MFAW-WA faculty member Victoria Nelson’s New York Review Books edition of Robert Aickman’s story collection, Compulsory Games, with reviews in the New Yorker, Washington Post, and elsewhere, made the Lit Hub/Bookmarks “Best Reviewed Books of the Week” list. Robert Aickman (1914–1981) wrote eight collections of self-described “strange stories,” as well as the novel The Late Breakfasters and the posthumously published novella The Model.… Continue reading Victoria Nelson’s Best Reviewed Book of the Week
Author: MFA Writing
A Farewell to Rebecca Brown–From Rebecca Brown
After almost twenty years of teaching in the MFA in Creative Writing program at Goddard, I am going to retire. When I first started working at Goddard, there was one campus only, in Vermont. I went to Plainfield, where I’d never been, and started to work with a bunch of people I’d never met before. … Continue reading A Farewell to Rebecca Brown–From Rebecca Brown
MFAW-WA Faculty Member Bhanu Kapil to Spend Early Summer at ART BASEL!
MFAW-WA faculty member Bhanu Kapil’s work–Ban/blog/banners–is to be featured in Art Basel. Constituting the final in a series of five exhibitions organized by New York-based curator Harry Burke for The Printed Room since 2015, each of which survey different pressures put upon the conventions of print and literature following the digitization of everyday life, Bhanu Kapil:… Continue reading MFAW-WA Faculty Member Bhanu Kapil to Spend Early Summer at ART BASEL!
Wanderer in the Dark (an excerpt)
Wanderer was one of the last documented ships to carry an illegal cargo of slaves from Africa to the United States, landing at Jekyll Island, Georgia on November 28, 1858, arriving with some 400 slaves who survived the voyage from Angola.
Listen in on Kenny Fries’ interview on Ethereal
MFAW-VT Faculty member Kenny Fries stopped by Ethereal to talk about hi new book In The Province of the Gods, among many other things. The podcast is here.
MFAW-VT Faculty Member Douglas A. Martin Interview
The Creative Independent, “a growing resource of emotional and practical guidance for creative people,” featured MFAW-VT faculty member Douglas A. Martin in their Sunday Edition Interview. Here is a taste: “My book began its life as a dissertation. My approach was something like “I’m only going to write a dissertation in a particular way. It is not going… Continue reading MFAW-VT Faculty Member Douglas A. Martin Interview
Maine Book Award Finalist Julia Bouswma!
MFAW-VT alumna Julia Bouswma’s first book of poems, Work by Bloodlight is a finalist for a Maine Book Award. The winners of the 2018 Maine Literary Awards will be revealed live at a ceremony at SPACE Gallery in downtown Portland. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and the ceremony begins at 7:00 p.m. There will be hors d’oeuvres, a… Continue reading Maine Book Award Finalist Julia Bouswma!
MFAW-VT Alumna Lizz Schumer in Ploughshares!
MFAW-VT alumna Lizz Schumer’s essay, “Communion in Disability Poetics” appears in the latest issue of Ploughshares. Here’s a glimpse: “Many disabled poets also ascribe to the social model of disability, which emphasizes that disability is not an inherent “defect,” but is instead a reckoning with a set of barriers—both physical and behavioral—that have been erected… Continue reading MFAW-VT Alumna Lizz Schumer in Ploughshares!
MFAW-VT Student Sassafras Lowrey Essay Published in Catapult
MFAW-VT student Sassafras Lowrey’s personal essay “Lost Cause: On Estrangement and Chosen Family” is the featured story in Catapult’s literary journal. “Staying in contact with biological family no matter what they’ve done is a message beaten into us from every side.”
Goddard/PEN North American Scholarship 2018 Winner
Goddard College is pleased to congratulate Steven Dunn, recipient of the 2018 Goddard/PEN North American Scholarship, and second-place awardee Maša Sukovic. Ten additional scholarship candidates will receive Engaged Artist Awards of $2,000 each: PEN America members Amy Barnes, Lisa Chambers, Will Duprey, Ron Estrada, Brian Jackson, Jo Manu Maltzman, Sarah Monahan, Jay Sheets, and Rachel Spalding; and PEN Canada member Magdalen Bowyer.
MFAW Faculty Member Richard Panek Moderates at the World Science Festival in June
MFAW-VT faculty member Richard Panek will be moderating the Science and Story Cafe at this year’s World Science Festival. The Cafe, a daylong series of discussions with the authors of eight new books, will run from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 2, at New York University’s Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South. The programs are free and… Continue reading MFAW Faculty Member Richard Panek Moderates at the World Science Festival in June
The Thriller in the Shadows
After almost twenty years in the making, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto reflects on the many influences and the long process of bring a novel into the world. On Friday, this essay appeared on Lit Hub’s Crime Reads. “My novel was sparked by a true crime, but it refused to become a thriller. Nearly two decades ago, a friend of mine was raped…”
MFAW Alum Justin Hall Interview at Lambda Literary!
MFAW Alum Justin Hall has an interview online at Lambda Literary. In 2006, Justin curated the art exhibition “No Straight Lines: Queer Culture in Comics” with Andrew Farago of the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. This led to the 2012 book No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, a hardcover overview of LGBTQ comics history published by Fantagraphics, which… Continue reading MFAW Alum Justin Hall Interview at Lambda Literary!
Graduating MFAW Student Ian August Wins the Garry Marshall Theatre’s New Works Festival Prize!!
MFAW-VT Student–but just days away from turning into an alum–Ian August’s play INTERVIEWESE, is a winner of the Garry Marshall Theatre’s New Works Festival and will be getting a public reading on May 30th, directed by Carolyn Hennesy (General Hospital, Cougar Town). Ian will be going to L.A. for this one, so if any Goddard folks are in Los… Continue reading Graduating MFAW Student Ian August Wins the Garry Marshall Theatre’s New Works Festival Prize!!
Deadlines
One of the many reasons I envy Goddard students is that they have deadlines.
Creative Writing Faculty Anthology, “Alchemy of the Word” News from Kenny Fries
We’re pleased to announce that Los Angeles Review of Books has posted a selection by Kenny Fries from the new edition of our Goddard MFA in Creative Writing faculty anthology, Alchemy of the Word. The book is available from the publisher website, GenPop Books or from Amazon. This is how it begins: “In the summer of… Continue reading Creative Writing Faculty Anthology, “Alchemy of the Word” News from Kenny Fries
MFAW-WA Faculty Member Bea Gates Goes Local
MFAW-WA faculty member Beatrix Gates has two poems, “Chaco Canyon” and “My mother lately,” in the current issue of her local paper, The Weekly Packet, published by Penobscot Bay Press for the Blue Hill Peninsula.
MFAW-VT Student Emma Meistrich Publication News!
MFAW-VT student Emma Meistrich has work published in Blue Agave Literary Journal
“P.O.E.” by MFAW-WA Graduate Jonathan Clarke Has Been Published!
Recent MFAW-WA graduate Jonathan Clarke has just published his MFAW thesis P.O.E.— available at Amazon.
MFAW-VT Alum Anne Boaden Publication News
Recent MFAW-VT Alum Anne Boaden’s essay, “Order Up” (a series of seven mini-essays) has been published by NELLE (Issue #1, 2018), the literary journal of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The issue is not yet on their website, but it will be shortly and their Facebook page has more information. Additionally, Anne will be featured… Continue reading MFAW-VT Alum Anne Boaden Publication News