Author of Conscience (2018 @Pegasus_Books), The Kite and the String, The Book Borrower, When We Argued All Night. Teacher at Bennington Writing Seminars.
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8 Jan 2022
Please come!
8 Jan 2022
Hunker down tonight and enjoy a fabulous night of literature. Authors @AliceMattison1 and Derek Palacio are reading tonight during our winter Bennington Writers Reading series.
The event if free, virtual, and open to the public.
bennington.edu/events/alice-…
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11 Nov 2021
Nov 16 @ 7 p.m. EST/4 p.m. PST
Register: birchbarkediting.com/events
"An engaging, complex portrait of a young gay Everyman in search of himself..." -Paul Russell on The Book of Casey Adair
"Mattison's novel wrestles with the irreducibly complex demands of having a conscience "-WaPo
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Alice Mattison retweeted
30 Jul 2021
“I could no longer enjoy some well-written books, those in which extravagant, mellifluous, unstinting sentences tumbled down the page, & the lushness was part of the point”
@AliceMattison1 on how losing her eyesight changed her reading life @ElectricLit
electricliterature.com/as-my…
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Alice Mattison retweeted
29 Jul 2021
"I miss falling into a book as into a different place and time. I used to be aware only of the content, not of the act of reading." @AliceMattison1 @ElectricLit on what it's like to be an avid reader slowly losing her sight - electricliterature.com/as-my… cc @HalimahMarcus @atatelewis
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29 Jul 2021
I wrote a little essay about what reading is like for me at present, which was just posted in @ElectricLit.
If you’d like to see it, here’s a link:
electricliterature.com/as-my…
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11 Jan 2021
This evening at 7 PM, I'll be reading new fiction in the Writers Reading series that is part of the semi-annual Bennington residency. Because we're on Zoom this year the reading is open to everyone. Only problem is that I won't be able to see you.
bennington.edu/events/writer…
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11 Jan 2021
Faculty member Alice Mattison – author of CONSCIENCE and THE KITE AND THE STRING – is on deck for Monday night's Winter Residency reading series. #BWSWinter21 @Pegasus_Books
This free, virtual reading is open to everyone:
bennington.edu/events/writer…
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Alice Mattison retweeted
31 Dec 2020
On 1/7/21 we begin our Winter Residency reading series w/ Jill McCorkle, Carmen Giménez Smith, @monicaferrell, Deirdre McNamer, @susanchoi, @AliceMattison1, @MarkCWunderlich, @cteicher, @PaisleyRekdal & more!
Please register for these free events: bit.ly/3n2LNB1
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Alice Mattison retweeted
8 Dec 2020
Congratulations to @AliceMattison1 (Faculty). Her essay, "Eye of the Beholder," received Special Mention in @PushcartPrize XLV, released today.
Read the essay @parisreview, here:
theparisreview.org/blog/2019…
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Alice Mattison retweeted
12 Oct 2020
"Honor the work. It’s a matter of believing—or pretending to believe, even when you don’t—that you have the right to write, even if so far you haven’t proved that the world needs your stories." @AliceMattison1 #WritingCommunity
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24 Sep 2020
"I do think it’s important for people to be honest talking about these processes, because it’s often more complicated that you would think."
@The_Millions interviews @jen_acker (MFA '11) about crafting and publishing her novel, THE LIMITS OF THE WORLD.
themillions.com/2019/04/i-ha…
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Alice Mattison retweeted
3 Jul 2020
“Not being afraid of action really helped me think about plot."
@ivypochoda (Fiction '11), author of THESE WOMEN, was interviewed––and mentions #writingadvice from Faculty member @AliceMattison1––for @publibonline
publiclibrariesonline.org/20…
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Alice Mattison retweeted
21 Apr 2020
A wonderful essay about my dear friend @AliceMattison1.
21 Apr 2020
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Alice Mattison retweeted
22 Apr 2020
"I have never encountered a teacher so in love with teaching, so invested in the process of ... how to muster up whatever it takes to write what must be written."
@Lsoman (Fiction '17) on the writing & teaching of @AliceMattison1 (Faculty) @CraftLiterary
craftliterary.com/2020/04/21…
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21 Apr 2020
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Alice Mattison retweeted
11 Feb 2020
I finished reading “The Kite and the String” by @AliceMattison1 today. It’s a great one. I definitely recommend it!
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Alice Mattison retweeted
13 Jan 2020
Tonight at 7pm in Tishman Auditorium @AtBennington, join us for readings from Faculty members David Gates and Alice Mattison
#literature #MFA #writerscommunity #BWSWinter20
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Alice Mattison retweeted
12 Dec 2019
"I’ve long known that deadlines and money are useful for novelists."
"Money, Deadlines, and Water," an essay by @AliceMattison1 (Faculty) about finding possibilities for story at a boat launch in the #Adirondacks @AGNIMagazine. #writingadvice
tinyurl.com/t2s93hu
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Alice Mattison retweeted
10 Dec 2019
"Conscience" by @AliceMattison1, pub. by @PegasusBooksUSA #NowInPaperback
"Travelers in the Third Reich" by Julia Boyd, pub. by @PegasusBooksUSA
"Hitler's Pawn" by Stephen Koch, pub. by @CounterpointLLC #NowInPaperback
"Triggers" by David Rico, pub. by @ShambhalaPubs
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10 Dec 2019
Thrilled to have CONSCIENCE out in paperback.
10 Dec 2019
Happy Paperback Release Day to Alice Mattison (Faculty). Her novel, CONSCIENCE (@PegasusBooksUSA), was a 2018 Notable Book of the Year by @washingtonpost.
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