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 'Laura van den Berg'
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
What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us
November 30th, 2009 1 Comment
Noted Emerson alumna, Laura van den Berg released in October her first collection of short stories, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us. Beautiful and sad, her stories span the globe, from Madagascar to Chicago to Inverness, in search of wonder, love, and acceptance. Her voice is clean, the prose [...]
Tags: alumni · Book Reviews · Katherine · Laura van den Berg · What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us
Alum Laura van den Berg Reads This Weekend!
November 12th, 2009 No Comments
Want to see one of our very own MFA Alums, who has nabbed that elusive book deal and published her first collection of short stories to critical acclaim? Well, you’re in luck, because this weekend you can meet Laura van den Berg in the flesh, and ask her about her inspiration, writing process, or the [...]
Tags: Alum Month · emerson MFA · kim · Laura van den Berg · Newtonville Books · Paul Yoon · Rachel Sherman
Hot Reads: Memorious 11
January 3rd, 2009 No Comments
What better to warm you up on a cold winter day than some well-written poetry or prose? We’ve just learned that Memorious, a journal of new verse and fiction, has a new issue: check out Issue 11 here.
For more info on this awesome online literary magazine, the product of several Emerson MFA Alums’ devoted efforts, [...]
Tags: Boston · Laura van den Berg · literary magazines · memorious · Rebecca Morgan Frank · Rob Arnold
Best American Crankiness, Edited by Llalan
October 21st, 2008 5 Comments
The Bests are out. This can mean several things.
1) The goddamn holiday season has begun already.
2) It’s time for me to feel guilty about the dust collecting on the Best Americans of ‘07 and still haven’t cracked.
3) It’s time to criticize their choice of editors!
I should admit that I am not an expert when it [...]
Tags: Best American Series · criticisim · Laura van den Berg · Llalan