In my ideal-world fantasy, I imagined that the day after I graduated from Emerson with my MFA in Creative Writing, I would wake up, pick up a pen, and start spouting well-polished prose. In actuality, I went to a job interview at the restaurant where I now work, went out to lunch with my mother, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'kim'
Summer Running Month: a search for discipline
June 30th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: emerson alums · Haruki Murakami · John Bingham · kim · Summer Reading Month · writing habits
Announcing Summer Reading Month!
June 2nd, 2009 No Comments
Hey folks, happy June! For us in Boston, this means only *some* 40-degree rainy days, and that the primary core of our bloggers– Emerson grad students in the Creative Writing and Publishing programs– are on summer vacation. Which means, for us lit nerds: yes, more time to read!! So stay tuned this month, when our [...]
Tags: author readings · Book Reviews · Infinite Jest · kim · Les Miserables · Summer Reading Month
See You Tonight!
May 15th, 2009 No Comments
“Do you have any plans tonight? No? Well, I hear there’s this really cool, exclusive party happening in this 4th floor writer’s studio, in this really funky building next door to Emerson College…” Could it be, perhaps, the VERNACULAR SPRING GALA?? We sure hope the answer is yes! (and we are NOT exclusive, actually– all [...]
Tags: kim · networking · Spring Gala · support Vernacular
Spotlight On… Matt DiGangi
May 14th, 2009 No Comments
Matt DiGangi likes dark corners. When I met the editor of acclaimed literary magazine Thieves Jargon at Algiers Cafe yesterday, he immediately established his taste for shadowy lighting, strong coffee, and even stronger opinions about “underground literature.” And who can blame him– after heading a magazine that has defined as well as reflected the landscape [...]
Tags: getting published · kim · literary magazines · Matt DiGangi · Spotlight On... · Spring Gala · Thieves Jargon
WLP Spring Party This Monday!
May 2nd, 2009 No Comments
Happy Finals Week! Come on out this Monday for free food and WLP fun: The Writing, Literature & Publishing End-of-the Year Party Join us to celebrate another successful year! Monday, May 4th Sweetwater Cafe, 3 Boylston Place 4 – 7PM Writing award winners will be announced after 5PM. Also, we’ll be selling advance tickets to [...]
Tags: Emerson College WLP Department · kim · parties · support Vernacular · Sweetwater Cafe · writing awards
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, [...]
Tags: emerson alums · Gentlemen Hall · grub street · kim · networking · parties · support Vernacular
Last Graduate Reading Series of the Year!
April 23rd, 2009 1 Comment
This just in from the legendary GRS Co-Curators, Ron & Claire, who WILL be reading this Friday at Emerson–what a treat! Here’s what they had to say:
Tags: emerson MFA · graduate reading series · kim · The Tam
Draft, I Will Cut You
April 6th, 2009 1 Comment
Anyone who knows me will know that the past few weeks have been utter hell for us third-years: it’s Thesis Time! For me, this has meant finally facing the music and seeing how much of my writing over the last oh, 2.3 years or so needs to be MASSIVELY revised. So I’m taking a quick [...]
Tags: emerson MFA · kim · Pam Painter · revision · thesis · writers' habits
Bookbuilders Boston Networking Event Tonight!
March 11th, 2009 No Comments
Not doing anything tonight, Bostonian publishing enthusiasts and/or Emerson Grad Students? Celebrate March’s fickle weather (and spring break!) by heading over to a *free* Bookbuilders of Boston Casual Networking event tonight. Also, to future graduates in the publishing (or creative writing) program, this could be a great time to make some much-needed contacts in a [...]
Tags: Bookbuilders of Boston · kim · networking · publishing industry
Vernacular’s 10,000th
February 22nd, 2009 No Comments
Happy last Sunday in February, also known as Oscar Sunday! I’d like to take a moment today to announce an achievement of our own, that while not cinematic, still gives me a small shiver of glee: We hit our 10,000 visitors mark! … sometime, we think, in the last week or two (probably while getting [...]
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