In today’s Craft Book Spotlight, The Writer magazine gave our very own all-faculty compilation, Alchemy of the Word, a nice shout-out: “When National Book Award winner and acclaimed memoirist Maxine Hong Kingston praises a book, you sit up and pay attention. “Whether you’re a young beginner or a veteran writer like me, you’ll get support… Continue reading Alchemy of the Word News
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MFAW Director, Elena Georgiou Interview in Bustle Magazine
As one of the three finalists for the New American Voices Award, given by the Institute for Immigration Research, Elena was interviewed for the following article in Bustle Magazine. From the website, here’s a little bit about the award: “The idea for the award, which is sponsored by the Institute for Immigration Research, arose over a year… Continue reading MFAW Director, Elena Georgiou Interview in Bustle Magazine
MFAW-VT Faculty Member Kenny Fries Advises SVA Students’ Project on Disability
Disable the Stairs. Disable the Stares. Disable the Barriers. This summer MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries advised a great team of Master’s Branding students at SVA. Their thesis project, Disable the Barriers, is now up and running. Disable the Barriers is an unaffiliated global collective that aims to provide tools in support of people… Continue reading MFAW-VT Faculty Member Kenny Fries Advises SVA Students’ Project on Disability
MFAW-VT Faculty Member Kyle Bass Commission
MFAW-VT faculty member Kyle Bass’s play, Possessing Harriet, (commissioned by the Onondaga Historical Society and directed by Thazewell Thompson) will be be performed at Syracuse Stage (at Syracuse University) from Oct 19 to Nov 4. One hundred seventy five years ago, in October of 1839, a beautiful 23-year-old African American woman named Harriet Powell came to Syracuse… Continue reading MFAW-VT Faculty Member Kyle Bass Commission
MFAW-VT Faculty Member Deborah Brevoort Met Museum Commission
MFAW-VT faculty member Deborah Brevoort has been commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, On-Site Opera and American Lyric Theater to write the libretto for an opera about Lady Murasaki, who wrote THE TALE OF GENJI, the world’s first published novel. The opera will be performed in the Astor Pavilion at the Met… Continue reading MFAW-VT Faculty Member Deborah Brevoort Met Museum Commission
MFAW-VT Faculty Member Kenny Fries and Another Grant!
MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries has received a grant from the Canada Council of the Arts to work on a book of essays on legacy. The working title of the book is Frida Kahlo’s Leg: Personal Essays on Disability, Role Models, and Representation.
MFAW-WA Faculty Member Keenan Norris’s Article on Micheline Aharonian Marcom
MFAW-WA faculty member Keenan Norris has interviewed another MFAW-WA faculty member Micheline Aharonian Marcom about her work as Creative Director of the New American Story Project (NASP). The NASP is a collaboration of artists presenting oral histories and stories of immigrants and refugees in order to bear witness, raise awareness, and provoke transformative conversation. Here’s the… Continue reading MFAW-WA Faculty Member Keenan Norris’s Article on Micheline Aharonian Marcom
MFAW-VT Faculty Kenny Fries Posts a Piece on Disability and Diversity Online at MEDIUM
MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries has published a response to Lionel Shriver’s recent attack on Penguin/Random House UK’s push for diversity online at Medium. The piece is called “The Exclusivity of Inclusion: On Disability and Diversity” In the article he quotes fellow faculty member Reiko Rizzuto. Fries’ article is a response to Lionel Shriver’s screed… Continue reading MFAW-VT Faculty Kenny Fries Posts a Piece on Disability and Diversity Online at MEDIUM
MFAW-VT Faculty Member Reiko Rizzuto Pens Article for SALON Online
MFAW-VT faculty member Rahna Reiko Rizzuto’s article on the Supreme Court decision travel ban, which is expected this month, and Hawaii’s history in resisting the US government’s racist exclusionary policies during World War II has been published on Salon. Here’s a sneak peek including headline: Hawaii’s fight against Trump’s Muslim travel ban has long roots… Continue reading MFAW-VT Faculty Member Reiko Rizzuto Pens Article for SALON Online
Electric Literature Posts Essay by MFAW Faculty Member Reiko Rizzuto
MFAW-VT faculty member Rahna Reiko Rizzuto’s essay on the shape of trauma in our writing is featured on Electric Literature from the essay: “I started writing my second novel in the aftermath of violence. In a more-common-than-you-think incident — one that is often used for titillation or as the opening scene of some revenge movie involving… Continue reading Electric Literature Posts Essay by MFAW Faculty Member Reiko Rizzuto
MFAW-WA Faculty Member Bhanu Kapil to Spend Early Summer at ART BASEL!
