ALUMNI The Young Adult novel Being Henry David by Cal Armistead (Fiction, W'07) has been listed among the "Best Young Adult Novels of 2013" by Kirkus Reviews, Mashable, and Buzzfeed. Michael Beeman (Fiction, S'09) was thrilled to receive the Sewanee Review's 2013 Andrew Nelston Lytle Fiction Prize for his story "The Sleeping Santas" (written in his …
Stonecoast Community, Please Help if you Can
The family of one of our Stonecoast Community members is in need of your support. "Our father Daniel Switliski, age 49, was recently diagnosed with stage III colon cancer. He underwent major surgery having his appendix removed, part of his colon, bowels, and bladder. My father has been providing for our family of 7 working …
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Community News & Updates December 2013
ALUMNI Sheila Boneham (Creative Nonfiction/Cross Genre, S'13) answered author Sherman Alexie's challenge to fellow writers to support local bookstores by playing "bookseller for a day." She spent Small Business Saturday (the independent business response to Black Friday) by volunteering at Pomegranate Books in Wilmington, NC. Sheila recommends the experience highly---you don't have to wait until …
Apply for the July 2014 Stonecoast in Ireland (SCI) Residency
Dear Stonecoasters: You are cordially invited to apply for the July 2014 Stonecoast in Ireland (SCI) residency. Here are the details: WHEN? The summer SCI residency will run from 9-16 July 2014. WHERE: We will gather in Dingle, a spot National Geographic called “the most beautiful place in the world.” Dingle is a lively seaside village with superb traditional music, …
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Community News & Updates November 2013
The first issue of Stonecoast Review, Stonecoast MFA's new literary publication, has just been released. You can read the issue here or purchase the issue here. About Stonecoast Review: The Stonecoast Review is an online literary journal edited by students in the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing. We are inspired by the Stonecoast program’s goals: …
Community News & Updates October 2013
ALUMNI Sheila Boneham (Creative Nonfiction/Cross Genre, S'13) has had a busy September. During the first two weeks, she was the spotlighted author on DogRead, an online book discussion group with some 7,000 followers, in conjunction with the launch of her new novel, The Money Bird. On September 25th, she read from the book and spoke …
Community News & Updates September 2013
ALUMNI Michael Beeman (Fiction, S'09) was excited to see his piece "Advice to Fictional Characters on the Occasion of My 31st Birthday" appear on Thought Catalog recently. Sheila Boneham (Creative Nonfiction/Cross Genre, S'13) is thrilled to announce the release of her second mystery, The Money Bird (Midnight Ink). The first book in this series, Drop …
The Magic Words
by Linda Kobert It was late, after ten at night. I’d just won my first Scrabble game in months, and my friends and I were all relaxing after a typical cutthroat contest. We’d been on the go since early morning that Saturday: graduation at the school where my husband teaches, then making the rounds of …
Community News & Updates August 2013
Congratulations to the Stonecoast Summer 2013 graduates: Katie Bickham, Sheila Boneham, Karen Bovenmyer, Katie Crumpton, Heather Ann Cyr, Kerri Dieffenwierth, Katrina Ellyson, Kelli Faherty, Edward Ferrara, Karla Michelle Fossett, Yvonne (Rooze) Garcia, Alexandria Giardino, Terri Glass, Penny Guisinger, Andrew Heckler, Sarah Steinberg Heller, Michael L. Joy, Thomas Morrissey, Casey Moynihan, Meaghan Reynolds, Katherine Sargent, Chuck Smithson, …
Post-Residency by Joseph Carro
We all gathered in the common room of Chamberlain Hall and reminisced, speaking with smiles stretched across our faces and kinetic hand gestures painting our stories with extra detail. Some of us wouldn't be coming back, and so there were trembling lips, teary eyes and long, unashamed hugs. Handshakes, hand waves and promises to keep …
