ANNOUNCEMENTS MESA VERDE WRITERS CONFERENCEMesa Verde Writers Conference is getting ready for its third year. They hope to add a one-day literary festival featuring up to 30 writers offering pop-up workshops and readings. Anyone interested can contact Lisa C. Taylor (Poetry, S’04). They are still looking for next year's poet so please send Lisa an …
ALUMS Peter Adrian Behravesh (Popular Fiction, W'18) narrated E. M. Linden's story "The Projectionists" for the September 28 episode of Cast of Wonders, as part of their Banned Books Week. You can listen to it here. Libby Cudmore’s (Popular Fiction/Creative Nonfiction, S'10) novel Negative Girl (Datura 2024) was released in paperback, ebook, and audiobook on September 10, …
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 We are thrilled to announce that Stonecoast is now accepting presentation submissions for the Summer 2024 residency. If you are interested in teaching a 60-minute presentation from 8:15 am to 9:15 am, please provide a detailed description of your class or panel to Robin Talbot (robin.talbot@maine.edu) no later than Monday, February 26, 2024. Your presentation or …
ANNOUNCEMENTS The Stonecoast MFA Alumni Reading Series The Stonecoast MFA Alumni Reading Series is back for a fourth year! The 2023 series will feature two virtual readings---one in May, and one in early December. Stonecoast invites any alumni authors who have a book coming out in 2023 to read. We are excited to celebrate you and your work! REGISTER HERE The Stonecoast Writers' Conference We are …
CURRENT STUDENTS Shannon Bowring's (Fiction, Third semester) short experimental piece "Avian Elegies" has been nominated by Waterwheel Review for Best Small Fictions 2020. In addition, one of Shannon's stories from her linked collection (a work-in-progress) was selected as a finalist in the fiction category of the 50th New Millennium Writing Awards. FACULTY Faith Adiele’s (Creative Nonfiction) latest essay, …
ANNOUNCEMENTS STONECOAST AT AWP 2020 Are you attending AWP 2020? Stonecoast MFA will host a gathering from 6:00-7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 5, at The Rose Bush (2301 San Pedro Ave, San Antonio, Texas 78212). We'll have free appetizers, a short reading in honor of our new WISE (Writing for Inclusivity and Social Equity) program, and plenty of time …
ANNOUNCEMENTS Public Events for the Summer 2019 Stonecoast Residency You are invited to join the Stonecoast MFA community for a week of inspiring readings and discussions with Stonecoast’s award-winning faculty and guest writers, June 24-26 and June 28-July 1, at the historic Harraseeket Inn in downtown Freeport, Maine. See the full list of events HERE. FACULTY …
ALUMS Edible Queens, one of 85 "Edible" magazines across the US and Canada, has made Jillian Abbott’s (Fiction, S’04) popular (almost 16K followers) Instagram blog into a column. The blog explores migration, memory, and what the Welsh call Hiraeth, which means “homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was; the …
ANNOUNCEMENTS Poetic Voices for Social Justice Join us at SPACE Gallery on Thursday, July 12th, where Stonecoast MFA faculty member Martín Espada---recent winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Pulitzer Prize finalist, American Book Award winner and National Book Critics Circle nominee---will give a public reading alongside Lauren Marie Schmidt, author of three collections of poetry including Psalms of …
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