction Award). Awards include The O. Henry Prize, The Pushcart Prize, The Center for Fiction NYC Emerging Writers Fellowship and The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellowship in Cork, Ireland. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, Electric Literature, Granta, Guernica, BOMB, among many others. She has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook Writers Colony, The Center For Fiction NYC, and Sewanee Writers Conference, where she was the Walter E. Dakin fellow. A former editor at One Story and Catapult, she teaches at The New School and NYU. Her fourth book, the novel Beautyland, is forthcoming from FSG in 2024.

More info: www.mariehelenebertino.com

Current Courses

Creative Thesis & Lit. Project
NWRG 5920, Spring 2024

Fiction Workshop
NWRG 5400, Spring 2024

Future Courses

Creative Thesis & Lit. Project
NWRG 5920, Fall 2024

Past Courses

Creative Thesis & Lit. Project
NWRG 5920, Fall 2023

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Undergraduates

To apply to any of our undergraduate programs (except the Bachelor's Program for Adults and Transfer Students and Parsons Associate of Applied Science programs) complete and submit the Common App online.

Undergraduate Adult Learners

To apply to any of our Bachelor's Program for Adults and Transfer Students and Parsons Associate of Applied Science programs, complete and submit the New School Online Application.

Graduates

To apply to any of our Master's, Doctoral, Professional Studies Diploma, and Graduate Certificate programs, complete and submit the New School Online Application.

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