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  • MFAW-VT Student Janet Colson’s Play

    • Categories News Flash, Student News

    MFAW-VT student Janet Colson’s short play “Janet and Rico’s Fabulous (Fictional) Adventure at Golden Harvest” was performed at Lansing’s Renegade Theatre Festival as a part of the Renegade Ruckus, a 24-hour playwriting marathon. Janet’s play was the final play of the …

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    Alchemy of the Word News

    • Categories announcements, Faculty News, News Flash

    In today’s Craft Book Spotlight, The Writer magazine gave our very own all-faculty compilation, Alchemy of the Word, a nice shout-out: “When National Book Award winner and acclaimed memoirist Maxine Hong Kingston praises a book, you sit up and pay …

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    MFAW Director, Elena Georgiou Interview in Bustle Magazine

    • Categories Faculty News, Interview, News Flash

    As one of the three finalists for the New American Voices Award, given by the Institute for Immigration Research, Elena was interviewed for the following article in Bustle Magazine.   From the website, here’s a little bit about the award: “The idea …

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    MFAW-VT Faculty Member Michael Klein on WGDR Talking Horses, Trash, Trump, Poetry

    • Categories Faculty News, Goddard Writers ALOUD, News Flash

    MFAW-VT faculty member Michael Klein’ interview on WGDR aka Goddard Radio is now available for your listening pleasure.

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    MFAW-VT Faculty Member Kyle Bass Commission

    • Categories Faculty News, News Flash

    MFAW-VT faculty member Kyle Bass’s play, Possessing Harriet, (commissioned by the Onondaga Historical Society and directed by Thazewell Thompson)  will be be performed at Syracuse Stage (at Syracuse University) from Oct 19 to Nov 4. One hundred seventy five years ago, in …

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    Congratulations to the Newest MFAW Alumni

    • Categories Clockhouse Writers Conference

    On behalf of the Clockhouse Writers’ Conference Board of Stewards and the alumni community of the Goddard College MFAW program, we want to extend our congratulations and warmest welcome to those who graduated during the recent Port Townsend residency:   …

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    It’s Here — CLOCKHOUSE Volume Six!

    • Categories Clockhouse Writers Conference

    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 Six.  Please visit the CLOCKHOUSE website for a glimpse of its contents, to place orders, …

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    MFAW-VT Student Steven Dunn’s New Book “Water & Power”

    • Categories News Flash, Student News

    MFAW-WA student Steven Dunn’s new book water & power is ready for pre-order at Tarpaulin Sky Press.  See description and blurb below.  This is one for the hybrid lovers.  Navy veteran Steven Dunn’s second novel, water & power, plunges into military culture and engages …

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    Between Yearning and Dread

    • Categories Thoughts and Musings

    Because Yearning and Dread is the theme of our upcoming Goddard residency, I’ve been thinking lately about the role these emotions play in my own writing, and as I look back over my fiction, particularly my novels, it seems pretty clear that the yearning and dread that fuel my work revolve around my parents.

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    A Farewell to Rebecca Brown–From Rebecca Brown

    • Categories Thoughts and Musings

    After almost twenty years of teaching in the MFA in Creative Writing program at Goddard, I am going to retire.  When I first started working at Goddard, there was one campus only, in Vermont.  I went to Plainfield, where I’d …

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    Wanderer in the Dark (an excerpt)

    • Categories Thoughts and Musings

    Wanderer was one of the last documented ships to carry an illegal cargo of slaves from Africa to the United States, landing at Jekyll Island, Georgia on November 28, 1858, arriving with some 400 slaves who survived the voyage from Angola.

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    On Writing, Politics, and the Tarot

    • Categories Thoughts and Musings

    What do writing, politics and the Tarot have in common? On November 7th, 2017, I was elected Town Supervisor of Pine Plains, New York.

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    Queering the MFA

    • Categories News Flash

    “Are you thinking about applying to an MFA program? Concerned about queer writing being taken seriously? My biggest advice is to figure out what is most important to you in your graduate studies.”…

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    The Pursuit of Mastery

    • Categories Thoughts and Musings

    I am a would-be artist, for now content in the sadistic pursuit of mastery.

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    Lust & Fun

    • Categories Thoughts and Musings

    Goddard College MFAW alum John Schmidtke:

    “Okay,” I said. “But just in case, what’s the residency’s theme?”

    “Lust and fun,” Elena said. 

    My foot came off the gas a bit.

    “Lust and fun?”  I asked.

     

    “Yes,” Elena said.

    Let me pause right here to confess that while I attended Goddard, lust took over my life.

    I cheated on my wife Mary almost every night for two years.

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    NYC Book Launch for Douglas A. Martin’s ACKER

    • Categories News Flash

    The NYC book launch for Goddard MFA faculty member Douglas A. Martin‘s new book Acker, will be held on Monday, November 20, 7pm, at Callicoon Fine Arts, 49 Delancey Street. The event will include readings by Wayne Koestenbaum, Dorothea Lasky, Douglas A. Martin, and Darcey …

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    No Slaveholders: A Commencement Address

    • Categories Thoughts and Musings

    This ain’t the Ivy League, there’s no huge endowment here, but there’s no slaveholders either.

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    Bring in a Friend of Goddard

    • Categories Clockhouse Writers Conference

    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 …

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    In The New York Times, Goddard Faculty Member, Kenny Fries asks: “What Kind of Society Do We Want to Be?

    • Categories News Flash

    Online today at The New York Times, Goddard MFA faculty member Kenny Fries asks:  “What kind of society do we want to be?” In “The Nazis’ First Victims Were the Disabled,” Kenny Fries writes about the echoes of the extermination of the “unfit” …

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    Goddard MFA Faculty Bhanu Kapil’s Poem in The Guardian

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    Goddard MFA faculty member Bhanu Kapil‘s “Poem Dictated to Eric Trump at 3.46am After a Marathon Video Binge of Twilight and its Two Sequels” was included in the The Guardian‘s 21 poems that Donald Trump might like to see at the base …

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