The Creative Independent, “a growing resource of emotional and practical guidance for creative people,” featured MFAW-VT faculty member Douglas A. Martin in their Sunday Edition Interview. Here is a taste: “My book began its life as a dissertation. My approach was something like “I’m only going to write a dissertation in a particular way. It is not going… Continue reading MFAW-VT Faculty Member Douglas A. Martin Interview
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CLOCKHOUSE Volume Four
Copies of 2016’s Clockhouse Volume Four are available, and submissions are still open for what will be Clockhouse’s 2017 Volume Five. Published in partnership with Goddard College by the Clockhouse Writers’ Conference, Clockhouse is an eclectic conversation about the work-in-progress of life–a soul arousal, a testing ground, a new community, a call for change. Volume Four’s… Continue reading CLOCKHOUSE Volume Four
Memories of CWC&R 2016
As you’ll see from the following photos, it was a wonderful week! If you were part of it, many thanks. If you weren’t able to come this year, we hope you’ll consider joining us next year. We’ll post those dates here and on the CWC website as soon as we have them! … Continue reading Memories of CWC&R 2016
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.
On Collaboration
Collaboration: Two writers in the ‘Bad Art Room’ “We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.” – Elie Wiesel Introduction Collaboration among writers is important… Continue reading On Collaboration
NEWS FROM MFAW STUDENT LUCY SNYDER!!
Lucy Snyder was a participating author at the Ohioana Book Festival last week and and was on two panel discussions: “In Brief: Essays, Poems, and Short Stories” and “Publishing: Everything You Wanted to Know”. And her short story “Cthylla” was just published in the anthology The Library of the Dead (Written Backwards, ISBN: 9780578156750). Congratulations,… Continue reading NEWS FROM MFAW STUDENT LUCY SNYDER!!
Writing From the Margins
Last week, I was invited to talk to a class at City College in New York. Someone asked me about structure; specifically what I thought of the fact that none of the books on their syllabus, including my memoir, had a traditional structure. It wasn’t until that moment – when I learned that the class… Continue reading Writing From the Margins
Tyler Whidden Headlines Playwriting Festival
Playwright and Alum Tyler Whidden with a young actor… In an interview for the upcoming Festival, Whidden expounds on his newest play, ChocolateSexPuppyTacos (a Non-Denominational Play): Can you talk about the idea behind your play “ChocolateSex…” ? I think it’s a conglomeration of two of the many lives I’ve lived. When I was a kid,… Continue reading Tyler Whidden Headlines Playwriting Festival
Art As a response to Planetary Emergency
Although both had been feminist writers and peace activists living in Brooklyn, NY for many years, playwright Karen Malpede and poet/novelist Jan Clausen didn’t know each other very well until they spent a night in jail together following a civil disobedience arrest at the time of the Iraq invasion in 2003… Kenyon Review has just… Continue reading Art As a response to Planetary Emergency
Out of the Shadows: Join the Conversation
by Lizz Schumer Stephen Hawking once said, “Sometimes I wonder if I’m as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.” And it’s true that Hawking’s face is as recognizable as his science; as is Einstein’s, as is Ben Franklin’s. But would anyone know Einstein without his characteristically crazy hair, or… Continue reading Out of the Shadows: Join the Conversation
We Are Believers: Reading Bhanu Kapil
In honor of the publication of Bhanu Kapil’s newest book Ban en Banlieue, published by Nightboat Books, the writers Amina Cain, Jenny Zhang, Sofia Samatar, and our own Douglas A. Martin, gathered together in a conversation for The Believer to talk about the work of the British-Punjabi writer, who teaches in the Department of Writing and Poetics… Continue reading We Are Believers: Reading Bhanu Kapil
News and Publications Jan-Feb 2014
FACULTY Kyle Bass has been commissioned by the Onondaga Historical Association to write a play based on events of 1839 involving a fugitive enslaved woman, abolitionist Gerrit Smith, and a young Elizabeth Cady (Stanton). Deborah Brevoort was invited in February to teach three playwriting workshops at the San Miguel Writer’s Conference in San Miguel de… Continue reading News and Publications Jan-Feb 2014