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

Jessica Treadway wins the 2009 Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction Award for her manuscript Please Come Back to Me, to be published by the University of Georgia Press
Lise Haines' new novel Girl in the Arena hits bookstores on October 13. Check out her recent interview with Salon.com
Richard Hoffman wins the New England Poetry Club Sheila Motton Book Award for Gold Star Road and earns a Boston Foundation Brother Thomas Fellowship
Bookbuilders of Boston coming to campus for their Fall Workshops beginning October 26.
Somerville News Writers Festival on November 14 featuring readings with Lise Haines, Richard Hoffman and Margot Livesey
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: FALL 2009

All readings at 6:00pm at the Barnes & Noble at Emerson College, 114 Boylston Street. Free and open to the public.

October 6: Faculty readings with Pablo Medina and Steve Yarbrough
November 4: Poet Alan Shapiro and Poet/Translator David Ferry
December 1: Fiction writer Victor LaValle
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ALUMNI NEWS

Dzanc Books publishes recent grad Laura van den Berg's first collection of stories
MFA alum Stephanie Johnson publishes debut book
Risa Miller, MFA '95 teaches fiction writing at the Shaindy Rudoff graduate writing program at Bar Ilan University
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