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Alchemy of the Word

You asked for them: Those moving, inspiring, thought-provoking keynote and graduation lectures that you couldn’t stop thinking about.  At the residencies for the Goddard MFA in Creative Writing program, “Can I get a copy of that?” is an even more common refrain than “Trust the process!” And now, they can be yours. Goddard College is… Continue reading Alchemy of the Word

My Smarter Wiser Super-Sexy Personal Echo

Though the newest version of the Echo is decent, you can get a better response to life if you use your own voice—i.e. the Personal Echo. The Personal Echo is in high demand because it offers the gift of someone else controlling your life, but doing it in a way that feels as if you are talking to yourself. And truly, what writer wouldn’t want that?

Congratulations to Our Pushcart Prize Nominees

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve nominated the following writers’ works from CLOCKHOUSE Volume Five for the Pushcart Prize:   Creative Nonfiction Ira Sukrungruang, “Because, the Ferguson Verdict”   Fiction Diana Wagman, “Small World”   Poetry Sabine Bradley, “I did it to a man” Paisley Rekdal, “Atlas Moth,”         Clifford Thompson, “2014”   Please join… Continue reading Congratulations to Our Pushcart Prize Nominees

CLOCKHOUSE Volume Six: There’s Still Time to Submit!

Again, many thanks for the wonderful response to Clockhouse Volume Five.  There’s still time to submit for publication in Volume Six:  The submissions period is open through December 1, 2017.  Please feel free to share this Call for Submissions, and please visit the Clockhouse website for submissions guidelines, for excerpts from the current issue, and to purchase… Continue reading CLOCKHOUSE Volume Six: There’s Still Time to Submit!

How Are You, My Fellow Writer?

How are you, my fellow writer? This past spring, at my annual physical exam, I was given a questionnaire I was to fill and hand to the nurse before proceeding to the doctor’s office. I have been with the same practitioners since 2009, and this was the first time they asked about my emotional well-being.

Goddard MFA Alumna Julia Bouwsma Wins Poets Out Loud Prize

Goddard MFA alumna Julia Bouwsma‘s Midden, her second book of poems, was selected by Afaa Michael Weaver, for the Poets Out Loud Prize.  Midden will be published by Fordham University Press in Fall 2018. In Midden, Bouwsma writes about the forcible eviction of an interracial community that until 1912 live on a small island off the coast… Continue reading Goddard MFA Alumna Julia Bouwsma Wins Poets Out Loud Prize

Goddard MFA Faculty Jan Clausen’s “Against Literary Nationalism”

Goddard MFA faculty member Jan Clausen‘s  essay “Against Literary Nationalism” has been published in Jacobin Magazine. In the essay, based on thoughts from a post on the Goddard MFA blog The Writer in the World , Clausen writes, “Writers in the U.S. must embrace traditions of radical dissent — not American exceptionalism — if they want to resist… Continue reading Goddard MFA Faculty Jan Clausen’s “Against Literary Nationalism”

The CLOCKHOUSE Folio

It’s a bit of legal language between the covers:  “Clockhouse is a national literary journal published in partnership with Goddard College by the Clockhouse Writers’ Conference, the alumni association of Goddard’s MFA in Creative Writing Program.”  This partnership is more than a formality, though:  it’s one graced by the advice, care, and hands-on-work of Clockhouse’s faculty… Continue reading The CLOCKHOUSE Folio

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

Another Sneak Preview: CLOCKHOUSE Volume Four!

CLOCKHOUSE Volume Four will be presented to the CWC and MFAW community at a Preview Reading and Celebration during the Clockhouse Writers’ Conference & Retreat, and it will be published in July.   To give a sense of what we can all look forward to, here’s CLOCKHOUSE Editorial Director Sarah Cedeño’s introductory note to the… Continue reading Another Sneak Preview: CLOCKHOUSE Volume Four!

Publication as Incubation

by Sarah Cedeño, Editorial Director of Clockhouse   I write this in the final days of May. The upcoming issue of Clockhouse, to be released in July, has been long in the works, but longer than our talented staff of nonfiction, fiction, dramatic and poetry editors know, longer than our design and production editor knows,… Continue reading Publication as Incubation

Political Incorrectness: History in the Family

Today it’s popular to say that political correctness is destroying America, but a recently discovered set of century-old clippings offer a cautionary reminder of what our country was like without political correctness. Goddard MFA faculty member Aimee Liu’s opinion piece about political correctness and her family history was published in the LA Times on March 27.

And have you read… The Glass Jar? Poet’s Resume (An excerpt)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN

Port, starboard, forward, aft, bow, stern, fo’c’sle, lazarette, half hitch, clove hitch, bowline, lovers knot, freeboard, false deck, fairlead, deck-winch, vanging-winch, picking boom, power block, davit, dump-box, buoy stick, PTO, chiller, seacock, shaft, rudder, keel, magnetic north, true north, degrees of variation, aurora borealis, bio luminescence, Morning Star.

And have you read…Fire Sale? (an excerpt)

Goddard MFA alumna Brianna Johnson’s thesis, Fire Sale, was recently published as a digital chapbook with Essay Press. Here’s how it begins: “I come from whiteness, which is not innocent. If I speak of things which cause intense pain, it is because I have felt pain because of them. Not feeling would cause greater pain to the memory of those brutalized. I don’t condone evil, but I acknowledge it. I am here to acknowledge it.”

And have you read… Guardians?

Guardians, the final installation in the young adult trilogy written by Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan, is coming out in paperback from HarperTeen later this month. TW:   What was the inspiration for the story?  Laurence and I watch a lot of old movies and had originally conceived of this as a kind of post-apocalyptic Western:… Continue reading And have you read… Guardians?

And have you read… Winner Take None?

Goddard MFAW alum Greg Comer’s Master’s Thesis Winner Take None as been published! The Writer caught up with Greg after he got done with the chores, in this case, feeding horses. TW: What was the impetus for this book? Serial failure. I could never figure out how to end a short story, or sustain a novel.… Continue reading And have you read… Winner Take None?