Goddard MFA faculty member Susan Kim has been hired as head writer for the third season of Amazon‘s children series, Creative Galaxy. Creative Galaxy follows the adventures of Arty and his sidekick Galaxy as they travel around the galaxy to solve problems using art and creativity. Samantha Bee, Cloris Leachman, Lisa Loeb, and Donovan Patton, have been… Continue reading Goddard MFA Faculty Member Susan Kim Head Writer For Amazon’s Creative Galaxy
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Goddard MFA Alum Alexis M. Smith Wins Lambda Literary Award
Goddard MFA Alum Alexis M. Smith wins a Lambda Literary Award for Marrow Island, a novel published by Houghton Miflin Harcourt. Alexis won in the Bisexual Fiction category. O, the Oprah Magazine, describes Marrow Island‘s story as “A faltering journalist returns to an island abandoned after an earthquake released a toxic spill. That’s the beautifully wrought setting of… Continue reading Goddard MFA Alum Alexis M. Smith Wins Lambda Literary Award
Goddard MFA Alum Kevin Rabas Named Kansas Poet Laureate
Goddard MFA alum Kevin Rabas has been named Kansas Poet Laureate. He will serve in this position for two years. Kevin Rabas teaches at Emporia State University, where he leads the poetry and playwriting tracks and chairs the Department of English, Modern Languages, and Journalism. He has seven books, including Lisa’s Flying Electric Piano, a Kansas… Continue reading Goddard MFA Alum Kevin Rabas Named Kansas Poet Laureate
Goddard MFA Faculty Member Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s Novel to be Filmed
Goddard MFA faculty member Micheline Aharonian Marcom‘s novel Three Apples Fell from Heaven will be adapted by Motorcycle Diaries writer José Rivera and directed by Shekhar Kapur. This will be the first film from Disruptive Narrative, a new social justice storytelling production which launched at Cannes as part of the Refugee Voices in Film day. Marcom says, “A… Continue reading Goddard MFA Faculty Member Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s Novel to be Filmed
Goddard MFA Alumna Julia Bouwsma Wins Poets Out Loud Prize
Goddard MFA alumna Julia Bouwsma‘s Midden, her second book of poems, was selected by Afaa Michael Weaver, for the Poets Out Loud Prize. Midden will be published by Fordham University Press in Fall 2018. In Midden, Bouwsma writes about the forcible eviction of an interracial community that until 1912 live on a small island off the coast… Continue reading Goddard MFA Alumna Julia Bouwsma Wins Poets Out Loud Prize
Goddard MFA Faculty Member Richard Panek wins Polish Wise Award for Popular Science Writing
Goddard MFA faculty member Richard Panek‘s collaboration with Temple Grandin, The Autistic Brain, has received a Wise Award for popular science writing published in Poland in 2016. Originally published in the U.S. by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2013, The Autistic Brain was published by Copernicus Center Press in Poland. The book was described as weaving Grandin’s own… Continue reading Goddard MFA Faculty Member Richard Panek wins Polish Wise Award for Popular Science Writing
Rogelio Martinez, Goddard MFA Faculty Member, Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
Rogelio Martinez, Goddard MFA Faculty Member, received a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship. Rogelio was born in Sancti-Spiritus, Cuba and arrived in the United States on the Mariel boatlift in 1980. As a Guggenheim Fellow, Martinez plans to return to Cuba for the first time since 1980 to research his newest play. Directly affected by the Cold… Continue reading Rogelio Martinez, Goddard MFA Faculty Member, Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
Goodman Theatre To Premiere MFA Faculty Rogelio Martinez’s “Blind Date”
Goddard MFA faculty member Rogelio Martinez‘s new play Blind Date will have its world premiere next season at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Rogelio Martinez’s Blind Date, a compulsively fascinating backstage glimpse of one of the 20th century’s landmark historical events, is infused with sly humor and unexpected wisdom. In an era before Twitter and eHarmony, two of… Continue reading Goodman Theatre To Premiere MFA Faculty Rogelio Martinez’s “Blind Date”
Goddard MFA Faculty Jan Clausen’s “Against Literary Nationalism”
Goddard MFA faculty member Jan Clausen‘s essay “Against Literary Nationalism” has been published in Jacobin Magazine. In the essay, based on thoughts from a post on the Goddard MFA blog The Writer in the World , Clausen writes, “Writers in the U.S. must embrace traditions of radical dissent — not American exceptionalism — if they want to resist… Continue reading Goddard MFA Faculty Jan Clausen’s “Against Literary Nationalism”
Goddard MFA Alumna Cara Hoffman’s New Novel in the New York Times
Goddard MFA alumna Cara Hoffman‘s latest novel, Running, is reviewed in the New York Times Book Review. In the review, Justin Torres writes, “”Hoffman impressively evokes the combination of nihilism, idealism, rootlessness, psychic and economic necessity, lust and love that might set a young person adrift. Unlike the runaway heroes of many queer narratives these characters are… Continue reading Goddard MFA Alumna Cara Hoffman’s New Novel in the New York Times
