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 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

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

The Lighthouse Writers’ Conference & Retreat

It’s finally here!  We’re thrilled to announce that registration is open for the inaugural session of the Lighthouse Writers’ Conference & Retreat (LWC&R), which will be held February 12 through 15, 2016.   This is an opportunity to revitalize your own work amid the richness of Goddard’s Port Townsend MFAW community at Fort Worden while… Continue reading The Lighthouse Writers’ Conference & Retreat

CLOCKHOUSE Submissions Period & A Past Work of Fiction

The countdown continues:  There are only seventeen days left in CLOCKHOUSE‘s submissions period!  CLOCKHOUSE publishes Creative Non-Fiction, Drama, Fiction, and Poetry; submissions guidelines can be found at CLOCKHOUSE’s website, as can excerpts from the first three volumes. One of the writers you’ll find on that website is Dave Kim, whose short story “The Hobbyist,” was… Continue reading CLOCKHOUSE Submissions Period & A Past Work of Fiction

MFAW-VT Alumni News!

MFAW-VT Alum (’14), Kelly Avery’s essay, “How to Wait for Morning” was published in The Quotable which then nominated the essay for a Pushcart Prize.In October, Kelly signed with agent Michelle Johnson of Inklings Literary, who will represent the novel that started as her Goddard thesis. Congratulations, Kelly!

Faculty, Student and Alumni Achievements, July-August 2014

FACULTY Ryan Boudinot‘s story “Readers and Writers,” originally published in Post Road and nominated for a Pushcart Prize, is a story of the month on the Committee Room. An interview with Ryan appears in the inaugural issue of online magazine Moss. Deborah Brevoort’s backstage farce The Velvet Weapon was produced at the Trustus Theatre in… Continue reading Faculty, Student and Alumni Achievements, July-August 2014