Stonecoast Programs
in Creative Writing
at the University of Southern Maine

Stonecoast MFA   Stonecoast Writers Conference Vising Writers

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Events

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

News

~National Book Award Finalist Frank Bidart reads at USM
~Stonecoast MFA alum Patricia Smith ~Joins the MFA faculty and is named a Finalist for the National Book Award
~Stonecoast MFA announces new focus on Writing Nature

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~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