The inaugural episode of The Writer in the World podcast by the Goddard College Masters in Creative Writing program.
Category: MFA in Creative Writing
“Three Long Mountains and a Wood”: Where Language Has Led You
by Julia Bouwsma As a poet who lives off-the-grid in the woods of Northern New England, my working practice has come to align with the seasons. In winter I hunker down and write, recalling my first winter in Maine when I hunched by the woodstove watching the snowdrifts swirl and amass at my kitchen window… Continue reading “Three Long Mountains and a Wood”: Where Language Has Led You
Enchantivism: Activism for Introverts
“If you want to change someone’s mind, tell them a story.” – Dr. Craig Chalquist, PhD, depth psychologist, Pacifica Institute Dr. Craig Chalquist has created a course in how to use dreams, myths and deep storytelling to inspire positive change. He is also a master gardener, which adds an ecological element to the work–our well-being… Continue reading Enchantivism: Activism for Introverts
MFAW Faculty Returns to Pandora in Avatar: Tsu’tey’s Path
MFAW-VT faculty member Sherri L. Smith‘s comic book series Avatar: Tsu’tey’s Path concluded last week with issue #6, “The Last Shadow.” “From his first meeting with Jake Sully to his acceptance of the Last Shadow, Tsu’tey’s life takes a path he could not anticipate, and which the film told only a part. Return to Pandora as the story… Continue reading MFAW Faculty Returns to Pandora in Avatar: Tsu’tey’s Path
Good Tape: Notes from the Podcast School
For some time now, I have been interested in podcasts. Not so much in the things themselves, but in the explosion of interest in them, in our enthusiasm for hearing strangers chat. Wasn’t radio passé decades ago? We live in a society where our entertainment has surpassed technicolor and surround sound, to rumbling chairs in… Continue reading Good Tape: Notes from the Podcast School
MFAW-VT faculty Richard Panek deep dives into gravity
“Part scientific detective story, part meta-physical romp, The Trouble with Gravity is a revelation: the first in-depth, accessible study of this ubiquitous, elusive force. Gravity and our efforts to understand it, Panek reveals, have shaped not only the world we inhabit, but also our bodies, minds, and culture. Its influence can be seen in everything from ancient… Continue reading MFAW-VT faculty Richard Panek deep dives into gravity
Transformational, Spiritual, Personal: MFAW alum testimony
Look. Listen. I’m what they call “mid-life.” I’m what they call “late-blooming.” And even though I was just an “average-Joe” and a “working-mother,” I happened to be in the “right-place-at-the-right-time” when the “opportunity-presented-itself.” I was “ready-willing-and-able” to “follow my dreams.” I’m lucky. I went back to school. I went to Goddard College. When I was… Continue reading Transformational, Spiritual, Personal: MFAW alum testimony
MFA in Creative Writing Launches New Anthology
Goddard College is pleased to announce the 2018 release of a new edition of Alchemy of the Word: Writers Talk About Writing, published by GenPop Books. This anthology consists of thirty essays by faculty members in Goddard’s MFA in Creative Writing Program. All were originally delivered as keynote or commencement addresses between 2000 and 2018.… Continue reading MFA in Creative Writing Launches New Anthology
Trusting the Process in Poland: A Writer’s Journey
by Julia Ain-Krupa (IBA ‘11) I received my Fulbright scholarship for the 2012-2013 academic year. The grant was specifically for creative writing, and my intention was to come to Poland–Krakow, specifically, where a new Jewish community is thriving–to write about inter-religious marriage in Poland, which was something that interested me, and which was also reflective… Continue reading Trusting the Process in Poland: A Writer’s Journey
Recipients of Goddard/PEN North American Centers Scholarship, 2019
PLAINFIELD, VT: Goddard College is pleased to congratulate Jaimie Li, recipient of the 2019 Goddard/PEN North American Centers Scholarship, and second-place awardee Domenick Danza. Jaimie Li is a member of PEN America and an alumna of Balliol College at Oxford University, where she received a BA in Jurisprudence in 2011. She has worked in film… Continue reading Recipients of Goddard/PEN North American Centers Scholarship, 2019
On Disability and Diversity: The Exclusivity of Inclusion
…disability is too often excluded in discussions of diversity, a good deal of which, for good reason, focuses on race. This silence is especially noteworthy because disability crosses racial, gender, sexuality, class, and national boundaries.
