ALUMS Peter Adrian Behravesh (Popular Fiction, W'18) narrated Y. M. Pang's story "Subtle Ways Each Time" for the September 20 episode of Escape Pod. You can listen to it here. Shawna Borman (Popular Fiction, W'15) is pleased to announce that her short story "Lying Eyes" has been chosen to appear in Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers, …
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Community News & Updates June 2018
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 …
Community News & Updates June 2017
UPCOMING READINGS Lissa Kiernan (Poetry, S’11), founding director, Poetry Barn, is pleased to announce a reading of Stonecoast faculty and alumni Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Cait Johnson, and Elizabeth Searle, on August 18th at the Woodstock Public Library, Woodstock, NY. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Andrea Lani (Fiction, W’14), co-editor of the Literary Reflections department at Literary Mama, seeks essays by …
Community News & Updates May 2017
STONECOAST REUNION 2017 Please mark your calendars for the Stonecoast reunion, July 14-17 in Brunswick, Maine! The planning committee has been hard at work, and we're excited to announce the schedule of events. We'd like to thank all of you who submitted proposals for readings and seminars! We are proud to feature readings by Julia Munemo, Tony Pisculli, …
Community News & Updates October 2016
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 …
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 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 October 2015
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 …
Community News & Updates June 2015
ALUMNI Karen Bovenmyer's (Popular Fiction, S'13) drabble about an unfortunate house cat entitled "What Dolls Eat" will appear in The Were-Traveler in late May/early June. She is most pleased the editor called it "damn creepy" in her acceptance letter. Jennifer Marie Brissett (Popular Fiction, S'11) published a short story "A Song For You" on Motherboard themed from the Donny Hathaway …
Community News & Updates March 2015
ALUMNI Karen Bovenmyer (Popular Fiction, S'13) is pleased to announce her story "The Scarlet Cloak" will be reprinted in Life After Ashes, an anthology published by Alliteration Ink to benefit a military family who lost everything in a fire. Jennifer Marie Brissett (Popular Fiction, S '11) will be on panel at the Astro Blackness 2 Conference, Loyola Marymount University, …
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