Young readers deserve our best work. The Writing for Children and Young Adults concentration is part of The New School’s MFA Creative Writing program, founded in 1996. Students study with our ...

First-year students and aspiring filmmakers. Beginner poets and published authors. Songwriters. STEM students, part-time students. Working professionals hoping to put stories to paper. English and ...

O n his first day teaching this fall, Austin Smith drew some stares while walking to his poetry classroom at Stanford University. He carried a poster that read, in ...

Barbara Shoup remembers when she taught a freewriting class to fifth graders, one little girl was stumped, struggling to scrawl her pencil across the page. Shoup went up to the girl, “one of those ...

Nearly a year after the University announced it was phasing out all 23 of the creative writing lecturers over the course of the next two years, the first set of lecturers have said their goodbyes to ...

The MFA in Creative Writing challenges students to write in a variety of genres and to study literature from the point of view of a working writer. Recent graduates have become not only published ...