Matthew Aaron Goodman An Emerson MFA Alum (2000) whose debut novel, Hold Love Strong, will be published by Simon and Schuster and in stores April 14th, 2009. His message to students: ”some of you all have recently had babies, others lost their jobs or found jobs, and some have had a little bit of heartbreak or are deeply [...]

Do you ever go to your best friend’s house, or website, or blog, and think, “Is something different?”  The walls are painted, the furniture reorganized?  Well as you can see, we’ve found a new home at www.vernacularlit.com, so I’m going to get really arrogant for a second and say that you may want to update [...]

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 [...]

What do you get when you put hundreds of writers, editors, teachers, and thousands of pounds of literary magazines, brochures, and free pens into a room the size of a football field? Either the beginning of an awful joke about “supporting” literary publishing, or the AWP Bookfair! This year, the AWP Conference (put on by [...]

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 SeriesAfter [...]

We here at Vernacular love a juicy “Emerson alum makes good” story (unless we don’t like you, in which case, it qualifies as bragging, and no one likes a braggart, so just shut up and get on with your “accomplishments” and leave us in peace). That being said, Emerson MFA alum Lizzie Stark was profiled [...]

Thanks for reading and partaking in the Back to School Professor Reviews! As we return to This Week in Publishing as usual, we at Vernacular find the inbox swamped with Emerson MA and MFA students and Alums who have been published at one or more esteemed publications! So check out their great writing below: Jacqueline [...]

Bored, with few literary plans for tonight, despite your best intentions? Live anywhere near Salem, or interested in checking out the site of the famed witch trials and then debriefing with some rocking literary voices? Then come out to Salem Arts Association’s Lit Bop, a fun event tonight from 7 to 9 pm, at the [...]

Laurie Edwards graduated from Emerson’s MFA program in May 2006 with a thesis and a plan. Two years later, she’s drawing crowds at local book signings with her recently published book, Life Disrupted: Getting Real about Chronic Illness in Your Twenties and Thirties, which has garnered her the title “the Carrie Bradshaw of chronic illness” [...]

It’s Monday, and you know what that means–no, not just a return to the workweek–your weekly fix of publishing news! I know you’ve all been waiting on the edge of your seats for the answers to last week’s mystery success stories. Believe me, I was tempted to leave you waiting and wondering for another week, [...]