ALUMS Karen Bovenmyer (Popular Fiction, S’13) has 7 pieces of exciting news this month. Her new short story "Snow as White as Skin as White as Snow” has been accepted into fellow alumni Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam’s Art & Words Show---Karen is so very excited to participate in the show again!!!! Also, Karen’s haunted house flash “So Normal and Unwritten” (reprint) is …
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Community News & Updates February 2016
ALUMS Karen Bovenmyer (Popular Fiction, S'13) is ecstatic to announce she has signed a contract with a small press for her 26k word novella “Swift for the Sun” (historical pirate adventure/romance) which will be released under a pseudonym in the first quarter of 2017. It’s the biggest advance and largest royalties percentage she’s ever signed …
Community News & Updates October 2015
ALUMNI Sheila Boneham (Creative Nonfiction/Cross Genre, S’13) is pleased to announce the release of Shepherd's Crook, her fourth Animals in Focus mystery from Midnight Ink. Her essay "A Question of Corvids" will also appear this month in the 2015 Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology edited by Rebecca Skloot, and her poem "Spin" will be appear in 27 Views of …
Community News & Updates February 2015
ALUMNI Eric M. Bosarge (Popular Fiction, W'12) is happy to announce that Medallion Press has acquired his novel The Time Train. It will be released in 2016. Jennifer Marie Brissett's (Popular Fiction S'11) debut novel Elysium has been listed as a Locus New and Notable Book and also has been nominated for the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award. She will be …
Community News & Updates October 2014
STONECOAST IN IRELAND Ted Deppe and Jeanne Marie Beaumont will be the faculty for the Stonecoast in Ireland residency in beautiful Dingle, County Kerry, next summer. The residency will take place from 8 July to 15 July 2015. An invitation to apply will be sent out to all students on 1 November 2014 and applications will be accepted …
Community News & Updates June 2014
ALUMNI NEWS Sheila Boneham (Creative Nonfiction / Cross Genre, S'13) has signed a contract for two more novels in her Animals in Focus series from Midnight Ink. The first book, Drop Dead on Recall (2012), was named Best Fiction Book of the year by the Dog Writers Association of America. Book two, The Money Bird, …
Community News & Updates January 2014
ALUMNI The Young Adult novel Being Henry David by Cal Armistead (Fiction, W'07) has been listed among the "Best Young Adult Novels of 2013" by Kirkus Reviews, Mashable, and Buzzfeed. Michael Beeman (Fiction, S'09) was thrilled to receive the Sewanee Review's 2013 Andrew Nelston Lytle Fiction Prize for his story "The Sleeping Santas" (written in his …
Community News & Updates May 2013
STONECOAST READINGS On May 13, Elizabeth Searle will host a reading at Newtonville Books in Newton, MA, celebrating ten years of Stonecoast MFA and featuring readings by Stonecoast alumni Eugenio Volpe, Cal Armistead, Mihku Paul, and Richard Cambridge. ALUMNI Michael Beeman's (Fiction, S'09) short story "The Sleeping Saints" was published in the Winter 2013 issue …
Publication Announcement: Pop Fic Review
Title: Pop Fic Review Editors: Hanna Strom-Martin W'09 & Erin Underwood S'09 Publisher: Underwords (December 2001) Stonecoast Contributors: Karen Bovenmyer, Elsa Colón, Libby Cudmore, Jessica de Koninck, Julia Gay, Nancy Holder, Jeff Kass, James Patrick Kelly, Michael Kimball, Paul Kirsch, A. J. Luxton, Julie L. Martin, Matthew Quinn Martin, J. M. McDermott, Sandra McDonald, Ellen …
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