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Colin W. Sargent<\/h3>\n

Founding Editor & Publisher<\/p>\n

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Local man of letters Colin Sargent reflects on one of the most important stories of his career<\/a><\/p>\n

Novelist, poet, and former U.S.\u00a0Navy Lieutenant Commander\u00a0Colin W.\u00a0Sargent, Ph.D., is the founding editor and publisher of\u00a0Portland Monthly\u00a0Magazine<\/em>. Since 2017, Sargent, a Maine native, has\u00a0concurrently taught\u00a0writing at\u00a0The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.\u00a0His courses include Know Your Audience and\u00a0Magazine Master Class. “We write for our readers at\u00a0Portland Monthly<\/em>, but we’re also a teaching magazine for top-notch interns,” he says. “It deepens the creative connection.”<\/p>\n

A graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Sargent has been awarded the Maine individual artist fellowship in literature and earned a Stonecoast MFA in creative writing.\u00a0He was awarded his Ph.D. in Creative Writing at Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK<\/span>.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Sargent is the author of three books of poetry:\u00a0Luftwaffe Snowshoes<\/em>,\u00a0Blush<\/em>, and\u00a0Undertow<\/em>.\u00a0His screenplay\u00a0Montebello Ice<\/em>\u00a0is under option at Gideon Films. His first\u00a0novel was\u00a0Museum of Human Beings<\/em>. His second novel,\u00a0The Boston Castrato,\u00a0<\/em>was nominated for the Man Booker\u00a0Prize in the UK.<\/p>\n

His third novel, <\/span>Red Hands<\/i> (Barbican Press, London, U.S. release 2023) is written in the voice of Iordana Ceausescu, who escaped the bloody 1989 revolution in Bucharest, Romania, with her young son to hide in Old Orchard Beach while the world searched for them. <\/span>Red Hands<\/i> was nominated for the Booker Prize. Read the <\/span>Maine Sunday Telegram<\/i> review:\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2023\/06\/11\/red-hands-tells-a-close-up-tale-of-life-under-romanian-dictator-nicolae-ceausescu-its-not-pretty\/<\/a>. “Poignant, frightening.” <\/span>Kirkus<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Renowned for its extraordinary perspective,\u00a0Portland Monthly<\/em>\u00a0has been praised by MediaBistro for going “beyond the usual.” Most recent awards for the\u00a0Portland Monthly<\/em>\u00a0team:<\/p>\n

2018:\u00a0Two national\u00a0real-estate feature writing\u00a0awards\u00a0at the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE).<\/p>\n

2018: Poetry prize, Col. Darren L. Wright Award,\u00a0Line of Advance.<\/i><\/p>\n

2017: Seven national graphic design awards from\u00a0Graphic Design USA<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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Colin W. Sargent Founding Editor & Publisher   Local man of letters Colin Sargent reflects on one of the most important stories of his career Novelist, poet, and former U.S.\u00a0Navy Lieutenant Commander\u00a0Colin W.\u00a0Sargent, Ph.D., is the founding editor and publisher of\u00a0Portland Monthly\u00a0Magazine. Since 2017, Sargent, a Maine native, has\u00a0concurrently taught\u00a0writing at\u00a0The College of William and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"\"colin08\"Novelist, poet, and former U.S.\u00a0Navy Lieutenant Commander\u00a0Colin W.\u00a0Sargent, Ph.D., is the founding editor and publisher of\u00a0Portland Monthly\u00a0Magazine<\/em>. Since 2017, Sargent, a Maine native, has\u00a0concurrently taught\u00a0writing at\u00a0The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.\u00a0His courses include Know Your Audience and\u00a0Magazine Master Class. \"We write for our readers at\u00a0Portland Monthly<\/em>, but we're also a teaching magazine for top-notch interns,\" he says. \"It deepens the creative connection.\"\r\n\r\nA graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Sargent has been awarded the Maine individual artist fellowship in literature and earned a Stonecoast MFA in creative writing.\u00a0He was awarded his Ph.D. in Creative Writing at Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK<\/span>.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Sargent is the author of three books of poetry:\u00a0Luftwaffe Snowshoes<\/em>,\u00a0Blush<\/em>, and\u00a0Undertow<\/em>.\u00a0His screenplay\u00a0Montebello Ice<\/em>\u00a0is under option at Gideon Films. His first\u00a0novel was\u00a0Museum of Human Beings<\/em>. His second novel,\u00a0The Boston Castrato,\u00a0<\/em>was nominated for the Man Booker\u00a0Prize in the UK. His third novel is forthcoming in 2020 from Barbican Press of London.\r\n\r\nRenowned for its extraordinary perspective,\u00a0Portland Monthly<\/em>\u00a0has been praised by MediaBistro for going \"beyond the usual.\" Most recent awards for the\u00a0Portland Monthly<\/em>\u00a0team:\r\n\r\n2018:\u00a0Two national\u00a0real-estate feature writing\u00a0awards\u00a0at the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE).\r\n\r\n2018: Poetry prize, Col. Darren L. Wright Award,\u00a0Line of Advance.<\/i>\r\n\r\n2017: Seven national graphic design awards from\u00a0Graphic Design USA<\/i>.","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-246","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25742,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/246\/revisions\/25742"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}