Breakwater's online reading series will have its last event of the semester this Friday, April 30th. Featuring Lauren Fitch, Nicole Graev Lipson, Julia Leef (Fiction, June 2018), and Spencer Johnson. The Breakwater Reading Series brings together fiction, poetry, and nonfiction MFA candidates from UMass Boston, Boston University, Lesley University, and Emerson College.
Join Clarissa Adkins (Poetry, June 2018) at the launch of her first poetry collection, Building Alexandria. The event will be hosted by Eileen Cleary (Poetry, June 2016) and Clarissa will be interviewed by Rex Arrasmith (Fiction, January 2018; Poetry, June 2020). “Clarissa Adkins has a mind I’d love to inhabit, fully attuned to the strangenesses […]
Join author Dr. Lisa Gruenberg (Nonfiction, June 2007) for a special virtual conversation with Dr. David Urion about her second-generation Holocaust memoir, My City of Dreams. This event, hosted by the bioethics centers of Harvard Medical School and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, will not only discuss Gruenberg’s personal journey, but will also […]
Celebrating Karin Cecile Davidson's (Fiction, June 2009) Sybelia Drive and William Lychack's Cargill Falls. Karin Cecile Davidson is originally from the Gulf Coast. Her novel Sybelia Drive was published by Braddock Avenue Books in Autumn 2020. Her stories have appeared in Story Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, Five Points Journal, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. Her awards include a Fine Arts Work Center Summer […]
Join Jennifer LeBlanc (Poetry, June 2012) with Jane Brox (Nonfiction, MFA Writing Faculty) and Jeffrey Harrison for a reading hosted by Susanna Kittredge at Chapter and Verse.
When coronavirus started closing down New England in March 2020, life changed dramatically. People quickly rethought their approaches to work, school, shopping, socializing and more. In response, Lily Poetry Press created an anthology, Voices Amidst the Virus, edited by Eileen Cleary and Christine Jones, which features poems by Kevin Prufer, Annie Finch, Daniel Summerhill, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Anne-Marie Oomen, […]
Featuring Debbi Michiko Florence, Christina Soontornvat, Andrea Wang (WFYP, June 2011), Veera Hiranandani, and Mike Jung. Join Middle Grade authors as they share their experiences growing up as Asian Americans and how their backgrounds influence the books they write. Discussion will center on the need for MANY Asian American penned novels to reflect the diversity […]
Featuring Andrea Wang (WFYP, June 2011), Kristen Giang, Benson Shum, Wendy Wan-Long Shang, Gracey Zhang, and Mượn Thị Văn Entertain your little ones! Join six Asian American/Asian Canadian authors as they read their recent picture books: Andrea Wang (WATERCRESS), Kristen Giang (GINGER AND CHRYSANTHEMUM), Benson Shum (ALEX’S GOOD FORTUNE), Wendy Wan-Long Shang (THE RICE IN […]
A Reading of New Works... in honor of mothers everywhere. Featuring works from: "A Lovely Day Outside" by Rhiannon Ciara Vaughn (WSS, January 2019) "Leftovers" by Sarah Hunter "You've Got to Keep Mother Alive" by Vance Walker "Counterpoint" by Hortense Gerardo "Crusades" by John Mabey "Mom's Recipes" by Ken Levine
Featuring: Kat Cho, Axie Oh (WFYP, June 2017), Lyla Lee, Stephan Lee, Maurene Goo A BTS look at the Blood, Sweat, and Tears that goes into creating the DNA of a K-Pop Young Adult book. From the bright lights of the stage to the sweet bloom of first love, these authors write it all amid […]
The Faraday Publishing Company will be hosting their first event of the year, “The Shores of Self: Creativity and Complex Narratives in Diasporic Communities”, on Wednesday, June 2 at 6:30pm EDT. They will be joined by writers and scholars: Alyss Dixson, Tony Medina, Lisa Pegram (Poetry, June 2012), and Craig Santos Perez. This panel discussion, […]