ALUMS Sarah Baldwin (Creative Nonfiction, S'15) now has a website, where she can park all of her work. She hopes to beef up the Personal Writing page in 2024 by channeling Stonecoast! Peter Adrian Behravesh (Popular Fiction, W'18) narrated Dana Vickerson's story "The Best Way to Procure Breakfast" for the March 2 Patreon-exclusive episode of CatsCast. …
ANNOUNCEMENTS The second Mesa Verde Writers Conference opens for registration on March 1st. We have new faculty and it will be held in the same gorgeous location (Harmony Barn) in the mountains. Delicious locally sourced meals are included! This conference fills quickly so interested people are advised to register early. We can only take 26 …
ANNOUNCEMENTS CLIFFORD ROYAL JOHNS (POPULAR FICTION, W’18) Cliff’s wife, Barbara Johns, wanted to share this sad news with the Stonecoast community: Cliff got ill at the end of April and died of liver cancer June 23. He was never in pain, but he quickly lost over 50 pounds, was weak, and did not want visitors. He was …
ALUMS J Brooke (Poetry, S’19; They/e) neglected to put a link to the poetry of theirs The Rumpus published this month---here it is. J also has a long essay on recycling and re-use (sort of) titled “What Goes Around” in the summer issue of EAST Magazine, which is a cool glossy print magazine, but if …
ALUMS Elisabeth Tova Bailey (Creative Nonfiction, S’15) was delighted to have one of her sentences selected for study and analysis by Nina Schuyler in her Stunning Sentence Substack. The sentence, which personifies time, is from Elisabeth’s book The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating. This is a wonderful substack for sentence geeks. The analysis can be read …
ALUMS Elisabeth Tova Bailey’s (Creative Nonfiction, S’15) memoir The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating was noted in The New York Times article by Margaret Roach, "Where to Find Comfort in a World of Invasive Headlines?" and listed as one of Sy Montgomery’s six favorite books for animal lovers in The Book List in The Week. Also, Amit R. Baishya, …
ANNOUNCEMENTS Stonecoast MFA 2021 Winter Residency Join the Stonecoast MFA 2021 winter residency January 7-17th, 2021 for a week of inspiring readings and discussions! Evening events are free and open to the public and will be hosted online through Zoom. View the schedule and register here. Stonecoast Tidings If you'd like to receive Stonecoast's quarterly newsletter featuring faculty interviews, …
ANNOUNCEMENTS Stonecoast Alumni Scriptwriting Workshop: The Next Step - Rehearsing your Script! - Winter 2021!! Instructors: Tom Coash (Scriptwriting/Playwright) and Jeni Mahoney (Scriptwriting/Artistic Director of the Seven Devils New Play Foundry) A huge part of scriptwriting is learning to collaborate and glean valuable information about your script during the rehearsal process. Being in a room …
ANNOUNCEMENTS THE STONECOAST MFA VIRTUAL WRITING SERIES Join us Monday, June 8th, 6:00-7:00 p.m. for "Rolled in Sugar: Food as an Entry into a Moment" with Stonecoast Director Justin Tussing. Like Proust's madeleine, we'll talk about food and writing and where both can take us. Link to join is here. The Stonecoast Virtual Writing Series …
ANNOUNCEMENTS Alumnus Jacob Strunk (Fiction, W’07) has undergone heart surgery in January and some Stonecoasters are among those supporting a GoFundMe effort right now to help with expenses. If you’d like to donate, visit Jacob’s Big Dumb Heart. BOSKONE 2020 This year’s Boskone---New England’s longest running science fiction convention---features many Stonecoast faculty and alumni on …
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