THE STONECOAST REUNION The Stonecoast Reunion is coming up fast, and we’re excited to welcome you to Brunswick, Maine, July 14th-17th! The weekend will be an exciting time for readings, seminars, and networking with fellow graduates of the program. If you have not done so, please register now! Please visit: http://usm.maine.edu/stonecoastmfa/stonecoast-alumni-0. If you are not able to …
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Community News & Updates April 2017
ALUMS Erin Lyn Bodin's (Poetry & Creative Nonfiction, S’17) essay "How it Goes" has been published by So to Speak: a Feminist Journal of Language and Art. This piece, included in her Stonecoast thesis, took a little bit of coaxing to send out into the world. Many thanks especially to Barbara Hurd and Ted Deppe for their …
Community News & Updates February 2017
ALUMS Karen Bovenmyer’s (Popular Fiction, S’13) thrilled to announce her first novel, an LGBT romantic pirate adventure set in 1822 Caribbean, Swift for the Sun, now has a cover (by the amazing Anna Sikorska) and a release date: March 27, 2017, from Dreamspinner Press. Karen’s also sold a 300-word prose poem featuring marooned interstellar spies called “Save Our Souls” to Silver …
Community News & Updates January 2017
Stonecoast Rocks Manhattan.... Calling all Stonecoasters past and present in the New York City area---please join us on Wednesday, January 4th, 2017, for a special Stonecoast Night at the KGB Bar in Manhattan, 85 E. 4th St. from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. Featured faculty readers will be Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Elizabeth Searle, and Breena Clarke. Joining in with …
Community News & Updates November 2015
ALUMS Eric M. Bosarge's (Popular Fiction, W'12) short story "The Last Laugh" will appear in the November issue of Strangelet Journal. Karen Bovenmyer (Popular Fiction, S'13) is excited to share her very first professional narration—“The Wives of Azhar” by Roshani Chokshi—which she recorded for Strange Horizons Magazine. Also, the first issue of Mothership Zeta Magazine, featuring Stonecoast alums Bonnie …
Community News & Updates September 2015
ALUMNI Quenton Baker's (Poetry, S'12) first chapbook, Diglossic in the Second America, is now available from Punch Press. You can hear him read two of the poems in recent radio segment with Washington State poet laureate Elizabeth Austen. Sheila Boneham (Creative Nonfiction/Cross Genre, S'13) has been honored with a 2015-16 fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council to support creation of new work. In …
Community News & Updates July 2015
ALUMNI Karen Bovenmyer (Popular Fiction, S'13) could not be more thrilled to have two poems “Cadaver Feet” and “Little Bone Robot Boy” appearing in Meercat Press’s My Cruel Invention poetry anthology. “Cadaver Feet” was written for Bonnie Stufflebeam’s Art & Words show and a wonderful painting of the same name was created by Antonio Lanza to match it---both of which Karen included …
Community News & Updates June 2015
ALUMNI Karen Bovenmyer's (Popular Fiction, S'13) drabble about an unfortunate house cat entitled "What Dolls Eat" will appear in The Were-Traveler in late May/early June. She is most pleased the editor called it "damn creepy" in her acceptance letter. Jennifer Marie Brissett (Popular Fiction, S'11) published a short story "A Song For You" on Motherboard themed from the Donny Hathaway …
Community News & Updates May 2015
Stonecoast in Ireland Stonecoast in Ireland will host its 20th residency in January 2016. Information and applications are available from Ted Deppe at theodore.deppe@maine.edu. The deadline for applying is 14 May 2015. Alumni Sheila Boneham (Creative Nonfiction/Cross Genre, S’13) is honored to have learned that guest editor Rebecca Skloot has selected Sheila's essay "A Question of …
Community News & Updates March 2015
ALUMNI Karen Bovenmyer (Popular Fiction, S'13) is pleased to announce her story "The Scarlet Cloak" will be reprinted in Life After Ashes, an anthology published by Alliteration Ink to benefit a military family who lost everything in a fire. Jennifer Marie Brissett (Popular Fiction, S '11) will be on panel at the Astro Blackness 2 Conference, Loyola Marymount University, …
