Community News & Updates April 2025

CURRENT STUDENTS Kim Autrey’s (Popular Fiction) short story "Parfum," written under her pen name of Kim Castle, has been accepted by The Yard: Crime blog and will appear this month.   ALUMS  Elisabeth Tova Bailey’s (Creative Nonfiction, S’15) natural history memoir The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating is having a delightful time frolicking with other animal …

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Community News & Updates November 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS MESA VERDE WRITERS CONFERENCEMesa Verde Writers Conference is getting ready for its third year. They hope to add a one-day literary festival featuring up to 30 writers offering pop-up workshops and readings. Anyone interested can contact Lisa C. Taylor (Poetry, S’04). They are still looking for next year's poet so please send Lisa an …

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Community News & Updates February 2024

ANNOUNCEMENTS We are thrilled to announce that Stonecoast is now accepting presentation submissions for the Summer 2024 residency. If you are interested in teaching a 60-minute presentation from 8:15 am to 9:15 am, please provide a detailed description of your class or panel to Robin Talbot (robin.talbot@maine.edu) no later than Monday, February 26, 2024. Your presentation or …

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Community News & Updates April 2023

ANNOUNCEMENTS The Stonecoast MFA Alumni Reading Series The Stonecoast MFA Alumni Reading Series is back for a fourth year! The 2023 series will feature two virtual readings---one in May, and one in early December. Stonecoast invites any alumni authors who have a book coming out in 2023 to read. We are excited to celebrate you and your work! REGISTER HERE The Stonecoast Writers' Conference We are …

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Community News & Updates March 2023

ALUMS  Sarah C. Baldwin (Creative Nonfiction, S'15) attended a book party at Salmagundi Club in New York City on January 31 to mark the U.S. publication of The Hard Route Out: One Woman's Escape from North Korea, by Jihyun Park and Seh-lynn Chai, which Sarah translated. Kathy Briccetti (Creative Nonfiction, W'07) is happy to share that her …

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Community News & Updates November 2022

ANNOUNCEMENTS 2023 AWP MINI-REUNION Our fearless leader, Robin Talbot, and Stonecoast alums Amy Martin (Creative Nonfiction, W’12) and Melody Fuller (Creative Nonfiction, S’12) are exploring the possibility of having a mini-reunion-get-together at the 2023 AWP Conference and Bookfair in Seattle, Washington (March 8-11). Interested alums, faculty, staff, and current students, please contact Amy Martin by November 15, 2022, at punchyoguts@gmail.com, …

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Community News & Updates September 2022

ANNOUNCEMENTS STONECOAST Stonecoast wants to help writers find their way to our supportive literary community. That's why we're reaching out to the best ambassadors the program has: You. If you know someone who is interested in applying, now is the time to give them a nudge. September 1st is the priority deadline for new applicants. We're on the lookout for unique voices. …

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Community News & Updates July 2022

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 …

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Community News & Updates May 2022

ANNOUNCEMENTS From Rick Bass (Creative Nonfiction, Fiction Faculty) Dear Stonecoast-community-working-for-Yaak,(Pardon the inelegance of that phrasing. Any ideas? Poets?)So much for your continued and spirited defense of the Yaak Valley and our proposal for the country’s first Climate Refuge to be located there, dedicated to the storage of carbon in old Forest, ancient forest, and focus …

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Community News & Updates December 2021

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 …

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