by Libby Cudmore & Matthew Quinn Martin ...hello all, your president and vice president here with our new semi-regular featured blog post. DISTRACTIONS We’ve all been there. Maybe you are now. You sit down to write, all geared up, notes in hand, perfect story on the tips of your fingers. You’ve got the whole day …
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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 …
As you may have heard Stonecoast is transitioning to a printed newsletter that will be published twice a year and will likely not have room for publication announcement and other news related updates from community members. So, the SCAA is going to take over the news and updates, which will be published on a monthly …
Thanks to all of you who responded with your interest in the Stonecoast Writing for Social Change project. The first step is to collect and share the stories of Stonecoast community members (students, faculty, and alumni) who are actively using writing to promote social justice. If you've been involved with work like this, I'm hoping …
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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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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, …
Alumni—old and new—and fellow Board Members—past and present: I am so pleased for the opportunity to say a huge thank you to you all for your support over the past year, a year that closed with a brilliant reunion in Maine. Since taking over as Interim President in January, I’ve learned quickly how important a …
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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STONECOAST ALUMNI REUNION 2012 July 12-15 | Brunswick, ME The Stonecoast Alumni Association presents the 2012 Alumni Reunion held at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. The reunion includes panel discussions, workshops, readings, and an opportunity to network with the talented writers of the Stonecoast MFA program. Written below is the schedule for the alumni reunion. …
