creative writing mfa emerson

CREATIVE WRITING

What can you do with a MFA in Creative Writing?

The versatility of a master’s degree in creative writing allows graduates to pursue careers in various industries where strong writing, storytelling, and communication skills are highly valued. Adaptability and networking are essential for success in these diverse career paths.

Tech Knowledge

Individuals with a master’s degree in creative writing can benefit from familiarity with various technologies to enhance their writing, research, and career opportunities. Although this is an extensive list, the specific technologies you need to know can depend on your chosen career path, but some common ones include:

• Word Processing Software: Proficiency in word processing software like Microsoft Word or Google Docs is essential for writing, editing, and formatting manuscripts.
• Writing and Editing Software: Writing and editing tools like Scrivener or Grammarly can help writers streamline their writing process and improve their writing quality.
• Content Management Systems (CMS): Knowledge of CMS platforms like WordPress can be useful for writers who want to create and manage their own blogs or websites.
• Research and Reference Tools: Tools like Zotero, EndNote, or Evernote help writers collect and organize research materials and references.
• Digital Publishing Platforms: Familiarity with digital publishing platforms like Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) or Smashwords can be valuable for self-publishing authors.
• Screenwriting Software: For those interested in screenwriting, software like Final Draft or Celtx is essential for formatting scripts.
• Collaboration Tools: Writers who collaborate with others can use collaboration tools like Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) or Dropbox Paper to work together in real time and share documents.
• Social Media Platforms: Writers can use social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn to build their author brand, connect with readers, and promote their work.
• Website and Blogging Tools: For writers who maintain blogs or author websites, platforms like WordPress, Blogger, or Squarespace can be helpful.
• Email Marketing Software: Writers interested in building an email list for their readership can use email marketing platforms like MailChimp or ConvertKit.
• E-book Design and Formatting Tools: Design and formatting tools like Adobe InDesign or Vellum are useful for creating professionally formatted e-books.
• Grammar and Style Guides: Access to grammar and style guides, such as The Chicago Manual of Style or AP Stylebook, can help writers maintain consistency in their work.
• Digital Writing Workshops: Online writing workshops and courses, hosted on platforms like Coursera, Udemy, or Skillshare, offer opportunities for skill development and networking.
• Writing Community Forums: Joining online writing communities and forums like Wattpad, Goodreads, or NaNoWriMo can help writers connect with peers, gain feedback, and share their work.
• Audio and Video Recording Tools: Writers interested in podcasts or author interviews may need recording and editing software and equipment.
• Data Security and Back-Up Solutions: Backing up manuscripts and important writing files is critical; cloud storage services like Dropbox or Google Drive can be helpful.
• Author Website Analytics: Knowledge of website analytics tools like Google Analytics can help authors track website traffic and reader engagement.
• Writing and Publishing Software: Writing software with distraction-free interfaces, like Ulysses or Bear, can help writers stay focused on their work.
• E-books and Digital Publishing Software: Familiarity with e-book creation and conversion software, such as Calibre or Sigil, can be useful for self-publishing authors.
• Project Management Tools: Writers working on longer projects, such as novels or research, may benefit from project management tools like Trello or Asana to stay organized.

The specific technologies a writer needs may vary depending on their writing style, genre, and career goals. Writers should stay open to exploring new tools and technologies that can enhance their writing process and career prospects in a digital age.

Competencies + Other Skills

Graduates with a master’s degree in creative writing need a set of competencies to excel in their careers. These include a strong command of writing, proficiency in various literary genres, the ability to edit and revise effectively, and the skills to conduct research when necessary. They should also understand the publication process, screenwriting techniques, if relevant, marketing and promotion strategies, and be adaptable in their writing style to meet the demands of different projects and audiences. These competencies form the foundation for successful and versatile careers in creative writing.

