The program awards grants of $25,000 to recipients to allow the time and space to create and further develop their writing projects. Fellowships alternate yearly between prose and poetry (it’s a prose year).
“There are not many Indo-Caribbean people publishing books of poems in the United States, and the fact that this work is being recognized feels like something is shifting, culturally, in the world of American poetry.”
Writing, Literature, and Publishing professor Jabari Asim spoke on WBUR’s Radio Boston program about his new book Yonder, which follows the lives of six men and women, five of which are enslaved, in the South in the mid 1800s.
Trespicio talked about the genesis of the book, the power of personal stories, and what we can learn from the octopus.
Professor Jerald Walker’s How to Make a Slave and Other Essays won for Nonfiction and Asako Serizawa, MFA ’01 was selected for Fiction Honors.
Marshall penned the essay after spending an anxious week last summer following the news and social media to learn the fate of her family’s “Cabin in the Woods” as the Caldor Wildfire threatened to consume it.
I am pleased to announce that Kim McLarin, Professor of Creative Writing and Graduate Program Director of the MFA in Popular Fiction Writing and Publishing at Emerson, has accepted my invitation to serve in an interim role as the College’s Dean of Graduate and Professional Studies.
Emerson alumnae authors thrill, chill, and scare with stories of witches, ghouls, and hauntings.
Students have opportunities to study abroad all around the world.
“It’s not sci-fi. It’s literally science,” Reiken said.