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SUMMARY:AWP: In Praise of Legacy: Writers of Color and the Challenge of the Canon
DESCRIPTION:The word “canon” in literary studies was intended to refer to humanity’s greatest writings—those which all “educated” people should know. Thanks to the work of critics and scholars of color\, however\, we are now able to recognize the exclusions\, the silences\, and the gaps that exist in the traditional concept of the canon. The four poets/professors on this panel will read poems and discuss how to explore\, expand\, and explode the literary canon in one’s work and in the classroom. \n\n\n\nJoin Enzo Silon Surin (Poetry\, 2012)\, Nathan McClain\, Kenzie Allen\, Michael Mercurio (Poetry\, January 2017)\, Rita Banerjee for this panel at the 2024 AWP Conference in Kansas City.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/awp-in-praise-of-legacy-writers-of-color-and-the-challenge-of-the-canon/
LOCATION:Room 2503AB\, Kansas City Convention Center\, Level 2\, 301 W 13th St #100\, Kansas City\, Missouri\, 64105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="2024 AWP Conference & Bookfair":MAILTO:awp@awpwriter.org
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SUMMARY:D. Dina Friedman IMMIGRANTS Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join Odyssey Bookshop in person on Tuesday\, January 23 at 7 PM\, as local author D. Dina Friedman (Fiction\, January 2016) presents her new collection\, Immigrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\n\nWith sensitivity and wit\, Friedman creates a tableau of characters\, scenery\, sounds\, smells\, and tastes as varied as those who have claimed or seek to claim a home within our borders. \n\n\n\nIn this compelling collection of stories\, we find immigrants everywhere: in the poignant and doomed relationships between the documented and undocumented; in a squalid encampment by the Rio Grande\, where a young mother sends her daughter over the bridge to the U.S. alone; in multicultural New York\, where an old woman obsessed with anti-Semitism during the Black Death faces a moral dilemma when her housekeeper asks to borrow money to bail out her undocumented brother; and in a New England home\, where bats in the attic are threatening the last vestiges of stability for a divorced and desperate middle-aged white woman and her twenty-something Chinese American tenant. \n\n\n\nThese stories explore the deep ambiguities in how we perceive each other. Readers will grow to love Friedman’s characters\, flawed as they are\, as they grapple toward a deeper caring for the world around them. \n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\nIn addition to this new short story collection for the adult market\, D. Dina Friedman is also the author of two award-winning novels\, Escaping Into the Night (Simon & Schuster) and Playing Dad’s Song (Farrar\, Straus\, Giroux)\, and two books of poetry\, Wolf in the Suitcase (Finishing Line Press) and Here in Sanctuary—Whirling (forthcoming from Querencia Press in 2024). In Immigrants\, Friedman draws on her childhood in multicultural Queens\, her adulthood in rural New England\, her travels toIndia and the U.S./Mexico border\, and her years as an activist working for Middle East peace and immigration justice.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/d-dina-friedman-immigrants-book-launch/
LOCATION:The Odyssey Bookshop\, 9 College St\, South Hadley\, Massachusetts\, 01075\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Odyssey Bookshop":MAILTO:joan@odysseybks.com
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SUMMARY:Writing for Healing Workshop with Amy Mevorach
DESCRIPTION:Sometimes the hardest stories to tell are the ones that most need to be told. This class will focus on creating a safe space and a practice of self-care as you write\, in prose or poetry\, with the intent to heal and release. Drawing from the psychological insights of Judith Hermann\, Natalie Goldberg\, and Gabor Mate\, you will discuss the ways the body holds onto trauma and how expressing ourselves through writing can help us heal. Sharing your writing with the group is encouraged but not required. \n\n\n\nThis class will meet in-person at CCAE on Wednesdays for 8 sessions. \n\n\n\nAmy Mevorach (Nonfiction January 2023) has published essays and fiction in The New York Times Modern Love column\, Boulevard Magazine\, CALYX Journal\, Glimmer Train Stories\, and other publications. Her award-winning poem “Eight” has been screened at film festivals in L.A. and Toronto\, and is available to watch on her website amymevorach.com. Amy has an MFA in nonfiction writing from Lesley University.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/writing-for-healing-workshop-with-amy-mevorach/