• Creativity: Creative writers must possess a high degree of creativity to develop unique and engaging narratives.
• Discipline and Time Management: Self-discipline is critical for setting writing goals and managing time effectively, especially for longer projects like novels.
• Resilience: Rejection and criticism are common in the writing world, so writers need resilience to persevere through setbacks.
• Self-Motivation: Writers often work independently, so self-motivation is crucial for maintaining consistent writing habits.
• Open-Mindedness: Being open to feedback, new ideas, and different writing styles allows writers to continually improve.
• Empathy: Understanding and portraying diverse characters and perspectives with empathy enhances the depth of storytelling.
• Networking: Building relationships with fellow writers, literary agents, publishers, and editors can lead to opportunities and support in the writing industry.
• Communication: Effective communication skills help writers pitch ideas, collaborate with others, and engage with readers and audiences.
• Attention to Detail: A keen eye for detail ensures that writing is free of errors and inconsistencies.
• Problem-Solving: Writers often encounter plot, character, and structural challenges that require creative problem-solving.
• Listening Skills: Listening to feedback and understanding the needs and preferences of readers or clients is essential for meeting expectations.
• Cultural Awareness: Sensitivity to cultural nuances and diverse perspectives can enrich storytelling and avoid stereotypes.
• Storytelling: Strong storytelling skills, including narrative structure and pacing, are fundamental for capturing and holding readers’ attention.
• Self-Reflection: The ability to reflect on one’s own writing and continually strive for improvement is essential for growth as a writer.
• Adaptability: The writing landscape evolves, so being adaptable to changes in publishing and marketing trends is important.

Emerson Campus Orgs

• Concrete Literary Magazine
• The Emerson Review
• Gauge Magazine
• Stork Magazine
• The Berkeley Beacon
• Emertainment Monthly
• em Magazine
• Your Magazine
• Five Cent Sound
• Atlas Magazine
• Graduate Student Association
• Emerson College Book Club
• Graduate Reading Series
• Writers of Color

You can also consider other non-industry oriented organizations and assist them with your areas of interest (example: having your scripts workshopped in SPEC or writing a newsletter for Women in Motion).

Industry Job Boards

• Bookjobs.com
• Publishers Marketplace
• Publishers Weekly
• MediaBistro
• Independent Publishers Guild
• Publishers.org
• ACES Editors – Job Board
• Writers and Editors
• Freelance Writing Gigs
• The Write Life
• Profellow: 44 Fellowships for Creative Writers in Any Career Stage

Professional Associations and Conferences

• Grub Street, Inc.
• American Booksellers Association
• American Copy Editors Society
• American Institute of Graphic Arts
• American Library Association
• Association of American Publishers
• Association of American University Presses
• Author’s Guild
• International Digital Publishing Forum
• International Publishers Association
• The Association of Magazine Media
• National Association of Science Writers
• National Book Foundation
• National Writers Union
• Printing United Alliance
• Printing Industries of New England
• American Society of Magazine Editors
• Writers Guild of America – www.wga.org (West) & www.wgaeast.com (East)

Sample Job Titles with a Masters in Creative Writing

• Author/Novelist: Many creative writing graduates pursue careers as authors, writing novels, short stories, and other literary works for publication.
• Poet: Those with a passion for poetry may publish their own collections of poems, contribute to literary journals, or even work as performance poets.
• Screenwriter: Creative writers often transition into screenwriting, creating scripts for television, film, and online content.
• Playwright: Playwriting is another option, with opportunities to write for theater productions, including plays and scripts for performance.
• Creative Writing Instructor/Professor: Some graduates go on to teach creative writing at the college or university level, sharing their knowledge and skills with aspiring writers.
• Freelance Writer: Freelance writers can explore a wide range of writing opportunities, from journalism and content marketing to copywriting and ghostwriting.
• Editor: Editors work with authors to refine and polish their manuscripts, whether in book publishing, magazines, or online publications.
• Literary Agent: Literary agents represent authors and help them secure book deals and negotiate contracts with publishers.
• Content Strategist: Creative writers can use their storytelling skills in content strategy, helping companies develop engaging content for websites, blogs, and social media.
• Public Relations Specialist: PR professionals with a creative writing background excel in crafting compelling press releases, speeches, and other communication materials.
• Marketing Copywriter: Copywriters create persuasive advertising and marketing content, including slogans, product descriptions, and promotional materials.
• Technical Writer: Technical writers create user manuals, product documentation, and instructional materials, translating complex information into understandable language.
• Grant Writer: Nonprofits and organizations often hire grant writers to secure funding by crafting compelling grant proposals and applications.
• Content Developer: Content developers create educational materials, online courses, and e-learning content.
• Content Manager: Content managers oversee content creation and strategy for websites and digital platforms.
• Journalist: Creative writers can transition into journalism, reporting news stories for newspapers, magazines, or digital publications.
• Blogger/Content Creator: Some creative writers become bloggers or content creators, generating their own online content and monetizing their platforms.
• Speechwriter : Speechwriters craft speeches and presentations for public figures, politicians, and corporate leaders.
• Copy Editor/Proofreader: Copy editors and proofreaders review and edit written content for grammar, style, and accuracy.
• Advertising Creative Director: With experience, some creative writers can advance to leadership roles in advertising agencies, overseeing creative teams and campaigns.

