Matthew Quinn Martin - President (PF S'10) - Matthew's original screenplay Slingshot was made into a feature film it and is currently on DVD, distributed by the Weinstein Co. His prose fiction has been published in Transition Magazine, Thuglit, Beat to a Pulp Anthology, MFA/MFYou Literary Journal, JMWW, A Twist of Noir, Eastern Standard Crime, The Oddville Press, Aphelion and The Flash Fiction Offensive, as well as Arkham …
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Announcing Stonecoast Writing for Social Change
One of the exciting things to come out of the recent Stonecoast alumni reunion was a new project called Stonecoast Writing for Social Change. Three of us - Jeff Kass, Amy Alvarez and Elli Meeropol – met to begin the work. Like many of you, we are compelled by injustices of our world to use …
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Life Happens: The Post-MFA Blues and the Process of Learning, Forgetting, and Remembering Again
by Matt Switliski PF W'11 While I was a student at Stonecoast, I was always excited to see alumni show up at the graduation ceremony and reception. For me, there was this unshakeable sense that, after my friends and I walked across the stage to receive our degrees, we wouldn’t see each other again. Life, …
Anthony D’Aries CNF W’09 talking _The Language of Men_
Anthony D’Aries CNF W’09 was Randolph College’s Emerging Writer in spring 2011. While there, he finished a draft of his memoir The Language of Men. Bunny Goodjohn P W’07, professor at Randolph and member of their Visiting Writer selection committee, spoke with Anthony shortly after he landed a publishing contract with Hudson Whitman. Goodjohn: So, …
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Gina Troisi CNF ’09: “Emerging” at Randolph College
The members of Randolph’s Creative Writing department are proud of their Visiting Writer Series. The program allows them to invite six writers onto campus each year: three established writers (flying visit with reading), two Writers in Residence (one month teaching gig plus reading), and one Emerging Writer—defined as a “bookless” recent graduate of an MFA …
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Invitation to Howth – January 2013
Dear Alumni, Applications will be accepted until Wednesday 18 April for the Stonecoast residency which will take place in Howth, Ireland 10-17 January 2013. The application deadline is coming up soon. Although continuing students get first priority, alumni have taken part in our last two Irish residencies, and we'd love to hear from you if you're …
AWP 2012–Don’t Stop Believin’
by Libby Cudmore PF W'10 and Matthew Quinn Martin PF S'10 Everyone on the dance floor immediately recognized those oh so familiar piano chords from Journey’s most famous song--even if it had been plastered over with a generic dance beat. There was little double that their shadows were searching in the night--underneath the disco ball and gel-covered …
Summer Reunion Update — Accommodations in Brunswick, ME
The Reunion Committee did some research and identified some places to stay in the Brunswick area. Inn at Brunswick Station We have arranged for a block of 10 rooms at the Inn at Brunswick Station, a new hotel adjacent to Bowdoin College. This hotel is comparable to the Harraseeket Inn and has a large comfortable lobby …
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Alumni Newsletter Sign-up Form
Did you know that the Stonecoast alumni have an Alumni Newsletter? It goes out about once a year at the moment, and the next one is due to come out soon. So, if you're a member of the Stonecoast community (alumni, students, faculty, staff) and you'd like to be added to the mailing list for …
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