Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing

Congratulations to Stonecoast alum Jennifer Clement whose book Prayers for the Stolen (Hogarth) is a finalist for the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award.

"I have a list of writers that I learned from myself, as a writer. Le Guin is one of the most important of them." - Faculty member Theodora Goss

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Faculty member Thedora Goss explains how she finds time to write despite teaching full-time at Boston University and part-time in the Stonecoast MFA program.

Faculty member Aaron Hamburger writes about his winter survival skills during the last residency for Matador Network.

"Suspense comes from things we don’t understand: we start by not knowing what a hobbit is, and we end by not knowing what the adventure is. And so we begin our story." - Theodora Goss Faculty member Theodora Goss writes about setting in The Hobbit. Read the full post at the Stonecoast Faculty Blog.

The Library of Congress will award the 2014 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry to Patricia Smith for her book "Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah."

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Stonecoast student Robin Clifford Wood describes her experience at Stonecoast Ireland in a story for the Bangor Daily News.

Author Daniel A. Olivas interviews Stonecoast alumna Cindy Williams Gutiérrez about her debut collection "The Small Claim of Bones" (Bilingual Review Press).