Events

Past Events

The 2015 Fall showcase was on November 17 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm (CU 3rd floor).

The 2015 National day on writing took place on Oct. 20th, table outside SO building—12pm-6pm.

Spring 2015 

Thank you to everyone who came to the 2015 Aisling Award and Coastlines Launch! Congratulations to Aisling Award winners Avery Elizabeth Godwin, Justin Piesco, and James A.H. White. You can pick up your print copy of Coastlines 2015 in the Culture and Society Building. You can also browse selections from the 2015 issue on our website.

The Aisling Award winners for 2015 were:

Poetry 2015: Avery Elizabeth Godwin

Fiction 2015: Justin Piesco

Nonfiction 2015: James A.H. White

The 2015 Aisling Awards and Coastlines Launch Party occurred on April 16th at 7 pm in the Nations Multipurpose Room at Student Housing Services (SH-46)!

 

Fall 2014

Coastlines Literary Magazine Fall Reading

Thank you to everyone who attended the 2014 Fall Coastlines Literary Magazine Reading and helped make it a success. A special thanks to Dr. Becka McKay, Jonathan Mundell, Chris Notarnicola, Alonso Rodriguez Romero, and Alexandra Van Erven for reading their work for the group.

Spring 2014

Thank you to everyone who came to the 2014 Aisling Award and Coastlines Launch! Congratulations to Aisling Award winners Monique McIntosh, Nuala Carr, and Beckett Farkas. You can pick up your print copy of Coastlines 2014 in the Culture and Society Building. You can also browse selections from the 2014 issue on our website.  

A heartfelt thanks to everyone who joined us at the 2014 Aisling Awards and Coastlines Launch. 

2014 Aisling Award winners:

Poetry 2014: Nuala Carr

Fiction 2014: Beckett Farkas

Nonfiction: Monique McIntosh

Coastlines' Literary Salon: A Gathering of Sorts

National Day on Writing

Spring 2013

Coastlines 2013 Launch and Aisling Awards

Thanks to everyone who joined us at the Aisling Awards and Coastlines 2013 launch and made the event a success. Congratulations to our winners: 

Poetry 2013: Lisette Alonso, A Man's Hands

Fiction 2013: Donovan Ortega, Going to the Bathroom

Nonfiction 2013: Stephanie Anderson, The Keepers of the Range

Above (from right to left): Lisette Alonso, Aisling Award Winner for Poetry; Editors Donovan Ortega, Kim Pekala, Caryn Suhr, and Mary Long; Stephanie Anderson, Aisling Award Winner for Creative Nonfiction.

 

Coastlines MFA Alumni Reading and Q&A Panel

On November 8th, 2012, Coastlines hosted four alumni from the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Florida Atlantic University. Alumns Jill Bergkamp, Dusty Clark, Victoria Fedden, and AJ Ferguson read original creative work and participated in a Q&A session on the writing life, the MFA program, and the post-program experience. There was also a lovely tribute to MFA alumna, Kim McCoy, who passed away earlier this year.

Above (from left to right): Dusty Clark, Victoria Fedden, and AJ Ferguson.

Below: (from left to right) Kim Pekala (Managing Editor), and Mary Long (Fiction Editor).

Coastlines 2012 Launch and Aisling Awards

Thanks to everyone who joined us at the Aisling Awards and Coastlines 2012 launch and made the event a success. Congratulations to our winners: 

Poetry 2011: Nicole M. Preble, If Not, Winter (fragment 22) 

Poetry 2012: Erick Verran, for young poets 

Fiction 2011: Khristian Mecom, Love & Black Holes 

Fiction 2012: Justin Waldron, Chinese Drywall 

Nonfiction 2011: Nicole Oquendo, Urna 

Nonfiction 2012: Erin Hobbie, The Kind of Land People Get Lost In 

Coastlines Holiday "Nightmare Before Christmas" Open-Mic Night!

On December 9th, 2011, Coastlines hosted a Nightmare Before Christmas Holiday Party, featuring FAU musicians and creative writers, to celebrate the end of the semester and the start of the holidays "Halloween" style. Costumes were encouraged, and, subsequently, those without costumes were warmly heckled. Below, from left to right, are Chris Irving, Christy Lawler, Renee Long, and Gyasi Byng all celebrating and performing in "Halloween Town" style.