As one of the three finalists for the New American Voices Award, given by the Institute for Immigration Research, Elena was interviewed for the following article in Bustle Magazine. From the website, here’s a little bit about the award: “The idea for the award, which is sponsored by the Institute for Immigration Research, arose over a year… Continue reading MFAW Director, Elena Georgiou Interview in Bustle Magazine
Author: MFA Writing
Emails to a Young Writer, or I Am Not Friedrich Nietzsche:
On Writers, Writer’s Block, Generosity, Creativity and Community
MFAW-VT Faculty Member Michael Klein on WGDR Talking Horses, Trash, Trump, Poetry
MFAW-VT faculty member Michael Klein’ interview on WGDR aka Goddard Radio is now available for your listening pleasure.
CLOCKHOUSE Excerpts
We’re all very proud of the current volume of CLOCKHOUSE, and we’re happy to offer a few excerpts here. You’ll find ordering information for Volume Six and past volumes, as well as submission information for 2019’s Volume Seven, below. Excerpts from Volume Six, 2018 from Soma Mei Sheng Frazier’s Tiger by the… Continue reading CLOCKHOUSE Excerpts
MFAW-VT Faculty Member Kenny Fries Advises SVA Students’ Project on Disability
Disable the Stairs. Disable the Stares. Disable the Barriers. This summer MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries advised a great team of Master’s Branding students at SVA. Their thesis project, Disable the Barriers, is now up and running. Disable the Barriers is an unaffiliated global collective that aims to provide tools in support of people… Continue reading MFAW-VT Faculty Member Kenny Fries Advises SVA Students’ Project on Disability
MFAW-VT Faculty Member Kyle Bass Commission
MFAW-VT faculty member Kyle Bass’s play, Possessing Harriet, (commissioned by the Onondaga Historical Society and directed by Thazewell Thompson) will be be performed at Syracuse Stage (at Syracuse University) from Oct 19 to Nov 4. One hundred seventy five years ago, in October of 1839, a beautiful 23-year-old African American woman named Harriet Powell came to Syracuse… Continue reading MFAW-VT Faculty Member Kyle Bass Commission
MFAW-VT Student Sassafras Lowrey Wins Again!
MFAW-VT student Sassafras Lowrey’s anthology Leather Ever After, a collection of kinky fairy tales that first released in 2013 and was a Honorable Mention for the National Leather Association–International Writing Awards and the Rainbow Book Awards, is available for preorder. The anthology is being re-published this month in a second edition from Circlet Press. Pre-orders of the ebook are… Continue reading MFAW-VT Student Sassafras Lowrey Wins Again!
MFAW-WA Alumna Sarah Cannon’s Thesis Published!
MFAW-WA alumna Sarah Cannon’s Goddard thesis, turned debut memoir, The Shame of Losing (Red Hen Press), will be available October 2, 2018 in most independent bookstores in the Northwest. If you are a strong supporter, it would be helpful to ask your local bookstore and library to carry this title. If you’re thinking of buying a copy, the presale period… Continue reading MFAW-WA Alumna Sarah Cannon’s Thesis Published!
Why This Blog Is Late
I just started rehearsals for a ten-day workshop a relatively new play of mine: BORN IN EAST BERLIN. The workshop is at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto. I decided to blog the first day.
CLOCKHOUSE’s New Editorial Director
As those of you who are either on the staff of CLOCKHOUSE or were a participant in the 2018 Clockhouse Writer’s Conference & Retreat already know, Sarah Cedeño–Editorial Director of Clockhouse from Volume Four through Volume Six–has stepped down in order to spend more time on her own writing. She leaves with the heartfelt gratitude of… Continue reading CLOCKHOUSE’s New Editorial Director
MFAW-WA Student Jo Manu’s Essay Taken for Anthology
MFAW-WA student Jo Manu’s essay “On the Level” has just been accepted for publication in the anthology Queer Voices. The book will be put out by the Minnesota Historical Society Press (pub date TBD). Jo has had a good July, 2018; she also received an Engaged Artist Award of $2,000, sponsored by PEN America, joined by other Goddard… Continue reading MFAW-WA Student Jo Manu’s Essay Taken for Anthology
MFAW-VT Faculty Member Deborah Brevoort Met Museum Commission
MFAW-VT faculty member Deborah Brevoort has been commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, On-Site Opera and American Lyric Theater to write the libretto for an opera about Lady Murasaki, who wrote THE TALE OF GENJI, the world’s first published novel. The opera will be performed in the Astor Pavilion at the Met… Continue reading MFAW-VT Faculty Member Deborah Brevoort Met Museum Commission
Congratulations to the Newest MFAW Alumni
On behalf of the Clockhouse Writers’ Conference Board of Stewards and the alumni community of the Goddard College MFAW program, we want to extend our congratulations and warmest welcome to those who graduated during the recent Port Townsend residency: Pam Dionne Kimi Hardesty Sean Hart Mitch Inclan Tina Ontiveros Erik Rodgers We wish… Continue reading Congratulations to the Newest MFAW Alumni
WGDR Radio Hosts MFAW Vermont students during fall residency
Emma Arlington, Stephen Dunn and Sassafras Lowery (three MFAW-VT students) stopped by Ethereal to discuss the program, writing, the process, the teaching practicum and social responsibility on Goddard radio (WGDR) during our Vermont residency, 2018.
MFAW-VT Faculty Member Kenny Fries and Another Grant!
MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries has received a grant from the Canada Council of the Arts to work on a book of essays on legacy. The working title of the book is Frida Kahlo’s Leg: Personal Essays on Disability, Role Models, and Representation.
The Sugar Balloon
Whenever you bump up against a writing situation that feels impossible, remember the Sugar Balloon, and all the experimentation, tenacity, innovation, determination, and risk that it took to arrive at this floating answer to a once-thought-impossible question.
It’s Here — CLOCKHOUSE Volume Six!
CLOCKHOUSE, the national literary journal published by the Clockhouse Writers’ Conference in partnership with Goddard College, is extremely pleased to announce the publication of Volume Six. Please visit the CLOCKHOUSE website for a glimpse of its contents, to place orders, and to find information about submitting work for next year’s Volume Seven!
MFAW-VT Student Sam Rebelein’s Short Story Publication
MFAW-VT student Sam Rebelein’s short story “What Are We Going to Do to You: An Oral Essay to My Newborn Daughter Through the Window of the Maternity Ward at 3 AM” has been published in Every Day Fiction. A preview: Your mom actually likes her family. I was just thinking about that. It was thee first thing… Continue reading MFAW-VT Student Sam Rebelein’s Short Story Publication
MFAW-WA Alum Cara Lang Reviews Bhanu Kapil’s “Schizophrene” and More
MFAW-WA alumna Cara Lang turned one of her annotations on Bhanu Kapil’s Schizophrene into a review and it’s been published by a Canadian journal carte blanche. Cara has also had two poems appear in the May issue of Chaleur. And finally, Cara is also reviewing books for a quarterly magazine, subTerrain.
MFAW Faculty Member Rogelio Martinez’s Play “Born in East Berlin”
MFAW-VT faculty member Rogelio Martinez’s play, BORN IN EAST BERLIN, will be workshopped this coming summer at Theaterworks in Palo Alto. The play has also just been translated into Romanian. About the Play: In 1988 Bruce Springsteen played a legendary concert in East Germany and 300,000 people showed up. In Born in East Berlin, Martinez explores a great… Continue reading MFAW Faculty Member Rogelio Martinez’s Play “Born in East Berlin”