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Poet Laureate Reads Tonight

September 10th, 2009 No Comments

Above photo courtesy of jimmiehomeschoolmom from Flicker Creative Commons.
Sorry for the last minute post guys, but if you have a free evening, there’s a free Grub Street poetry reading tonight!  

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Dirty Water Reading Series

July 15th, 2009 No Comments

Above photo courtesy Karloswayne from Flickr Creative Commons
Hey Folks! The Dirty Water Reading Series is happening once again this Sunday at Grub Street. Featured among the readers are author Ben Stein and former fiction editor James Scott. Come on out and join us for some literature mad libs, and don’t forget your $1 donation. Hosted by Redivider, Quick Fiction, [...]

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Spotlight On… Ladette Randolph

May 13th, 2009 No Comments

Ladette Randolph is the author of the recently published novel A Sandhills Ballad; the award-winning short story collection, This Is Not The Tropics, and two anthologies: The Big Empty and A Different Plain. The editor-in-chief of Ploughshares literary magazine, she is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe award, a Pushcart prize, a Virginia Faulkner Award, [...]

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Announcing: Vernacular Spring Gala!!

April 28th, 2009 No Comments

Enjoying the warm weather?  Looking forward to the end of homework?  Need an excuse to party?
Then come to Vernacular Blog’s Spring Gala!
Friday, May 15th, 7 - 10pm
@ Grub Street
Tickets $3 advance / $5 at the door
Join us for drinks, food, live music, and networking with special guest VIPs: publishing professionals, published writers, successful alums, and [...]

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Upcoming Grub Street Events!

March 24th, 2009 No Comments

Here are a few events coming up courtesy of Grub Street, just in time for wonderful, warm spring-like weather…if it ever gets here:
OPEN MIC NIGHT: Thursday March 26th, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, Winter Season Showcase
Join Grub students from the winter term, plus two of our award-winning instructors, KL Pereira and Ethan Gilsdorf, as they read [...]

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Cowgirls and Couplets: The Dirty Water Reading Rodeo!

March 24th, 2009 No Comments

The Dirty Water Reading Series is back! Allow me to tell you why this is my favorite reading series.

It’s hosted by my four favorite local journals and presses: Black Ocean, Fringe Magazine, Quick Fiction, and Redivider. Please check out their websites for more info.
Admission is free and there’s free food and booze! No need to [...]

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This Friday at Grub Street: Grub Gone… Wrong

January 21st, 2009 No Comments

This just in from Grub Street, home to great writing classes, events, and venue for several past Redivider events and Dirty Water Reading Series:
Read the Rest…Three times a year, Grub Street transforms into a one-of-a-kind reading/dance party. In between short readings on a theme, the 200+ crowd enjoys beer, wine and dancing to a DJ [...]

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This Week in Publishing and Writing: The Countdown

November 4th, 2008 No Comments

In just a bit more than 24 hours, we may know definitively who our nation’s next president will be. Although if the universe is feeling particularly cruel, it will take substantially more than that (read: 72 hrs to 72 days). But rather than read about the problems that have already sprung up in [...]

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This Week in Publishing and Writing: Literary Events Extravaganza!!

October 1st, 2008 No Comments

Back from long hiatus, “This Week” we have some announcements of great upcoming literary events in the Boston area! And what a lovely time of year to travel around Boston and meet fellow enthusiasts of the written word. Think of it as your October Calendar of A-list fall excitement*:
Fri, Oct 3:Emerson Graduate Reading [...]

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Boston Lit Scene Confidential

August 18th, 2008 6 Comments

This week, in explanation of the great things to do at Emerson offered in our comments from last week (thanks, Rob & Llalan!), I give you the “Vernacular Glossary of Literary Terms”– these “terms” referencing everything you might need to rock out at Emerson and in the surrounding literary environs we know as “greater Boston.” [...]

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