Cambridge Common Writers

AWP Offsite Reading with Naomi Mulvihill
2023-03-10 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1113 6th Avenue, Seattle, Washington, 98101, United States
Friday night, Naomi Mulvihill (Poetry, 2011) will be reading from The Knife Thrower’s Girl at the Word Works Offsite Reading. It will be from 5:30-7:00 in the Yellowstone Room at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Seattle-Downtown, 1113 6th Avenue, a 10 minute walk from the Convention Center.

The Long Field with Pamela Petro in Conversation with Annie Garthwaite
2023-03-12 15:00 - 16:00 UTC | St Chad’s Church Hall, 1 St Chad's Terrace, Shrewsbury, SY1 1JL, United Kingdom
Celebrate the publication of the paperback of Pamela Petro (MFA Writing Faculty, Nonfiction & Comics & Graphic Novels)‘s memoir, The Long Field. Refreshments will be provided.

Elizabeth Shick, author of The Golden Land, with Michael Lowenthal
2023-03-16 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Porter Square Books, 1815 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02140, United States
Porter Square Books will welcome Elizabeth Shick (Fiction, January 2019), author of The Golden Land, for an event with Michael Lowenthal (MFA Writing Faculty, Fiction)! This event will take place on Thursday, March 16 at 7pm at Porter Square Books (25 White St. Cambridge, MA 02140). RSVP below to let the bookstore know you’re coming and to receive event updates.

Cynthia Platt Storytime and Book Signing
2023-04-01 10:30 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | Charter Books, 8 Broadway, Newport, Rhode Island, 02840, United States
Prolific children’s author Cynthia Platt joins Charter Books for a special Easter storytime and a signing of her new book Easter Starring Egg. Kids of all ages welcome!

Others may get picked first at the Easter egg hunt, but Egg has sparkle on the outside, confidence on the inside, and the patience to wait for his perfect kid. This glittery, rhyming book includes sheets of egg-decorating stickers.The big Easter egg hunt may be a time to hide, but Egg wants to stand out! Bedazzled in glitter, and fancied up for his big rendezvous with the perfect kid, Egg knows deep down in his yolk that a special friendship is about to be hatched with the kid who will see him for him. This perfect Easter basket stuffer features rhyming text, colorful illustrations, a sparkly cover, and egg-decorating stickers.

Cynthia Platt is the author of books for young readers for all ages, ranging from board books to young adult fiction. Her picture books include Easter Starring Egg, Grow, A Little Bit of Love, and Panda-monium. She’s also the author of the young middle grade novel Parker Bell & the Science of Friendship, the YA novel Postcards from Summer, and numerous Curious George books. Cynthia is on faculty at Lesley University’s MFA in Creative Writing program and teach undergraduate liberal arts courses at Montserrat College of Art. You can learn more about her at cynthiaplattbooks.com, or can find her on social media at: Twitter: @cynplatt; Instagram: @cynthiaplattbooks.

IN-PERSON: Poetry Night with DeWitt Henry, Caitlin Krause, and Adam Scheffler
2023-04-03 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Wellesley Books, 82 Central Street, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 02482, United States
April is National Poetry Month and Wellesley Books will be hosting events throughout the month. First up is an evening with poets DeWitt Henry, Caitlin Krause (Poetry, June 2007), and Adam Scheffler.

Caitlin Krause is a virtual reality experience designer teaching about digital well-being at Stanford. She is the author of two nonfiction books, Mindful by Design (2019) and Designing Wonder (2021). Her latest book of poems is Digital Satori (2023). She founded the consultancy MindWise in 2016, and she develops experiences and events in extended reality. She holds a BA from Duke University and an MFA in poetry from Lesley University.

