Lesley MFA Winter Reading Series — Kyle Lukoff

Online Zoom Event

Lesley University's All Lesley Reads Visiting Writer for the January 2022 residency will be Kyle Lukoff, author of the National Book Award finalist middle grade novel, Too Bright to See, the Stonewall-award winning picture book, When Aidan Became A Brother, Explosion at the Poem Factory, and many more. While becoming a writer Kyle worked as a bookseller for […]

Free

Solstice January 2022 Guest Faculty Reading

Online Zoom Event

Hear a sampling of three-minute readings from Solstice's winter 2022 guest faculty and writers-in-residence. Readers include: • Robbie Gamble (Poetry, January 2017)• Annie Harnett• Lee Hope• Sydney Lea• Shelley Linso• Beth Little• Devi Lockwood• Suzanne S. Rancourt• Lisa Stringfellow• Terrance Hayes

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CCW Virtual Reading January 2022

Online Zoom Event

Cambridge Common Writers will be hosting a virtual reading once more during the January Residency for Lesley University. This event is free and open to the public. Readers: Michelle Boland (Poetry, January 2019)Kathy Park Woolbert (Nonfiction, June 2010)Andrea Wang (WFYP, June 2011)Thato Mwosa (WSS, June 2017)Lisa DeSiro (Poetry, June 2010)Jorge Armenteros (Fiction, June 2012)

Free

NEPC / Voices of Poetry – Back at the Library–Featuring Eileen Cleary

Online Event

Eileen Cleary (Poetry, June 2016) - founder & editor of Lily Poetry Review and Lily Poetry Review Books - will be reading her work at this free virtual poetry event, presented by New England Poetry Club and Voices of Poetry (hosted by Cambridge Public Library). Other poets who will be reading include Charles Coe, Susan […]

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Getting the Words Right: A Look Inside the Writer’s Life — Featuring EA Luetkemeyer

Online Zoom Event

Host and author Ginna BB Gordon will lead a lively and probing conversation about the writing process and what it takes to be an author. Her guests are psychologist and poet Frank De Luca and fiction author EA Luetkemeyer (May 2015). These three local authors will discuss their writing process via the WHO, WHAT, HOW, […]

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Writing to Astound, with Michael Mercurio

Online Event

All writers, no matter how accomplished, feel the pressure of finding the right words to invigorate their prose and bring their stories to life. The right word choice and arrangement can surprise and astonish readers, or entice editors and agents to keep reading well after the first page. Think of the power that wordplay, (rhyme, alliteration, lyricism, connotation) […]

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