Category: MFA in Creative Writing

Faculty: MFAW-WA faculty member Micheline Aharonian Marcom, in collaboration with artist/writer Fowzia Karimi, will publish The Brick House this fall.  The book will be published by Awst Press. In commemoration of the 72nd anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, The Progressive published MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries’s “A Healing Tree: Remembering Hiroshima,” which is an adapted excerpt from In the… Continue reading August Achievements

Faculty: MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries‘s In the Gardens of Japan, a poem sequence, has been published by Garden Oak Press.  The poems are a companion to In the Province of the Gods,  which will be published by University of Wisconsin Press in September. Alumni and students: MFAW-VT alumna Laurel Radzieski‘s first poetry collection, Red Mother, will be published… Continue reading July Achievements

Faculty: MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries gave three talks in Sofia, Bulgaria.  He presented “Stumbling over History:  Aktion T4 and the Holocaust” at Shalom Bulgaria and “Disability History and Disability Rights in the United States” and “Extraordinary Bodies:  Disability Representation in Literature, Film, Visual Art, and Performance” at Sofia University. The talks were sponsored by the Bulgarian… Continue reading June Achievements

Faculty: MFAW-WA 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. This summer,… Continue reading May Achievements

Faculty: To kick off National Poetry Month, on April 2, MFAW program director Elena Georgiou was one of two featured poets at Poem City in Montpelier, VT. MFAW-VT faculty member Rogelio Martinez received a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship.  Rogelio’s new play, Blind Date, will have its world premiere next season at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. MFAW-VT faculty member Richard Panek‘s collaboration with Temple Grandin, The… Continue reading April Achievements

Faculty: MFAW program director Elena Georgiou‘s short story collection, The Immigrant’s Refrigerator, will be published by GenPop Books in October, 2017. MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries‘s In the Gardens of Japan, a poem sequence, will be published by Garden Oak Press in August.  The poem sequence is important to the narrative of In the Province of the Gods, which will… Continue reading March Achievements

Faculty: MFAW-WA faculty member Micheline Aharonian Marcom‘s sixth novel, The Brick House, an illuminated book about a house where people go to dream, will be published in August by Awst Press. Her seventh novel, The New American, about a young Guatemalan-American college student, a “Dreamer,” who is deported to Guatemala and makes his way back home to California, will be… Continue reading February Achievements

Faculty: MFAW-VT faculty member Michael Klein‘s poem, “Beginners,” was chosen as the Poem-of-the-day by the American Academy of Poets on January 29. MFAW-VT faculty member Rahna Reiko Rizzuto was interviewed for the show Out in the Open with Piya Chattopadhyay on CBC Radio, called “What Moms Can’t Say.”  MFAW-WA faculty member Beatrix Gates co-organized #WRITERS RESIST: Listening to Our Histories on Martin Luther King Day… Continue reading January Achievements

Monday, January 9, 2017, 7pm in the Haybarn  (Reading, Q &A, Book signing and Reception). ​Dinaw ​Mengestu came to the United States with his family from Ethiopia at the age of two. Since earning his M.F.A. at Columbia University in 2005, he has published three novels, all of them New York Times Notable Books, including The Beautiful… Continue reading Visiting Writer Dinaw Mengestu

Tuesday, February 14, 2017, Port Townsend, Washington. Kevin Sampsell is an American writer living in Portland, Oregon. He has worked at Powell’s Book Store since 1998 as an events coordinator and the head of the small press section.  His memoir, A Common Pornography, was published by Harper Perennial in January 2010. Tin House published his novel, This Is Between Us (2013), about a man… Continue reading Visiting Writer Kevin Sampsell

Faculty: The independent film Day of Days, co-written by MFAW-VT ​faculty member Kyle Bass, received its world premiere at the 11th Annual Women’s International Film & Arts Festival (WIFF).   The two-character drama stars veteran Hollywood actor Tom Skerritt (MASH, Alien, Top Gun, Steel Magnolias, A River Runs Through It, Up in Smoke, the television series Picket Fences)… Continue reading December Achievements

Faculty: MFAW-VT faculty member Rogelio Martinez‘s play Ping Pong, has been published by Broadway Play Publishing.  Also, Rogelio’s new play Blind Date was  part of this year’s Colorado Play Summit at the Denver Theater Center. MFAW-WA faculty member Kennan Norris‘s essay, “Post-Mortem Morning: Oakland and the Remains of the Left,” was published in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Scholastic’s… Continue reading November Achievements

Faculty:  MFAW-VT faculty member Douglas A. Martin‘s poem “Eelgrass” was chosen for the Poem-a-Day project of the American Academy of Poets. MFAW-WA faculty member Aimee Liu had an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times. 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. MFAW-VT faculty member Victoria Nelson gave a talk… Continue reading October Achievements

Faculty: “Takimi-no-chaya, Rikugien,” the seventh of eight poems in MFAW- VT faculty member Kenny Fries‘s “In the Gardens of Japan” cycle set by Japanese composer Kumiko Takahashi had its world premiere on September 16 as part of “The Traditional in the Contemporary — Ninety Years of Japanese Compositions,” at Orvis Auditorium, University of Hawaii – Manoa,… Continue reading September Achievements

Faculty: MFAW-WA faculty member Bhanu Kapil‘s July Commencement Speech, which was posted on the MFAW blog, was featured on Literary Hub: The Best of the Literary Internet. Read her speech here. MFAW-WA faculty member Beatrix Gates read “from Orlando: Make Beautiful in Maine” at The Cannery in South Penobscott, Maine.  Bea also participated in the event sponsored by Reversing Falls Sanctuary, in collaboration with the… Continue reading August Achievements

Faculty: MFAW-VT faculty member Douglas A. Martin read from his novel Branwell and discussed the construction of historical characters with OUT magazine editor Aaron Hicklin at One Grand Books, a store whose inventory is curated by various folks selecting the 10 books they’d take with them to a deserted island.  You can read an interview with Douglas on… Continue reading July Achievements