This unusual combination prepares you for a wide-range of writing and publishing related careers. The curriculum blends an overview of the publishing industry with practical exercises in copyediting, line editing, acquisition skills, web design, publishing software, publicity, promotion, and other branches of marketing. You will learn these skills from professionals who have worked or are still active in the publishing industry. Our faculty members come from major industry sources such as The Atlantic Monthly , Houghton Mifflin and the University of Nebraska Press. Beyond these dynamic classroom experiences, students are encouraged to undertake internships in their area of interest.
Internships are available at numerous local magazines and publishing houses.
MA students also participate in production of The Beacon Street Review , the graduate student literary journal, as well as taking internships at Ploughshares . Our graduates are working in the publishing industry at all levels. They are freelance editors and desktop publishers. They participate in the production of local and national literary journals and magazines. They are the developmental editors and acquisitions editors at major publishing houses and literary presses.