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MFAW-VT Alumna Lizz Schumer at The Rumpus

MFAW-VT alumn Lizz Schumer has just been offered a full-time job as staff writer at the Hearst Lifestyle group, writing for Good Housekeeping, Redbook Magazine, and Woman’s Day Magazine‘s print editions. And, at the beginning of August, Lizz;s personal essay “The Ravine” is featured in The Rumpus’s series: Enough*

Dear John McCain,

I think of your tap code late at night when I am lonely. You broken and spent in the Hanoi Hilton tapping out “Are you okay?” to the guy on the other side of the wall.

Caleb Pitkin Continues Family Legacy at Goddard

Dustin Byerly (BA RUP ’01) had the honor of sitting down with Caleb Pitkin (BA ’80), grandson of Founding President Tim Pitkin, at his home to discuss the long history of the Pitkin family and his own experience at Goddard College. DB: How did you find Goddard? CP: My family has been involved with Goddard… Continue reading Caleb Pitkin Continues Family Legacy at Goddard

MFAW-WA Nita Sweeney is Short-Listed!

MFAW alumna Nita Sweeney’s unpublished memoir, Twenty-Six Point Freaking Two: How a Sedentary, Middle-Aged Manic Depressive Became a Marathoner (with the help of her dog), was short-listed for the 2018 William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition nonfiction category. Read Nita’s blog, to see more about the news created by her unpublished memoir and advice for… Continue reading MFAW-WA Nita Sweeney is Short-Listed!

MFAW-VT Faculty Member Jan Clausen’s Criticism Published

MFAW-VT faculty member Jan Clausen’s review of new poetry and hybrid works appears in the July/August issue of the Women’s Review of Books. She addresses Ada Limón’s poetry collection The Carrying and Amy Fusselman’s lyric essay Idiophone.

MFAW-VT Alumna Gina Leigh Helms TV Show!

MFAW-VT alumna Gina Leigh has just launched the pilot episode of Circus Town Circus Town is an original, all-puppet children’s television show that explains physics through the fun of circus stories. Meet Sally Spangles, her best friend Girard the Giraffe, and a singing flea circus! Circus Town had its beginnings in Gina’s Goddard thesis. Gina traveled… Continue reading MFAW-VT Alumna Gina Leigh Helms TV Show!

MFAW-VT Alumna Claudette Webster Poems in Black Renaissance Noire

MFAW-VT alumna Claudette Webster has three poems just published in Black Renaissance Noire (Vol 18, Issue 2, Summer 2018). This journal is put out by NYU Institute of African-American Affairs. You may purchase a copy via: https://www.nyubrn.org Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire publishes essays, poetry, fiction, photography, art, and reviews that address the full range of contemporary BLACK concerns. It… Continue reading MFAW-VT Alumna Claudette Webster Poems in Black Renaissance Noire

MFAW Director, Elena Georgiou Interview in Bustle Magazine

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

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.

The Goddard College Fire Department

In the Winter 2018 Clockworks, we wrote about the Goddard College Fire Department and invited alumni to share their stories. John Chater responded with this write-up and update. Goddard’s “work jobs” helped keep costs down at the College while giving hands-on experience to the student. Upon arrival at Goddard in fall 1958, I was assigned… Continue reading The Goddard College Fire Department

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