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Beautiful Words for Beautiful Girls

This past October, Professor of English Lisa Lebduska’s short story “Belle Ragazze” was published in the Tishman Review.

Writing Now, Right Now, Together

We often think of writing as a solitary pursuit—a lonely habit isolating us from others. Perhaps that is why writers are experts at procrastination. That…

International Students Go Big in Chase Small

What is college in Italy like? Should people call you by a nickname that they find easier to pronounce than your given name? What kinds…

Honors Thesis Editing & Revising Workshop

What do pizza and writing have in common? Everything, if you’re attending the February 25 Editing and Revising Honors Thesis Workshop offered by Professors Connie…

Writing Fellow Publishes on Immigration

Wheaton-Emerson Writing Fellow Claudia Ward-de Leon’s short story “Outside the KFC” was published in the literary journal Bird’s Thumb this fall.

Lynn Holmgren ’05 Comes to Campus

Alumna Lynn Holmgren ’05 was a guest of the CW Program at its annual Majors Dinner this December where she talked with students majoring in…

Shane Nichols ’13 and Matthew Cesario ’12 pursue MFAs

Shane entered the MFA program in Creative Writing at Emerson College in Fall 2014. After graduating from Wheaton, he took a year off to travel and prepare for…

Creative Writing Major Erin Cotton ’16 Shares Publication News

Fall semester last year I took a fiction writing workshop with Professor Bryant. We learned how to write flash fiction, a full story in less than…

Rising Senior Lands Competitive Writing Internship

When friends ask Monica Vendituoli (’15) what she did last summer, she’ll be able to tell them they can read all about it. Vendituoli, an…

Professor Foley Unites Poets July 28-Aug 2

For the fourth consecutive summer, Professor Ruth Foley is organizing and participating in the Connecticut River Advanced Conference on Poetry and Poetics in Chester, CT…

Faculty Lunch: Creating a Process

Wheaton-Emerson Writing Fellow Molly McGillicuddy kicks off this year’s faculty brown bag lunch series on March 20 in PDR 1, from 12:30-200 with “Writing Research…

Campana’s Olympian Writing: The Honors Thesis Pizza Jam

Professor Connie Campana will host a revising and editing workshop for all Honors Thesis writers today, February 19 in the Library’s Greenaway Room from 5-6.