LOCATION:Cambridge Center for Adult Education\, 42 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Poetry with Shamar Hill\, Enzo Silon Surin\, and Martha Collins
DESCRIPTION:Join McNally Jackson Booksellers for an evening of readings and thought\, curated by Shamar Hill. Drinks and socializing to follow. RSVP Required. \n\n\n\nShamar Hill\, a Black and Jewish writer\, is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships\, including from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, Cave Canem\, and the Fine Arts Work Center. He has been published in the American Poetry Review\, the Missouri Review\, Washington Square Review\, and Poetry Northwest\, among others. He is working on his memoir\, In Defiance of All True Things\, and a poetry collection\, Photographs of an Imagined Childhood. \n\n\n\nEnzo Silon Surin (Poetry\, 2012) is a Haitian-born award-winning poet\, author\, educator\, speaker\, publisher and social advocate. He has taught\, performed\, and lectured at schools\, universities\, festivals and serves as a keynote speaker on topics such as social justice\, mental health reform\, the immigrant experience\, and racial disparities. He is the author of four collections of poetry\, including American Scapegoat (Black Lawrence Press\, 2023) and When My Body Was A Clinched Fist (2020)\, winner of the 21st Annual Massachusetts Book Awards. He is also Publisher at Central Square Press and Founder/Executive Director at the Faraday Publishing Company\, a nonprofit literary services and social advocacy organization. \n\n\n\nMartha Collins recently published her eleventh collection of poetry\, Casualty Reports (Pittsburgh\, 2022)\, and her fifth volume of co-translated Vietnamese poetry\, Dreaming the Mountain\, poems by Tue Sy (Milkweed\, 2023). Her tenth book of poems\, Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh\, 2019)\, won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award; earlier books\, which have won several awards\, include three focusing on race and racism (Admit One: An American Scrapbook\, White Papers\, Blue Front). Collins founded the U.Mass. Boston creative writing program and served for ten years as Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/an-evening-of-poetry-with-shamar-hill-enzo-silon-surin-and-martha-collins-2/
LOCATION:McNally Jackson Seaport\, 4 Fulton St\, New York\, New York\, 10038\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240110T183000
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Winter Reading Series - Jody Hobbs Hesler & Adria Karlsson
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley MFA program for an evening reading with alums Jody Hobbs Hesler (Fiction\, June 2017) and Adria Karlsson (WFYP\, January 2023). This event will be held both in person and on Zoom. \n\n\n\nJODY HOBBS HESLER is the author of the story collection What Makes You Think You’re Supposed to Feel Better (Cornerstone Press\, October 2023)\, and the novel\, Without You Here (Flexible Press\, September 2024). Her words also appear in Necessary Fiction\, Gargoyle\, Valparaiso Fiction Review (x\, x)\, Atticus Review\, Writer’s Digest\, Electric Literature\, CRAFT\, Arts & Letters\, and many other journals. She teaches at WriterHouse in Charlottesville\, Virginia; writes and copyedits for Virginia Wine & Country Life and Charlottesville Family Magazine; and serves as assistant fiction editor for the Los Angeles Review. \n\n\n\nOnce upon a time\, ADRIA KARLSSON may have been found teaching people\, training cats and dogs\, or tutoring dyslexic kids\, but now they spend their time writing and parenting. Their life seems full of unexpected twists\, but also adventure – as an author they get to ask lots of questions\, figure out answers\, and share what they’ve learned through make-believe. That’s definitely its own kind of happily ever after.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-winter-reading-series-jody-hobbs-hesler-adria-karlsson/
LOCATION:University Hall – Amphitheater\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240108T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240108T193000
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Winter Reading Series - Steven Cramer & Janet Pocorobba
