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, 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 […]

Being in the Work: A Conversation with Cindy House

Cindy House, author, nonfiction mentor and Lesley Alum, talks about the challenges of writing a follow up to her memoir Mother Noise, what she has learned from opening for David Sedaris, the “truth” in memoir and the joy she finds in teaching what she loves. CINDY HOUSE – FICTION, JUNE […]