Category: News Flash

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

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”

MFAW-WA Faculty Member Keenan Norris’s Article on Micheline Aharonian Marcom

MFAW-WA faculty member Keenan Norris has interviewed another MFAW-WA faculty member Micheline Aharonian Marcom about her work as Creative Director of the New American Story Project (NASP).  The NASP is a collaboration of artists presenting oral histories and stories of immigrants and refugees in order to bear witness, raise awareness, and provoke transformative conversation. Here’s the… Continue reading MFAW-WA Faculty Member Keenan Norris’s Article on Micheline Aharonian Marcom

MFAW-VT Student Steven Dunn’s New Book “Water & Power”

MFAW-WA student Steven Dunn’s new book water & power is ready for pre-order at Tarpaulin Sky Press.  See description and blurb below.  This is one for the hybrid lovers.  Navy veteran Steven Dunn’s second novel, water & power, plunges into military culture and engages with perceptions of heroism and terrorism. In this shifting landscape, deployments are feared, absurd bureaucracy… Continue reading MFAW-VT Student Steven Dunn’s New Book “Water & Power”

MFAW-VT Faculty Kenny Fries Posts a Piece on Disability and Diversity Online at MEDIUM

MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries has published a response to Lionel Shriver’s recent attack on Penguin/Random House UK’s push for diversity online at Medium.  The piece is called “The Exclusivity of Inclusion: On Disability and Diversity”   In the article he quotes fellow faculty member Reiko Rizzuto.  Fries’ article is a response to Lionel Shriver’s screed… Continue reading MFAW-VT Faculty Kenny Fries Posts a Piece on Disability and Diversity Online at MEDIUM

MFAW-VT Faculty Member Reiko Rizzuto Pens Article for SALON Online

MFAW-VT faculty member ​Rahna Reiko Rizzuto’s article on the Supreme Court decision travel ban, which is expected this month, and Hawaii’s history in resisting the US government’s racist exclusionary policies during World War II has been published on Salon.  Here’s a sneak peek including headline: Hawaii’s fight against Trump’s Muslim travel ban has long roots… Continue reading MFAW-VT Faculty Member Reiko Rizzuto Pens Article for SALON Online

Electric Literature Posts Essay by MFAW Faculty Member Reiko Rizzuto

MFAW-VT faculty member ​Rahna Reiko Rizzuto’s essay on the shape of trauma in our writing is featured on Electric Literature from the essay: “I started writing my second novel in the aftermath of violence. In a more-common-than-you-think incident — one that is often used for titillation or as the opening scene of some revenge movie involving… Continue reading Electric Literature Posts Essay by MFAW Faculty Member Reiko Rizzuto

Julia Bouwsma Wins Maine Literary Award in Poetry

MFAW-VT alum and former Visiting Alumni Writer Julia Bouwsma’s Work by Bloodlight won the Maine Literary Award for poetry.  Work by Bloodlight, which began as Julia’s MFA creative thesis, was chosen by Linda Pastan for the Cider Press Review Prize and published by Cider Press Review.  And, if that weren’t enough excitement, Midden, Julia’s second  book of poems, was… Continue reading Julia Bouwsma Wins Maine Literary Award in Poetry

Victoria Nelson’s Best Reviewed Book of the Week

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

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!

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.

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!!

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 Faculty Member Rahna Reiko Rizzuto’s Book Launch!!

Rahna Reiko Rizzuto’s novel Shadow Child will be published on May 8th, and her book launch is May 10th in Brooklyn.  All are invited!  There will be light refreshments, celebration, and a special bonus: a chance to meet Hannah Tinti, bestselling author of The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley and founder of One Story magazine, who will be in conversation… Continue reading MFAW Faculty Member Rahna Reiko Rizzuto’s Book Launch!!