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Emerson thesis -- Creative writing

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 403 Collections and/or Records:

Small Spaces, 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_vestuto_jessica.pdf
Overview "The essays in this collection reflect on my experiences in small spaces—from a closet-sized studio apartment, to the passenger seat of my father's car, to a windowless room in an electrolysis treatment center, to a single pew in a church, and more. In these spaces, I explore times when I have felt distant to people who are very close to me and close to people who I have never met. I also question whether places retain the memories of the people who occupied them, and whether this memory can...
Dates: 2021
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2021 Spring

Smart Girls, 2023

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Identifier: cw_2023spring_davis_kirby.pdf
Overview "With my essay collection "Smart Girls," I aimed to explore issues that I have personally encountered in my life that I've noticed are not in any way unique to me. I wanted to write openly about what it's like to deal with clinical depression, the loss of a loved one, religious conflict in families, and simply exist as a young woman in the twenty-first century. It was my goal when writing these essays to provide insight especially into navigating one's early- to mid-twenties while suffering...
Dates: 2023
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2023 Spring

Sobering, 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_marshall_alyssa.pdf
Overview "Sobering is a collection of personal essays that span the Nineties to present day 2021. It's a conversation about culture, the things that shape us, the biases we come to hold and how we learn (or don't) to let them go. It traverses shame, trauma, addiction, and self-delusion, while navigating the repercussions of a difficult coming-of-age. Essays touch on subjects ranging from a pop culture icon ("of course we had a hand in Britney's suffering"), to an examination of substance abuse and...
Dates: 2021
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2021 Spring

Soloist: Essays on Isolation, 2020

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Identifier: cw_2020fall_feltner_kerry.pdf
Overview "The essays in this collection are an exploration of isolation and how it can manifest throughout a life. Each essay offers an attempt to figure out what it means to be lonely and to self-isolate while also recognizing the drawbacks of not engaging with others or the wider world. Each essay is a look at how to find a balance between the giving of oneself to others and the protection of oneself from others and all the ways that paradox is made more complicated. The essays range in topic from...
Dates: 2020
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2020 Fall

Someone to talk to : a master's short story collection, 2015

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Identifier: cw_2015fall_brown_lorna.pdf
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"The stories in this collection are set in a small village in the West of Ireland in the early 1990's. A by-pass around the village has rid them of their once busy traffic. The residents feel forgotten by the world. The need to reach out and be heard is explored in every story, from the young woman who starts to have phone conversations with her husband's gay lover, to the dyslexic man who confronts his cruel teacher years later." -- Abstract.

Dates: 2015
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2015 Fall

Something like prayer, 2015

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Identifier: cw_2015spring_ziegler_owen.pdf
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"What is more important: being good or trying to be? The characters in these 10 stories struggle with that question one way or another as the systems they either willingly choose or are forced into push down on them even further. Family, religion and community can all empower people to rise above their current standings, but these stories explore what happens when the dynamic moves in the other direction. At what point does individual desire trump safety and surety?" --Abstract.

Dates: 2015
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2015 Spring

Something out of nothing, 2006

 Item — Item 0113502792550: [Barcode: 0113502792550]
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This collection of poems represents my mental trappings, and it is broken into two section. The first section is more personal and emotional, expressing anger, bitterness, sadness, and loneliness experienced in childhood, resulting from the difficult rel

Dates: 2006
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2006

Song, 1859, 2021

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Identifier: wr_2021fall_olayiwola_porsha.pdf
Overview "Porsha Olayiwola's 'Song, 1859' is a collection of poems that explore the Black American diaspora, water, and queer womyn intimacy. The poems in this collection meet both at and beyond those intersections. Rich in historical analysis, the work reaches for poetic permanence in highlighting untold or unremembered narratives. Entangled in the wake of the middle passage, these poems seek to do with form, what water does in general: remember, reshape, rename, repair and reconfigure. The...
Dates: 2021
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2021 Fall

Sort Of, Almost, 2022

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Identifier: cw_2022spring_randolph_kayla.pdf
Overview "Sort Of, Almost is a book project completed to demonstrate proficiency in content creation and in book design best suited to house that content. The book uniquely showcases a manuscript layout with a dual focus on text and design. Pairing text with imagery, taking into consideration both compatibility of design and content, results in a publication with elements in successful dialogue with one another. Linking creative writing with abstract photograph manipulation adds depth to the reading...
Dates: 2022
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Publishing and Writing (MA) Program / 2022 Spring