Emails to a Young Writer, or I Am Not Friedrich Nietzsche:
On Writers, Writer’s Block, Generosity, Creativity and Community
Congratulating 2018 Recipients of Goddard/PEN North American Scholarships
An additional $20,000 in Creative Writing Scholarships Awarded The Goddard College MFA in Creative Writing Program congratulates Steven Dunn, recipient of the $10,000 2018 Goddard/PEN North American Scholarship, and second-place $5,000 awardee Masha Sukovic. Ten additional scholarship candidates received Engaged Artist Awards of $2,000 each: PEN America members Amy Barnes, Lisa Chambers, Will Duprey, Ron… Continue reading Congratulating 2018 Recipients of Goddard/PEN North American Scholarships
February, March and April Achievements
Faculty Deborah Brevoort has been invited to serve as a mentor to the Rainmaker musical theatre initiative in Kenya, a new program that is being led by Kenyan pop composer Eric Wainaina. The first workshop will be held in June in Naro Moru, Kenya. She will be joined by American composer Fred Carl and Roberta Levitow… Continue reading February, March and April Achievements
Goddard College and North American PEN Centers Partner for Creative Writing Scholarships
The Goddard College / PEN North America partnership provides one $10,000 scholarship to an MFA applicant in Creative Writing who is a member of PEN America, PEN Canada, or PEN Mexico. Additionally, North American PEN members who are admitted to Goddard’s MFA in Creative Writing Program, but who do not receive the Goddard/PEN North American… Continue reading Goddard College and North American PEN Centers Partner for Creative Writing Scholarships
December Achievements
Faculty: MFAW-WA faculty member Bhanu Kapil gave a talk at the British Columbia Nurses’ Union annual human rights and equity conference, in Vancouver. She spoke on themes related to foreign life and care. Copies of Bhanu’s Schizophrene were distributed as door prizes by the organizers. MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries has six poems included in 12 Poetas: Antologia de Neuvos… Continue reading December Achievements
November Achievements
Faculty: MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries‘s recently published In the Province of the Gods was chosen by Passport Magazine as a Best Gift Book for 2017. Catapult published “Meeting MM: On Friendship and Disability in Japan,” an adapted excerpt from the book. Another excerpt was published at Accessible Japan. The Japan Times, Japan’s leading English language newspaper,… Continue reading November Achievements
October Achievements
Faculty: MFAW-VT faculty member Rahna Reiko Rizzuto presentated Imagining Hiroshima “That Day Now,” an interdisciplinary symposium on the effects of the atomic bomb on post WWII Japanese culture, celebrating Keiko Ogura, survivor and founder of the Hiroshima Interpreters for Peace. The event was sponsored by the Japan Foundation and hosted at Syracuse University. MFAW-WA faculty member Victoria Nelson… Continue reading October Achievements
September Achievements
Faculty: MFAW-WA faculty member Bhanu Kapil was commissioned by The Guardian to re-write selected tweets by Donald Trump for an article, “Trump in 280.” Bhanu is included in the Poetry Foundation‘s article, “DACA Rescinded & Poets Respond.” Her work appears in three anthologies this fall: Divergent Trajectories: Interviews with Innovative Fiction Writers (Ohio State University Press); Atlantic Drift: an Anthology… Continue reading September Achievements
Goddard College Faculty Kenny Fries Featured in New York Times
Goddard College MFAW Faculty Kenny Fries‘s article “The Nazis’ First Victims Were the Disabled” appeared in the New York Times and the Sunday Review (09/13/2017). Here is an excerpt: “I sit facing the young German neurologist, across a small table in a theater in Hamburg, Germany. I’m here giving one-on-one talks called “The Unenhanced: What… Continue reading Goddard College Faculty Kenny Fries Featured in New York Times