Registration for the 2018 Clockhouse Writers’ Conference and Retreat is open through May 15th–register today to reserve your place! Registration information and materials are available at the CWC website.

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 […]

Back by popular demand! It’s time to register for the third annual Lighthouse Writers Conference and Retreat (LWC&R). At last year’s closing session, attendees unanimously clamored “more, more!” – so don’t be left out! Come together with Goddard writing colleagues and with your own writer-self to revitalize your work in the richness of Goddard’s Port […]

Many thanks for the wonderful response to Clockhouse Volume Five. The submissions period for Clockhouse Volume Six 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 copies.

by Lucy Turner Next summer it will be twenty years since I first set foot on Goddard’s campus as a new MFAW student. I thought I was signing up for a two-year experience that would yield both a terminal degree and a sharper sense of what I needed to do to develop as a writer. […]

CWC Is Pleased to Announce The Lighthouse Writers’ Conference & Retreat in will take place in Port Townsend from February 16 – 19, 2018. Registration for this C&R will be open from October 15, 2017 – January 15, 2018; and The Clockhouse Writers’ Conference & Retreat will take place in Plainfield, Vermont, from July 2 […]

Clockhouse, the national literary journal published by the Clockhouse Writers’ Conference in partnership with Goddard College, is extremely pleased to announce the publication of Volume Five and to offer a few excerpts here. We hope you’ll visit the Clockhouse website for a further glimpse of Volume Five contents, to purchase copies, and to find […]

Clockhouse, the national literary journal published by the Clockhouse Writers’ Conference in partnership with Goddard College, is extremely pleased to announce the publication of Volume Five. Please visit the Clockhouse website for a glimpse of its contents, to place orders, and to find information about submitting work for next year’s Volume Six!

On behalf of the Clockhouse Writers’ Conference Board of Stewards and the alumni community of the Goddard College MFAW program, I want to extend my congratulations and warmest welcome to those who graduate during the current Port Townsend residency: Ariel Basom Bronwynn Dean Sam Gritt Carol Harblin Elizabeth Heckman Meghan O’Neil Jalyn Powell Tawnya Renelle […]

Driver’s Seat I had a difficult time learning to drive. For sixteen years I had sat in the back seat reading while others mysteriously conveyed me to my destinations, so I arrived unprepared to the front left quadrant of the car. I couldn’t even see the terrain properly. The car needed to be in the […]