On Saturday September 14 at 7pm, MFAW-WA faculty member Beatrix Gates and MFAW-VT alum Julia Bouwsma will read their poetry and be in conversation about the rewards of using research in writing and the long poem at The Cannery, 207 Southern Bay Road, Penobscot, Maine....
MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries's essay, "The Nazis' First Victims Were the Disabled," is included in About Us: Essays from The New York Times Disability Series, edited by Peter Catapano and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. The anthology collects essays originally...
MFAW-VT faculty member Sherri L. Smith's comic book series Avatar: Tsu'tey's Path concluded last week with issue #6, "The Last Shadow." The series is a retelling of James Cameron's 2009 blockbuster movie, told from the point of view of the Na'vi warrior, Tsu'tey. ...
MFAW-VT student Lisa Chambers had an essay published about her grandmother's killing, an unsolved murder that happened 50 years ago, in the Winston-Salem Journal. The essay is based on her Goddard thesis. You can read the essay here.
MFAW-VT faculty member Richard Panek's "Bridging the Binary Universe," an essay on how the horizon affects our imagination, appears on ScientificAmerican.com. The essay is adapted from his new book The Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet,...
MFAW-WA student Sassafras Lowrey's personal essay, "Confessions of a Misfit on the Dog Show Circuit," was published by Narratively. Included is an audio recording of the piece, and custom illustrations to accompany it. (There are also some great photos of...
MFAW-WA faculty member Keenan Norris's essay, "The Red Summer 1919/2019: The Hundredth Anniversary of a Current Crisis," has been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Here's the essay's opening paragraph: "A. W. (ASHBY WELLINGTON) STEWART, my...
MFAW-VT faculty member Richard Panek discusses his new book The Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet on this podcast episode of "Lisa Birnbach's Five Things That Make Life Better." You can hear it here: Apple...
"Since Setting the Wire is in part an effort to sort out questions of memory, I would say that its form is both a response to the nature of traumatic memory and an account of one," says MFAW-VT alum Sarah C. Townsend of her memoir in her interview with the...
MFAW-VT faculty member Richard Panek's essay, "Everything You Thought You Knew About Gravity is Wrong," was published in The Washington Post. The essay is adapted from his recently published book, The Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet. You can...
