Mckensi Scy Pascall (WSS, June 2024) has been selected as the Playwright-in-Residence for the National Black Theatre. Mckensi is currently a Playwriting Teaching Artist for Public Works at The Public Theater and a 2026 Edward F Albee Foundation Writing Fellow/Artist-in-Residence.
Celeste Mohammed (Fiction, June 2016) discusses the launch of her new book club in the latest edition of Cacique (Issue 32). You can read more about it on page 22. Registration and more information can be found on the CCW calendar. And Celeste’s short story, “Plenty Time,” which was the overall winner of the Hope Prize, has been published in the anthology, Bright Side.
Christopher Crew’s (Poetry/WFYP, June 2008) poem “After 3 Years in ICE Detention, My Friend Gets Married,” has been published in Another Chicago Magazine.
KB Ballentine (Poetry, June 2007) has a new poem, “Diana’s Baths, White Mountain National Forest,” published in Parks and Points.
Kate Kearns’s (Poetry, June 2008) poem “To the AI Writing Poems” has been published in Prairie Schooner (Fall 2026).
Natalie Padilla Young (Poetry, January 2009) is the featured author of the month in A Dozen Nothing. Seven of her poems are available to read in the October edition.
Shari Caplan (Poetry, June 2014) discusses poetry creating an immersive experience in the podcast The Love Siren – Ep 023.
Julie Wittes Schlack’s (Nonfiction, June 2013) new novel, Whistlebrook, is available for pre-order from Koehlerbooks.
The Unlikely Tale of Chase & Finnegan by Jasmine Warga (WFYP, June 2013) is on the Barnes & Nobles list of Best Young Readers’ Books of 2026.
Rachel Becker (Poetry, January 2025, has two poems nominated for Best of the Net: “Field” from Bracken Magazine and “Audiometry” from SWWIM.
Rex Arrasmith (Fiction, January 2018/ Poetry, June 2020) has two poems published in Poetries in English Magazine: “High Tea with Frank” and “The Sinners’ Table.”
Robbie Gamble (Poetry January 2017/ Nonfiction, June 2020) has two new poems out in October: “Haze” in Turning Leaf Journal and “Hymn” in Painted Bride Quarterly.
Jorge Armenteros (Fiction, June 2012) has published a new novel Man on the Street: Ephemeris, from Spuyten Duvvil Press.
Steven Cramer’s (Poetry, Mentor) latest poetry collection, Where Thoughts Come From: New and Selected Poems is now available for preorder from Lily Poetry Review Press. His poem, “The Midnight Zone,” also appeared in On the Seawall.
“Cave of My Sisters” by Hunter Liguore (Fiction/WFYP, 2012) is included in the anthology of poetry, Samhain Harvest out from Over Spilled Ink.
Rachel Teferet (WFYP, June 2025) is one of the poetry contributors for Resistance: An Anthology of Overcoming out from Awatum Press. Five of their poems were selected for the publication.
Matt Phipps at Putnam has acquired world rights to Adios Summer, Hello Nueva York by Jasminne Paulino (WFYP, June 2023), a picture book about a Dominican American girl’s process of finding room in her heart to embrace both sides of her bicultural and bilingual identity, upon returning from a summer visit to her abuela in the Dominican Republic. Publication is planned for summer 2029.
“The Ghosts We Create” by David Farrow (Fiction, June 2022) has been published in Ghost Lights, a new horror short fiction anthology out from Flame Tree Publishing.
Erin Belieu (Poetry, Mentor) was interviewed by Holy Family University MFA program Director Keith Kopka for The Adroit Journal.
Sweet Time by Graham Jones (WFYP, June 2024), a rhythmic nonfiction picture book about Clyde Stubblefield, has been acquired by Holiday House/Neal Porter Books for a spring/summer 2028 release.
Jason Reynolds (WFYP, Mentor) has written a novel for adults that will be published by Scribner in June. Father, Father centers around two brothers on a cross-country road trip following the recent passing of their father.
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Resources & Opportunities
- Boston University invites nationally or internationally known poets (writing in English) to apply for a faculty position at the rank of Professor in the CAS English Department and Creative Writing Program (CWP). Priority consideration will be given to applications received by November 15, 2026 and applications received after December 1, 2026 will not be considered. For more information, see the full post on Chronicle Careers.
- Erin Belieu and Adrian Matejka (Poetry, Mentors) are two of the core faculty who will teach in the 2027 Conscious Writers Collective. Each poet will lead a quarter of craft classes over the course of a year, with Adrian teaching in the spring and in the summer. Open enrollment ends on December 31st, 2026. See their website for more information.
- The Writers’ Room of Boston, a writing space available to writers in the Boston area, is offering discounted memberships to alumni of the Lesley MFA in Creative Writing program. For more details, please email us at lesleycambridgecommon@gmail.com.
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