Excellence Award to Alumna Toni Thayer

MFAW-VT alumna Toni Thayer just received an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in Fiction for FY 2020. (This is actually her second award. She also won in 2016 for playwriting.) For more information, go here: More...
Two New Essays from Victoria Nelson

Two New Essays from Victoria Nelson

Victoria Nelson's essay on Vladimir Sorokin's novel DAY OF THE OPRICHNIK and its relevance to current politics in Russia and the U.S. is out in the Los Angeles Review of Books.Her essay "Letter from London: Mother Moorcock" on Michael Moorcock's MOTHER LONDON appeared...

New Opera from Deborah Brevoort

New Opera from Deborah Brevoort

MFAW-VT faculty member Deborah Brevoort’s opera ALBERT NOBBS, written with composer Patrick Soluri, was one of the winners of the Frontiers Competition at Ft. Worth Opera. Selections from the opera will be presented at FWO on May 8 & 9.

Goddard MFAW AWP Panels!

Goddard MFAW AWP Panels!

GODDARD COLLEGE COMMUNITY Events @ AWP Portland, 2019 Join the Goddard Community at AWP’s 2019 conference in Portland, OR! From March 27-30, 2019, Goddard College faculty, staff, and student and alumni volunteers will be on hand...

More from Kenny Fries

More from Kenny Fries

Two bits of news from MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries: First, "Inaccessible Airways," MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries's new column on the Disability Beat for How We Get To Next: “'That is your legs gone. It is a basic human right,' explained BBC journalist Frank...

Maggie Cleveland to be published

Maggie Cleveland to be published

MFAW-VT alumna Maggie Cleveland has just had her book accepted for publication by Cobalt Press.  Here's her story in her own words: 10 years, one major revision, three or four minor revisions, 60 or so submissions, 59 or so rejections (and more money in...

Juanita Kirton named 2019 Baker Veteran Scholar

Juanita Kirton named 2019 Baker Veteran Scholar

MFAW-VT alumna Juanita Kirton has just been named the 2019 Baker Veteran Scholar at the Longleaf Writers Conference.  Juanita Kirton – 2019 Baker Veteran Scholar Dr. Juanita Kirton earned MFA from Goddard College (2015) in Creative Writing &...

Two awards for Ni’Ja Whitson

Two awards for Ni’Ja Whitson

MFAW-VT alumna Ni'Ja Whitson has received two major creative awards for her work The Unarrival Experiments, which was her Goddard thesis. Ni'Ja received a Creative Capital Award toward the development of the book and performance project. "Dark matter and dark energy...

Pre-order Jason Graff’s debut novel

Pre-order Jason Graff’s debut novel

MFAW-VT alumnus Jason Graff's debut novel Stray Our Pieces is now available for pre-order. It comes out in October and his publisher is keen to get the word out about pre-orders as it helps them sell the book to stores. Here is the...

Congratulations to Pittershawn Palmer

Congratulations to Pittershawn Palmer

MFAW-VT student Pittershawn Palmer's essay, "Daughters of Tomorrow,"  was accepted for RestorationArt’s online platform and will be published on a soon to be announced date. The specific event is their 50in50: Letters to Our Daughters, shaped by MacArthur Fellow...

Pre-order Sassafras Lowrey’s new book

Pre-order Sassafras Lowrey’s new book

MFAW-WA student Sassafras Lowrey's new trick dog book TRICKS IN THE CITY: For Daring Dogs and the Humans That Love Them, which is being published by Mango Publishing, will be releasing August 15th and is now available for pre-order. Congratulations, Sassafras!

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