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley MFA program for an evening reading with Steven Cramer (Poetry\, MFA Writing Faculty) and Janet Pocorobba (Nonfiction\, June 2006\, Program Director). This event will be held both in-person and over Zoom. \n\n\n\nSTEVEN CRAMER is the author of six poetry collections and has published poems and essays in journals such as The Atlantic Monthly\, Field\, The Kenyon Review\, The Nation\, The New England Review\, The Paris Review\, and Poetry.  Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and two fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, he founded and teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University.  He writes poems and about poems.  If he could write more lucratively\, he doesn’t know if he would\, but he can’t so he doesn’t. Some of the poems from his latest collection\, Listen\, out in October 2020 from MadHat Press\, are available online through his website. \n\n\n\nJANET POCOROBBA writes memoir and essay and is currently writing a hybrid memoir about a co-op in a village in Vermont that incorporates personal memoir and social history. She is the author of The Fourth String: A Memoir of Sensei and Me\, and has published other work in lit mags\, most recently “Stalking the Self: Finding a Point of View in Memoir\,” Writers’ Digest Sept/Oct 2021.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-winter-reading-series-steven-cramer-janet-pocorobba/
LOCATION:University Hall – Amphitheater\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T183000
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Winter Reading Series - Kate Snodgrass & Chris Lynch
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley MFA program for an evening reading with Kate Snodgrass (Emerita MFA Faculty for WSS) and Chris Lynch (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty). This event will be both in person and online. \n\n\n\nKATE SNODGRASS served as the Artistic Director of Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and of the Elliot Norton Award-winning Boston Theater Marathon (which she co-founded) until 2022. She is Professor Emerita of the Practice of Playwriting at Boston University. Snodgrass is a former Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) National Chair of the Playwriting Program\, a former vice president of StageSource\, Inc.\, and a member of Actors’ Equity\, A.F.T.R.A.\, and the Dramatists Guild. \n\n\n\nCHRIS LYNCH is the award–winning author of several highly acclaimed young adult novels\, including Printz Honor Book Freewill\, Iceman\, Gypsy Davey\, and Shadow Boxer—all ALA Best Books for Young Adults—as well as Killing Time in Crystal City\, Little Blue Lies\, Pieces\, Kill Switch\, Angry Young Man\, and Inexcusable\, which was a National Book Award finalist and the recipient of six starred reviews. Chris is the author of middle grade novel Walkin’ the Dog. He holds an MA from the writing program at Emerson College. He teaches in the creative writing MFA program at Lesley University. He lives in Boston and in Scotland.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-winter-reading-series-kate-snodgrass-chris-lynch/
LOCATION:University Hall – Amphitheater\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T123000
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SUMMARY:Writing for Young People Open Lecture Series - Bringing History to Young Readers
DESCRIPTION:PANELISTS: Tracey Baptiste\, Chris Lynch\, Patricia Pearson. Moderator: Sara Farizan. \n\n\n\nThis event will be both in person and on Zoom.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/writing-for-young-people-open-lecture-series-bringing-history-to-young-readers/
LOCATION:University Hall – Amphitheater\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T113000
DTSTAMP:20260527T152735
CREATED:20231217T213308Z
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Writing for Young People Open Lecture Series - History as Story\, not Grocery List: Writing Factual Middle Grade
DESCRIPTION:Join visiting writer Patricia Pearson (WFYP\, June 2015)\, author of We Are Your Children Too: Black Students\, White Supremacists\, and the Battle for America’s Schools in Prince Edward County\, Virginia. This event will be both in person and online.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-writing-for-young-people-open-lecture-series-history-as-story-not-grocery-list-writing-factual-middle-grade/
LOCATION:University Hall – Amphitheater\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240106T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240106T193000
DTSTAMP:20260527T152735
