Stonecoast Review
The Literary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA
CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Issue 21
Cloud Seeding
By Sandra Carlson Khalil
In Dubai, we are not allowed to gather in protest. We are not allowed to display a foreign flag, so two weeks after the fighting begins, my children and I cover our front door instead with… Read More
What To Do with Rage
By Sydney Lea
The icy morning finds me in bed, engrossed in a book of John Singer Sargent’s watercolors. The thought of staying under the covers all but overwhelms me. Once a reticent sun crept over the hills,… Read More
Sydney Lea: Champion of the Maine Storytelling Tradition
A Conversation with Susan Conley
Poet, essayist, and novelist Sydney Lea has penned more than twenty books in his storied career. Though he was accorded the honor of Vermont poet laureate, a rich Maine heritage has… Read More
Sir, Ma’am, Sorry
By Cass Peterson
I step up to the counter at the café to order. The young man behind the counter says with cheer, What can I get you this morning, Sir? Just a normal day. An “every single day… Read More
Gender Defiant
By Tina Carson
This week, Tina gets her own phone. There has been a lot going on. JJ’s reptile menagerie has been rapidly expanding, which Tina (JJ’s mom) aids and abets because she Read More
Sixteen Steps to Eating a Potato
By Shawna Erwin
1 Choose a tray—red, orange, green, or blue. Notice the scratches. Grab a plastic plate, a napkin, silverware still warm. 2 Notice the leaves on trees outside are turning similar oranges and reds. Consider… Read More
