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SUMMARY:The Thought Leadership Series with Andrea Wang
DESCRIPTION:Join Andrea Wang at The Thought Leadership Series hosted by Lesley University. Andrea and award-winning illustrator\, Jason Chin\, will be discussing both the writing and illustration process for their book Watercress\, as well as its anticipated sequel due out next year. \n\n\n\nAndrea Wang is an acclaimed author of picture books and middle grade novels. Her picture book Watercress was awarded the Caldecott Medal\, a Newbery Honor\, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature\, a New England Book Award and a Boston Globe—Horn Book Honor\, among others. She is also the author of Luli and the Language of Tea\, The Many Meanings of Meilan\, Magic Ramen: The Story of Momofuku Ando\, and The Nian Monster. These books have each received starred reviews\, awards\, and honors\, as well as appearing on multiple state library book lists. Andrea received her MFA in Creative Writing for Young People from Lesley in 2011.  \n\n\n\nPresentations are free and open to all. Please register in advance for any of the following events you plan to attend.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/the-thought-leadership-series-with-andrea-wang/
LOCATION:Lesley University\, 29 Everett St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event,Lesley Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240628T183000
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Summer Reading Series: Graduating Student Readings
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley MFA community for this evening reading with Hope Villanueva (WSS)\, Abigail Campbell (WFYP)\, Tony Pina (Nonfiction)\, and Grace Deitrich Purda\, (WFYP).
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-summer-reading-series-graduating-student-readings/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240627T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240627T193000
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Summer Reading Series: Graduating Students
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley MFA community for this evening reading with Ana Guigui (WSS)\, McKensi Pascall (WSS)\, William Galvani (Nonfiction)\, Graham Jones (WFYP)\, and Tyler Pruett (Poetry).
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-summer-reading-series-graduating-students/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240626T183000
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Summer Reading Series: Bonita Lee Penn & Tyler Woodsmall
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley MFA community for this evening reading with Bonita Lee Penn (Poetry\, January 2015) and Tyler Woodsmall (Fiction\, June 2020).
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-summer-reading-series-bonita-lee-penn-tyler-woodsmall/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event,CCW Event,Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240624T183000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240621T012502Z
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Summer Reading Series: Rachel Manley & Kevin Prufer
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley MFA community for this evening reading with Rachel Manley (Nonfiction\, MFA Writing Faculty) and Kevin Prufer (Poetry\, MFA Writing Faculty).
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-summer-reading-series-rachel-manley-kevin-prufer/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240623T183000
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Summer Reading Series: Joan Houlihan & Sara Zarr
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley MFA community for this evening reading with Joan Houlihan (Poetry\, MFA Writing Faculty) and Sara Zarr (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty).
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-summer-reading-series-joan-houlihan-sara-zarr/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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SUMMARY:Writing for Young People Open Lecture Series: Talking Craft in YA
DESCRIPTION:PANELISTS: Jasmine Warga (WFYP\, June 2013)\, Chris Lynch (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty)\, Sara Farizan (WFYP\, January 2012)\, and Jason Reynolds (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty). \n\n\n\nModerator: Sara Zarr (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty)
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/writing-for-young-people-open-lecture-series-talking-craft-in-ya/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event,Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240623T103000
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DTSTAMP:20240621T010658Z
CREATED:20240621T010608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240621T010658Z
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SUMMARY:Writing for Young People Open Lecture Series: Using Your MFA to Stay Rooted in Craft
DESCRIPTION:Join visiting writer Jasmine Warga (WFYP\, June 2013)\, author of Other Words for Home\, The Shape of Thunder\, A Rover’s Story\, and My Heart and Other Black Holes\, which has been translated into twenty languages.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/writing-for-young-people-open-lecture-series-using-your-mfa-to-stay-rooted-in-craft/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event,Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240622T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240622T193000
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CREATED:20240621T010350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240621T010353Z
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SUMMARY:MFA Summer Reading Series: All Lesley Reads Visitor Bernardo Cubria
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley MFA community for the All Lesley Reads event with actor\, director\, playwright\, and screenwriter Bernardo Cubria. Bernardo’s accomplishments are vast and wide in both stage and screen. He has worked as actor\, writer\, and editor in film\, TV and stage. Bernardo’s plays have been nominated for and won major theater awards\, including the 2021 Smith Prize for Political Theater from the National New Play Network. He is an artistic director (among many) at AMMO\, Ammunition Theater Company. Here’s an interview with him on Playwright’s Spotlight: “Hitting the Flow State\, Locking Yourself Away\, and Staying in the Sh*t.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibY4478Fsb4
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/mfa-summer-reading-series-all-lesley-reads-visitor-bernardo-cubria/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240621T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240621T180000
DTSTAMP:20240621T010713Z
CREATED:20240621T005509Z
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Summer Reading Series: Kyoko Mori & John Rozum
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley MFA community for this evening reading with Kyoko Mori (Nonfiction\, MFA Writing Faculty) and John Rozum (Graphic Novel & Comics).