MFAW-WA faculty member Bhanu Kapil’s work–Ban/blog/banners–is to be featured in Art Basel. Constituting the final in a series of five exhibitions organized by New York-based curator Harry Burke for The Printed Room since 2015, each of which survey different pressures put upon the conventions of print and literature following the digitization of everyday life, Bhanu Kapil:… Continue reading MFAW-WA Faculty Member Bhanu Kapil to Spend Early Summer at ART BASEL!
Wanderer in the Dark (an excerpt)
Wanderer was one of the last documented ships to carry an illegal cargo of slaves from Africa to the United States, landing at Jekyll Island, Georgia on November 28, 1858, arriving with some 400 slaves who survived the voyage from Angola.
MFAW Faculty Member Richard Panek Moderates at the World Science Festival in June
MFAW-VT faculty member Richard Panek will be moderating the Science and Story Cafe at this year’s World Science Festival. The Cafe, a daylong series of discussions with the authors of eight new books, will run from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 2, at New York University’s Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South. The programs are free and… Continue reading MFAW Faculty Member Richard Panek Moderates at the World Science Festival in June
The Thriller in the Shadows
After almost twenty years in the making, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto reflects on the many influences and the long process of bring a novel into the world. On Friday, this essay appeared on Lit Hub’s Crime Reads. “My novel was sparked by a true crime, but it refused to become a thriller. Nearly two decades ago, a friend of mine was raped…”
Creative Writing Faculty Anthology, “Alchemy of the Word” News from Kenny Fries
We’re pleased to announce that Los Angeles Review of Books has posted a selection by Kenny Fries from the new edition of our Goddard MFA in Creative Writing faculty anthology, Alchemy of the Word. The book is available from the publisher website, GenPop Books or from Amazon. This is how it begins: “In the summer of… Continue reading Creative Writing Faculty Anthology, “Alchemy of the Word” News from Kenny Fries
MFAW-WA Faculty Member Bea Gates Goes Local
MFAW-WA faculty member Beatrix Gates has two poems, “Chaco Canyon” and “My mother lately,” in the current issue of her local paper, The Weekly Packet, published by Penobscot Bay Press for the Blue Hill Peninsula.
On Writing, Politics, and the Tarot
What do writing, politics and the Tarot have in common? On November 7th, 2017, I was elected Town Supervisor of Pine Plains, New York.
Fellowship for MFAW-WA Faculty Member Beatrix Gates
MFAW-WA faculty member Beatrix Gates has received an appointment as an Alan Jutzi Fellow for Non-traditional Scholars at the Huntington Library next year. The fellowship is for the poetry project, “Good Seeing: Poem of the Full Sky,” which highlights 20th c. astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt who discovered the means for Hubble’s measuring the universe and… Continue reading Fellowship for MFAW-WA Faculty Member Beatrix Gates
Jan Clausen’s Summer Publication
MFAW-VT faculty member Jan Clausen’s essay “By the Light of Distant Fires,” derived from her keynote on the theme “origins” from last January’s residency, will be published in the summer issue of Camas: The Nature of the West, a literary journal run by graduate students in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Montana.
Kenny Fries Visiting Writer
MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries will be Visiting Writer at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, PA next week. During his time at King’s, Kenny will meet with faculty and students, visit two writing classes, and give a public reading on April 17, 7:30pm, Burke Auditorium, McGowan School of Business. Previous visiting writers at King’s have included Michael… Continue reading Kenny Fries Visiting Writer