Category: MFA in Creative Writing

Faculty: MFAW-VT faculty member Deborah Brevoort was a Featured Artist at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska. The MFAW program has a new libretto writing degree concentration. Read Deborah’s take on writing an updated libretto for a Mozart opera on the program blog. Alumni and Students: MFAW-VT student Anaïs Mitchell received a beautiful review,“Anaïs Mitchell Hopes to Change the World… Continue reading June Achievements

Alumni and Students: MFAW-WA alumna Katharine English’s memoir  Salvation: A Judge’s Memoir of a Mormon Childhood is now available. MFAW-VT Student Lucy Snyder’s fiction collection While The Black Stars Burn won a Bram Stoker Award. MFAW-VT student Christine Kalafus was the keynote speaker for Day Kimball Hospital’s National Nurses Week dinner: “Behind You All the Way,” where the theme of… Continue reading May Achievements

FACULTY: Vermont MFA faculty member Deborah Brevoort‘s opera EMBEDDED, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and written with composer Patrick Soluri, opens at the Ft. Worth Opera on April 24 and runs through May 3. Selections from Brevoort’s Holocaust opera STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME, written with composer Gerald Cohen, and one of the winners of the Frontiers competition,… Continue reading April Achievements

In honor of National Poetry Month, MFAW faculty member Bhanu Kapil was featured yesterday at Lithub as one of “30 poets you should be reading.” Congratulations, Bhanu! And an added aside, we’re proud to say that of the 30 poets listed here, Eileen Myles, Claudia Rankine, Harryette Mullen and Amy King have all been Visiting… Continue reading Bhanu Kapil: 30 Poets You Should Be Reading

FACULTY: MFA faculty member Deborah Brevoort was interviewed on WAMC’s Roundtable on March 11 about her play THE BLUE-SKY BOYS that opens at Capital Rep in Albany on March 15th. On March 18, MFA faculty member Kenny Fries will read from his work as part of the “Parahuman:  New Perspectives on Life with Technology” conference at the… Continue reading March Achievements

Alumna Teresa Mei Chuc (MFAW ’12) founded Shabda Press in 2011, and has since published some Goddardites – Sayra Pinto (MFAW ’11), Susan Deer Cloud (MFAW ’11), and David Giver (MFAW ’11). David’s new book I Still Remember the Last Time You Held My Hand was just published and Susan’s second book published by Shabda Press is… Continue reading Shabda Press featuring alumni books

On March 15, Port Townsend MFA faculty member Aimee Liu will interview Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi 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… Continue reading Aimee Liu talks with Padma Lakshmi

Goddard MFA in Creative Writing alumna (’14) alumna Dawn Renee Jones is the winner of the Southern Rep Theatre’s 2015 Ruby Prize for her play, A Heap See. Named in honor of American activist Ruby Bridges, the Ruby Prize is presented annually to a woman playwright of color. As the Ruby Prize winner, Jones will receive a… Continue reading Dawn Renee Jones wins 2015 Ruby Prize

FACULTY: Port Townsend MFA faculty member Darrah Cloud’s play for young people, JOAN THE GIRL OF ARC, will be published in the March issue of Dramatics Magazine. Darrah is also producing the 6th Annual 10-Minute Play Festival for Half Moon Theatre which goes up March 11-13 at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park,… Continue reading February Achievements

MFAW-VT faculty member Deborah Brevoort has been named a finalist for the Pellicciotti Opera Composition Prize with composer Patrick Soluri for their opera of Albert Nobbs. The competition, which is held by the Crane Opera Ensemble and the Crane School of Music seeks to encourage the creation of new opera works that explore themes related to tolerance, inclusion or diversity. Four finalists… Continue reading Deborah Brevoort Finalist for Opera Prize!

FACULTY: For the 20th Anniversary of its annual New PlayFest, Key City Public Theatre in Port Townsend has invited Darrah Cloud, MFA in Creative Writing Faculty member, to be its guest playwright. Darrah will be teaching two workshops in addition to working on her new play, The Posthumous Democrat, which will be given two readings… Continue reading January Achievements

FACULTY: Vermont faculty member Deborah Brevoort‘s opera STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME, written with Gerald Cohen, is one of the winner’s of the 2016 Frontiers Competition at Fort Worth Opera.  Frontiers, which presents “the best and brightest new voices in opera” has been hailed as “one of the most significant music events of the year. ” This… Continue reading December Achievements

FACULTY: Vermont faculty member Jan Clausen signed a contract with Seven Stories Press for the re-issue of her 1999 memoir Apples and Oranges: My Journey Through Sexual Identity. The Los Angeles Times called Apples and Oranges “a wonderful meditation on the nature of desire,” praising the book’s “intelligence, its good-humored, common-sense approach to life,” and the resulting “portrait of… Continue reading November Achievements