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-summer-reading-series-kyoko-mori-john-rozum/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T200000
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SUMMARY:Finnegan Lecture 2024 Jasmine Warga
DESCRIPTION:Jasmine Warga (WFYP\, June 2013)\, the 2024 Finnegan Lecturer\, will talk about the power of stories\, particularly the power of narrative and stories for young people in her talk “Connecting Through Story.” Jasmine is the New York Times-bestselling and award-winning author of many books for young people\, including Other Words For Home and A Rover’s Story. She lives in the Chicago area with her family.  \n\n\n\nPrevious Finnegan lecturers have included award-winning authors and illustrators such as Carole Lindstrom\, Ekua Holmes\, Candice Illoh\, Tracey Baptiste\, Jack Gantos\, Joel Christian Gill\, Steve Jenkins\, Renee Kurilla\, and E.B. Lewis & Susan Goodman.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/finnegan-lecture-2024-jasmine-warga/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event,Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T170000
DTSTAMP:20230919T001720Z
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SUMMARY:The 2023-24 Lesley University Thought Leadership Series - Jasmine Warga
DESCRIPTION:The Thought Leadership Series at Lesley University welcomes guest presenters who engage members of our community and the public in conversation and\, through that exchange\, encourage us all to act as catalysts for a more connected and just world. \n\n\n\nThese presentations are free and open to all. \n\n\n\nJasmine Warga (WFYP)\, a 2013 graduate of Lesley University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program\, is the New York Times-bestselling and award-winning author of many books for young people\, including “Other Words For Home” and “A Rover’s Story.” “Other Words For Home” earned multiple awards\, including a John Newbery Honor\, a Walter Honor for Young Readers\, and a Charlotte Huck Honor. Her book “The Shape of Thunder” was a School Library Journal and Bank Street best book of the year\, a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Children’s and YA Book Award\, and has been named to several state award reading lists. “A Rover’s Story\, “her latest novel\, was an instant New York Times bestseller\, an Indie Next List and a Junior Library Guild selection\, and was named a best book of the year by many outlets including Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/the-2023-24-lesley-university-thought-leadership-series-jasmine-warga/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Alum Event,Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240110T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240110T193000
DTSTAMP:20231218T001331Z
CREATED:20231218T001330Z
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Winter Reading Series - Jody Hobbs Hesler & Adria Karlsson
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley MFA program for an evening reading with alums Jody Hobbs Hesler (Fiction\, June 2017) and Adria Karlsson (WFYP\, January 2023). This event will be held both in person and on Zoom. \n\n\n\nJODY HOBBS HESLER is the author of the story collection What Makes You Think You’re Supposed to Feel Better (Cornerstone Press\, October 2023)\, and the novel\, Without You Here (Flexible Press\, September 2024). Her words also appear in Necessary Fiction\, Gargoyle\, Valparaiso Fiction Review (x\, x)\, Atticus Review\, Writer’s Digest\, Electric Literature\, CRAFT\, Arts & Letters\, and many other journals. She teaches at WriterHouse in Charlottesville\, Virginia; writes and copyedits for Virginia Wine & Country Life and Charlottesville Family Magazine; and serves as assistant fiction editor for the Los Angeles Review. \n\n\n\nOnce upon a time\, ADRIA KARLSSON may have been found teaching people\, training cats and dogs\, or tutoring dyslexic kids\, but now they spend their time writing and parenting. Their life seems full of unexpected twists\, but also adventure – as an author they get to ask lots of questions\, figure out answers\, and share what they’ve learned through make-believe. That’s definitely its own kind of happily ever after.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-winter-reading-series-jody-hobbs-hesler-adria-karlsson/
LOCATION:University Hall – Amphitheater\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240108T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240108T193000
DTSTAMP:20231218T000834Z
CREATED:20231218T000833Z
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Winter Reading Series - Steven Cramer & Janet Pocorobba
