Goddard College

Apply
  1. Home›
  2. Goddard Blog›
  3. Bachelor Degrees›

BFA Creative Writing

PEN PR Image
BFA Creative Writing

Goddard College and North American PEN Centers Partner for Creative Writing Scholarships

The Goddard College / PEN North America partnership provides one $10,000 scholarship to an MFA applicant in Creative Writing who is a member of PEN America, PEN Canada, or PEN Mexico. Additionally, North American PEN members who are admitted to Goddard’s MFA in Creative Writing Program, but who do not receive the Goddard/PEN North American […]

Read more
BFA Creative Writing

Goddard faculty member Arisa White a Lambda Literary Award finalist

PLAINFIELD, Vt. – Arisa White, a faculty member in Goddard’s BFA in Creative Writing Program, is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her collection, You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened (Augury, 2016), is one eight books nominated for the Lesbian Poetry prize. Lambda Literary, the nation’s oldest and largest literary arts organization advancing […]

Read more
BFA Creative Writing

Fall 2016 Newsletter

In the introduction to his stunning book of essays, Known and Strange Things, Teju Cole comments on how his journalism and essay writing have allowed him to explore his passions. He says, “Through the act of writing, I was able to find out what I knew…, what I was able to know, and where the […]

Read more
BFA Creative Writing

Fall 2016 Commencement Address by Arisa White

“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.” – Cornel West Faculty member Arisa White delivered this commencement address to the Fall 2016 graduates of the Undergraduate Studies and BFA in Creative Writing programs on September 18th, 2016. Thank you to the graduating class for inviting me to be your commencement speaker. […]

Read more
BFA Creative Writing

Writing From Home

This blog post was prompted by the following question asked by alumna Kat Richardson (BFAW ’15): Q: [What are] the benefits of writing from home (which I’m not feeling right now)? The reason I chose Knox over Goddard initially was because I wanted the experience of living in the middle of all those resources. I […]

Read more
BFA Creative Writing

BFAW Program Launches DUENDE Literary Journal

What is Duende? 1) “A sort of corkscrew that can get art into the sensibility of an audience…it climbs up inside you, from the soles of the feet,” wrote poet Federico García Lorca in 1933, in “Theory and Play of the Duende.” 2) A new, all-online, national literary journal, produced by students in Goddard’s BFA […]

Read more
BFA Creative Writing

BFA Faculty Poetry Reading: PoemCity 2014

Watch this video of BFA in Creative Writing faculty members Michael Leong, Michael Vizsolyi, Arisa White, and Wendy Call, and Program Director Janet Sylvester, reading original work as well as translations at this PoemCity 2014 event at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier, Vermont here. Thanks to ORCA Media for this video coverage.

Read more
BFA Creative Writing

BFA News & Achievements – Spring 2014

Welcome to our Spring 2014 BFA in Creative Writing eNewsletter! The students and faculty of our wonderful program have been busy since the fall residency.  Here’s a run-down of recent publications, readings, collaborations, and general literary accomplishments: STUDENTS Cerridwin Aker has received a full scholarship to study nonfiction at the 27th annual Fishtrap Writers Conference […]

Read more
BFA Creative Writing

To Celebrate Walter’s Life

To celebrate Walter Butts, I want to write specific things about what it was like to work with him. Here is a sentence that I have found myself saying over and over since he passed away: Walter Butts was one of the best colleagues I ever had. Walter could be counted on to speak his […]

Read more
BFA Creative Writing

Poetry & Symbolism

  Here is the solitude from from which you are absent. It is raining.  The sea wind is hunting stray gulls.                                                                         — Pablo Neruda   Every day, we encounter symbols that help redefine the world around us and our place in it.  Pablo Neruda was a poet acutely aware of this dynamic, and his […]

Read more
Next Page

Goddard College

Education for real living, through facing real life problems as an essential part of the program.

123 Pitkin Road
Plainfield, Vermont 05667
1-800-468-4888

© 2023 Goddard College

  • Cafe
  • Board of Trustees
  • Admission Events
  • Consumer Information
  • Explore Goddard College
  • Accreditation and Approvals
  • Employment Opportunities
  • Goddard Blog
  • Goddard College Directory
  • Contact Information
  • Policies
  • Sitemap
Find Goddard on Facebook Find Goddard on Twitter Find Goddard on YouTube Find Goddard on Instagram Find Goddard on LinkedIn
Directory Library IT GNet Give SIS Alumni Canvas

Goddard College

Find Goddard on Facebook Find Goddard on Twitter Find Goddard on YouTube Find Goddard on Instagram Find Goddard on LinkedIn
  • Undergraduate Degrees
  • Graduate Degrees
  • Concentrations
  • About Goddard
    • Accreditation and Approvals
    • Explore Goddard College
    • Employment Opportunities
    • Locations and Program Offerings
    • Mission
    • Partnerships
    • Policies
    • President’s Office
    • The Goddard Difference
  • Admissions
    • Accepted Students Page
    • Admission Events
    • Admissions Scholarships
    • Application Instructions
    • Contact Admissions
    • Deadlines
    • Financial Aid
    • Graduate Admissions
    • Transfer Policy
    • Tuition and Fees
    • Undergraduate Admissions
  • Current Students
    • Academic Affairs
    • Access & Disability Support
    • Campus Services
    • Community Life
    • Registrar’s Office
    • Student Handbooks
    • Student Life
    • Student Services
  • Blog
  • Events
  • Alumni
    • Get Involved
    • Stay Connected
    • Clockworks Magazine
    • Alumni Update Form
    • Alumni Weekend
    • Ordering a Transcript
    • Refer a Student