Blogs & Industry Professionals to Follow

• SelfPublishing.com
• Writer’s Digest
• Write to Done
• The Write Practice
• Count Blogula by Jenna Moreci
• The Creative Penn
• Terribleminds by Chuck Wendig
• Daily Writing Tips
• Better Novel Project
• Shayla Raquel
• Self-Publishing School

How the Career Development Center can support

• How to pitch your stories
• How to get an agent

Link to other docs to support

• Occupational Outlook Handbook – Media and Communications
• The Write Life (great for freelance writing advice)
• Writers & Editors (collection of writing and editorial-oriented resources)

• Graduate Programs
• Request Information

Creative Writing Thesis Spotlight: MFA Candidate Explores Monsters and Deep Sea with Their Novel

Daven McQueen, current MFA candidate in Emerson’s Creative Writing program

If you’re looking into Creative Writing MFAs, you’re probably researching the thesis requirements of different programs. Today we’re interviewing Daven McQueen, a current student in Emerson’s Creative Writing MFA program, about their experience with the creative writing thesis. We’ll get a glimpse of the typical thesis timeline, what Daven’s thesis is about, and how completing a thesis will give them a leg up following graduation.

What led you to Emerson’s Creative Writing MFA?

“I studied creative writing and economics in undergrad at Brown,” Daven says. After graduating, they started looking for Creative Writing MFAs. “I knew Emerson had a really good writing program, plus I liked that their MFA had a focus on how the publishing industry works.” 

Another reason they decided to come to Emerson was location. Already living in Boston, Daven knew Emerson was within commuting distance from them. This meant they wouldn’t have to relocate for graduate school.

What is the creative writing thesis process like at Emerson?

All students in the Creative Writing MFA complete a thesis, which is a near publishable manuscript students write in the program. A student’s thesis can be a poetry collection, short story collection, novel, or work of creative nonfiction. 

In the spring of their second year, students receive an email listing all the faculty available to supervise a thesis. Students fill out a form indicating which faculty members they would most like to work with. Alternatively, students may directly email faculty who they’ve worked with in the past, asking the faculty member to serve as their thesis advisor. Daven’s thesis advisor is Jabari Asim , former director of the MFA program. 

Once students establish their thesis advisor, they begin writing their thesis. Students may begin drafting their thesis in the fall of their third year in the program. During this semester, they are still in workshops and classes. The majority of the thesis is completed in the spring of their third year, during which students typically don’t take any workshops or classes and devote their focus solely to thesis work.  

Students meet periodically with their thesis advisor to discuss progress on their manuscript and workshop their writing. By the end of their third year, students graduate with a polished, well-edited manuscript that is nearly ready for publication.

What is your creative writing thesis?

“I’m in the fiction track, so I could either write a novel or a collection of short stories for my thesis,” Daven explains. “I’m writing a novel that’s part climate fiction, part speculative fiction.” Daven’s novel centers around a sea monster, boat driver, and marine biologist. They add, “It has a lot to do with marine life, which has been a big part of my life growing up in Los Angeles.”

