Category: News Flash

Read Aimee Liu’s Opinion Piece in the L.A. Times

Goddard MFA in Creative Writing Program faculty member Aimee Liu has an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times. In “From Internet Porn to Love at First Sight,” Aimee searches for a new home but along the way discovers how the search reveals values, inherited and learned, way beyond real estate.  She writes, “When my mother was… Continue reading Read Aimee Liu’s Opinion Piece in the L.A. Times

Sherri Smith wins Southern California Independent Bookseller’s Assocation Award

MFAW-VT faculty member Sherri Smith‘s middle grade novel, The Toymaker’s Apprentice, won the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Award for Middle Grade. Described as “Part Nutcracker with a dash of Pinocchio” by School Library Journal and “an inventive fantasy” by Booklist, The Toymaker’s Apprentice was published as a hardcover by Putnam and recently released in paperback by Puffin Books. Congratulations, Sherri!

John Hadden’s Memoir Published by Arcade

Goddard alumus John Hadden’s book Conversations with a Masked Man: My Father, the CIA, and Me was published by Arcade Publishing. James Carroll, author of An American Requiem, says John’s book is “a poignant encounter” in which he “shows how the wounds of the past refuse to heal, and how acknowledging that truth can open into hard won wisdom — and even love.”

An Interview with Douglas A. Martin

In the new Rain Taxi, Douglas Martin and Andy Fitch talk through the examples of Kathy Acker, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, and others. Narcissism. Writing sentences like painting. And how one gets involved in the work.

MFAW Student Anaïs Mitchell in The New Yorker

“Hadestown” began in Vermont, in 2006. “The original was a D.I.Y. theatre project,” Mitchell said. “It was a lot of, like, wild cabin-fever Vermont artists coming together, fringe people who have chosen this off-the-beaten-path life style—homesteading, chickens, stacking their own wood.”

Goddard Poets in the House

Goddard MFA alumna Teresa Mei Chuc writes, “If you’re in NYC on Sat., July 30th, I hope you can join us for a poetry reading at Poets House. Several Goddard College MFA in Creative Writing alumni will be there: Drew Dillhunt (Port Townsend, WA), David Giver (Plainfield, VT), Susan Deer Cloud (Plainfield, VT) and Teresa Mei Chuc (Plainfield, VT).

Political Incorrectness: History in the Family

Today it’s popular to say that political correctness is destroying America, but a recently discovered set of century-old clippings offer a cautionary reminder of what our country was like without political correctness. Goddard MFA faculty member Aimee Liu’s opinion piece about political correctness and her family history was published in the LA Times on March 27.

Interview with Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi

Goddard’s Port Townsend MFA faculty member Aimee Liu will be interviewing Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi on Tuesday, March 15, in Los Angeles about her new book Love, Loss, and What We Ate. This vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, traces the arc of Lakshmi’s unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated life in front of the camera—a tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichl’s Tender at the Bone and Nora Ephron’s Heartburn.

2016 Spider’s Web Flash Fiction Prize

Goddard MFA alumna Patty Flaherty (Pagan) announces a cash prize flash fiction contest from Spider Road Press. It’s their second annual contest. Spider Road Press publishes and promotes fiction by and/or about strong women. We believe that all brave, intelligent writing is literary, no matter what the subject matter. Writers, we invite you to embrace precision. Readers, we encourage you to stretch your imagination. Full details on our cash prize in this press release.

#Goddard2Goddard #SpacePoetry

Attention Goddard MFA students and alumni! Have you ever imagining your poetry sailing among the stars? NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center wants your artwork, poetry, short prose, videos, and songs on board their OSIRIS-REx spacecraft bound for the asteroid Bennu. And so we thought…Goddard and Goddard! We’d love to see what sparks in your imagination when you consider exploration, the universe, and the essence of the human spirit.

In the Inbox

from the indomitable AMY KING, who visited us in Plainfield a few residencies back. VIDA is currently seeking submissions & we would love to hear from you! Please see our submission guidelines for pitches & articles & anything else you have in mind – http://www.vidaweb.org/submissions/ Here’s a sampling of what we’ve published – * Twenty… Continue reading In the Inbox

The MFAW Post-Graduate Semester

Deadline to apply for both campuses is December 1st Yes, you can come back! We have a new Post Graduate Semester (PGS) option for MFAW alums who want professional feedback in a community atmosphere as they revise, complete, and polish a writing project. Or begin a new project. After years of percolating the idea in response to… Continue reading The MFAW Post-Graduate Semester

Don’t Write?!?!

Rahna Reiko Rizzuto talks strategies to free yourself from the stranglehold our society’s consumer priorities may be having on your writing today on Hedgebrook’s blog: “I’ve been thinking a lot about being a writer in this world. Not about the need to raise our diverse voices, or to break down the barriers that keep too… Continue reading Don’t Write?!?!

“Never Forget” by Emily Stern

As yet another anniversary of September 11th passes, and as we continue to face heartbreak and trauma as a nation from unfathomable acts of violence, we invite you to read this recent article, Never Forget, published on Entropy, by  Goddard alumna Emily Stern. Emily says, “At the close of a creative writing course at an… Continue reading “Never Forget” by Emily Stern

Em Bowen on Marriage Equality

When the Supreme Court issued its historic decision affirming marriage equality on June 26, the MFAW-VT residency had just gotten underway. Taking time out from her G-4 study planning, Em Bowen answered a request from the National Journal for an opinion piece reflecting on the event. Focusing on her own evolving relationship to marriage as… Continue reading Em Bowen on Marriage Equality

A Noh Drama about Elvis

Blue Moon Over Memphis, Deborah Brevoort’s Noh Drama about Elvis Presley will be produced in a traditional Noh staging by Theatre Nohgaku in Tokyo, Japan on Saturday May 23rd at 2pm and 7pm.  The production will feature Noh orchestrations composed by Richard Emmert and a special Elvis Noh mask that was created by Hideta Kitazawa,… Continue reading A Noh Drama about Elvis