Innovators in Lit #14: Jenna Johnson
Jenna Johnson is Senior Editor for HMH hardcovers and Editorial Manager for Mariner paperbacks. Among her books are We the Animals, Pigeon English, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, …
Raising Expectations
It happens in every great workshop. Somewhere in the first couple of weeks, you sit at your desk or on your couch and read through a story that completely and irrevocably alters your…
What Devotion Looks Like: Ploughshares Reader Joel Ferdon
Ploughshares started out as an idea among a group of students and writers, and has been going, somehow, for forty years now. A lot has happened since 1971, but Ploughshares is still determined to…
An Interview with Bruce Machart
If I were building an anthology of my favorite stories, Bruce Machart’s “What You’re Walking Around Without” would certainly be included. It’s the kind of story that sticks with you for days…
Program-only tickets now available to Ploughshares literary readings hosted by Denis Leary – as low as $10 for students
What: Literary Readings Event hosted by Denis Leary to Celebrate 40 Years of Ploughshares
When: Monday, November 14, 2011
VIP Cocktail Hour: 5:30 pm
Program Begins: 6:15 pm
Innovators in Lit #12: Michele Filgate
I first met Michele Filgate when she was the events coordinator at the wonderful RiverRun Books in Portsmouth, NH. She is now the events coordinator for the equally awesome McNally Jackson….
This Is Not Your City
This Is Not Your City
Caitlin Horrocks
Sarabande Books, June 2011
224 pages
$15.95
This post was written by Hannah Gersen.
There are no small epiphanies in Caitlin Horrocks’s short…
Denis Leary To Host Ploughshares’ 40th Anniversary Fundraiser at Emerson College
1. Do you live in/near Boston?
2. If yes, do you like this guy:
3. If yes, do you also love Ploughshares and want to support us and what we do?
If you answered yes…
Pshares at the Boston Book Festival
On Saturday October 15, 2011, Copley Square in Boston was crawling with book lovers at the third annual Boston Book Festival. Ploughshares has been a participant for three years as well, and…
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WE ARE Ploughshares, the literary magazine at Emerson College in Boston. Each issue is guest-edited by a different well-known author. You know, authors like Tim O'Brien, Terrance Hayes, Jim Shepard, and Elizabeth Strout. Although we've been at it since 1971, we're always changing, so it keeps things exciting.
