Alumna Teresa Mei Chuc (MFAW ’12) founded Shabda Press in 2011, and has since published some Goddardites – Sayra Pinto (MFAW ’11), Susan Deer Cloud (MFAW ’11), and David Giver (MFAW ’11). David’s new book I Still Remember the Last Time
On March 15, Port Townsend MFA faculty member Aimee Liu will interview Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi about her new book Love, Loss, and What We Ate. This vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, traces the arc of
Goddard MFA in Creative Writing alumna (’14) alumna Dawn Renee Jones is the winner of the Southern Rep Theatre’s 2015 Ruby Prize for her play, A Heap See. Named in honor of American activist Ruby Bridges, the Ruby Prize is presented annually
FACULTY: Port Townsend MFA faculty member Darrah Cloud’s play for young people, JOAN THE GIRL OF ARC, will be published in the March issue of Dramatics Magazine. Darrah is also producing the 6th Annual 10-Minute Play Festival for Half Moon
One of our newest faculty members in Port Townsend, Sherri L. Smith, has written the article, Brown Girl Dreaming: Entering the Twilight Zone with Jacqueline Woodson and the Dalai Lama, which was published by the National Book Foundation in celebration of Black
MFAW-VT faculty member Deborah Brevoort has been named a finalist for the Pellicciotti Opera Composition Prize with composer Patrick Soluri for their opera of Albert Nobbs. The competition, which is held by the Crane Opera Ensemble and the Crane School of Music seeks to encourage the creation
FACULTY: For the 20th Anniversary of its annual New PlayFest, Key City Public Theatre in Port Townsend has invited Darrah Cloud, MFA in Creative Writing Faculty member, to be its guest playwright. Darrah will be teaching two workshops in addition
Port Townsend faculty member Micheline Aharoninan Marcom has put her writing skills towards developing the following new site whose focus is on Social Justice as it pertains to unaccompanied Central American minors living in Oakland who came as part of the
FACULTY: Vermont faculty member Deborah Brevoort‘s opera STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME, written with Gerald Cohen, is one of the winner’s of the 2016 Frontiers Competition at Fort Worth Opera. Frontiers, which presents “the best and brightest new voices in opera” has
Vermont faculty member John McManus’s new collection of short stories Fox Tooth Heart has been selected by the American Booksellers Association as an Indie Next Pick for December 2015, and is a finalist for Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the
FACULTY: Vermont faculty member Jan Clausen signed a contract with Seven Stories Press for the re-issue of her 1999 memoir Apples and Oranges: My Journey Through Sexual Identity. The Los Angeles Times called Apples and Oranges “a wonderful meditation on the nature of desire,”
MFAW-VT alumnus Donnelle McGee has a new novel Ghost Man. You can order his book and/or catch Donnelle reading at the venues listed below. Donnelle stopped by the Goddard MFA in Creative Writing’s blog, The Writer in the World, to talk
Deborah Brevoort, a faculty member in Goddard’s MFA in Creative Writing Program, is the winner of the 2015 Liberty Live commission, a partnership between Premiere Stages and the Liberty Hall Museum in Union, New Jersey, to commission a new play
Deborah Brevoort, a faculty member in Goddard’s MFA in Creative Writing Program, is the winner of the 2015 Liberty Live commission, a partnership between Premiere Stages and the Liberty Hall Museum in Union, New Jersey, to commission a new play
Faculty Deborah Brevoort and Stephanie Salzman have been awarded a grant from the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust for Crossing Over, their Amish Hip Hip musical. The trust was founded in 2001 to assist musical theatre writers launch new projects. The grant will
Congratulations to Pat Valdata (MFAW ’91) who, with Jeff Hardin, has won the Donald Justice Prize for poetry in 2015. Each will receive a $1,000 prize and their books will be published by West Chester University. The competition, for a
By MFA in Creative Writing Faculty Advisor Darrah Cloud (BA ’78) February 15, 2015 Today you are graduating from Goddard College. I take this very seriously because I too graduated from Goddard College. So did my sister, who runs
Part of the MFA in Creative Writing Program Visiting Writer Series Plainfield, Vt. –Goddard College today announced novelist and filmmaker Ruth Ozeki will be the visiting writer for its MFA in Creative Writing Program’s spring 2015 residency in Vermont. Ozeki’s
Faculty Jan Clausen‘s poem “The Wave That Is the Motion of the World” appears in Drunken Boat 20. Her book, Veiled Spill: A Sequence, is now available from SPD and Amazon. Better yet, order directly from GenPop Books, which is
Writer, Director and Producer Todd Haynes has received numerous honors for directing and writing all of his films. “Far From Heaven” garnered Academy Award, Golden Globe and WGA nominations for Best Screenplay as well as nominations from the Chicago Film