What is the inspiration behind your novel?

“I thought of the title before anything else, which is usually how I work.” Daven recalls watching the X Files during the height of the pandemic and getting the inspiration for their novel’s title. In an episode of the show, a character explains that on old maps, travelers would write “here be monsters” to mark dangerous parts of the sea. “I looked it up, and that’s not actually true; they just made it up for the show. But I loved the phrase, so Here Be Monsters became the title of my thesis,” Daven explains.

Once they knew the book’s title, Daven started brainstorming the plot and eventually decided to focus the novel on a sea monster. “I’ve always been interested in monster stories in general and interpreting monsters beyond something evil, so that’s what I wanted to explore in this novel.” 

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

The novel’s marine biologist character is also heavily influenced by Daven’s childhood in California. “Growing up by the ocean, I’ve always been interested in deep sea animals,” they add. 

What have been the best and worst parts of writing your thesis?

“The best part was finishing the first few chapters of my novel last semester,” Daven says. They took a novel writing workshop in the spring, which helped them start the manuscript. 

On the other hand, Daven says the most difficult part of the thesis process has been finding a routine. “It’s been hard to actually sit down and write on a regular basis,” they say.

What is the benefit of completing a creative writing thesis?

“For most of us, the goal is to get published and make a career as writers.” Daven explains that graduating with a polished manuscript gives graduates material they can use after graduation. Students can use their thesis work to query agents or submit their work to literary journals and publishers. 

What’s next for you?

Daven is hoping to finish their novel before graduating in the spring of 2024. After graduating, as they work to publish Here Be Monsters , Daven hopes to continue teaching in higher education. Currently, they teach two freshman writing classes at Emerson, and they would love to continue teaching at Emerson as an adjunct professor. In the long term, Daven plans to teach writing at a community college, sharing their expertise with others. 

How can people keep up with your work?

Daven currently has a published book available for purchase. The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones is a young adult historical fiction about two children who come together as outcasts in a small Alabama town. A commentary on identity, race, friendship, and growing up, The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones is an excellent debut novel that showcases Daven’s skill as an author. To keep up with Daven’s future publications, be sure to follow them on Instagram ! We hope this post has given you a taste of what the thesis process in Emerson’s Creative Writing MFA is like. For more information about the Creative Writing program, schedule a call with an admissions counselor. Or, to get an idea of what it’s like to be a student in the program, check out our student spotlight featuring a current student.

The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones , Daven’s debut novel

• About Author
• Latest Posts

Olivia Wachtel

Writing Assistant

Olivia is a second-year student in Emerson's Communication Disorders MS program. Originally from Ohio, she is loving Emerson and city life. When she's not writing for the Grad Life blog, she loves to read, bake, and crochet.

Latest posts from Olivia Wachtel

• 5 Tips for Your First Semester in Graduate School - August 13, 2024
• Invest in Your Future with Online Graduate Programs at Emerson - August 6, 2024
• 5 Local Coffee Shops to Check Out While You Study - July 29, 2024

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

Three MFA Alumnae Awarded NEA Creative Writing Fellowships

Alumnae LaTanya McQueen ‘06, MFA ’06, Asako Serizawa, MFA ’01, and Laura van den Berg, MFA ’08 were three of 35 authors awarded National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Creative Writing Fellowships for 2022.

The program awards grants of $25,000 to recipients to allow the time and space to create and further develop their writing projects. Fellowships alternate yearly between prose and poetry (it’s a prose year). The only judging criterion is “artistic excellence,” and every year sees new and diverse panel of judges .

Asako Serizawa is the author of the short story collection Inheritors (Doubleday, 2020), which won both the PEN/Open Book Award and the Story Prize Spotlight Award, earned Massachusetts Book Awards Honors , and was long listed for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award , and two O. Henry Prizes.