An evening of poetry with Ewa Chrusciel, Robbie Gamble, and Eliot Cardinaux
2023-04-14 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Anchor House of Artists, 518 Pleasant Street, Northampton, Massachusetts, 01002, United States
Robbie Gamble (he/him) received an MFA in Poetry from Lesley University (January 2017). His poems and essays have appeared in the Atlanta Review, Poet Lore, RHINO, Rust + Moth, Salamander, The Sun, and Tahoma Literary Review. His chapbook A Can of Pinto Beans was published by Lily Poetry Review Press in 2022. Robbie was the winner of the 2017 Carve Poetry Prize, and he was a 2019 Robert Taylor fellow at the Kenyon Summer Writers Workshop. His essay “Exit Wound” was cited as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2020. Robbie is the poetry editor for Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, and he divides his time between Boston and Vermont.

Ewa Chrusciel is a poet, translator, and educator. She has four books of poems in English: Yours, Purple Gallinule (Omnidawn 2022), Of Annunciations (Omnidawn 2017), Contraband of Hoopoe (Omnidawn 2014), Strata (Emergency Press 2009, reprinted by Omnidawn, April 2018), as well as three books in Polish: Tobołek (2016) Sopiłki (2009), and Furkot (2003). Her book Contraband of Hoopoe was translated into Italian by Anna Aresi and came out in Italy with Edizioni Ensemble in May 2019. Her poems have been included in curricula at institutions such as Harvard University, University of Wisconsin, and Salem State University. She is an Associate Professor of Creative and Professional Writing at Colby-Sawyer College.

Eliot Cardinaux is a poet, pianist, & composer working at the intersection of improvised music & experimental lyric poetry. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music from the New England Conservatory, and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He is the founder of The Bodily Press, through which he releases poetry chapbooks, CDs, LPs, & various collaborations with other artists, such as Sean Ali, Peter Knapp, Kresten Osgood, Asger Thomsen, & Thomas Morgan. Eliot performs & records along the East Coast & in Europe, most notably & recently in duo with Gary Fieldman, in trio with Will McEvoy & Max Goldman, & with the international ensemble Our Hearts as Thieves. His recent chapbooks include The Margins Weep Slow Roses, Caprice, Narratives of the Strata, Apparitions (with drawings by Sean Ali), & Split World. His most recent albums include Pavane, & Out of Our Systems. His poems have been featured in Talisman, Jacket2, Spectra Poets, Bloodroot, Caliban Online, Café Review, & Hollow. His translations of poems from the French of René Char are forthcoming in Solstice.

Why Some Animals Eat Poop: A Science Lesson with Sara Levine at RJ Julia
2023-04-15 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | RJ Julia Independent Booksellers, 768 Boston Post Road, Madison, Connecticut, 06443, United States
Join Sara Levine (Nonfiction/WFYP, January 2006) for a reading of her new picture book, Poop for Breakfast at RJ Julia Independent Booksellers in Madison, Connecticut.

Sara Levine is an author, educator, and veterinarian. Her science books for children include the Animal by Animal series, Germs Up Close, and A Peek at Beaks: Tools Birds Use. Her books have received a number of awards including AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize, Utah Beehive Book Award, Cook Prize finalist, Monarch Award master list, and Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year.

Karin Cecile Davidson Author Event
2023-04-18 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Bexley Library Auditorium, 2411 East Main Street, Bexley, Ohio, 43209, United States
Join the celebration of the release of Karin Cecile Davidson’s (Fiction, June 2009) debut story collection, The Geography of First Kisses, winner of the 2022 Acacia Fiction Prize. Karin will read from her stories and discuss the collection with Michelle Herman, Author and Professor Emerita of English, MFA Program in Creative Writing, The Ohio State University. Available now for pre-order, the collection will be released on April 11th.

Karin Cecile Davidson is the author of the novel Sybelia Drive (Braddock Avenue Books, 2020). Her story collection The Geography of First Kisses was awarded the 2022 Acacia Fiction Prize and is forthcoming from Kallisto Gaia Press in 2023. Her stories have appeared in Five Points, Story, The Massachusetts Review, Colorado Review, Passages North, Post Road, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. Her awards include an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Waasmode Short Fiction Prize, the Orlando Prize for Short Fiction, a Peter Taylor Fellowship, and residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and The Studios of Key West. Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, she now lives in Columbus, Ohio.

The event will be available both in-person and online.

