ALUMNI NEWS Katie Bickham's (Poetry, S'13) first book of poems, The Belle Mar, won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Competition and will be coming out in April 2015 through Pleiades and LSU Press. The prize also includes $2000. Sheila Boneham (Creative Nonfiction/Cross Genre, S'13) was writing on trains before it was cool and had two related …
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Community News & Updates March 2014
ALUMNI The young adult novel Being Henry David by Cal Armistead (Fiction, W'07) has been chosen as one of the books for the annual "Illinois Reads" program. Under the auspices of the Illinois Reading Council, this project was created to promote reading for all Illinois citizens, from birth to adult. Thirty-six titles were chosen (Being …
Community News & Updates December 2013
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 …
Community News & Updates November 2013
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: …
Community News & Updates October 2013
ALUMNI Sheila Boneham (Creative Nonfiction/Cross Genre, S'13) has had a busy September. During the first two weeks, she was the spotlighted author on DogRead, an online book discussion group with some 7,000 followers, in conjunction with the launch of her new novel, The Money Bird. On September 25th, she read from the book and spoke …
Community News & Updates September 2013
ALUMNI Michael Beeman (Fiction, S'09) was excited to see his piece "Advice to Fictional Characters on the Occasion of My 31st Birthday" appear on Thought Catalog recently. Sheila Boneham (Creative Nonfiction/Cross Genre, S'13) is thrilled to announce the release of her second mystery, The Money Bird (Midnight Ink). The first book in this series, Drop …
Community News & Updates August 2013
Congratulations to the Stonecoast Summer 2013 graduates: Katie Bickham, Sheila Boneham, Karen Bovenmyer, Katie Crumpton, Heather Ann Cyr, Kerri Dieffenwierth, Katrina Ellyson, Kelli Faherty, Edward Ferrara, Karla Michelle Fossett, Yvonne (Rooze) Garcia, Alexandria Giardino, Terri Glass, Penny Guisinger, Andrew Heckler, Sarah Steinberg Heller, Michael L. Joy, Thomas Morrissey, Casey Moynihan, Meaghan Reynolds, Katherine Sargent, Chuck Smithson, …
Community News & Updates May 2013
STONECOAST READINGS On May 13, Elizabeth Searle will host a reading at Newtonville Books in Newton, MA, celebrating ten years of Stonecoast MFA and featuring readings by Stonecoast alumni Eugenio Volpe, Cal Armistead, Mihku Paul, and Richard Cambridge. ALUMNI Michael Beeman's (Fiction, S'09) short story "The Sleeping Saints" was published in the Winter 2013 issue …
Community News & Updates March 2013
ALUMNI NEWS Cal Armistead's (Fiction, W'07) debut young adult novel, Being Henry David, was released three weeks ahead of its March 1 release date by Albert Whitman Teen. It has received favorable reviews, including a starred review in Kirkus Reviews, and has already sold out is first printing! Luckily, a second printing is underway. Kathy …
Community News & Updates January 2013
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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