Serizawa was granted previous fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the MacDowell Colony, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Born in Japan and raised in Singapore, Jakarta, and Tokyo, she moved to the United States for college, where she earned degrees from Tufts and Brown universities, as well as Emerson.

Serizawa is currently working on a loose tetralogy of works about Japanese imperialism and World War II, of which Inheritors was the first, according to her personal statement, published on the NEA website.

 “For myriad reasons, common and specific, my first book took over 12 years to write; at the frontier of the second book – a novel very much in its nascent phases – time, an old presence, is revealing a new face,” Serizawa wrote in her personal statement . “I’m full of gratitude for this fellowship; for its existence as an option; for the research and travel it will grant. Its arrival was utterly unexpected and propitious, bolstering the first passages forward.”

LaTanya McQueen is the author of a novel, When the Reckoning Comes (Harper Perennial, 2021) and an essay collection, And It Begins Like This (Black Lawrence Pres, 2017). She was the 2017-2018 Robert P. Dana Emerging Writer Fellow at Cornell College, and received her PhD from the University of Missouri.

Her work has been published in New Ohio Review, the Arkansas International, the Florida Review, New Orleans Review, Ninth Letter, the North American Review, Fourteen Hills, Passages North, Black Warrior Review, Bennington Review, West Branch, TriQuarterly , and Pleaides.

According to her personal statement , she dedicates her craft to her mother.

“While my mother died long before I could ever show her the path I’d managed to carve out for myself, I still think of her with everything that I write. My mother lived a life of invisibility. I write for her, for other women like her, and for women like me—those who’ve felt invisible their whole lives, not counted, never seen,” McQueen writes.

“This award will let me continue to do this work, but for the first time in my entire life, I can do it with a little bit of freedom, and that means the world.”

Laura van den Berg has previously received awards from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and theMacDowell Colony. She is the author of five works of fiction, including The Third Hotel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018), a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and I Hold a Wolf by the Ears (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), which Time Magazine named one of the “10 Best Fiction Books of 2020.”

She is currently working on a novel titled Florida Diary , where she explores the process of returning to her childhood home in Central Florida, in the onset of the pandemic.

“The blank page is a constant in the lives of writers. No matter where we are in our practice it never gets any easier – for me at least – to confront. All the unknowns, the impossibility of knowing what is really out there until you’re, well,  there . This powerful dose of encouragement arrived at a time when the scope of this project was feeling especially daunting,” she writes .

News & Stories

Alumni , School of the Arts , Writing Literature and Publishing

Allison Armijo View All

Leave a reply cancel reply.

You must be logged in to post a comment.

• Remember me Not recommended on shared computers

Forgot your password?

• Decisions, Decisions

Emerson MFA Creative Writing

By erinajinzx March 10, 2018 in Decisions, Decisions

Recommended Posts

Hi, everyone, hope you are doing well.

I was accepted to Emerson's creative writing program on March 8th with a $32500 fellowship. I have tried to research this school but found the info is minimal out there (there is no blog post--like the MFA years posts--about the program or current students' thoughts about it). I was wondering if anyone knows this program well and could thus fill me in on it. So far, it seems like this is not a super competitive program and not too hard to get into, and the size of the applicant pool just seems like a mystery to me... I would love to hear everyone's thoughts. Many thanks! 

Link to comment

Share on other sites, gallifreygirl.

Based on my research, Emerson accepts like 40-45 out of an applicant pool of 100-200. I'm not sure if that fellowship is on top of a tuition waiver? Tuition is about $30k/year there so if you have to pay tuition out of the fellowship, that doesn't leave much to try to live on (and Boston is not cheap).

As for reputation, I've only heard good things about Emerson; they have a specialization in Publishing and Popular Fiction, which bodes well if you ever want to write something other than straight literary fiction, and their grads seem to have a pretty good track record of publishing work.

Hope this helps. Good luck writing!

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Already have an account? Sign in here.

• Existing user? Sign In
• Online Users
• All Activity
• My Activity Streams
• Unread Content
• Content I Started
• Results Search
• Post Results
• Leaderboard
• Create New...

