ATTENTION: ALUMNI The 2017 Stonecoast Alumni Reunion Committee wants to hear from you! Led by co-chairs Penny Guisinger (Creative Nonfiction, S’13), Frank Ard (Popular Fiction, S'14), Peter Maskaluk (Fiction, '13), Elli Meeropol (Fiction, W’06), and Mihku Anderson (Fiction, S’10), Stonecoast is excited to celebrate 15 years in the literary community. Please fill out this brief survey with your …
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Community News & Updates September 2016
ALUMS The paperback edition of Elisabeth Tova Bailey’s (Creative Nonfiction, S‘15) book, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, launches September 6th. Karen Bovenmyer (Popular Fiction, S’13) has been selected as the 2016 recipient of the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Scholarship ($2500 professional development funds) by the Horror Writers Association. She owes her Stonecoast mentors and classmates so very much …
Community News & Updates July 2016
ALUMS Eric M. Bosarge (Popular Fiction, W'12) is thrilled to announce the release of his novel, The Time Train. He is doing a book signing at Longfellow Books in Portland, Maine, on July 12th at 7:00 p.m. Karen Bovenmyer (Popular Fiction, S'13) is pleased to announce a new issue of Escape Artist's Mothership Zeta Magazine (#4) will publish in July …
Community News & Updates June 2016
ALUMS Patricia Barletta (Popular Fiction, W'12) is thrilled to announce that her paranormal historical romance, Moon Dark, Book One of The Auriano Curse series, won the Colorado Romance Writers' Award of Excellence. The book, originally available only as an ebook, is now also available as a trade paperback. Sheila Boneham (Creative Nonfiction/Cross Genre, S’13) is …
Community News & Updates April 2016
Note from Jenny O'Connell, Community Outreach Coordinator for Stonecoast MFA In 2017, Stonecoast MFA turns fifteen! We would like to invite you to come celebrate with us at an alumni reunion weekend during one of the 2017 residencies. I'll be working closely with Robin to make sure the alumni weekend is framed around YOU. Please take …
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 December 2015
ALUMS Patricia Barletta (Popular Fiction, W '12) is excited to announce that her paranormal historical romance, Moon Dark, Book One of The Auriano Curse series, will be released on December 8, 2015, by Lachesis Publishing. This was her graduation thesis, so she is grateful to any Stonecoasters who laid eyes on it and helped get it …
Community News & Updates November 2015
ALUMS Eric M. Bosarge's (Popular Fiction, W'12) short story "The Last Laugh" will appear in the November issue of Strangelet Journal. Karen Bovenmyer (Popular Fiction, S'13) is excited to share her very first professional narration—“The Wives of Azhar” by Roshani Chokshi—which she recorded for Strange Horizons Magazine. Also, the first issue of Mothership Zeta Magazine, featuring Stonecoast alums Bonnie …
Community News & Updates August 2015
ANNOUNCEMENT: THREE ALUMNI OPPORTUNITIES TEACHING APPRENTICESHIPS Alums with a special interest in creative writing pedagogy may apply for a teaching apprenticeship. Apprentices will work closely with a workshop leader, contact students with workshop updates, assign readings, and review student reading responses and evaluations. Apprentices must also teach one seminar on teaching/pedagogy and are asked to …
Community News & Updates July 2015
ALUMNI Karen Bovenmyer (Popular Fiction, S'13) could not be more thrilled to have two poems “Cadaver Feet” and “Little Bone Robot Boy” appearing in Meercat Press’s My Cruel Invention poetry anthology. “Cadaver Feet” was written for Bonnie Stufflebeam’s Art & Words show and a wonderful painting of the same name was created by Antonio Lanza to match it---both of which Karen included …
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