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Stonecoast MFA enrolls approximately 100 students in four major genres: creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and popular fiction. Literary translation, performance, writing for stage and screen, writing Nature, and cross-genre writing are pursued as elective options. Students choose one track that
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as well as Wick First Book Poetry Prize winner Joanna Solfrian; novelists Diane Les Becquets, Alexs Pate, Morgan Callan Rogers, and Colin Sargent; produced film and television writers Debbie Daughetee, Mike Langworthy, Matthew Quinn Martin and Bix Skahill; popular fiction writers Patrick Bagley,
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feature on MFA programs focusing in particular on its Ireland residency and popular fiction component. Other innovative curricular features include a foundation workshop in poetic meter for incoming poets and student-initiated elective workshops on special topics in writing.
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focuses an intensive research project in their third semester from among craft, creative collaboration, literary theory, publishing, social justice/community service, and teaching/pedagogy The program is accredited through the
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who served as director from 2004 to 2013. One of the oldest of the second wave of low-residency graduate programs in creative writing, following on the first wave of the programs at
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1980 The Stonecoast Summer Writers’ Conference founded at University of Southern Maine, held in the John Calvin Stevens-designed Stone House in Freeport, Maine
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Founded in 2002 by Barbara Lee Hope, Ken Rosen, and Dianne Benedict, Stonecoast came to national prominence under the direction of poet
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Prize Winner Indigo Moor; Rona Jaffe Award winner Melanie Drane; National Poetry Series winner and National Book Award Finalist
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2011 Stonecoast is ranked among the "Top Ten Low-Residency MFA Programs" in the first set of low-residency rankings by
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2015 University of Southern Maine gives up ownership of the Stone House and moves Stonecoast MFA residencies to the
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The Stonecoast Alumni Association sponsors readings and literary events around the country.
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in Freeport for the winter and the campus of Bowdoin College in Brunswick for the summer.
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Stonecoast has been ranked consistently among the "Top Ten Low-Residency Programs" by
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2002 The Stonecoast Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing is developed
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2013 Fiction writer Justin Tussing appointed Interim Director
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The Stonecoast MFA faculty has won numerous awards including
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is a graduate program in creative writing based at the
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