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley MFA program for an evening reading with Steven Cramer (Poetry\, MFA Writing Faculty) and Janet Pocorobba (Nonfiction\, June 2006\, Program Director). This event will be held both in-person and over Zoom. \n\n\n\nSTEVEN CRAMER is the author of six poetry collections and has published poems and essays in journals such as The Atlantic Monthly\, Field\, The Kenyon Review\, The Nation\, The New England Review\, The Paris Review\, and Poetry.  Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and two fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, he founded and teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University.  He writes poems and about poems.  If he could write more lucratively\, he doesn’t know if he would\, but he can’t so he doesn’t. Some of the poems from his latest collection\, Listen\, out in October 2020 from MadHat Press\, are available online through his website. \n\n\n\nJANET POCOROBBA writes memoir and essay and is currently writing a hybrid memoir about a co-op in a village in Vermont that incorporates personal memoir and social history. She is the author of The Fourth String: A Memoir of Sensei and Me\, and has published other work in lit mags\, most recently “Stalking the Self: Finding a Point of View in Memoir\,” Writers’ Digest Sept/Oct 2021.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-winter-reading-series-steven-cramer-janet-pocorobba/
LOCATION:University Hall – Amphitheater\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T193000
DTSTAMP:20231218T001437Z
CREATED:20231217T230438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231218T001437Z
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Winter Reading Series - Kate Snodgrass & Chris Lynch
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley MFA program for an evening reading with Kate Snodgrass (Emerita MFA Faculty for WSS) and Chris Lynch (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty). This event will be both in person and online. \n\n\n\nKATE SNODGRASS served as the Artistic Director of Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and of the Elliot Norton Award-winning Boston Theater Marathon (which she co-founded) until 2022. She is Professor Emerita of the Practice of Playwriting at Boston University. Snodgrass is a former Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) National Chair of the Playwriting Program\, a former vice president of StageSource\, Inc.\, and a member of Actors’ Equity\, A.F.T.R.A.\, and the Dramatists Guild. \n\n\n\nCHRIS LYNCH is the award–winning author of several highly acclaimed young adult novels\, including Printz Honor Book Freewill\, Iceman\, Gypsy Davey\, and Shadow Boxer—all ALA Best Books for Young Adults—as well as Killing Time in Crystal City\, Little Blue Lies\, Pieces\, Kill Switch\, Angry Young Man\, and Inexcusable\, which was a National Book Award finalist and the recipient of six starred reviews. Chris is the author of middle grade novel Walkin’ the Dog. He holds an MA from the writing program at Emerson College. He teaches in the creative writing MFA program at Lesley University. He lives in Boston and in Scotland.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-winter-reading-series-kate-snodgrass-chris-lynch/
LOCATION:University Hall – Amphitheater\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T123000
DTSTAMP:20231217T213809Z
CREATED:20231217T213808Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231217T213809Z
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SUMMARY:Writing for Young People Open Lecture Series - Bringing History to Young Readers
DESCRIPTION:PANELISTS: Tracey Baptiste\, Chris Lynch\, Patricia Pearson. Moderator: Sara Farizan. \n\n\n\nThis event will be both in person and on Zoom.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/writing-for-young-people-open-lecture-series-bringing-history-to-young-readers/
LOCATION:University Hall – Amphitheater\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T113000
DTSTAMP:20231217T213309Z
CREATED:20231217T213308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231217T213309Z
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Writing for Young People Open Lecture Series - History as Story\, not Grocery List: Writing Factual Middle Grade
DESCRIPTION:Join visiting writer Patricia Pearson (WFYP\, June 2015)\, author of We Are Your Children Too: Black Students\, White Supremacists\, and the Battle for America’s Schools in Prince Edward County\, Virginia. This event will be both in person and online.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-writing-for-young-people-open-lecture-series-history-as-story-not-grocery-list-writing-factual-middle-grade/
LOCATION:University Hall – Amphitheater\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240106T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240106T193000
