MFA Program
See writers who attended this program
Poetry: J. Mae Barizo, Laura Cronk, Mark Bibbins, Camonghne Felix, Uche Nduka, Robert Polito, Laurie Sheck
Fiction: Marie Helene Bertino, Ann-Marie Hood, Shelley Jackson, Mira Jacob, Luis Jaramillo, Sharon M Mesmer, Dale Peck, John Reed, Margaret Rhee, Helen Schulman
Nonfiction: Susan Cheever, Camonghne Felix, Zia Jaffrey, Suzannah Lessard, Honor Moore, Brenda Wineapple
Writing for Children and Young Adults: Coe Booth, Caron Levis, Emily X.R. Pan, Andrea Pinkney
The program offers partial funding through scholarships, as well as teaching, research, and program assistantships.
12th Street Journal, LIT, The Inquisitive Eater, Public Seminar, The Writing Program Blog, Gina Walker’s, TheNewHistoria
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. To study at The New School is to join an established community experimenting and evolving together.
The Creative Writing program hosts one of New York City’s preeminent reading series, featuring forums with a diverse lineup of emerging and established writers. Program partners include the National Book Foundation, PEN America, the National Book Critics Circle, The Best American Poetry, The Story Prize, Cave Canem, Kundiman, The Center for Fiction, and the Poetry Society of America. Students also have access to peer and alumni get-togethers, reading series and publications, and events with publishing professionals and literary organizations.
The Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing is awarded for the successful completion of 36 credits in one of the following concentrations: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Arts Writing, or Writing for Children and Young Adults. Popular graduate minors include Impact Entrepreneurship and Transmedia and Digital Storytelling. WriteOn NYC!, a New School-funded fellowship program, provides MFA students with high-quality teaching experience in area middle schools and high schools. Students may also enroll in campus-wide course electives on subjects such as teaching preparation, languages, and media practice.
Each year, alumni of the MFA program write, edit, and publish essays, poems, and short stories in literary journals and magazines—from indie house to the most prominent venues of the moment—and more than 40 books a year. Our graduates are celebrated writers, authors, editors, publishers, educators, and media and arts professionals. Please see our blog or our website’s “Outcomes” section for a sense of the breadth of our alumni and faculty accomplishments.
Each year, alumni of the MFA program write, edit, and publish essays, poems, and short stories in literary journals and magazines—from indie houses to the most prominent venues of the moment. Our graduates are celebrated writers, authors, editors, publishers, educators, and media and arts professionals.
Our graduates are publishing upwards of forty books a year, and it would be impossible to cite them all or choose among them. Please see our blog or our website’s “Outcomes” section for a sense of the breadth of our alumni and faculty accomplishments.