The Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action received $11,600 from the Massachusetts Cultural Council to support outstanding literary arts programming in Western Mass. Funding from MCC...

Ocean Vuong’s new poetry collection, Time Is a Mother, was released this week. In anticipation of the book release, Vuong was recently interviewed by Time Magazine, PBS NewsHour, NPR’s Fresh Air,...

The University of Massachusetts Amherst's Joy Ladin (MFA ‘95) is having a good winter. In January 2022, the Jewish Book Council announced the 2021 National Book Award winners and Ladin’s The Book...

English MFA alumni JR Mahung (MFA '21) and Claudia Wilson (MFA '21) were awarded Artist Fellowships in Poetry by Mass Cultural Council. Joy Ladin (MFA '95) received a finalist award....

Shastri Akella (MFA '14) was selected as a 2021-22 Writing Fellow in Fiction at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. ...

Su-Yee Lin (MFA '12) was named a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Fiction. ...