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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rex Arrasmith | Doug Chase | John Colaianni | Robbie Gamble | Ted Omo |
Best-selling author and Lesley University MFA in Creative Writing faculty Jason Reynolds (WFYP, MFA Writing Faculty) is Lesley University's Black History Month speaker. He will read from and discuss his latest book, "Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You," followed by a Q&A session.
Lesley University’s 2021 Evelyn M. Finnegan Children’s Literature Lecture Series speaker is Nigerian-American writer and dancer Candice Iloh. A 2017 graduate of Lesley’s MFA Program in Creative Writing for Young People, Candice is a fitting choice for this well-regarded lecture series. Their first novel, "Every Body Looking," was a 2021 Printz Award Honoree and a […]
