Goddard’s Port Townsend MFA faculty member Aimee Liu will be interviewing Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi on Tuesday, March 15, in Los Angeles about her new book Love, Loss, and What We Ate. This vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, traces the arc of Lakshmi’s unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated life in front of the camera—a tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichl’s Tender at the Bone and Nora Ephron’s Heartburn.
2015 Ruby Prize Winner
Goddard MFA alumna (’14) Dawn Renee Jones is the winner of the Southern Rep Theatre’s 2015 Ruby Prize for her play, A Heap See. Jones will receive a $10,000 cash prize, as well as a ten-day writer’s residency at Hedgebrook and a workshop and reading of her play in New York City. The 2015 Ruby Prize review panel included nationally recognized theatre makers such as Maria Goyanes, Daniel Alexander Jones, and Niegel Smith. Panelists responded to the intrepid, theatrically adventurous worlds of winner’s and finalists’ work.
2016 Spider’s Web Flash Fiction Prize
Goddard 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.
#Goddard2Goddard #SpacePoetry
Attention Goddard MFA students and alumni! Have you ever imagining your poetry sailing among the stars? NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center wants your artwork, poetry, short prose, videos, and songs on board their OSIRIS-REx spacecraft bound for the asteroid Bennu. And so we thought…Goddard and Goddard! We’d love to see what sparks in your imagination when you consider exploration, the universe, and the essence of the human spirit.
In the Inbox
from the indomitable AMY KING, who visited us in Plainfield a few residencies back. VIDA is currently seeking submissions & we would love to hear from you! Please see our submission guidelines for pitches & articles & anything else you have in mind -...
The MFAW Post-Graduate Semester
Deadline to apply for both campuses is December 1st Yes, you can come back! We have a new Post Graduate Semester (PGS) option for MFAW alums who want professional feedback in a community atmosphere as they revise, complete, and polish a writing project. Or begin a new...
Don’t Write?!?!
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto talks strategies to free yourself from the stranglehold our society's consumer priorities may be having on your writing today on Hedgebrook's blog: "I’ve been thinking a lot about being a writer in this world. Not about the need to raise our...
“Never Forget” by Emily Stern
As yet another anniversary of September 11th passes, and as we continue to face heartbreak and trauma as a nation from unfathomable acts of violence, we invite you to read this recent article, Never Forget, published on Entropy, by Goddard alumna Emily Stern. Emily...
Em Bowen on Marriage Equality
When the Supreme Court issued its historic decision affirming marriage equality on June 26, the MFAW-VT residency had just gotten underway. Taking time out from her G-4 study planning, Em Bowen answered a request from the National Journal for an opinion piece...
Kick off July with Dani Shapiro
Dani Shapiro will be joining the summer residency in Vermont! Join us on Wednesday, July 1st at 7 pm in the Haybarn Theater for a reading and booksigning, courtesy of our Visiting Writer series. Open to the public. And don't forget, if you are an alumni of the MFAW...
