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 – […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
