I drafted the first story in my recently published collection, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us (Dzanc Books, October 2009), just before I arrived at Emerson, and it was during my three years in the program that I shaped the collection. Apart from a foray into flash [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Guest Blogger of the Week'
Guest Post by Laura van den Berg: Reflections on Writing at Emerson
November 30th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: Alum Month · emerson alums · getting published · Guest Blogger of the Week · Laura van den Berg · short fiction · writing process
The Worst of Times: A Guest Post by Alum TJ Dietderich
November 4th, 2009 No Comments
I came to New York about a year and a half ago to start working at Planned Television Arts, an independent PR firm specializing in books. In that short time, we’ve seen a lot of changes. The economy has gone from bad to worse. The publishing industry has been hemorrhaging jobs. We all know someone [...]
Tags: Alum Month · Guest Blogger of the Week · jobs · networking · publishing industry · TJ Dietderich
Announcing Alumni Month at Vernacular!
November 1st, 2009 No Comments
Happy November, folks! Is your head still pounding from last night’s Halloween revelries? We hope so. Today at Vernacular, we’re celebrating the fact that our clocks are one hour earlier, and that our Alums of the WLP’s grad programs in Publishing and Writing and Creative Writing have found professional, personal, and/or critical success. Have you [...]
Tags: Alum Month · emerson alums · Guest Blogger of the Week · kim · MA in Publishing and Writing · MFA in Creative Writing
Guest Post: Lisa Diercks, by Kristen Borg
September 9th, 2009 No Comments
“Design is all around us,” designer and Publishing Graduate Program Director Lisa Diercks says. “I think most people are surprised to discover how much design is in their everyday lives, period. Everything from cereal box typography to the coffee pot and kitchen table to the clothes they wear and T signage and beyond.”
I only discovered [...]
Tags: Guest Blogger of the Week · Kristen Borg · Lisa Diercks · Professor Profiles
Guest Blogger of the Week: A Curator Speaks
April 24th, 2009 No Comments
As you may have seen, tonight is the last Graduate Reading Series (GRS) of the year. The GRS, founded by Rob Arnold about a millenium ago, offers WLP Grad students in Creative Writing and Publishing opportunities to share their work aloud– usually for the first time of hopefully many career appearances. But like all things, [...]
Tags: author readings · emerson MA · emerson MFA · graduate reading series · Guest Blogger of the Week
Guest Blogger of the Week: We Watch the Watchmen
March 8th, 2009 1 Comment
Remember back in oh, was it November, when we had a literary Halloween costumes contest?? Yeah, me neither. But regardless– Emmett Stone, aka Legion, was our big winner, and has finally found the perfect topic for a guest blog post: the film adaptation of Watchmen, one of the first and most influential graphic [...]
Tags: Anthony Lane · Emmett Stone · graphic novels · Guest Blogger of the Week · The New Yorker · Watchmen