The Department of Writing, Literature & Publishing

The Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing (WLP) offers four degree programs: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts. Our undergraduate programs prepare students to write and think creatively and critically through study in a variety of genres, including poetry, fiction, nonfiction and magazine writing. Publishing courses are a feature of both the B.A. and M.A. programs while the B.F.A. and M.F.A. programs focus on giving students in-depth workshop experience in various genres combined with the formal study of literature. Alumni from our programs go on to become writers and editors, published poets and novelists, or enter the publishing world through the many internships the department makes available in the Boston area.

DEPARTMENT NEWS

Professor Steve Yarbrough releases new book, Safe from the Neighbors, to rave reviews
Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Gail Mazur has poem featured on Slate
WLP students published on TheSmartSet.com, Skirt! magazine, and Salon.com
Professor John Skoyles is a guest columnist for The Boston Globe
First-Year Writing Program student wins Scholars for the Dream Award
Professor Jeffrey Seglin pens column for Real Simple magazine and appears on Fox25 Morning News
Professors DeWitt Henry and Megan Marshall review biographies for the The Boston Globe and The New York Times, respectively
Professor Jonathan Aaron's poetry appears in The New Yorker
Subscribe to Vernacular, a blog created by WLP graduate students and alums, to get your daily dose of witty musings on the writing and publishing scene of Boston and beyond.
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WLP READING SERIES: SPRING 2010

All readings are at 6:00pm at the Paramount Center's Bright Family Screening Room, 555 Washington Street. Free and open to the public.

February 11: Tony Hoagland, co-sponsored with Ploughshares
March 1: Dan Baum
March 19: David Shields
April 1: WLP Faculty Readings with Gail Mazur and Ladette Randolph

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PLOUGHSHARES READING SERIES: SPRING 2010

April 15: Pulitzer-prize winning author Elizabeth Strout

There will be a Q & A for students and faculty at 4:00pm followed by a reading at 6:00pm at the Paramount Center's Bright Family Screening Room, 555 Washington Street. Free and open to the public.

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ALUMNI NEWS

MFA Alum Risa Miller, '95 publishes second novel, My Before and After Life
Matt Rasmussen MFA '04 awarded the Bush Artist Fellowship
Dzanc Books publishes recent grad Laura van den Berg's first collection of stories
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