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. …
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 IOTA SHORT FORMS BEGINS SUNDAY WRITING SESSIONS Penny Guisinger (Creative Nonfiction, S’13) and Suzanne Strempek Shea (Faculty 2003-2021) are offering free monthly online writing sessions through Iota Short Forms. Led alternately by these two Iota Co-Directors, plus some special guests here and there, the sessions will consist of writing time with or without prompts. You’ll …
ANNOUNCEMENTS As we prepare for the winter 2025 residency (January 10–January 19, 2025), here are just a few of the highlights we are looking forward to. This winter, Stonecoast will once again gather at the Harraseeket Inn in Freeport, Maine, where students and faculty can enjoy the cozy atmosphere and the welcoming tradition of afternoon …
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 STONECOAST SUMMER 2024 RESIDENCY PRESENTATION SUBMISSIONS 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 …
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 Sarah C. Baldwin (Creative Nonfiction, S'15) attended a book party at Salmagundi Club in New York City on January 31 to mark the U.S. publication of The Hard Route Out: One Woman's Escape from North Korea, by Jihyun Park and Seh-lynn Chai, which Sarah translated. Kathy Briccetti (Creative Nonfiction, W'07) is happy to share that her …
ANNOUNCEMENTS STONECOAST Stonecoast wants to help writers find their way to our supportive literary community. That's why we're reaching out to the best ambassadors the program has: You. If you know someone who is interested in applying, now is the time to give them a nudge. September 1st is the priority deadline for new applicants. We're on the lookout for unique voices. …
ANNOUNCEMENTS 2021 Alumni Reading SeriesJoin Stonecoast in celebrating our 2021 alumni authors! We'll be hosting two virtual readings to showcase the work of nine alumni authors who published a book this year. Thursday, December 2nd RSVP: https://forms.gle/TXaExgXhupNGsuhs9 Thursday, December 9th RSVP: https://forms.gle/iKsvihPcM5vFH2ia9 The Stone House Readers' SeriesThe Stone House Readers' Series hosted by Troy Myers …
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