Department of Writing, Literature & Publishing News

Career Week events prepare students for jobs

Career Week 2011 offered a roster of events aimed at helping students plan for their professions post-Emerson.

Tobin wins Massachusetts Book Award

Interim Dean of Emerson’s School of the Arts Dan Tobin has won the 2011 Massachusetts Book Award in poetry for his book Belated Heavens.

Emerson launches Boston Summer Writers' Conference

Emerson’s Writing Literature and Publish Department will spearhead the first annual Boston Summer Writers’ Conference on campus, from June 24–30, 2012. Open to interested writers nationwide, the conference will represent a unique literary experience for Boston and will be one of only a few summer writing conferences to occur in a major U.S. city.

Interview With the Curators of the Graduate Reading Series

The Graduate Reading Series, one of the Graduate Student Organizations in the Writing, Literature, and Publishing department, held an event on September 23.

Junot Diaz visits Emerson

Junot Diaz, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, visited Emerson as part of Hispanic Latin American Heritage Month.

Ploughshares begins 40th anniversary celebration

Ploughshares, published at Emerson, kicked off its 40th-year celebrations with a Sept. 20 reading at the Harvard Book Store.

Writer Junot Diaz visits campus

Junot Díaz delivered a guest lecture, read two of his short stories, held a Q & A with students, and then did a book signing of his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao while he was on Emerson College's campus during Latin American Heritage Month. More than 100 students attended the event.

Creative Writing Student Attends Translation Workshop in Greece

Creative Writing graduate student Nicole Miller talks about her time at Princeton's 2011 Summer Translation Workshop in Greece and how she was selected to join this workshop.