Sparrow in the Storm: A Novel, 2019

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Identifier: cw_2019spring_marlin_nat.pdf
Overview "Sometime in the near future, dust storms ravage the land and destroy almost all civilization. Nour is a nonbinary scavenger returning to their childhood home in upstate New York — which they left to flee their emotionally abusive parents — to see if their younger sister Hana is still alive. The two were close before the storms, but Nour's sudden leaving drove a wedge between them, one that Nour hopes to repair (if Hana's not already dead). After being violently separated from their initial...
Dates: 2019
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2019 Spring

Speaking in tongues : a memoir in verse, 2005

 Item — Item 0113502744189: [Barcode: 0113502744189]
Overview

An autobiographical memoir of the writer's life, as told in both structured and unstructured verse. -- abstract.

Dates: 2005
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2005

Spit on the devil and run, 2010

 Item — Item 0113503010705: [Barcode: 0113503010705]
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This is a memoir about Mandy, a girl who is taught by her parents to feel comfortable leaving things behind. As soon as a place begins to feel like a home, the family leaves to start over somewhere else. In each place, Mandy's parents reminisce about and

Dates: 2010
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2010

Spitting ink, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017spring_shaban_dean.pdf
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"This collection intends to support the notion that the power of writing can revise a history unfathomed. While we may or may not recall an incident or an experience as true, we have the power to adjust memory to engage interpretation, and therefore continually rewrite our pasts to better effect a constantly shifting present. These poems address and grapple with that concern." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2017 Spring

Stalking the edge, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017summer_alvarez_noe.pdf
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A story collection regarding two brothers who grew up in an environment of violence.

Dates: 2017
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2017 Summer

Sticks and stones, 2006

 Item — Item 0113502797443: [Barcode: 0113502797443]
Overview

Whether a middle school student, a welder or a marketing representative, whether in the laundry mat or on the driving range, the characters in these stories examine the territory between real life and fantasy, between love and loss. -- abstract.

Dates: 2006
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2006

Stillborns, 2022

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Identifier: cw_2022summer_lule_liliana.pdf
Overview "My novel-in-progress, titled "stillborns," is structured as a triptych following a different member of the extended Cordero family at different points of their lives, specifically during significant life events (a birthday, a legal encounter, and a death, respectively). This project considers issues of migration and citizenship, with my specific interests lying in identity and belonging as experienced by 1st and 2nd generation Mexican(-American) immigrants. Other topics of interest include...
Dates: 2022
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2022 Summer

Stone Flower, 2022

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Identifier: cw_2022spring_zderic_tijana.pdf
Overview "Stone Flower is an exploration of personal, familial, national and political war trauma through recorded history and from living memory. It suspends the experiences of the poet, her family and the 'other' in the lead up to and during the Bosnian War of the 1990s, and unravels its decades-long painful aftermath. Through its mostly narrative poetic structures, Stone Flower's undercurrents buzz with deeper inquiries about how we honor and reconcile fragments of living memory with conventional...
Dates: 2022
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2022 Spring

Summer soldier, 2006

 Item — Item 0113502792873: [Barcode: 0113502792873]
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A Peace Corps Volunteer eager for adventure, a bitter American expatriate, and an exiled West Indian bartender find their lives slowly but inevitably destroyed in the island nation of Grenada. The only way that they can turn things around is by joining t

Dates: 2006
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2006

Sunflowers and Other Stories, 2016

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Identifier: cw_2016spring_vidal_joseph.pdf
Overview "In this collection of short stories, a nearly-blind grandfather drives around town guided by his grandchild; a woman struggles to communicate with her demented elderly mother while trying to keep her marriage from falling apart; a teenager who blames himself for his mother's death searches for the perfect funeral flowers; a Puerto Rican woman living in Boston recalls her childhood on the island while awaiting surgery; a man literally meets God; another finds his calling as a sperm donor...
Dates: 2016
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2016 Spring

Swipe right : a woman's field guide to dating apps, 2018

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Identifier: cw_2018spring_youssouf_carly.pdf
Overview "A companion guide for people who are curious about the vast and complex environment of dating apps. The text introduces daters to common app language, formats, users, and other cultural constructs in the style of a biological field guide. It mixes field research with memoir to present an educational yet intimate inspection of this environment. The purpose of the text is not to argue whether this atmosphere is good or bad, but to make sure potential users are aware of the unique intricacies...
Dates: 2018
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2018 Spring

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