DTSTAMP:20231218T001426Z
CREATED:20231217T212411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231218T001426Z
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Winter Reading Series - Kevin Prufer & Jason Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley MFA program for an evening reading with Kevin Prufer (Poetry\, MFA Writing Faculty) and Jason Reynolds (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty). This event will take place both in person and on Zoom. \n\n\n\nKEVIN PRUFER is the author of seven books of poetry and the editor of numerous anthologies\, the most recent of which is How He Loved Them (Four Way Books)\, winner of the Julie Suk Award and long-listed for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize.  Prufer is also Co-Curator of the Unsung Masters Series\, and Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston. Among Prufer’s awards and honors are four Pushcart prizes and multiple Best American Poetry selections\, numerous awards from the Poetry Society of America\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lannan Foundation. \n\n\n\nJASON REYNOLDS is an award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author. Jason’s many books include Miles Morales: Spider Man\, the Track series (Ghost\, Patina\, Sunny\, and Lu)\, Long Way Down\, which received a Newbery Honor\, a Printz Honor\, and a Correta Scott King Honor\, and Look Both Ways\, which was a National Book Award Finalist. His latest book\, Stamped: Racism\, Antiracism\, and You\, is a collaboration with Ibram X. Kendi. Recently named the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature\, Jason has appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah\, Late Night with Seth Meyers\, and CBS This Morning.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-winter-reading-series-kevin-prufer-jason-reynolds/
LOCATION:University Hall – Amphitheater\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240106T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240106T173000
DTSTAMP:20231217T213202Z
CREATED:20231217T211946Z
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SUMMARY:All Lesley Reads: Ukranian Writing in a Time of Russian Invasion
DESCRIPTION:For its January 2024 All Lesley Reads Visiting Writer Series\, Lesley University’s MFA Program inCreative Writing is honored to sponsor an international conversation and reading with Ukrainian poet and translator\, Yuliya Musakovska; poet and translator Olena Jennings; and essayist\, novelist\, and poet\,Askold Melnyczuk\, founder of the celebrated literary magazine AGNI and currently publisher ofArrowsmith Press. \n\n\n\nFrom 3:00 to 4:00\, Askold and Olena will join Yuliya from Ukraine\, for a conversation about poetry\,literature\, translation\, writing\, and the arts in Ukraine now and in the past\, exploring what it means towork as an international artist during war. From 4:00 to 5:00\, Yuliya will read from her poetry.Questions and responses will be invited after each event. This event will be both in person and online.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/all-lesley-reads-ukranian-writing-in-a-time-of-russian-invasion/
LOCATION:University Hall – Amphitheater\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240105T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240105T183000
DTSTAMP:20240103T233614Z
CREATED:20231217T210929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240103T233614Z
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Winter Reading Series - Michelle Knudsen & Pamela Petro
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley MFA program for an evening reading with Michelle Knudsen (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty) and Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics\, MFA Writing Faculty). This event will take place both in person and over Zoom. \n\n\n\nMICHELLE KNUDSEN is the New York Times best-selling author of fifty books for children and teens\, including the award-winning picture book Library Lion\, which was selected by TIME magazine as one of the 100 Best Children’s Books of All Time. Her other books include the picture book Marilyn’s Monster (NPR’s Best Books) and the novels The Dragon of Trelian (VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers) and Evil Librarian (YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults; Sid Fleischman Humor Award). She writes about love\, friendship\, dragons\, demons\, magic\, musical theater\, and\, sometimes\, giant spiders. She also writes occasional short stories for adults. Her next book will be LUIGI\, THE SPIDER WHO WANTED TO BE A KITTEN\, coming March 5\, 2024\, from Candlewick Press. \n\n\n\nPAMELA PETRO is a writer\, artist\, and educator. She works in both research nonfiction and memoir—often braiding the two together—and as a visual artist works with experimental forms of photography. In addition to the MFA\, she teaches creative writing at Smith College and is the Director of the Dylan Thomas Summer School at the University of Wales\, Trinity St David. Her essays have been published in Lumina\, The Paris Review\, Granta\, Slab\, and Harvard Review Online.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-winter-reading-series-michelle-knudsen-pamela-petro/
