Cambridge Common Writers exists to provide a supportive community for alumni, faculty, and friends of Lesley University’s MFA Program in Creative Writing, situated in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We seek to promote new and diverse literary voices from the Lesley MFA community, and to connect alumni with opportunities to advance and sustain their writing careers after graduation.

Publication News & Announcements, April 2025

Eileen Cleary (Poetry, June 2017) has been longlisted for the 2025 Mass Book Award in Poetry, for her book Wild Pack of the Living. Enzo Silon Surin (Poetry, 2012) is a 2025 Mass Cultural Council grant recipient in literature. He was also a featured speaker at the Spring 2025 Connections […]

Publication News & Announcements, March 2025

Jody Hobbs Hesler (Fiction, June 2017) has a short story “Swingset Bird” in Pithead Chapel. Robbie Gamble (Poetry, January 2017) has five new poems out in March: “Perseids” in Halfway Down the Stairs; “Aubade to Self” in ONE ART; “Resolve” in Molecule: a tiny lit mag; “Chloe Goes to College” […]

Publication News & Announcements: February 2025

Rees Collier (Fiction, January 2025) has a feature, “Love’s Improbable Odds” in The Boston Sunday Globe Magazine. Abbie Harlow (WFYP, June 2019) has announced that her debut YA novel, A Butterfly’s Sting will be published in October 2025, and is now available for preorder. Sara Levine (Nonfiction/WFYP, June 2006) has […]