Category: MFA in Creative Writing

Alexis M. Smith (MFAW ’07) is the author of the novel Glaciers (Tin House Books), a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, and a World Book Night 2013 selection. Glaciers has been translated into Spanish and Italian, and was recently published in the UK. Smith grew up in Soldotna, Alaska, and Seattle, Washington.… Continue reading Alexis M. Smith

M.T. Anderson has written stories for adults, picture books for children, adventure novels for young readers, and several books for older readers (both teens and adults). His satirical book Feed was a Finalist for the National Book Award and was the winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize. The first volume of his Octavian Nothing saga won the National… Continue reading M.T. Anderson

Polly Carl is the director and editor of HowlRound: A Center for the Theater Commons at Emerson College. Her work at HowlRound is focused on promoting practices for 21st Century theater making based on the core principle that theater is for everyone. She is also part of the ArtsEmerson programming team at Emerson College and is developing… Continue reading Polly Carl

Faculty Deborah Brevoort was inducted into the National Theatre Conference, an organization of theatre educators and professional theatre practitioners from around the US.  The NTC is a think tank, dedicated to addressing issues facing the American theatre.  She will also be in residence at  CAP 21 in New York City in January 2014 to further… Continue reading November and December 2013 Achievements

  On November 1st, a new national literary journal was born.  Clockhouse was the dream of two of my master’s degree candidates in the MFA in Creative Writing program my very first semester teaching at Goddard.  Led by a group of alumni, editorially-independent, the journal they imagined was nevertheless essentially of Goddard, for Goddard; you… Continue reading Rahna Reiko Rizzuto: On the Birth of Clockhouse

  For all the people who just wrote to ask me how to improve their work, see below: After twenty-two years of helping people to improve their writing–this applies to all genres–the top ten bits of advice come down to four.  I’ll leave it to a famous writer to pass on, since I love her… Continue reading Elena Georgiou: Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied…

Lewis Hyde, in a terrific book called The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World, compares the radical power of art to gift giving.  All over the world, gift-giving rituals work in invisible ways to create community, strengthen bonds between people, and create obligations.   In Southeast Alaskan native cultures, for example, anyone who… Continue reading Deborah Brevoort: The Radical Power of Art

  by Aimee Liu THE ART OF THE MEMOIR Here’s the art of memoir in a nutshell: Through the story of the experience, we get to know the past you; through the voice and insights you bring to the writing of that experience, we get to know and care about the present you — and… Continue reading Tips on Memoir, Revising and Editing

Students and Alumni: Carolyn Bardos (MFAW ’10) is producing a short play of Gary Garrison’s as part of an evening of short plays. The dates are:  Sat., Oct. 26, 7 p.m., Sun. Oct. 27, 3 p.m., Sat., Nov. 2, 7 p.m., and Sun., Nov. 3, 3 p.m.  The place is:  The Arts Center of the… Continue reading September 2013 Achievements

Tom Lutz is the founder and editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. His books — Doing Nothing (American Book Award), Crying (New York Times Notable Book), Cosmopolitan Vistas (Choice Outstanding Academic Title), and American Nervousness, 1903 (New York Times Notable Book) — have been translated into twelve languages and have appeared on theNew York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller lists. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in New… Continue reading Tom Lutz

Students and Alumni Maria Chaudhuri‘s (MFAW ’09) memoir, Beloved Strangers, which she started working on at Goddard, is due to be published by Bloomsbury UK in early 2014. Ron Heacock’s (MFAW ’13) story, “Inarguably Dead” is going to be published in the journal, Cease, Cows. Sarah Kishpaugh’s (MFAW ’14) essay, “Remembering Who You Are” appears on… Continue reading June 2013 Achievements

John Clinton Eisner is Lark’s Artistic Director and is primarily responsible for Lark’s vision.  He co-founded the Lark in 1994 as a community of theater professionals with a shared commitment to new play development. He divides his time between working directly with playwrights and creating strategies with artistic leaders in the U.S. and abroad to… Continue reading John Clinton Eisner

Born in 1974, Damien Echols grew up in Mississippi, Tennessee, Maryland, Oregon, Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. At the age of eighteen, he was wrongfully convicted of murder, along with Jason Baldwin and Jesse Misskelley, Jr., thereafter known as The West Memphis Three. Echols received a death sentence and spent almost eighteen years on death row… Continue reading Damien Echols

Born in 1974, Damien Echols grew up in Mississippi, Tennessee, Maryland, Oregon, Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. At the age of eighteen, he was wrongfully convicted of murder, along with Jason Baldwin and Jesse Misskelley, Jr., thereafter known as The West Memphis Three. Echols received a death sentence and spent almost eighteen years on death row… Continue reading Damien Echols

Kathryn Davis is the author of seven novels: Labrador, The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf, Hell,The Walking Tour, Versailles, The Thin Place and Duplex. She has been the recipient of the Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2006 Lannan Award for Fiction. She lives in Vermont and… Continue reading Kathryn Davis

Students and Alumni Summer Graef (MFAW ’14) took part in a literary event for Goddard’s Northwest writers in May at the Richard Hugo House in Seattle, Washington. Justin Hall’s (MFAW ’14, pictured at left) book, No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT anthology published in 2013. Ron… Continue reading May 2013 Achievements