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MFA Creative Writing

Pandemic Theater? A Goddard Playwright Adjusts

Jake Shore’s newest play, Adjust The Procedure, is a work for the times. Held over a Zoom call, the four character play takes place within the bureaucratic infrastructure of a university. The summary: It’s early Fall 2020 and the pandemic consumes a Manhattan university. In addition to tracking rising cases of COVID on campus, the […]

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Q&A with author Matthew Quick

In 2018 Matthew Quick (MFAW ’07) was interviewed by Dustin Byerly (BA RUP ’01) for Clockworks magazine. Recently, I spoke with Matthew Quick (MFAW ’07) about his journey from high school teacher to award-winning author and the role Goddard played in his development as an author. Matthew Quick is the New York Times bestselling author […]

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Spotlight: Suli Holum, MFA in Creative Writing

Suli Holum was playing the role of Emilia in a production of Othello at the Lantern Theatre in Philadelphia when the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns began. After just two preview performances, the entire crew packed up and the curtain fell. The show never officially opened, and Suli was suddenly left wondering what to do when her […]

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Mike Alvarez’s Goddard Journey- The Paradox of Suicide & Creativity

Two-time Goddard graduate Mike Alvarez (IMA ’10, MFAW ’13) was awarded the prestigious Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. The fellowship honors and supports young New Americans – immigrants and children of immigrants—to use their graduate training in this country to make distinctive contributions to American life. Mike will receive up to $90,000 […]

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“The Day That You Bloom” a Commencement Address by Sherri L. Smith

Goddard MFAW Spring 2021 Commencement Speech by Sherri L. Smith (Transcript) Hi Everybody!  Welcome to commencement.  Okay, let’s just acknowledge it’s been a really weird week.  And a really weird year, and the year’s only just begun. I spent some time last weekend thinking about what I was going to say today.  And then Tuesday […]

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Goddard Collaboration Inspires Poetry Chapbook
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Goddard Collaboration Inspires Poetry Chapbook

From “Sea to Shining Sea” Poet and writer Synnika Lofton teaches Literature, creates poetry, and operates a music and media production company in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia. Donnelle McGee writes poetry, operates a small publisher, and teaches at Mission College in Santa Clara California. Both artists met in Vermont at Goddard College. While three thousand miles […]

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MFA Creative Writing

A List of Awards Granted to Goddard’s MFA in Creative Writing Faculty

The writers who teach in the Goddard MFA in Creative Writing Program have been published and produced internationally, and are recognized in their fields. They are active writers. Collectively, current and recent faculty members have published more than 150 books, had plays produced around the world, and won most of the major U.S. literary awards. […]

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MFA Creative Writing

BITING THROUGH: In recognition and celebration of Juneteenth

by Elena Georgiou  “I think we often think of freedom as a destination. Freedom as a noun, freedom as a settled place, freedom as being settled. And this image to me is very much in line with, I think what my understanding of freedom is. That it is constantly in motion. It’s constantly shifting. There is […]

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MFA Creative Writing

The Soft Parade: A Writer’s Response to COVID-19

While we all are destined to reach a point of stop-breath finality, our routes towards this summit traverse different topographies, navigate different twists of watercourse, and feel different illuminations of heat. Still, we mark similar paths: we all are, simply, in time, going to die. I think of this truth, in one way, as belonging […]

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MFA Creative Writing

An Epiphany of Hope: Sherri L. Smith’s Writing Process for “The Blossom and the Firefly”

Sherri L. Smith had been working on writing her Young Adult novel The Blossom and the Firefly. Late one evening, Sherri made a declaration to her husband. Three days before the editors deadline, she announced that she had just completed her first draft. But the conversation that followed made her rethink everything. In an interview […]

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