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 […]
Picture book writing seminar with Andrea Wang (WFYP, June 2011). Registration is free and open to the public.
Join Adrian Matejka (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty) and Grace Talusan, Visiting Nonfiction Author, as they read from their work. Registration is free and open to the public.
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
Join Tracey Baptiste (WFYP, MFA Writing Faculty) and Matthew Henry, Visiting Poet, as they read from their work. Registration is free and open to the public.
Join SJ Rozan, Visiting Author, Fiction, and WSS Alum Thato Mwosa (June 2017) as they read from and show their work. Registration is free and open to the public.
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)
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 […]
Join Harbor Editions on Facebook Live for a reading by Joan Kwon Glass and Boston Gordon (Poetry, January 2015) from their new chapbooks.
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, […]
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) […]
Robbie Gamble (Poetry/Nonfiction; January 2017/June 2020) reads from "A Can of Pinto Beans" -poetry recounting his work with "No More Deaths"
