ALUMNI Erin Lyn Bodin (Fiction S'14) published the title essay of her thesis, "Art of Being Light," in Kindred Magazine's Fall 2014 Issue: Gather. Erin is also thrilled to announce that she's been granted a 2015 A Room of Her Own Foundation Fellowship and will attend the Waves Discussion Series/2015 Retreat: Writing Against the Current. …
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Community News & Updates October 2014
STONECOAST IN IRELAND Ted Deppe and Jeanne Marie Beaumont will be the faculty for the Stonecoast in Ireland residency in beautiful Dingle, County Kerry, next summer. The residency will take place from 8 July to 15 July 2015. An invitation to apply will be sent out to all students on 1 November 2014 and applications will be accepted …
Community News & Updates September 2014
ALUMNI Patricia Barletta (Popular Fiction, W'12) has just signed a contract with Lachesis Publishing for her Stonecoast thesis, Moon Dark, a paranormal historical romance. The novel will be released in 2015. Eric M. Bosarge (Popular Fiction, W'12) is pleased to announce his short story Adytum appeared in volume two of The Darkness Internal published by Voluted Tales. Karen Bovenmyer (Popular …
Community News & Updates August 2014
Those in the Stonecoast community who'd like to send a message of support to alum Beth Wilkins Lombardo (Fiction) as she deals with a serious health issue are invited to join the crowd of well-wishers at CaringBridge. Financial donations are being accepted here. ALUMNI Sheila Boneham (Creative Nonfiction / Cross Genre, S’13) has won Prime Number …
Community News & Updates July 2014
ALUMNI Cal Armistead's (Fiction, W'07) debut young adult novel Being Henry David is a winner of the 2014 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People and was named to the Bank Street College "Best Children's Books of the Year 2014 Edition." It was also chosen as an "all-school summer read" for Seekonk High School, Seekonk, …
Community News & Updates June 2014
ALUMNI NEWS Sheila Boneham (Creative Nonfiction / Cross Genre, S'13) has signed a contract for two more novels in her Animals in Focus series from Midnight Ink. The first book, Drop Dead on Recall (2012), was named Best Fiction Book of the year by the Dog Writers Association of America. Book two, The Money Bird, …
Community News & Updates May 2014
ALUMNI NEWS Karen Bovenmyer's (Popular Fiction, S'13) poem "NeverNever Holes" was published April 10 on ZingaraPoet. Bunny Goodjohn (Poetry, W'07) has creative nonfiction in the latest issue of Pithead Chapel. She has also wrangled a place on the Jessie duPont three-week summer-seminar series entitled "Constructing Childhood: Words and Pictures." Sandra McDonald (Popular Fiction, W'05) sold …
Community News & Updates April 2014
ALUMNI NEWS Katie Bickham's (Poetry, S'13) first book of poems, The Belle Mar, won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Competition and will be coming out in April 2015 through Pleiades and LSU Press. The prize also includes $2000. Sheila Boneham (Creative Nonfiction/Cross Genre, S'13) was writing on trains before it was cool and had two related …
Community News & Updates March 2014
ALUMNI The young adult novel Being Henry David by Cal Armistead (Fiction, W'07) has been chosen as one of the books for the annual "Illinois Reads" program. Under the auspices of the Illinois Reading Council, this project was created to promote reading for all Illinois citizens, from birth to adult. Thirty-six titles were chosen (Being …
Community News & Updates February 2014
ALUMNI Libby Cudmore (Popular Fiction, S'10) is thrilled to announce that she has accepted an offer of reprsentation from Jim McCarthy of Dystel & Goderich Literary Management. Anthony D'Aries (Creative Nonfiction, W'09) was recently interviewed by Mason's Road, Fairfield MFA's literary journal. He was also invited to present at Embry-Riddle University's President's Speaker Series on …
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