ANNOUNCEMENTS 2023 AWP MINI-REUNION Our fearless leader, Robin Talbot, and Stonecoast alums Amy Martin (Creative Nonfiction, W’12) and Melody Fuller (Creative Nonfiction, S’12) are exploring the possibility of having a mini-reunion-get-together at the 2023 AWP Conference and Bookfair in Seattle, Washington (March 8-11). Interested alums, faculty, staff, and current students, please contact Amy Martin by November 15, 2022, at punchyoguts@gmail.com, …
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Karen Bovenmyer (Popular Fiction, S'13) is proud to announce she's co-editing (with Dagny Paul) Pseudopod's March '18 Artemis Rising and they opened for submissions on September 1st! If you are a woman, non-binary, or female-identified, please submit your best horror stories 2k-6k. $.06 per word, original stories preferred, no multiple, no simultaneous. …
Stonecoast Rocks Manhattan.... Calling all Stonecoasters past and present in the New York City area---please join us on Wednesday, January 4th, 2017, for a special Stonecoast Night at the KGB Bar in Manhattan, 85 E. 4th St. from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. Featured faculty readers will be Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Elizabeth Searle, and Breena Clarke. Joining in with …
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 …
Stonecoast in Ireland Stonecoast in Ireland will host its 20th residency in January 2016. Information and applications are available from Ted Deppe at theodore.deppe@maine.edu. The deadline for applying is 14 May 2015. Alumni Sheila Boneham (Creative Nonfiction/Cross Genre, S’13) is honored to have learned that guest editor Rebecca Skloot has selected Sheila's essay "A Question of …
ALUMNI Erin Lyn Bodin (Fiction S'14) published the title essay of her thesis, "Art of Being Light," in Kindred Magazine's Fall 2014 Issue: Gather. Erin is also thrilled to announce that she's been granted a 2015 A Room of Her Own Foundation Fellowship and will attend the Waves Discussion Series/2015 Retreat: Writing Against the Current. …
ALUMNI NEWS Karen Bovenmyer's (Popular Fiction, S'13) poem "NeverNever Holes" was published April 10 on ZingaraPoet. Bunny Goodjohn (Poetry, W'07) has creative nonfiction in the latest issue of Pithead Chapel. She has also wrangled a place on the Jessie duPont three-week summer-seminar series entitled "Constructing Childhood: Words and Pictures." Sandra McDonald (Popular Fiction, W'05) sold …
ALUMNI Sheila Boneham (Creative Nonfiction/Cross Genre, S'13) answered author Sherman Alexie's challenge to fellow writers to support local bookstores by playing "bookseller for a day." She spent Small Business Saturday (the independent business response to Black Friday) by volunteering at Pomegranate Books in Wilmington, NC. Sheila recommends the experience highly---you don't have to wait until …
The first issue of Stonecoast Review, Stonecoast MFA's new literary publication, has just been released. You can read the issue here or purchase the issue here. About Stonecoast Review: The Stonecoast Review is an online literary journal edited by students in the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing. We are inspired by the Stonecoast program’s goals: …
ALUMNI NEWS Eric M. Bosarge's (Popular Fiction W'12) story "Corentin the Divine" will appear in Buzzy Magazine on January 18th. It can be read online for free here. Jennifer Marie Brissett (Popular Fiction) was interviewed and read a short story on the Hour of the Wolf radio show hosted by Jim Freund on WBAI in New York …
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