ANNOUNCEMENTS STONECOAST ALUMNI ENRICHMENT SERIES The Stonecoast Enrichment Series has the schedule up for the next four sessions. Sign up for these monthly seminars here. The Habits of Writers --- December 9th at 7:00 p.m. EST --- A conversation with Elisabeth Tova Bailey (Creative Nonfiction, S’15) on the real lives of writers: rituals, resistance, joy, and the habits that help …
CURRENT STUDENTS Kim Autrey’s (Popular Fiction) short story "Parfum," written under her pen name of Kim Castle, has been accepted by The Yard: Crime blog and will appear this month. ALUMS Elisabeth Tova Bailey’s (Creative Nonfiction, S’15) natural history memoir The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating is having a delightful time frolicking with other animal …
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 …
ANNOUNCEMENTS AVALON ACRES FARM WRITER'S RETREAT Are you looking for a writer's getaway? Some time "off grid" to polish up that last draft? Maybe you need some "distraction-free" time to finally start that new project... Look no further! The Sweet Suite is ready! During the months of May and June, our solo retreat tiny home …
ALUMS A film Jillian Abbott (Popular Fiction, S’04) worked on, Cost of Living, about the impact of gentrification on the lives of ordinary families in New York City, is premiering at The Flushing Town Hall next week. Jillian is excited; it’s her first formal film credit outside pf screenwriting. Frank Ard (Popular Fiction, S’14) is …
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 …
ANNOUNCEMENTS A CELEBRATION OF NATIVE WRITERS October 4, 2022, 7:00 p.m.-8:15 p.m. Join the Maine literary community for a night of conversation and readings by three critically acclaimed Native writers working in different genres and coming from different nations. Stonecoast Fiction faculty and Winter '19 alum Morgan Talty (Night of the Living Rez), Terese Marie Mailhot (Heart Berries), …
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, …
ALUMS The short film The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating adapted by Elisabeth Tova Bailey (Creative Nonfiction, S’15) from her memoir of the same title, screens this fall at the Princeton Environmental Film Festival. The film can be viewed from October 12-24th at this link. In the upcoming weeks, the film is also part of the Discover …
CURRENT STUDENTS Darcie Abbene’s (Fiction) flash fiction “Burn” was published in Capsule Stories Autumn 2020: Burning Up. The story was inspired by the Hayman Fire, Colorado’s largest wildfire. Natalie Harris-Spencer's (Fiction) short story “Fish Out of Water” will be published this month in the fourth annual Issue of Oyster River Pages, under their Emerging Fiction Voices category. In addition, Natalie's ghost story, "Open …
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