Join Stage & Screen faculty Kate Snodgrass, Sinan Unel, Barry Brodsky and Jami Brandli for short presentations illustrating the way we teach, and an opportunity for attendees to ask questions.
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.
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Moderated by Danielle Legros Georges and Janet Pocorobba Panelists: Jami Brandli, Joan Houlihan, Chris Lynch, Kyoko Mori
Moderated by Laurie Foos Panelists: Barry Brodsky, Sophie Goldstein, Janet Pocorobba
Amy Jenness | Novuyo Masakhane | Seif-Eldeine Och | Jesse Senzer |
We at Cambridge Common Writers are pleased to invite you to the second virtual Alumni Pajama Party and All-Genre Invitational at the Lesley MFA in Creative Writing program's January residency. We've got an excellent line-up of readers from all genres and hope to see you there! Aqueela C. Britt (Fiction, June 2018)Fabia Oliveira (Nonfiction, 2017)Lisa […]