We are delighted to announce that Goddard recently received an anonymous gift of $200,000 (plus an additional $30,000 to cover grant administration costs) to establish an emergency fund for students in the MFA in Writing Program. MFAW students will be able to
Goddard’s Performance Creation Concentration is the first low-residency program in the country designed specifically for theater artists, choreographers, musicians, or other artists working specifically in performance creation. PLAINFIELD, Vt. – Stephanie Batten Bland is the founder and artistic director of Company
You asked for them: Those moving, inspiring, thought-provoking keynote and graduation lectures that you couldn’t stop thinking about. At the residencies for the Goddard MFA in Creative Writing program, “Can I get a copy of that?” is an even more
By Patricia Connelly The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of its Parts–A Two-Part Blog At one of our group advising meetings during the June residency in Vermont, Deborah Brevoort suggested we all read one or two of the same
by Christine Kalafus Last spring I received an unexpected email from the outgoing Editor-in-Chief of The Pitkin Review. It read: “I wanted to ask if you’d be interested in filling the position of Editor-in-Chief next semester.” I nearly
Deadline to apply for both campuses is December 1st Yes, you can come back! We have a new Post Graduate Semester (PGS) option for MFAW alums who want professional feedback in a community atmosphere as they revise, complete, and polish a
Next year Goddard College will offer a new MFA scholarship in partnership with PEN Center USA. The recipient of this $10,000 award will be selected from applicants who have previously been PEN USA Emerging Voices fellows. The scholarship is intended
Calling all Goddard College Faculty and Alums who will be attending AWP this year! As members of this elite squad, you are invited to our reception, to be held at the Conference. This is a great way to catch up with
An Interview by Beatrix Gates Vermont Graphic Novel faculty Rachel Pollack and Susan Kim attended the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) Fest with MFA Graphic Novel grads Anne Bean and Ryan Wynns, ’13, see pix below.
The teaching practicum is one of the cornerstones of Goddard’s MFA. Students graduate from Goddard having developed and conducted a writing workshop in their communities. As she gets ready for her own practicum, current student Catherine Aarts is reading Wallace
Goddard Port Townsend faculty member Aimee Liu will be at AWP with Acting Program Director Elena Georgiou in Minneapolis, April 8-11. Come say hello at Goddard’s Booth — #720. Aimee will also be reading at AROHO’s Night of “Glittering, Vocal Expansiveness”
The Port Townsend residency, happening now, is excited to be welcoming two of our Vermont alumni, Mary Johnson and Cara Hoffman, who will be reading and doing workshops Monday through Thursday next week. The readings are open to the public,
Novelist and documentary filmmaker Laleh Khadivi is joining the faculty in Port Townsend this semester. Introducing herself in her own words, Laleh writes: “I came to literature through film. My documentary work has focused on the criminal justice system and
winter garden at GoddardGoddard silo in the snowgoddard as narnia New students on campus today for the winter residency. Snow on the ground; mini writing retreats on the new schedule; plus the return of Rebecca Brown, John McManus,
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
Wendy Goldberg, Artistic Director National Playwright’s Conference, will be joining us at the next Vermont residency, on January 6th (1:15pm to 3:00pm) for a discussion on The O’Neill Development Process at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre center, one of the nation’s premiere new
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
On November 1st, a new national literary journal was born. Clockhouse was the dream of two of my master’s degree candidates in the MFA in Creative Writing program my very first semester teaching at Goddard. Led by a group of alumni,