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Winter Reading Series - Kevin Prufer & Jason Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley MFA program for an evening reading with Kevin Prufer (Poetry\, MFA Writing Faculty) and Jason Reynolds (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty). This event will take place both in person and on Zoom. \n\n\n\nKEVIN PRUFER is the author of seven books of poetry and the editor of numerous anthologies\, the most recent of which is How He Loved Them (Four Way Books)\, winner of the Julie Suk Award and long-listed for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize.  Prufer is also Co-Curator of the Unsung Masters Series\, and Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston. Among Prufer’s awards and honors are four Pushcart prizes and multiple Best American Poetry selections\, numerous awards from the Poetry Society of America\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lannan Foundation. \n\n\n\nJASON REYNOLDS is an award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author. Jason’s many books include Miles Morales: Spider Man\, the Track series (Ghost\, Patina\, Sunny\, and Lu)\, Long Way Down\, which received a Newbery Honor\, a Printz Honor\, and a Correta Scott King Honor\, and Look Both Ways\, which was a National Book Award Finalist. His latest book\, Stamped: Racism\, Antiracism\, and You\, is a collaboration with Ibram X. Kendi. Recently named the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature\, Jason has appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah\, Late Night with Seth Meyers\, and CBS This Morning.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-winter-reading-series-kevin-prufer-jason-reynolds/
LOCATION:University Hall – Amphitheater\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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SUMMARY:All Lesley Reads: Ukranian Writing in a Time of Russian Invasion
DESCRIPTION:For its January 2024 All Lesley Reads Visiting Writer Series\, Lesley University’s MFA Program inCreative Writing is honored to sponsor an international conversation and reading with Ukrainian poet and translator\, Yuliya Musakovska; poet and translator Olena Jennings; and essayist\, novelist\, and poet\,Askold Melnyczuk\, founder of the celebrated literary magazine AGNI and currently publisher ofArrowsmith Press. \n\n\n\nFrom 3:00 to 4:00\, Askold and Olena will join Yuliya from Ukraine\, for a conversation about poetry\,literature\, translation\, writing\, and the arts in Ukraine now and in the past\, exploring what it means towork as an international artist during war. From 4:00 to 5:00\, Yuliya will read from her poetry.Questions and responses will be invited after each event. This event will be both in person and online.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/all-lesley-reads-ukranian-writing-in-a-time-of-russian-invasion/
LOCATION:University Hall – Amphitheater\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240106T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240106T150000
DTSTAMP:20260527T152735
CREATED:20231227T002307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231227T002308Z
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SUMMARY:Cambridge Public Library Presents Story Time with Sara Levine
DESCRIPTION:Join patrons of the Cambridge Public Library on Saturday\, January 6th to hear Sara Levine (Nonfiction/WFYP\, January 2006) read Sensitive. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis tender picture book follows a girl who is told she is too intense\, too sensitive\, too much. She’s told to grow a thicker skin\, but the words of others slip right through. They somersault around inside and press against her heart. \n\n\n\nWhat can she do to stop the hurt? \n\n\n\nShe needs to take time alone to think and read\, rest and create. \n\n\n\nThoughtful text\, detailed collage illustrations\, and an unexpected word puzzle combine in Sara Levine and Mehrdokht Amini’s moving portrayal of a girl who discovers that what others call a weakness can also be a gift.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/cambridge-public-library-presents-story-time-with-sara-levine/
LOCATION:Cambridge Public Library (O’Neill Branch)\, 70 Rindge Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240105T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240105T183000
DTSTAMP:20260527T152735
CREATED:20231217T210929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240103T233614Z
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SUMMARY:Lesley MFA Winter Reading Series - Michelle Knudsen & Pamela Petro