Goddard MFA student Ni’ja Whitson Named One of “100 Culture Influencers”
MFAW-VT student Ni’Ja Whitson has been named one of Brooklyn magazine’s “100 Culture Influencers.” Ni’ja says, “I’m furiously, fiercely committed to a creative practice that is unabashed and uncompromising, that is a contribution to liberation, that is an unapologetic offering of all of the Black Queer magic I can manifest.” In addition to touring… Continue reading Goddard MFA student Ni’ja Whitson Named One of “100 Culture Influencers”
A Darrah Cloud, MFA Faculty, Premiere
Darrah Cloud, Goddard MFA Faculty member, premieres Prairie Diary on February 14, 2017, at 7pm at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space in NYC. Soprano Allison Charney, cellist Kajsa William-Olsson and pianist Reiko Uchida (aka the Ark Trio) will be presenting Love Resounding, six world premieres of compositions written for them by American composers, including Kim D. Sherman and… Continue reading A Darrah Cloud, MFA Faculty, Premiere
Goddard MFA Faculty Michael Klein’s Poem “Beginners”
Goddard MFA in Creative Writing Program faculty member Michael Klein’s poem “Beginners” was chosen for the Poem-a-Day project of the American Academy of Poets. The poem appeared online yesterday (January 29) and can be read here. Poem-a-Day is the original and only daily digital poetry series featuring over 200 new, previously unpublished poems by today’s talented poets each… Continue reading Goddard MFA Faculty Michael Klein’s Poem “Beginners”
REIKO RIZZUTO on CBC’s “Out in the Open”
MFAW-VT faculty member Rahna Reiko Rizzuto was interviewed for the show Out in the Open with Piya Chattopadhyay on CBC Radio. The episode was called “What Moms Can’t Say.” Hosted by Piya Chattopadhyay, Out in the Open tackles one timely subject each week from many different angles with energy, wit, and journalistic rigor. A diverse range of… Continue reading REIKO RIZZUTO on CBC’s “Out in the Open”
Anne Bean Releases Comics
Anne Bean, Goddard MFAW-WA alumna, has released four short run comics, two of which were scripts from her Goddard thesis, and three of which were funded with a Washington Artist’s Trust GAP Grant. Anne’s four comics are: Wild Beasts / drawn by Laura D. Graves / debuted at Emerald City Comic Con 2016; Shorbat Rumman / drawn… Continue reading Anne Bean Releases Comics
Ni’Ja Whitson’s A Meditation on Tongues
Goddard MFAW student, choreographer Ni’Ja Whitson’s “A Meditation on Tongues” is a live adaptation of “Tongues Untied,” Marlon Riggs’s 1989 documentary about gay black men amid the AIDS crisis. An interdisciplinary piece about black and queer masculinity, this production, at the Abrons Arts Center, is a world premiere. (American Realness, Saturday through Monday)
Richard Panek’s Tribute to Vera Rubin on ScientificAmerican.com
“Vera Rubin Didn’t Discover Dark Matter,” MFAW-VT faculty member Richard Panek‘s tribute to revolutionary American astroner Vera Rubin, is live at ScientificAmerican.com. Rubin (1928-2016) pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates and uncovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion by studying galactic rotation curves. Initially, Rubin’s galaxy rotation problem was met… Continue reading Richard Panek’s Tribute to Vera Rubin on ScientificAmerican.com
The Octavia Project Receives Full Funding for 2017
The Octavia Project, co-founded by MFAW-VT alumna Chana Porter, has received full sponsorship for their 2017 program from Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, of VanderMeer Creative. The sponsorship will enable sixteen Brooklyn girls to have a summer of interdisciplinary creative writing and art workshops, focusing on sparking a love of science and tech while valuing their imagination.… Continue reading The Octavia Project Receives Full Funding for 2017
Rogelio Martinez’s PING PONG published by Broadway Play Publishing
MFAW-VT faculty member Rogelio Martinez’s play Ping Pong has been published by Broadway Play Publishing. Ping Pong, based on true events surrounding the groundbreaking table tennis tournament that marked a new chapter in U.S. – China relations, tells the story of the young man who played the game and the political actors who were playing him. With… Continue reading Rogelio Martinez’s PING PONG published by Broadway Play Publishing
The New American Story Project
Goddard MFA in Creative Writing faculty member Micheline Aharonian Marcom, along with four other artists and writers, for the past year and a half has been working on The New American Story Project, a digital oral history project recording the stories of children who have fled violence in Central America and have come to the United States as refugees. JoAnne Tompkins, a current student in the Goddard MFA in Writing Program in Port Townsend, WA, interviews Aharonian Marcom about The New American Story Project.