For those of you already registered to attend the Clockhouse Writers’ Conference & Retreat, here’s what awaits! And if you’re not signed up but would like to make a last-minute reservation to join us, there are still spaces available–please see the CWC website for information and registration materials. Monday, July 2 11:00 –… Continue reading What’s Happening at the CWC&R and One More Chance to Sign Up!
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CWC&R Visiting Professional & Visiting Writer Sessions
As always, the Clockhouse Writers’ Conference & Retreat will offer engaging and inspirational writing workshops, time for solitary writing, readings of participants’ work, and much more, including the annual Visiting Professional and Visiting Writer sessions, hosted by Goddard’s MFAW program and open to CWC&R participants. This year’s Visiting Writer will be Nick Flynn. Flynn has… Continue reading CWC&R Visiting Professional & Visiting Writer Sessions
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
The Schedule! Clockhouse Writers’ Conference & Retreat 2017
Clockhouse Writers’ Conference & Retreat July 3 – 7, 2017 Plainfield, Vermont This 2017 Clockhouse Writers’ Conference & Retreat schedule includes our time-honored traditions: Plenary Panel Presentation, Stations of the Word, craft-centered workshops, quiet times for writing, Works in Progress, a Preview Reading from CLOCKHOUSE Volume Five, and evening readings. It also includes an Anniversary… Continue reading The Schedule! Clockhouse Writers’ Conference & Retreat 2017
Last Call! Register Now for the Clockhouse Writers’ Conference & Retreat
The Registration for the Clockhouse Writers’ Conference & Retreat ends May 15, 2016! While it’s true we that we do take late registration if space permits, please do email co-coordinator Carolyn Bardos at cbardos@clockhouse.net if you’re still thinking of joining us. The conference occurs during the MFAW-VT residency and includes solitary time for writing; works-in-progress sessions… Continue reading Last Call! Register Now for the Clockhouse Writers’ Conference & Retreat
Play Submission Opportunities: An Interview with Graeme Gillis
by Rose Marie Sabangan, MFA Candidate Graeme Gillis, Artistic Director at New York’s Ensemble Studio Theater (EST), visited Goddard’s Plainfield campus on July 2, 2015. During a well-attended 3-hour exchange with MFA candidates in Dramatic Writing, Mr. Gillis presented and fielded student questions on play development opportunities available through EST. EST is located at 549… Continue reading Play Submission Opportunities: An Interview with Graeme Gillis
Ruth Ozeki’s reading at Goddard
As in, she DID read, and if you weren’t there but wish you were, here’s a video: Novelist and filmmaker Ruth Ozeki was our visiting writer at the MFA in Creative Writing Program’s spring 2015 residency in Vermont. Ozeki’s first two novels, My Year of Meats (1998) and All Over Creation (2003), have been translated… Continue reading Ruth Ozeki’s reading at Goddard
Writing residencies and retreats
Who’s been where, and which writing retreats do you recommend? Aerogramme’s new list of retreats for 2015 includes Hedgebrook, an oasis for women writers near and dear to my heart: hard to get into (with 1500 applications this year!) but worth reapplying for, since, once you are a Hedgebrook alumna, you have a family for… Continue reading Writing residencies and retreats
Ruth Ozeki to Goddard in January
We are thrilled that our Visiting Writer at the upcoming winter residency in Vermont will be novelist and filmmaker Ruth Ozeki. Ruth’s first two novels, My Year of Meats (1998) and All Over Creation (2003), have been translated into eleven languages and published in fourteen countries. Her most recent work, A Tale for the Time… Continue reading Ruth Ozeki to Goddard in January
Alum Charlie Bondhus returns in January
Poet and Goddard College alumnus Charlie Bondhus (MFAW ’05) reads from his work on Friday, January 9th at 7 pm. Free and open to the public. Presented by the MFA in Creative Writing Program’s Alumni Reader Series. Charlie Bondhus’s second book, All the Heat We Could Carry, won the 2013 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award and… Continue reading Alum Charlie Bondhus returns in January
Alum Mary Johnson talks memoir With Rahna Reiko Rizzuto and Kenny Fries
During our recent residency, alumna Mary Johnson, author of An Unquenchable Thirst: Following Mother Teresa in Search of Love, Service, and an Authentic Life, joined faculty members Kenny Fries and Reiko Rizzuto at Goddard’s Plainfield, Vermont campus on 1/10/12 to discuss approaches and experiences to developing a memoir. Transformation: From Personal Experience to Published Memoir from… Continue reading Alum Mary Johnson talks memoir With Rahna Reiko Rizzuto and Kenny Fries