ANNOUNCEMENTS STONECOAST ALUMNI SEMINAR SERIES BEGINS! Conventional Creativity: Tropes as a Generative Tool Tuesday, August 12, 2025 7:00-8:30 p.m. ET / 4:00-5:30 p.m. PT Led by Beth Anderson (Popular Fiction, Summer '23) Sign Up Here Is it possible to incorporate tropes into your work without cheating the writing process, your imagination, or your readers? Absolutely. …
ALUMS Peter Adrian Behravesh (Popular Fiction, W'18) narrated Sonia Sulaiman's story "Handala. The Olive, The Storm, and the Sea" for the November 12 episode of PodCastle, as part of their Palestinian Voices series. You can listen to it here. What do writers do when they're not writing? Emma Bouthillette (Creative Nonfiction, S’12) answered that question for The Masters Review's monthly …
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 …
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, …
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