ANNOUNCEMENTS STONECOAST’S OWN LITERARY MAGAZINE, THE STONECOAST REVIEW, SEEKS ALUMNI CONTRIBUTORS AND READERS Consider submitting your work, previously published or new, to Stonecoast Review. We accept and will reprint previously published pieces from Stonecoast alumni only. Here’s a chance to broaden your audience and increase your work’s visibility. Submissions open July 22 on Submittable or …
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 …
ANNOUNCEMENTS This year, Stonecoast is thrilled to be launching two bi-monthly series: The Stonecoast WISE Series, which kicked off at the January residency with "The Rhetoric of Rage"---a Task Before Us event where Stonecoast faculty, alumni, and guests discussed the use of rage in writing to fight oppression---continues this March with a reading from January's Stonecoast Alumni Scriptwriting Workshop. Featuring alumni Stacie …
FACULTY Cara Hoffman's (Fiction, Popular Fiction) reporting on the uprising in Exarchia, “Dream of No Nation,” was recently published in The Daily Beast. Her long prose poem “Retouch/Switch,” part of Garth Greenwell's KINK anthology, was recently translated and published in the polish magazine Femme. Her short story “DeChellis” will be published in the forthcoming issue of Bennington Review. Cara's …
ANNOUNCEMENTS STONECOAST MFA VIRTUAL WRITING SERIES In an effort to connect our community and continue learning together from afar, Stonecoast is launching a monthly writing session led by a faculty member or guest instructor! Aaron Hamburger (Fiction, Creative Nonfiction) kicked off our first session in April with a fantastic Mindfulness and Creative Writing class. We …
ANNOUNCEMENTS It’s Boston Poetry Marathon time again! This year’s Boston Poetry Marathon is Friday-Sunday, August 16, 17, and 18, and ...WE HAVE REALLY EXCITING NEWS! *We will be in a NEW LOCATION this year!* We are having this year’s Marathon at The Community Church of Boston at 565 Boylston St in Copley Square. This year’s …
ANNOUNCEMENTS Poetic Voices of Social Justice: A Reading with Martín Espada and Lauren Schmidt Thursday July 12th, 7:00 pm SPACE Gallery, Portland Maine Please join Stonecoast MFA for a reading and discussion with poetry faculty Martín Espada, recent winner of the prestigious Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and award-winning poet Lauren Schmidt. There will be live …
ALUMS Elisabeth Tova Bailey’s (Creative Nonfiction, S’15) essay “Biophilia at my Bedside” was just published in the anthology Nature, Love, Medicine. The anthology, edited by Thomas Lowe Fleischner and published by Torrey House Press, includes essays by twenty-three writers including Robin Wall Kimmerer, Jane Hirschfield, and thich Nhat Hanh. Karen Bovenmyer (Popular Fiction, S’13) is excited …
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 …
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 …
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