• Fiction Writing Workshop and Info Session

    Online Zoom Event

    Join Fiction faculty mentor Laurie Foos for a writing workshop and Q & A about the Lesley MFA Program in Creative Writing. Students will be given writing prompts and will have plenty of opportunity to ask questions.

    Free
  • If Not Now, When? Become the Poet You’ve Dreamed of Being

    Online Zoom Event

    Join Lesley low-res MFA poetry faculty Erin Belieu and Kevin Prufer to talk about making poetry, mentorship and the writing life. Find out how a Lesley MFA, in the heart of the most fabled literary city in America, offers both flexibility and community in your busy life. All levels are experience are welcome. If you […]

    Free
  • So You Want to Write for Young People

    Online Zoom Event

    Meet members of the Writing for Young People faculty Tracey Baptiste, David Elliott, and Mikki Knudsen as they discuss the features that make the Lesley MFA Program in Creative Writing distinct from other programs. There will be plenty of opportunity for Q & A. 

    Free
  • 31st Annual Literacy for All Conference

    Online Event

    This year's annual Literacy for All Conference will feature Lesley alumni, faculty and bestselling author Jason Reynolds (WFYP, MFA Writing Faculty), as well as many other leading literacy educators. Register for three days of real-time professional development. The recorded sessions will be available on-demand for participants to reference at their convenience through the end of the year. […]

    $99.00 – $369.00
  • Poetry for Black Lives: A Reading and Conversation

    Online Zoom Event

    Lesley University MFA Program in Creative Writing, the Boston Public Library, and the Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture present Poetry for Black Lives: A Reading and Conversation, which showcases contemporary elegies and critical ruminations from the recent volume Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era (Routledge, 2020). The co-editors of the volume, Sequoia Maner, darlene anita […]

    Free
  • Lesley University MFA in Creative Writing Reading Series – Chris Lynch & Jami Brandli

    Online Zoom Event

    Chris Lynch has never been a New York Times bestselling author, not even close. But he has been publishing young-adult and middle-grade novels since 1993. One of them was a National Book Award finalist, and another was a Michael L. Printz award honor book. His next YA novel, Walkin’ the Dog, will be out with Simon & Schuster in 2022, […]

    Free
  • Lesley University MFA in Creative Writing Reading Series – Karen Zacarias

    Online Zoom Event

    This Residency's All Lesley Reads visitor is the award-winning playwright Karen Zacarías. Karen Zacarías has been named by American Theater Magazine one of the most-produced playwrights in the country, as well as one of the most-produced theater-for young-people playwrights. Her new play, The Copper Children, about an explosive child separation case set in 1905, premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival […]

    Free
  • Lesley University MFA in Creative Writing Reading Series – Sharon Bryan & Tony Eprile

    Online Zoom Event

    Sharon Bryan is the author of four books of poems, most recently Sharp Stars, which received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award. She edited Where We Stand: Women Poets on Literary Tradition, and co-edited, with William Olsen, Planet on the Table: Poets on the Reading Life. Her awards include NEA Fellowships in Poetry, arts grants from Tennessee and Washington, and an Arvon […]

    Free
  • Lesley University MFA in Creative Writing Reading Series – Steven Cramer & Rachel Manley

    Online Zoom Event

    Steven Cramer published his sixth poetry collection, Listen, this year. Previous collections include Clangings and Goodbye to the Orchard, which won the Sheila Motton Prize from the New England Poetry Club and was named an Honor Book in Poetry by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. A recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the […]

    Free