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CLOCKHOUSE: Call for Volume Seven Submissions

CLOCKHOUSE seeks submissions in poetry, drama, fiction and nonfiction for its 2019 issue 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. Clockhouse seeks submissions in poetry, drama, fiction and nonfiction for its 2019 issue. We are interested in diverse voices and… Continue reading CLOCKHOUSE: Call for Volume Seven Submissions

MFAW-VT Student Sassafras Lowrey Wins Again!

MFAW-VT student Sassafras Lowrey’s anthology Leather Ever After, a collection of kinky fairy tales that first released in 2013 and was a Honorable Mention for the National Leather Association–International Writing Awards and the Rainbow Book Awards, is available for preorder.  The anthology is being re-published this month in a second edition from Circlet Press.  Pre-orders of the ebook are… Continue reading MFAW-VT Student Sassafras Lowrey Wins Again!

MFAW-WA Alumna Sarah Cannon’s Thesis Published!

MFAW-WA alumna Sarah Cannon’s Goddard thesis, turned debut memoir, The Shame of Losing (Red Hen Press), will be available October 2, 2018 in most independent bookstores in the Northwest. If you are a strong supporter, it would be helpful to ask your local bookstore and library to carry this title.   If you’re thinking of buying a copy, the presale period… Continue reading MFAW-WA Alumna Sarah Cannon’s Thesis Published!

CLOCKHOUSE’s New Editorial Director

As those of you who are either on the staff of CLOCKHOUSE or were a participant in the 2018 Clockhouse Writer’s Conference & Retreat already know, Sarah Cedeño–Editorial Director of Clockhouse from Volume Four through Volume Six–has stepped down in order to spend more time on her own writing.  She leaves with the heartfelt gratitude of… Continue reading CLOCKHOUSE’s New Editorial Director

MFAW-WA Student Jo Manu’s Essay Taken for Anthology

MFAW-WA student Jo Manu’s essay “On the Level” has just been accepted for publication in the anthology Queer Voices. The book will be put out by the Minnesota Historical Society Press (pub date TBD).  Jo has had a good July, 2018; she also received an Engaged Artist Award of $2,000, sponsored by PEN America, joined by other Goddard… Continue reading MFAW-WA Student Jo Manu’s Essay Taken for Anthology

It’s Here — CLOCKHOUSE Volume Six!

CLOCKHOUSE, the national literary journal published by the Clockhouse Writers’ Conference in partnership with Goddard College, is extremely pleased to announce the publication of Volume Six.  Please visit the CLOCKHOUSE website for a glimpse of its contents, to place orders, and to find information about submitting work for next year’s Volume Seven!  

MFAW-VT Student Sam Rebelein’s Short Story Publication

MFAW-VT student Sam Rebelein’s short story “What Are We Going to Do to You: An Oral Essay to My Newborn Daughter Through the Window of the Maternity Ward at 3 AM” has been published in Every Day Fiction.  A preview: Your mom actually likes her family. I was just thinking about that. It was thee first thing… Continue reading MFAW-VT Student Sam Rebelein’s Short Story Publication

MFAW-VT Student Steven Dunn’s New Book “Water & Power”

MFAW-WA student Steven Dunn’s new book water & power is ready for pre-order at Tarpaulin Sky Press.  See description and blurb below.  This is one for the hybrid lovers.  Navy veteran Steven Dunn’s second novel, water & power, plunges into military culture and engages with perceptions of heroism and terrorism. In this shifting landscape, deployments are feared, absurd bureaucracy… Continue reading MFAW-VT Student Steven Dunn’s New Book “Water & Power”

MFAW-WA Alum James Gapinski Releases Two Chapbooks

MFAW-WA alumnus James Gapinksi has had two chapbooks published this year, Messiah Tortoise and Edge of the Known Bus Line.   Here are the press releases for each:   In Edge of the Known Bus Line, a woman’s daily commute takes an abrupt turn when she’s dropped off in a grotesque shantytown. The townsfolk live in… Continue reading MFAW-WA Alum James Gapinski Releases Two Chapbooks

MFAW-WA Alumna Liz Kellebrew’s Anthology Contribution

MFAW-WA alumna Liz Kellebrew’s prose poem, “Flood, Fire, Mountain,” will appear in Writers Resist: The Anthology 2018, coming this October from Running Wild Press. There are also plans for a reading at AWP ’19 in Portland, OR. And here, from the publisher’s website, is how the anthology came into being: It began November 9, 2016, in a… Continue reading MFAW-WA Alumna Liz Kellebrew’s Anthology Contribution

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

A Farewell to Rebecca Brown–From Rebecca Brown

After almost twenty years of teaching in the MFA in Creative Writing program at Goddard, I am going to retire.  When I first started working at Goddard, there was one campus only, in Vermont.  I went to Plainfield, where I’d never been, and started to work with a bunch of people I’d never met before. … Continue reading A Farewell to Rebecca Brown–From Rebecca Brown

MFAW-VT Alumna Lizz Schumer in Ploughshares!

MFAW-VT alumna Lizz Schumer’s essay, “Communion in Disability Poetics” appears in the latest issue of Ploughshares. Here’s a glimpse: “Many disabled poets also ascribe to the social model of disability, which emphasizes that disability is not an inherent “defect,” but is instead a reckoning with a set of barriers—both physical and behavioral—that have been erected… Continue reading MFAW-VT Alumna Lizz Schumer in Ploughshares!

Doing Laundry with Hannibal Lecter

Do you suppose Hannibal Lecter does his own laundry?  It’s easy to see a white collar criminal doctor sending his whites out to be dry cleaned and pressed by an efficiently outsourced place with pink boxes.  But I imagine, what with the blood stains and all, doing it himself is a better plan.  So there he is in the basement—or, I guess he has one of those fancy laundry rooms on an upper floor with sunny yellow walls and a sign that says “Wash. Dry. Fold. Repeat.”— sorting whites and red and pulling out the bleach and hoping it doesn’t ruin his favorite sweater… 

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.