Stonecoast Programs
in Creative Writing
at the University of Southern Maine

Events

  • USM Reading Series
  • O'Brien Annual Lecture Series
  • Celebrate Writers!
  • Planetarium Poetry Readings
  • Stonecoast MFA residency public readings

 

Stonecoast MFA
find your voice on the coast of Maine

A nationally-renowned, innovative two-year low-residency program offering the MFA degree in creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and popular fiction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stonecoast Writers Conference
imagine a week to write

For more than thirty years, connecting motivated students with talented writers and teachers. Workshops offered in poetry, memoir, short fiction, and novel. Stope stealing time to write and buy yourself a whole week.

Recent Visitors

Frank Bidart
Carolyn Chute
Alison Hawthorne Deming
Stephen Dunn
Martin Espada


Carolyn Forche
Jorie Graham
Terrance Hayes
Nalo Hopkinson
Fanny Howe

Lisa Jarnot
James Howard Kunstler
Joyce Maynard
Marilyn Nelson
Katha Pollitt

Joan Retallack
Christopher Ricks
Michael Steinberg
Jean Valentine