DESCRIPTION:Join the Lesley MFA program for an evening reading with Michelle Knudsen (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty) and Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics\, MFA Writing Faculty). This event will take place both in person and over Zoom. \n\n\n\nMICHELLE KNUDSEN is the New York Times best-selling author of fifty books for children and teens\, including the award-winning picture book Library Lion\, which was selected by TIME magazine as one of the 100 Best Children’s Books of All Time. Her other books include the picture book Marilyn’s Monster (NPR’s Best Books) and the novels The Dragon of Trelian (VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers) and Evil Librarian (YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults; Sid Fleischman Humor Award). She writes about love\, friendship\, dragons\, demons\, magic\, musical theater\, and\, sometimes\, giant spiders. She also writes occasional short stories for adults. Her next book will be LUIGI\, THE SPIDER WHO WANTED TO BE A KITTEN\, coming March 5\, 2024\, from Candlewick Press. \n\n\n\nPAMELA PETRO is a writer\, artist\, and educator. She works in both research nonfiction and memoir—often braiding the two together—and as a visual artist works with experimental forms of photography. In addition to the MFA\, she teaches creative writing at Smith College and is the Director of the Dylan Thomas Summer School at the University of Wales\, Trinity St David. Her essays have been published in Lumina\, The Paris Review\, Granta\, Slab\, and Harvard Review Online.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lesley-mfa-winter-reading-series-michelle-knudsen-pamela-petro/
LOCATION:University Hall – Amphitheater\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240103T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240103T200000
DTSTAMP:20260527T152735
CREATED:20231227T024719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231227T024720Z
UID:9611-1704308400-1704312000@cambridgecommonwriters.org
SUMMARY:Grolier Poetry Book Shop Presents Cynthia Bargar\, Shari Caplan and Hannah Larrabee with an introduction by Eileen Cleary
DESCRIPTION:Join the Grolier Poetry Book Shop for a reading with Cynthia Bargar\, Shari Caplan (Poetry\, June 2014) and Hannah Larrabee with an introduction by Eileen Cleary (Poetry\, June 2016). \n\n\n\nRegistration required. This event will take place synchronously in-store at 6 Plympton Street and on Zoom.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/grolier-poetry-book-shop-presents-cynthia-bargar-shari-caplan-and-hannah-larrabee-with-an-introduction-by-eileen-cleary/
LOCATION:Grolier Poetry Book Shop\, 6 Plympton Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231217T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231217T150000
DTSTAMP:20260527T152735
CREATED:20231001T202010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231001T202012Z
UID:9120-1702821600-1702825200@cambridgecommonwriters.org
SUMMARY:"Shangri-La" by Nancy Temple - Staged Reading with Theatre One 
DESCRIPTION:There will be staged reading of Nancy’s full-length play\, “Shangri-La\,” by Theatre One\, on December 17 at 2 pm.The play has four characters: a woman with a secret\, her drug-addicted son\, her lover\, who claims to be Lakota Indian\, and an old friend who comes to visit. Lots of drama! \n\n\n\nThere will be a talkback with Nancy after the reading. Come\, ask questions\, give feedback. 
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/shangri-la-by-nancy-temple-staged-reading-with-theatre-one/
LOCATION:Mitchell Memorial Club\, 29 Elm St\, Middleborough\, Massachusetts\, 02346\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Theatre One":MAILTO:theatreoneproductions@yahoo.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20231216T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20231216T163000
DTSTAMP:20260527T152735
CREATED:20231211T230740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231211T230741Z
UID:9475-1702740600-1702744200@cambridgecommonwriters.org
SUMMARY:Writer to Writer - An Intimate Chat Between Ira Mathur & Celeste Mohammed
DESCRIPTION:2022 OCM Bocas Prize winner Celeste Mohammed (Fiction\, June 2016) and 2023 OCM Bocas Non-Fiction Prize winner Ira Mathur cozy up to chat about the writing process\, the power of creative non-fiction\, and much more.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/writer-to-writer-an-intimate-chat-between-ira-mathur-celeste-mohammed/
LOCATION:The Writers Centre\, 14 Alcazar Street\, St. Clair\, Trinidad and Tobago
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Bocas Lit Fest":MAILTO:info@bocaslitfest.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231216T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231216T130000
DTSTAMP:20260527T152735
CREATED:20231211T015132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231211T015133Z
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SUMMARY:Black Writers Read Presents Writers Across the Margins: Nada Samih-Rotondo
