ALUMNI

“Stone Dove” by Elizabeth Beechwood (Popular Fiction, S’14) was featured in Crossed Genres.

Stonecoast poetry alum Kathleen Cerveny (S ‘14) will be having her Farewell Poetry Reading as Poet Laureate of Cleveland Heights on Saturday, April 18th. Reading with her will be her Stonecoast mentor Jeanne Marie Beaumont (Poetry). The event will be held at 7:30 pm in the Heights Arts Gallery at 2175 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH. If any Stonecoasters are in the area, it would be great to see you; more information can be found here.

Terri Glass’s (Poetry/Creative Nonfiction, S’13) two poems “Sea Stars” and “Wind Turbines of Altamont Pass” have been accepted for publication in the next issue of About Place journal. The theme: primal paradox.

Two Faint Lines in the Violet (Negative Capability Press) by Lissa Kiernan (Poetry, S11) is a Foreword Reviews‘ 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist.

Jeanette Lynes (Poetry/Fiction, ’05) co-edited a book, Where the Nights are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets, with David Eso. The book, featuring over 100 poets, was published this February by Goose Lane Editions.

Alexandra Oliver (Poetry, W’12) is currently celebrating (with co-editor Annie Finch) the release of Measure for Measure, a new Everyman/Random House anthology of poetic meters. Order yours today! Alexandra will be reading as part of the Tree Series, one of Canada’s longest running literary events, in Ottawa on April 14th.

Sean Robinson (Popular Fiction, W’14) is pleased to share two publications. “Rustsong” appeared in The Future Fire in March. Check it out. It has illustrations! His story (inspired at Stonecoast) “Beatification of the Second Fall” will appear in Apex Magazine on April 7^th.

“Not Quite Meet-Cute,” a nonfiction piece by Lisa Romeo (Creative Nonfiction, S’08), appears in the current issue of Blue Lyra Review. Lisa will be on a panel at the ASJA (American Society of Journalists and Authors) Conference in New York City on May 2. And in other very exciting news, she will be published in the upcoming print issue (#55) of Creative Nonfiction Magazine — well, 130 characters of hers will be anyway (a #CNFtweet).

Damien Shuck‘s (Poetry, ’09) collection of poetry, The Drowning Room, will be released soon and preorder is available on Amazon or at New American Press.

On April 6, Patricia Smith (Poetry, S’08) will officially receive the 2014 Rebekah Bobbitt Poetry Prize in a ceremony at the Library of Congress. The $10,00 prize is given to the author of the best poetry book published in the United States in the previous two years. The book chosen was Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, which also won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets.

Kevin St. Jarre (Popular Fiction, S’10) is pleased to announce that his short story “Fishes and Time” was published in Story magazine in March 2015.

STUDENTS

Olive Sullivan’s (Poetry) latest poem, “Pin Oak,” is online as part of the “Where I Live” photo and poetry series by Silver Birch Press.

FACULTY

Sarah Braunstein‘s (Fiction, Writing for Social Change) short story “All You Have to Do” was published in the March 16 issue of The New Yorker.

Aaron Hamburger‘s (Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Popular Fiction) short story “The Secret of Mexican Wine Cookies” will appear this month in The Chicago Tribune, in their Printer’s Row literary journal.  Also, Aaron will be teaching at the Peripatetic Writing Workshop in Woodstock, NY, this summer, a great way to gear up for Stonecoast!

Elizabeth Hand (Fiction, Popular Fiction) will be the keynote speaker at Newman University’s sixteenth annual Literary Festival in Wichita, speaking on science and literature. This fall, she will join the faculty at Maine College of Art (MECA), teaching a class in fiction writing (she’ll continue at Stonecoast). Forthcoming reviews include new works by Kelly Link, Eleanor Arnason, and John Connolly, in her column for Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine.

James Patrick Kelly’s (Popular Fiction) story “Someday” (also known as “The Little Story That Could”) has been selected for another Year’s Best collection, this one being The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2015 Edition edited by Rich Horton from Prime Books. Originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction May 2014, it has also been selected to be reprinted in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 9, edited by Jonathan Strahan from Solaris Books, and The Year’s Best Science Fiction 32, edited by Gardner Dozois from St. Martin’s Press. Those who were at the Winter 2015 residency may recall this story from Jim’s faculty reading.

Elizabeth Searle (Fiction, Popular Fiction, Scriptwriting) will be performing in an event at AWP in Minneapolis on Friday April 10th, at 4:30 p.m. (along with SCers Suzanne Strempek Shea and alums Matthew Quinn Martin and Libby Cudmore). She will also be doing a seminar with author Lise Haines at the Boston Writers’ Conference, The Muse And The Marketplace, May 1-3. Elizabeth and Lise’s seminar is called “On Love And Safety, Violence And The Horrific.” In it, Elizabeth with read an excerpt from her upcoming novel, We Got Him (2016), which takes place the night of the Boston Marathon bombing manhunt. The seminar is Saturday, May 2nd. Along with Elizabeth, MUSE 2015 features authors Alice Hoffman, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Elinor Lipman, Anita Shreve, Steve Almond, and more, plus many prominent agents and editors.  MUSE info may be found here.