ARGS Poetry Festival -- Featuring Clarissa Adkins
2023-04-22 10:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Appomattox Regional Governor’s School, 512 West Washington St, Petersburg, Virginia, 23803, United States
Appomattox Regional Governor’s School for the Arts and Technology in Petersburg, Virginia will be hosting a free community poetry celebration for National Poetry Month. The featured poets include:

Clarissa Adkins (Poetry, June 2018)

Roscoe Burnems

Rosa Castellano

Jack Couchman

Dr. Kathleen Decker

Derek Kannemeyer

Joanna Lee + Poets Who Run

B Lovee

Emily Okamoto-Green

David Patteson

Ron Smith

Vernon Wildy, Jr.

Email litarts@args.us with questions.

Fuck Me: A Memoir - Virtual Book Launch
2023-04-29 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Online Zoom Event
Join author L Scully (Nonfiction, January 2023) for the virtual book launch of their memoir, Fuck Me: A Memoir. Featuring special guests Mayah Monet Lovell and Maggie Von Sacher.

FUCK ME: A Memoir -- Virtual Book Launch
2023-04-29 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Online Zoom Event
Join L Scully (Nonfiction, January 2023) for the virtual launch of FUCK ME: A Memoir featuring Mayah Monet Lovell and Maggie Von Sacher. The launch will include a virtual celebration and reading.

If you are unable to make the virtual launch and are based in Boston, there are waitlist tickets available for an in-person book release party at the Democracy Center in Harvard Sq with Lucas Restivo here.

Email leighahscully@gmail.com for details.

Katie Cotugno with Karen McManus: Liar's Beach
2023-05-04 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline, Massachusetts, 02446-2908, United States
In person at Brookline Booksmith! Celebrate the release of Liar’s Beach with author Katie Cotugno (Fiction, June 2015), in conversation with Karen McManus.

Katie Cotugno (Co-TOOG-no) is the New York Times bestselling author of messy, complicated feminist YA novels including 99 Days, How to Love, Fireworks, Top Ten, 9 Days & 9 Nights, You Say It First, and Liar’s Beach, as well an adult novel, Birds of California. She is also the coauthor, with Candace Bushnell, of Rules for Being a Girl. Her books have been honored by the Junior Library Guild, the Bank Street Children’s Book Committee, and the Kentucky Association of School Librarians, among others, and translated into more than fifteen languages. Katie studied Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College and received her MFA in Fiction at Lesley University. She lives in Boston with her family. Visit her online at katiecotugno.com.

Fuck Me: A Memoir - Book Launch Party
2023-05-05 18:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Democracy Center, 45 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, United States
Join author L Scully (Nonfiction, January 2023) for an in-person celebration of their new memoir, Fuck Me: A Memoir, at the Democracy Center in Cambridge, MA. Masks are required for the event, as is an RSVP. Spacing is limited.

Montclair Literary Festival -- Mermaid and Pirate with Tracey Baptiste
2023-05-06 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Montclair Literary Festival, South Fullerton Ave, Montclair, New Jersey, 07042, United States
Mermaid and Pirate cannot understand each other. They speak different languages and come from different worlds. But they’re quick to lend a hand, or a tail, when the sky grows stormy and waters get rough, and a friendship is born. Hear author Tracey Baptiste (MFA Writing Faculty, WFYP) tell her story of a shared adventure where kindness and generosity speak louder than words. Recommended for ages 3-7.

YA Authorpalooza - Featuring Emily Inouye Huey
2023-05-09 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Barnes & Noble, Sugarhouse, 1104 E 2100 S, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84106, United States
YA Authorpalooza is celebrating a love of YA books! Join them for a book signing with:

– Elizabeth Lowham– Tricia Levenseller– Spencer Hyde– David Glen Robb– Emily Inouye Huey (WFYP, June 2011)

Author Palooza Tour - Featuring Emily Inouye Huey
2023-05-10 18:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Clearfield Branch Library, 1 N Main St, Clearfield, Utah, 84015, United States
Join Shadow Mountain Publishing authors Emily Inouye Huey (WFYP, June 2011), Elizabeth Lowham, and Tiffany Rosenhan as they celebrate the publication of their newest titles. There will be a panel discussion and Q & A session followed by book signings.