DESCRIPTION:Join Black Writers Read for a chat with Nada Samih-Rotondo (Fiction\, June 2012) on her debut book\, All Water Has Perfect Memory.  \n\n\n\nNada Samih-Rotondo is a multi-genre Palestinian American writer\, educator\, and mother. A graduate of Rhode Island College\, she earned degrees in English and Education and an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University. When she is not befriending trees or attuning to hidden stories\, she is leading transformational educational experiences and addressing the social-emotional needs of historically underserved and multilingual youth. Her writing has appeared in Masters Review\, Gulf Stream Literary Magazine\, and Squat Birth Journal. She lives in Providence with her husband and three children. All Water Has Perfect Memory is her first book.  \n\n\n\nTo learn more about Nada and her other work\, please visit https://nowapproachingprovidence.wordpress.com. \n\n\n\nThis event is presented in collaboration with Levee Break Lit.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/black-writers-read-presents-writers-across-the-margins-nada-samih-rotondo/
LOCATION:Facebook Live
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231216T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231216T130000
DTSTAMP:20260527T152735
CREATED:20231211T020722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231211T020723Z
UID:9448-1702724400-1702731600@cambridgecommonwriters.org
SUMMARY:Open Write: Refining Your Skills for Screenwriting with Thato Mwosa
DESCRIPTION:Join Company One Theatre on Saturday\, December 16 from 11am-1pm ET for a free online experience led by C1 Resident Playwright Kirsten Greenidge and guest artist Thato Mwosa (WSS\, June 2017)! \n\n\n\nBreaking into screenwriting can seem daunting\, but not when you lean on your established craft and practice! Let your curiosity guide you as you learn to apply existing skills to an unfamiliar format. \n\n\n\nRSVP required; this is a Pay-What-You-Want experience with $0 minimum. All proceeds support C1’s mission to build community at the intersection of art and social change.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/open-write-refining-your-skills-for-screenwriting-with-thato-mwosa/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Company One Theatre":MAILTO:info@companyone.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231216T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231216T103000
DTSTAMP:20260527T152735
CREATED:20231211T005233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231211T005234Z
UID:9435-1702719000-1702722600@cambridgecommonwriters.org
SUMMARY:Sara Levine for “Sensitive”\, Storytime
DESCRIPTION:Join Sara Levine (Nonfiction/WFYP\, January 2006)\, author of Sensitive\, for a storytime event. \n\n\n\nSara Levine is an author\, educator and a veterinarian.  Her books for children include four books in the Animal by Animal series\, illustrated by T.S Spookytooth: Bone by Bone: Comparing Animal Skeletons; Tooth by Tooth: Comparing Fangs; Tusks and Chompers; Fossil by Fossil: Comparing Dinosaur Bones; and Eye by Eye: Comparing How Animals See. \n\n\n\nSara’s books have received multiple awards\, among them: Utah Beehive Book Award\, Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year\, Cook Prize honor book for best STEM picture book\, AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books\, Monarch Award Master List\, Junior Library Guild selection\, and Mathical Book Prize.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/sara-levine-for-sensitive-storytime/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave\, Takoma Park\, Maryland\, 20912\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="People's Book":MAILTO:info@peoplesbooktakoma.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231213T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231213T213000
DTSTAMP:20260527T152735
CREATED:20231211T014656Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231211T014657Z
UID:9441-1702499400-1702503000@cambridgecommonwriters.org
SUMMARY:What The Universe Is: Adrian Matejka and Kevin Prufer
DESCRIPTION:Come close out the 2023 season of What The Universe Is with two of America’s finest poets: \n\n\n\nAdrian Matejka was born in Germany as part of a military family. He grew up in Indianapolis\, Indiana and is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington and the MFA program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is the author of The Devil’s Garden (Alice James Books\, 2003) which won the New York / New England Award and Mixology (Penguin\, 2009)\, a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series. His third collection\, The Big Smoke (Penguin\, 2013)\, was awarded the 2014 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. The Big Smoke was also a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award\, the National Book Award\, and the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. His next collection\, Map to the Stars\, was published by Penguin in 2017.  \n\n\n\nKevin Prufer’s (Poetry\, MFA Writing Faculty) newest poetry collection\, The Fears\, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2023. His new novel\, Sleepaway\, will appear in 2024 from Acre Books. He is also the author of several other books of poetry\, including The Art of Fiction (2021)\, How He Loved Them (2018)\, Churches (2014)\, In a Beautiful Country (2011)\, and National Anthem (2008)\, all from Four Way Books. Prufer is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston and the low-residency MFA at Lesley University.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/what-the-universe-is-adrian-matejka-and-kevin-prufer/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event,Mentor Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20231213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20231213T200000
DTSTAMP:20260527T152735
CREATED:20231211T232020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231211T232021Z
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SUMMARY:The Eras Tour: Local Author Edition with Sara Zarr
DESCRIPTION:On the 13th of December\, join 13 local authors for a special event at The King’s English Bookshop! Meet authors in unique reading “eras”\, get your books signed\, and hang out with other readers and collect bookish friendship bracelets! This event is free and open to the public\, but registration is required. \n\n\n\nAuthors: \n\n\n\nLyla Sage: Cowboy Romance Era \n\n\n\nTricia Levenseller: Romantasy Era \n\n\n\nTiana Smith: Romance Era \n\n\n\nKathryn Purdie: Fantasy Fairytale Era \n\n\n\nSamantha Hastings: Historical Romance Era/Cozy Mystery Era \n\n\n\nBradeigh Godfrey: Thriller Era/Romance Era \n\n\n\nKaela Rivera: Middle Grade Era \n\n\n\nLena Jeong: Fantasy Era \n\n\n\nLindsey Leavitt: Kid Lit Era \n\n\n\nSara Zarr (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty): Kid Lit Era \n\n\n\nMackenzi Lee: Adventure Era/Historical Fiction Era \n\n\n\nKrysti Meyer: Rom-Com Era \n\n\n\nMickey George: Graphic Novel Era/Historical Fiction Era
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/the-eras-tour-local-author-edition-with-sara-zarr/
LOCATION:The King’s English Bookshop\, 1511 South 1500 East\, Salt Lake City\, Utah\, 84105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="The King's English Bookshop":MAILTO:BOOKS@KINGSENGLISH.COM
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231213T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231213T200000
DTSTAMP:20260527T152735
CREATED:20231211T221448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231211T221449Z
UID:9463-1702490400-1702497600@cambridgecommonwriters.org
SUMMARY:An Evening with Kate Fussner\, author of The Song of Us
DESCRIPTION:Barefoot Books is committed to opening children’s hearts\, minds\, and worlds so that they can embody kindness in all its forms. 826 Boston thanks Barefoot Books for hosting this event at their Bradford Mill home in West Concord. Featuring author Kate Fussner (WFYP\, June 2021)\, whose debut middle-grade novel\, The Song of Us\, retells the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in modern-day middle school.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/an-evening-with-kate-fussner-author-of-the-song-of-us/
LOCATION:Barefoot Books\, 23 Bradford St\, Second Floor\, Concord\, Massachusetts\, 01742\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="826 Boston":MAILTO:info@826boston.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231208T213000
DTSTAMP:20260527T152735
CREATED:20231126T192852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231126T192853Z
UID:9322-1702062000-1702071000@cambridgecommonwriters.org
SUMMARY:Katie Cotugno LA Book Launch for Meet the Benedettos
DESCRIPTION:The Ripped Bodice is hosting an LA launch event with Katie Cotugno (Fiction\, June 2015) on Friday\, December 8th at 7pm PST. She will be in conversation about her new novel\, Meet the Benedettos\, with author Elissa Sussman.  \n\n\n\nThere will be a book signing to follow. This is a ticketed event that includes a copy of the book. \n\n\n\nCan’t attend the event? Signed books are available for in-store pick-up and shipping here.