Important Information

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

Emerson College

Boston , MA

http://www.emerson.edu/academics/departments/writing-literature-publishing/graduate-degrees

Degrees Offered

Fiction, Poetry, CNF, Drama, Screenwriting

Residency type

Program length.

52 semester hours (2-3 years)

Cross-genre study

• Akshay Ahuja MFA 2010
• Allison Alsup MFA (Fiction) 1992
• Kenneth Calhoun MFA 1997
• Ethan Chatagnier MA 2007
• Susannah Clark MFA (CNF)
• Andrea Dupree MFA
• Christen Enos MFA
• Emily Kendal Frey MFA (Poetry) 2006
• Zoë Gadegbeku MFA 2017
• Paul Haney MFA (CNF) 2017
• Jean Harper MFA 1991
• JennyMae Kho MFA (CNF)
• Eson Kim MFA 2000
• Nicole Graev Lipson MFA (CNF)
• Antonia Malchik MFA (CNF) 2004
• Alex Marzano-Lesnevich MFA
• Caroline McCoy MFA 2019
• Caitlin McGill MFA (CNF) 2015
• LaTanya McQueen MFA (Fiction) 2011
• Nicole E. Miller MFA 2012
• Kenan Orhan MFA (Fiction)
• E. K. Ota MFA 2016
• Charlotte Pence MFA
• Rebecca Podos MFA 2012
• Matt Rasmussen MFA
• Kathleen Rooney MFA 2005
• Matthew Salesses MFA (Fiction) 2010
• Shuchi Saraswat MFA 2009
• James Scott MFA 2007
• Asako Serizawa MFA 2001
• Sebastian Stockman MFA (CNF) 2011
• Paige Towers MFA (CNF) 2013
• Abby Travis MFA (CNF) 2013
• An Uong MA (CNF) 2018
• Laura Van den Berg MFA (Fiction) 2008
• Jodie Noel Vinson MFA (CNF) 2012
• Urban Waite MFA

Send questions, comments and corrections to [email protected] .

Disclaimer: No endorsement of these ratings should be implied by the writers and writing programs listed on this site, or by the editors and publishers of Best American Short Stories , Best American Essays , Best American Poetry , The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Pushcart Prize Anthology .

What is Environmental Imagination?

Poems, stories, and essays are not written in a vacuum; they arise from the imaginations of writers who are imprinted and influenced by specifics of place and landscape–by history, geography, geology, biology, and ecology, among others.  And the texts that writers create are also situated in and imprinted by particular bio-regions and multiple environments, often subtle and complex.

Where would William Faulkner have been without Yoknapatawpha County, or Wallace Stegner have been without the American West, the Big Rock Candy Mountain?  Where would Janisse Ray be without the rural southern Georgia bio-region of her childhood, or Annie Proulx be without the austere landscapes of Newfoundland and Wyoming from which to draw stories?

Through creative writing workshops, study in literature courses, cross-disciplinary environmental coursework in disciplines other than English, self-designed fieldwork experiences, and intensive thesis work with a major professor, writers in the  MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment will learn to develop and cultivate an eco-centric aesthetic in their writing.  The result is writing that is rich in specifics, subject matter, and imaginative content.

To begin considering how we, as writers, might come to a greater awareness of the environmental underpinnings and ecological considerations of the texts we create, we can begin with Lawrence Buell’s succinct phrase, “the environmental imagination.”  In his ground-breaking work,  The Environmental Imagination ,  Buell outlines what he believes to be the four earmarks of an environmental text:

• The nonhuman environment is present not merely as a framing device but as a presence that begins to suggest that human history is implicated in natural history;
• The human interest is not understood to be the only legitimate interest;
• Human accountability to the environment is part of the text’s ethical orientation; and
• Some sense of the environment as a process rather than as a constant or a given is at least implicit in the text.

