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Entries from April 29th, 2008

Folk Tales of Niger, as translated by an Emerson Grad

April 29th, 2008 No Comments

Emerson Publishing & Writing MA Amanda Cushman is offering copies of her awesome thesis to you, her adoring public. Here’s the message from Amanda:
Hey everyone,Most of you know I have been madly working on my thesis project all semester, and finally I have completed it! The project consisted of the (brilliant) translation and design of [...]

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No One With a Blog is Truly Poor

April 24th, 2008 No Comments

Or at least that’s what I tell my parents every time I explain why I spend my days writing about silly things on the internet. But, lo! There is hope for writers who enjoy typing things onto a glowing screen and then using their google status messages to recklessly promote their ramblings. [...]

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Professor Doug Whynott On Nonfiction Book Structures

April 18th, 2008 No Comments

Check out Professor Doug Whynott’s new article about Nonfiction Book Structures in the May/Summer issue of the Writer’s Chronicle.
Doug teaches graduate nonfiction forms and book workshops at Emerson, and is the MFA Graduate Program Director. His lectures on structure and point of view have allegedly inspired some of his nonfiction students to form a [...]

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Chip Cheek Published in Washington Square!

April 15th, 2008 No Comments

Emerson MFA 2007 Alum Chip Cheek will see his story “Signal” published in Washington Square’s Summer 2008 issue.
Chip, a former Redivider editor, now works as an Assistant Editor for Houghton Mifflin’s college textbooks division.

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Laurie Edwards Forthcoming Book

April 7th, 2008 No Comments

Laurie Edwards, MFA Alum, has a new book coming out in June!
It’s called Life Disrupted: Getting Real About Chronic Illness in Your Twenties and Thirties. Published by Walker & Company.

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