Finding The Words

Alumni News, Thoughts and Musings

On deep grief and finding the words… By Carolyn Bardos My relationship with language used to be sweet and easy. Thoughts came, I wrote them down, said them aloud, played around with structure, voice, and perspective. In recent years, though, certain life events...

NEWS FROM MFAW STUDENT LUCY SNYDER!!

News Flash, Student News

Lucy Snyder was a participating author at the Ohioana Book Festival last week and and was on two panel discussions: “In Brief: Essays, Poems, and Short Stories” and “Publishing: Everything You Wanted to Know”. And her short story...

When Play Leads to a Poetry Warning

Alumni News, Thoughts and Musings

By Cody Pherigo Diane Ackerman explores the history and deeper workings of play and how it is entangled with the creative process in her book Deep Play. She opens with a definition and a premise: PLAY. It is an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and...

Ask Mr. Cosmology at Science Comedy Night

Goddard Writers ALOUD

  Ask Mr. Cosmology, Goddard Faculty member Richard Panek’s humorous column from The Last Word On Nothing, was read by the author at Science Comedy night on March 27, 2015.  For more on the column, check out the link above, or search this site for reposts...

Quest Writer’s Conference 2015

Alumni News, announcements, News Flash

The Quest Writer’s Conference 2015 launches this June, founded by Goddard alum Jessamyn Smyth. Dates for the conference will be June 21-28 in Squamish, British Columbia (just north of Vancouver). They are rapidly approaching the application deadline of May 1st...