Suggested reading

• Abram, David.   The Spell of the Sensuous:  Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World.
• Bate, Jonathan.   The Song of the Earth.
• Berry, Wendell.   The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture.
• Buell, Lawrence.   The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture .
• Buell, Lawrence.   The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination.
• Carson, Rachel.   Silent Spring.
• The Ecocritism Reader:  Landmarks in Literary Ecology.   Ed.  Cheryl Glotfelty and Harold Fromm.
• The Future of Nature: Writing on a Human Ecology from  Orion  Magazine.  Ed. Barry Lopez.
• Gessner, David.   Sick of Nature.
• Hawthorne Deming, Alison.   Writing the Sacred Into the Real.
• Hogan, Linda.   Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World.
• Homeground: Language for an American Landscape.   Eds. Debra Gwartney and Barry Lopez.
• Leopold, Aldo.   A Sand County Almanac  with Essays on Conservation from Round River .
• McDonough, William and Michael Braungart.   Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things.
• McKibben, Bill.   Deep Economy:  The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future .
• Pollan, Michael.   The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals.  
• Snyder, Gary.   The Practice of the Wild:  Essays.
• Turner, Jack.   The Abstract Wild.
• Uncommon Ground:  Rethinking the Human Place in Nature.   Ed. William Cronon
• Williams, Terry Tempest.  Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place .
• Williams, Terry Tempest.   Finding Beauty in a Broken World.

Environmental journals and magazines

• Canary Online
• Ecotone: Reimagining Place
• Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment
• The Fourth River
• ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
• Orion Magazine
• Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments

tert -Butyl carbamates

BOC-NR 2 , BOC amines, BOC amino, BOC amide

T. W. Green, P. G. M. Wuts, Protective Groups in Organic Synthesis , Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1999 , 518-525, 736-739.

The formation of Boc-protected amines and amino acids is conducted under either aqueous or anhydrous conditions, by reaction with a base and the anhydride Boc 2 O. Active esters and other derivatives such as Boc-ONH 2 and Boc-N 3 can also be used.

The Boc group is stable towards most nucleophiles and bases. Therefore, an orthogonal protection strategy using a base-labile protection group such as Fmoc is possible. tert -Butyl carbamates are cleaved under anhydrous acidic conditions with the production of tert -butyl cations. Scavengers such as thiophenol may prevent nucleophilic substrates from being alkylated.

Protection of Amino Groups

Other Syntheses of Boc-Protected Amino Groups

Deprotection

Conversion of Boc-protected Amines to other functional groups

Boc-Protected Amino-Groups in Multi-step Syntheses

Site Search any all words

Main Categories

• Organic Reactions
• Org. Chem. Highlights
• Presentations
• Chemistry Tools
• Ads & Imprint

Popular Subcategories

• Name Reactions
• Protecting Groups
• Organic Synthesis

Breadcrumbs Section. Click here to navigate to respective pages.

Omsk Oblast

DOI link for Omsk Oblast

Click here to navigate to parent product.

This chapter presents history, economic statistics, and federal government directories of Omsk Oblast. Omsk Oblast is situated in the south of the Western Siberian Plain on the middle reaches of the Irtysh river. Kazakhstan lies to the south. Tyumen Oblast lies to the north-west, and Tomsk Oblast and Novosibirsk Oblast lie to the east. The city of Omsk was founded as a fortress in 1716. In 1918 it became the seat of Adm. Aleksandr Kolchak's 'white' 'All-Russian Government'. Omsk fell to the Bolsheviks in 1919, and Kolchak 'abdicated' in January 1920. In 2015 Omsk Oblast's gross regional product (GRP) amounted to 617,184m. roubles, equivalent to 311,973 roubles per head. The Oblast's soil is the fertile black earth characteristic of the region. Its agriculture consists mainly of animal husbandry, hunting and the production of grain. The sector employed 14.6% of the workforce and contributed 9.6% of GRP in 2015.

• Privacy Policy
• Terms & Conditions
• Cookie Policy
• Taylor & Francis Online
• Taylor & Francis Group
• Students/Researchers
• Librarians/Institutions

Connect with us

Registered in England & Wales No. 3099067 5 Howick Place | London | SW1P 1WG © 2023 Informa UK Limited