Night Jars
Each year, Autumn Society produces Night Jars—small art installations created from poetry we’ve read throughout the year or written at the Autumn Retreat.
Urban Exploration
Exploration serves our writing practice. We walk with field notes, training our attention to place and detail. We research archives, interview witnesses, and piece together narratives that official histories have obscured or erased. These explorations document forgotten places, suppressed stories, and landscapes that hold cultural memory—from abandoned institutions to overlooked historical sites. This fieldwork becomes the foundation for our investigative reports and creative work.
Investigative Reports
Autumn Society produces long-form investigative reports that uncover buried histories and challenge official narratives. These place-based investigations focus on stories that have been suppressed, mishandled, or forgotten—particularly those involving racial injustice and marginalized voices across New England.
Our first report, Remember Seta, examines the 1978 death of Seta Rampersad, a Black student at UMass Amherst, and the flawed inquest that followed. Through extensive research and archival work, we piece together what official records obscured.
These investigations don’t exclusively report on Black people, but they center stories that resonate with Black experience—stories of lives dismissed, voices suppressed, and justice denied.