ANNOUNCEMENTS SUBMISSIONS OPEN: The Learned Pig Melanie Viets (Creative Nonfiction, W’17) is currently a guest editor at the UK magazine The Learned Pig. Her “Root Mapping” section is an exploration of mapping place instead of space. What is sparked when today’s mapping is guided by a desire for connection and beauty instead of domination, when maps are …
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Community News & Updates September 2019
FACULTY The podcast of Tom Coash’s (Playwriting, Dramatic Arts) play Raghead has been added to the American Playbook Series. Raghead will also be produced in September at the Short & Sweet Festival in Auckland, New Zealand, and the Write About Now Festival in London, UK. John Florio (Creative Nonfiction, Popular Fiction, Writing for Social Change) …
Community News & Updates January 2019
ANNOUNCEMENTS The Task Before Us: Writing Truth to Power Stonecoast MFA invites you to join Pulitzer Prize finalist Martín Espada (Poetry, Writing for Social Change) and award-winning writer Cheryl Clarke for an interactive discussion interrogating the intersection of creative writing and participatory democracy. Join us at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, January 18th, at the Harraseeket Inn in Freeport, …
Community News & Updates November 2018
ALUMS Edible Queens, one of 85 "Edible" magazines across the US and Canada, has made Jillian Abbott’s (Fiction, S’04) popular (almost 16K followers) Instagram blog into a column. The blog explores migration, memory, and what the Welsh call Hiraeth, which means “homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was; the …
Community News & Updates May 2018
ANNOUNCEMENTS Thank you to all who supported the One Month, One Voice campaign to benefit Stonecoast's new Writing for Social Justice Scholarship. Together, we raised over $20,000! If you missed the campaign but would still like to be part of the movement, you can email stonecoastcommunity@maine.edu for information on donating or hosting an event. Thank you for being part …
Community News & Updates January 2018
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 …
Community News & Updates May 2014
ALUMNI NEWS Karen Bovenmyer's (Popular Fiction, S'13) poem "NeverNever Holes" was published April 10 on ZingaraPoet. Bunny Goodjohn (Poetry, W'07) has creative nonfiction in the latest issue of Pithead Chapel. She has also wrangled a place on the Jessie duPont three-week summer-seminar series entitled "Constructing Childhood: Words and Pictures." Sandra McDonald (Popular Fiction, W'05) sold …
Community News & Updates April 2013
ALUMNI NEWS Sarah Slagle Arnold's (Creative Nonfiction, S'05) memoir, Faith and Madness: A Spiritual and Psychological Journey, was published August 1, 2012, by Wipf & Stock's Cascade Books imprint. The story of growing up with a manic-depressive father and Sarah's own major depression at age 19 takes place in the Depression years of the 30s …
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 September 2012
ALUMNI NEWS Cal Armistead (Fiction, W'07) has published her first young adult novel, Being Henry David (Albert Whitman & Co.), which will be released March 1, 2013. Visit her at http://www.calarmistead.com. Jeanette Lynes' (Popular Fiction, '05) sixth book of poetry, Archive of the Undressed, is forthcoming from Wolsak and Wynn in September 2012. The poems explore pin-up, Playboy, …
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