Deseret Book will be on hand selling books by the authors.

FOREST BATH Storytime with Lisa Robinson
2023-05-13 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Rd, Newton, Massachusetts, 02459-1972, United States
Join Lisa Robinson (WFYP, June 2011) at Newtonville Books for the launch of her upcoming picture book, Forest Bath Right Down This Path.

You Can't Kill a Poet 9 Year Anniversary Reading!
2023-05-17 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Tattoed Mom, 530 South St, Philadelphia, PA, 19147, United States
This poetry series hosted by Boston Gordon (Poetry, January 2015) is back for its nine-year anniversary. Queer and trans poets from Philadelphia will share their work and fill the room with queer experience. Readers list TBD.

This is a 21+ event, IDs are checked at the door. Please be vaccinated, masks are welcome.

This reading is offered in partnership with the Free Library of Philadelphia with support from The Pennsylvania Department of Education.

Grubbie Debuts: Kate Fussner, author of The Song of Us, in conversation with Rajani LaRocca
2023-05-30 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Porter Square Books: Boston Edition, 50 Liberty Dr., Boston, Massachusetts, 02210, United States
PSB: Boston Edition and GrubStreet will welcome Kate Fussner (WFYP, June 2021), author of The Song of Us for the latest installment of the Grubbie Debut event series. Rajani LaRocca will join the author in conversation. Attendees may also join virtually on Crowdcast.

Kate Fussner (she/her) is a novelist, teacher, and accidental poet living in Massachusetts with her wife and dramatic dog. When not reading or writing, Kate can be found spending time with her family, baking, or singing her favorite musicals. Kate believes in the power of a good laugh and a good cry, and hopes her stories will provide readers with both. Learn more at katefussner.com

Rajani LaRocca was born in India, raised in Kentucky, and now lives in the Boston area, where she practices medicine and writes award-winning books for young readers, including the Newbery Honor winning middle grade novel in verse, Red, White, and Whole. She’s always been an omnivorous reader, and now she is an omnivorous writer of fiction and nonfiction, novels and picture books, prose and poetry. She finds inspiration in her family, her childhood, the natural world, math, science, and just about everywhere she looks. Learn more about Rajani and her books at www.RajaniLaRocca.com and Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. She also co-hosts the STEM Women in KidLit Podcast.

The Knife Thrower’s Girl: Poetry Reading with Naomi Mulvihill
2023-05-31 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Egleston Square Branch Library, 2044 Columbus Ave, Roxbury, Massachusetts, 02119, United States
Join local author Naomi Mulvihill (Poetry, 2011) as she reads from her award-winning debut book of poetry, The Knife Thrower’s Girl.

Naomi Mulvihill was a Margaret Murphy endowed fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Her chapbook, We All Might Be (Factory Hollow Press) was awarded the 2022 Tomaž Šalamun Prize Editor’s Choice Selection. Her poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review Online, Michigan Quarterly Review, New Orleans Review, Salamander, Cimarron, West Branch, and others. Her poetry was also featured in Verse Daily. She is a veteran bilingual teacher in the Boston Public Schools.

Other local poets will also share their work.

Hybrid Book Launch of Glove Shy: A Sister's Reckoning -- Janet Hurley in conversation with Sebastian Matthews
2023-06-01 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe, 55 Haywood Street, Asheville, North Carolina, 28801, United States
Join Janet Hurley (Nonfiction, June 2008) in conversation with Sebastian Matthews at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe for the launch of her memoir Glove Shy. This is a hybrid event with limited in-store seating and the option to attend online. The event is free but registration is required for both in-person and virtual attendance. This event includes a book signing.

In the 1970s, Janet Hurley’s older brother, Brian, was the teenage boxing protégé of a World Heavyweight Champion who lived in their hometown. Brian was a young man of brilliance and wit. His talents were broad, yet boxing was the path he chose. And, soon enough, family life revolved around his training, his bouts, his future. Olympic medals? A pro career? Glove Shy is a tender-tough memoir, a loving look at how a sport as elemental as boxing can obscure the powerful forces this family never saw coming. But, when one of your own is in the ring, what else can matter? Hurley is a talented writer, with strong and vivid prose, and willing to get in the ring with her own past. Glove Shy is a well-told story of what happens when the blows hit far beyond the ropes.

