ANNOUNCEMENTS Stonecoast administrators, alums, faculty, and students will be attending the upcoming Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference & Bookfair in Tampa, FL, which takes place March 7-10, 2018. For more information about the AWP conference, please visit their website, and to view the list of panels, readings, signing, and gatherings that …
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Community News & Updates February 2017
ALUMS Karen Bovenmyer’s (Popular Fiction, S’13) thrilled to announce her first novel, an LGBT romantic pirate adventure set in 1822 Caribbean, Swift for the Sun, now has a cover (by the amazing Anna Sikorska) and a release date: March 27, 2017, from Dreamspinner Press. Karen’s also sold a 300-word prose poem featuring marooned interstellar spies called “Save Our Souls” to Silver …
Community News & Updates December 2016
ATTENTION: Stonecoasters in the New York City area Mark your calendars for January 4th, 2017, when there will be a special Stonecoast Event at the KGB Bar in Manhattan, 85 E. 4th St., from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Featured faculty readers will be Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Elizabeth Searle, and Breena Clarke. We’d love to have five …
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 January 2016
ALUMS Elisabeth Tova Bailey (Creative Nonfiction, S'15) received a 2016 National Endowment of the Arts fellowship. There were 1,763 submissions this year and 37 fellowships awarded. NEA press release can be viewed here. Sheila Boneham (Creative Nonfiction/Cross Genre, S'13) is delighted to share that Catwalk, the third book in her Animals in Focus Mystery series from Midnight Ink, …
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 August 2014
Those in the Stonecoast community who'd like to send a message of support to alum Beth Wilkins Lombardo (Fiction) as she deals with a serious health issue are invited to join the crowd of well-wishers at CaringBridge. Financial donations are being accepted here. ALUMNI Sheila Boneham (Creative Nonfiction / Cross Genre, S’13) has won Prime Number …
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, …
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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