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Celebrating 30 years of Jabberwocky! The year 2024 marks the 30th Anniversary of Jabberwocky here at UMass. If this news is surprising to you, don’t worry, you’re not alone.

Julie Dolan is a senior English major who will be spending the last semester of her senior year studying abroad in Australia. After completing her degree, she plans on attending Bunker Hill’s Cardiovascular Sonography program. 

Victoria Shepeluk graduated from UMass in 2023 with a Bachelor of Arts in English with a specialization in the Study and Practice of Writing and a Bachelors of Arts in the individual concentration: Policy and Social Equity. She currently works as a grant writer at Action for Boston Community Development.

In Memoriam: Alicia Marie Fuhrman, MFA '17

Jen Adams recently published chapters in two books: Women's Restorative Medievalisms and The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer.

John Hennessy and his translation partner, Ostap Kin, just published Set Change, Selected Poems by Yuri Andrukhovych, in the NYRB/Poets Series.

In October, Daniel Sack’s journal, Imagined Theatres, launched Issue #08: Borders.

The Five College Prose and Poetry Prize is now open to creative writers of all genres. Send us your stories, your creative nonfiction, your poetry, your novel excerpts, your hybrid pieces! Two selected writers from each campus will be honored with a reading and reception, and their work will be bound and distributed in a celebratory chapbook.

Abigail Chabitnoy was recently featured in a Massachusetts Daily Collegian article which discussed her work about Indigenous communities and histories.