Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing

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).

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Bobbie Ford, an independent publisher and student at the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing, announced the publication of a literary anthology, which will serve as a tribute to the Stone House in Freeport, Maine.

Stonecoast faculty member Nancy Holder has been named the New Vice President of the Horror Writers Association.

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Join us as we shine a light on acts of genocide and compassion, on human grief and hope. Art, music and poetry will also be part of this special evening to build deeper understanding and call Maine people to action.

PORTLAND, Maine – A digital, daily culture and lifestyle magazine based out of New York City has listed the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program as one of 15 “LGBTQ-friendly graduate programs in creative writing” in the U.S.