Janet Hurley was born and raised in the Hudson Valley of upstate New York before coming south to Carolina (the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)for its undergraduate creative writing program. Though it took a while to replace “you guys” with “y’all”, she has lived in the south ever since, most recently in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western NC, where she and her husband David raised their daughter, Maren, and son, Liam.

Sebastian Matthews is the author of the memoir In My Father’s Footsteps (W.W. Norton & Co.) as well as two collections of poetry, We Generous and Miracle Day, both published by Red Hen Press. A third collection, Beginner’s Guide to a Head-on Collision, came out from Red Hen Press in 2017. Along with Stanley Plumly, Matthews is the co-editor of three volumes: The Poetry Blues: Essays and Interviews of William Matthews (University of Michigan Press), Search Party: The Collected Poems of William Matthews (Houghton Mifflin), a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize, and New Hope for the Dead: Uncollected Matthews (Red Hen Press). His poetry and prose have appeared in or on, among others, American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Blackbird, The Common, From the Fishouse, Georgia Review, Massachusetts Review, New England Review, Poets & Writers, storySouth, The Sun, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, Writer’s Almanac, and Writer’s Chronicle.

Kate Fussner with Rebecca Podos: The Song of Us
2023-06-07 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline, Massachusetts, 02446-2908, United States
In person at Brookline Booksmith! Celebrate the release of The Song of Us with author Kate Fussner (WFYP, June 2021), in conversation with Rebecca Podos.

Kate Fussner (she/her) is a novelist, teacher, and accidental poet living in Massachusetts with her wife and dramatic dog. Kate holds her B.A. from Vassar College, her M.Ed. from University of Massachusetts Boston, and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing for Young People from Lesley University.

Moderator Rebecca Podos is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of YA novels. Her latest releases are the co-edited anthology Fools in Love (Running Press Kids) and the YA fantasy novel From Dust, a Flame (Balzer + Bray). By day, she’s an agent at the Rees Literary Agency.

The Golden Land with Author Liz Shick at Chilmark Library
2023-06-14 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Chilmark Library, 522 South Road, Chilmark, Massachusetts, 02535-0180, United States
A debut novel that digs deep into the complexities of family history and relationships. When Etta’s grandmother dies, she is compelled to travel to Myanmar to explore complicated adolescent memories of her grandmother’s family and the violence she witnessed there. Full of rich detail and complex relationships, The Golden Land explores those personal narratives that might lie beneath the surface of historical accounts.

Elizabeth Shick (Fiction, January 2019) is the debut author of The Golden Land, winner of the 2021 AWP Prize for the Novel. A longtime American expatriate and international development consultant, she has lived and worked in Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Tanzania, The Gambia, and Italy. Liz currently resides in Dhaka, Bangladesh and West Tisbury, Massachusetts. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Lesley University and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University.

Reading with Karin Cecile Davidson and Jen Knox
2023-06-15 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Online Event
Two Dollar Radio Headquarters will be celebrating the release of Karin Cecile Davidson’s (Fiction, June 2009) newest novel, The Geography of First Kisses, and Jen Knox’s debut novel, We Arrive Uninvited.

In The Geography of First Kisses, one finds portrayals of quiet elegance reminiscent of early-20th-century art films. The fourteen ethereal stories are tethered to the bays and backwaters of southern Louisiana, the fields of Iowa and Oklahoma, the pine woods of Florida, places where girls and women seek love and belonging, and instead discover relationships as complicated, bewildering, even sorrowful. A New Orleans girl spends a year collecting boyfriends and all the while considers the reach of her misadventures; a newlywed couple travels to Tulsa in search of a horse gone missing, perhaps more in search of themselves; a new mother is faced with understanding the miracles and mysteries of faith when her baby disappears; a young daughter travels to Tallahassee with her mother, trying to unravel the meaning of love crossed with abandonment. Saturated with poetic illusion and powered with prose of a dark, pulsating circuitry, the collection combines joy, heartache, and tenacity in a manner sorely missed in today’s super-structured literature.

