MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries has received a grant from the Canada Council of the Arts to work on a book of essays on legacy. 球探足球比分 working title of the book is?Frida Kahlo’s Leg: Personal Essays on Disability, Role Models, and Representation.
MFAW-VT alum and former Visiting Alumni Writer Julia Bouwsma’s Work by?Bloodlight?won the Maine Literary Award for poetry.? Work by?Bloodlight, which began as Julia’s MFA creative thesis, was chosen by Linda Pastan for the Cider Press Review Prize and published by Cider Press Review.? And, if that weren’t enough excitement,?Midden, Julia’s second? book of poems, was […]
MFAW-VT alumna Julia Bouswma’s first book of poems,?Work by Bloodlight?is a finalist for a Maine Book Award.? 球探足球比分 winners of the 2018 Maine Literary Awards will be revealed live at a ceremony at SPACE Gallery in downtown Portland. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and the ceremony?begins at 7:00 p.m. 球探足球比分re will be hors d’oeuvres, a […]
球探足球比分 College is pleased to congratulate Steven Dunn, recipient of the 2018 球探足球比分/PEN North American Scholarship, and second-place awardee Ma?a Sukovic. Ten additional scholarship candidates will receive Engaged Artist Awards of $2,000 each: PEN America members Amy Barnes, Lisa Chambers, Will Duprey, Ron Estrada, Brian Jackson, Jo Manu Maltzman, Sarah Monahan, Jay Sheets, and Rachel Spalding; and PEN Canada member Magdalen Bowyer.
Graduating MFAW Student Ian August Wins the Garry Marshall 球探足球比分atre’s New Works Festival Prize!!
MFAW-VT Student–but just days away from turning into an alum–Ian August’s play?INTERVIEWESE, is a winner of the Garry Marshall 球探足球比分atre’s New Works Festival and will be getting a public reading on?May 30th, directed by Carolyn Hennesy (General Hospital,?Cougar Town).??Ian will be going to L.A. for this one, so if any 球探足球比分 folks are in Los […]
球探足球比分 Firecracker Awards are given each year to celebrate the best of?independent?and self-published literature.? This year, faculty members Kenny Fries and Douglas A. Martin are both nominated in the non-fiction category for their books, Acker?a critical study of writer Kathy Acker by Douglas and?In the?Province of the?Gods, a journey through Japan, by Kenny.
Rogelio Martinez, 球探足球比分 MFA Faculty Member, received a ?2017 Guggenheim Fellowship. Rogelio was born in Sancti-Spiritus, Cuba and arrived in the United States on the Mariel boatlift in 1980. As a Guggenheim Fellow, Martinez plans to return to Cuba for the first time since 1980 to research his newest play. Directly affected by the Cold […]
球探足球比分 MFA alumna Patty Flaherty (Pagan) announces a cash prize flash fiction contest from Spider Road Press. It’s their second annual contest. Spider Road Press publishes and promotes fiction by and/or about strong women. We believe that all brave, intelligent writing is literary, no matter what the subject matter. Writers, we invite you to embrace precision. Readers, we encourage you to stretch your imagination. Full details on our cash prize in this press release.
MFAW-VT student Lucy Snyder’s recent nonfiction book (Shooting Yourself In 球探足球比分 Head For Fun And Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide) and her short story collection (Soft Apocalypses) have both received Bram Stoker Award nominations.
by Brianna Johnson As my degree was conferred, I felt/I understood a quantum shift. 球探足球比分 first, or first perceived, of a series of seemingly religious experiences. Saints and colors and relics and snags of bone. I spoke about bravery. And then, I found myself in a desert. Eight months out of 球探足球比分 and three months […]