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Posted February 18, 2013
Aaron Hamburger demonstrates how remembering your high school crush can help you build character in your stories-this week on the Stonecoast Faculty Blog.
Posted February 11, 2013
"And would that trust differ from the usual writerly appeal of winter—you know, the hush of snowy, shortened days, the notion of holing up, undistracted, and cranking out those pages that need a cocoon in which to grow?”
- Barbara Hurd on “The Mind in Winter”, this week on the Stonecoast Faculty Blog. Read the full post at http://wp.me/p2AKyu-6K.
Posted February 7, 2013
1962. America’s postwar innocence teeters on the brink of a massive culture change: racial integration, feminism, school prayer, Vietnam, Bob Dylan and The Beatles, the birth control pill… Such is the world surrounding DUCK AND COVER, a new play by York playwright/novelist and Stonecoast Faculty member, Michael Kimball. Click on the link for further details.
Posted February 1, 2013
Publication Announcements and Updates from alumni and students, and a call for submissions from the Northern Writes Festival. Click the link to read full details.
Posted January 30, 2013
People turn to poetry at moments of personal and communal importance: tragedies such as 9-11, weddings, the dedications of monuments—and, yes, presidential inaugurations.
Continue reading at Stonecoast Faculty Blog: www.stonecoastfacultyblog.com
Posted January 18, 2013
Faculty member Tony Barnstone’s CD “Tokyo’s Burning,” is out now. Find it on Amazon, Spotify, or cdbaby.com.
Posted January 11, 2013
This week on the Stonecoast Faculty blog we take a behind-the-scenes look at a residency. Photos by alumna Helen Peppe.
Posted January 7, 2013
Congratulations to Stonecoast student Katie Bickham, winner of The Missouri Review 2012 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize for Poetry.
Posted January 2, 2013
Publication Announcements and Updates for alumni Eric M. Bosarge, Jennifer Marie Brissett, Libby Cudmore, Matthew Quinn Martin, Lesley Heiser, Karen Pullen, Jacob Strunk, and Dominic Aulisio, students Sheila Boneham and Magdalen Braden, and faculty member Nancy Holder.
Posted December 20, 2012
NBC's Petside.com, a website dedicated to "improving the world for pets and their owners," has compiled their top 10 dog books of 2012. Coming in at number eight is Stonecoast student Sheila Webster Boneham and her novel "Drop Dead on Recall."
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