Karin Cecile Davidson is the author of the story collection The Geography of First Kisses, winner of the 2022 Acacia Fiction Prize (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2023), and the novel Sybelia Drive (Braddock Avenue Books, 2020). Her stories have appeared in Five Points, Story, The Massachusetts Review, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. Her awards include an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Waasmode Short Fiction Prize, the Orlando Prize for Short Fiction, a Peter Taylor Fellowship, and residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and The Studios of Key West. Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, she now lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Spiritual Refuge Series - Public Reading with Naomi Mulvihill
2023-06-16 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | North Kingstown Free Library, 100 Boone Street, North Kingstown, Rhode Island, 02852, United States
Naomi Mulvihill (Poetry, 2011) gives a public reading at the North Kingstown Free Library as part of the visiting writers Spiritual Refuge Series sponsored by St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

Kate Fussner at Children's Book World for The Song of Us
2023-06-16 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Children’s Book World, 17 Haverford Station Rd, Haverford, Pennsylvania, 19041, United States
Join Children’s Book World in Haverford, PA for a reading with Kate Fussner (WFYP, June 2021) from her debut novel, The Song of Us.

Kate Fussner (she/her) is a novelist, teacher, and accidental poet living in Massachusetts with her wife and dramatic dog. When not reading or writing, Kate can be found spending time with her family, baking, or singing her favorite musicals. Kate believes in the power of a good laugh and a good cry, and hopes her stories will provide readers with both. Kate went to Friends’ Central high school and still has family in the area!

Virtual Book Banter with Karin Cecile Davidson
2023-06-22 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Online Event
Book Banter is a free, fun, interactive event that streams live. Join the conversation on Facebook or YouTube!

In The Geography of First Kisses, one finds portrayals of quiet elegance reminiscent of early-20th-century art films. The fourteen ethereal stories are tethered to the bays and backwaters of southern Louisiana, the fields of Iowa and Oklahoma, the pine woods of Florida, places where girls and women seek love and belonging, and instead discover relationships as complicated, bewildering, even sorrowful. A New Orleans girl spends a year collecting boyfriends and all the while considers the reach of her misadventures; a newlywed couple travels to Tulsa in search of a horse gone missing, perhaps more in search of themselves; a new mother is faced with understanding the miracles and mysteries of faith when her baby disappears; a young daughter travels to Tallahassee with her mother, trying to unravel the meaning of love crossed with abandonment. Saturated with poetic illusion and powered with prose of a dark, pulsating circuitry, the collection combines joy, heartache, and tenacity in a manner sorely missed in today’s super-structured literature.

Karin Cecile Davidson (Fiction, June 2009) is the author of the novel Sybelia Drive (Braddock Avenue Books, 2020). Her story collection The Geography of First Kisses was awarded the 2022 Acacia Fiction Prize and is forthcoming from Kallisto Gaia Press in 2023. Her stories have appeared in Five Points, Story, The Massachusetts Review, Colorado Review, Passages North, Post Road, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. Her awards include an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Waasmode Short Fiction Prize, the Orlando Prize for Short Fiction, a Peter Taylor Fellowship, and residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and The Studios of Key West. Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, she now lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Lesley MFA Evening Reading Series -- Tracey Baptiste (WFYP) and Kate Fussner (WFYP)
2023-06-26 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | University Hall Amphitheater, 99 Brattle St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, United States

Lesley MFA Evening Reading Series -- E.B. Bartels (Nonfiction), Janet Hurley (Nonfiction), and Kate Kearns (Poetry)
2023-06-28 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | University Hall Amphitheater, 99 Brattle St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, United States
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.

[Working Title] reading hosted by L Scully
2023-06-29 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Faro Café, 5 Arrow St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, United States
L Scully (Nonfiction, January 2023) hosted a curated evening of readings by queer Boston writers. There will be a few open mic slots at the end of the curated reading.