LOCATION:University Hall – Amphitheater\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230628T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230628T193000
DTSTAMP:20230625T191919Z
CREATED:20230625T191917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230625T191919Z
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Evening Reading Series -- E.B. Bartels (Nonfiction)\, Janet Hurley (Nonfiction)\, and Kate Kearns (Poetry)
DESCRIPTION:The evening’s reading will include E.B. Bartels\, Visiting Writer\, nonfiction\, plus: Janet Hurley\, Alum\, nonfiction (June 2008)\, and Kate Kearns\, Alum\, poetry (June 2008)\, presented by Cambridge Common Writers. There will be a reception following the reading.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-evening-reading-series-e-b-bartels-nonfiction-janet-hurley-nonfiction-and-kate-kearns-poetry/
LOCATION:University Hall Amphitheater\, 99 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230626T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230626T193000
DTSTAMP:20230625T190454Z
CREATED:20230625T190453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230625T190454Z
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Evening Reading Series -- Tracey Baptiste (WFYP) and Kate Fussner (WFYP)
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-evening-reading-series-tracey-baptiste-wfyp-and-kate-fussner-wfyp/
LOCATION:University Hall Amphitheater\, 99 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230113T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230113T193000
DTSTAMP:20221212T160600Z
CREATED:20221212T160515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221212T160600Z
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Graduating Student Readings
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley MFA community for a series of graduating student readings from Erin Doppes (WFYP)\, Jeanne Foley (Nonfiction)\, Staci Hopkin (Poetry)\, Adria Karlsson (WFYP)\, Veronica Reilly-Granich (Fiction)\, L. Scully (Nonfiction)\, and Erin Thomas (Fiction). This event is open to the public both in-person and on Zoom.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-graduating-student-readings-2/
LOCATION:University Hall Amphitheater\, 99 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230112T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230112T193000
DTSTAMP:20221212T160314Z
CREATED:20221212T160313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221212T160314Z
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA: Graduating Student Readings
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley community for a series of graduating student readings from Sari Boren (WSS)\, Erin McGinley (WSS)\, Katie DeBonneville (Nonfiction)\, Melinda Farris (Fiction)\, Amy Mevorach (Nonfiction)\, Kent Neal (Poetry)\, and Ashley Soden (Fiction). This event is open to the public both in-person and on Zoom.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-graduating-student-readings/
LOCATION:University Hall Amphitheater\, 99 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230111T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230111T193000
DTSTAMP:20221212T160029Z
CREATED:20221212T160004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221212T160029Z
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Reading: Sara Farizan & Doug Bauer
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley MFA community for a reading with Sara Farizan (WFYP\, January 2012) and the visiting writer sponsered by Cambridge Common Writers\, Doug Bauer (Fiction). This event is open to the public both in-person and on Zoom. There will be a reception hosted by CCW following the event.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-reading-sara-farizan-doug-bauer/
LOCATION:University Hall Amphitheater\, 99 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230109T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230109T193000
DTSTAMP:20221212T153801Z
CREATED:20221212T153746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221212T153801Z
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Reading: Cynthia Platt & Janet Pocorobba
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley MFA community for this reading with Cynthia Platt (MFA Writing Faculty & Alum\, WFYP) and Janet Pocorobba (MFA Writing Faculty & Alum\, Nonfiction). This event is open to the public both in-person and on Zoom.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-reading-cynthia-platt-janet-pocorobba/
LOCATION:University Hall Amphitheater\, 99 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230108T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230108T193000
DTSTAMP:20221212T153436Z
CREATED:20221212T153435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221212T153436Z
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Reading: Ellen Lewis & John Rozum
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley MFA community for a reading with Ellen Lewis (MFA Writing Faculty; WSS) and John Rozum (Graphic Novel & Comics). This event is open to the public both in-person and on Zoom.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-reading-ellen-lewis-john-rozum/
LOCATION:University Hall Amphitheater\, 99 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230108T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230108T123000
DTSTAMP:20221212T152331Z
CREATED:20221212T152330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221212T152331Z
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SUMMARY:WFYP Panel: What It Means to Write Meaningful Stories
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley community for a WFYP MFA Writing Faculty panel with Tracey Baptiste\, Anika Aldamuy Denise\, David Elliott\, and Cynthia Platt. Moderated by Mikki Knudsen. This event is open to the public both in-person and on Zoom.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/wfyp-panel-what-it-means-to-write-meaningful-stories/
LOCATION:University Hall Amphitheater\, 99 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230108T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230108T113000
DTSTAMP:20221212T151618Z
CREATED:20221212T150051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221212T151618Z
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SUMMARY:Crafting Picture Books with Heart with Visiting Writer Anika Aldamuy Denise
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley MFA community for a panel on Crafting Picture Books with Heart with visiting writer Anika Aldamuy Denise. This panel will be open to the public both on Zoom and in-person. \n\n\n\nAnika Aldamuy Denise is the author of ten picture books including the Pura Belpré author honor-winning Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré and A Girl Named Rosita: The Story of Rita Moreno: Actor\, Singer\, Dancer\, Trailblazer!. Raised in Queens\, New York\, she now lives with her husband and three daughters in Rhode Island. Visit her online at anikadenise.com.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/test-event/
LOCATION:University Hall Amphitheater\, 99 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230107T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230107T193000
DTSTAMP:20221212T150939Z
CREATED:20221212T150938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221212T150939Z
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SUMMARY:All Lesley Reads: Visiting Writer\, Meg Day
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley MFA community for the All Lesley Reads event with visiting writer\, Meg Day. This event is open to the public both in-person and on Zoom. \n\n\n\nMeg Day was raised in northern California’s Bay Area. Day holds a B.A. from the University of California\, San Diego\, an M.F.A. from Mills College\, and a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing with an emphasis on Disability Poetics from the University of Utah where Day was a Steffensen-Cannon Fellow\, a United States Point Foundation Scholar\, and Poetry Editor for Quarterly West. The 2015-2016 recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship and a 2013 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry\, Day has also received awards and fellowships from the Association of Writers & Writing Programs\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, The Amy Clampitt Fund\, Lambda Literary Foundation\, Hedgebrook\, Squaw Valley Writers\, the Taft-Nicholson Center for Environmental Humanities\, and the International Queer Arts Festival. Day is Assistant Professor of English & Creative Writing in the MFA Program at North Carolina State University.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/all-lesley-reads-visiting-writer-meg-day-2/
LOCATION:University Hall Amphitheater\, 99 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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