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn A-list movie star moves to Los Angeles—next door to a family of five eligible sisters—in this irresistible novel where The Kardashians meets Pride and Prejudice\, from the NYT bestselling author of Birds of California. \n\n\n\nEvery family is complicated\, and the Benedettos are no exception. A few years after a reality TV show skyrocketed them to pop-culture fame\, the five twenty-something sisters are living together in their parents’ crumbling McMansion\, nearly broke and teetering towards rock-bottom. Lilly\, the sensible second-eldest sister\, is all too aware that her family is viewed as a spectacle\, but she’s focused on holding herself and her family together\, and unlike her siblings she tends not to care what the world thinks. \n\n\n\nThe Benedettos’ fortunes finally appear to be brightening when Charlie Bingley\, the dashing star of Captain Fantastic\, moves into their Los Angeles neighborhood with his friend Will Darcy in tow. It isn’t long before Charlie falls for the warm and lovely eldest sister\, June. Lilly has no such luck: the arrogant and judgmental Will Darcy\, a man plagued by his own private demons\, seems ready to clash with her at every turn–yet the two can’t seem to stay away from each other. And while the Benedettos’ matriarch sets to work encouraging a potential match between Charlie and June\, there are plenty of others in the community who are determined to steer these eligible young men away from a ridiculous family of reality show has-beens… \n\n\n\nKatie Cotugno brings a big\, boisterous cast of characters to life in this deliciously sprawling LA story—a thoroughly fresh and modern tale about a family that’s “famous for being famous\,” the ways that preconceived notions make fools of us all\, and how unexpected romance can bloom despite the odds.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/katie-cotugno-la-book-launch-for-meet-the-benedettos/
LOCATION:The Ripped Bodice – Los Angeles\, 3806 Main St.\, Culver City\, California\, 90232\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Ripped Bodice":MAILTO:hello@therippedbodice.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231207T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231207T190000
DTSTAMP:20260527T152735
CREATED:20231126T190821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231126T190821Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Round Robin with Kate Kearns
DESCRIPTION:Come join the fun as local poets Kate Kearns (Poetry\, June 2008)\, Meghan Sterling\, and Katherine Hagopian Berry play “round robin” with poetry. \n\n\n\nInstead of each of person doing a “set\,” they take turns sharing one poem at a time that’s related to the one that came before\, so they keep responding and building on each other. It’s impossible to plan ahead and more spontaneous and fun for the audience. 
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/poetry-round-robin-with-kate-kearns/
LOCATION:Scarborough Public Library Meeting Room\, 48 Gorham Road\, Scarborough\, Maine\, 04074\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Scarborough Public Library":MAILTO:askspl@scarboroughlibrary.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231205T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231205T203000
DTSTAMP:20260527T152735
CREATED:20231007T204037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231007T204121Z
UID:9138-1701802800-1701808200@cambridgecommonwriters.org
SUMMARY:Befriend Your Inner Critic Workshop with Deborah Sosin
DESCRIPTION:You might be familiar with your Inner Critic—the voice that says you’re not good enough. Or compares yourself to others. Or expects nothing but perfection. Our instinct is to push that voice away. But\, paradoxically\, we can find more inner peace and free up creative energy by moving toward that voice\, with curiosity and compassion. In this workshop\, we will cover the roots and purpose of the Inner Critic and how it affects writers and other creative people. We’ll look at seven types of Inner Critics\, including the Perfectionist\, the Task Master\, and the Guilt Tripper\, followed by a self-assessment quiz to determine your predominant types. Finally\, you’ll learn specific skills and strategies for managing your Inner Critic so that you can move happily forward in your writing life. \n\n\n\nOverview: \n\n\n\n\nWhat is the Inner Critic (IC)?\n\n\n\nRoots of the IC\n\n\n\nPurpose of the IC\n\n\n\nSeven Types of IC\n\n\n\nBrief self-assessment tool to identify participants’ predominant type of IC\n\n\n\nStrategies and tools for befriending the IC\n\n\n\nQ&A and discussion\n\n\n\n\nHosted by Cambridge Common Writers and led by Deborah Sosin (Nonfiction\, January 2015).
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/befriend-your-inner-critic-workshop-with-deborah-sosin/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event,CCW Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Cambridge Common Writers":MAILTO:lesleycambridgecommon@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T190000
DTSTAMP:20260527T152735
CREATED:20231126T193430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231126T193431Z
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SUMMARY:Tufts English Department Creative Writing Showcase with Jennifer LeBlanc
DESCRIPTION:A reading by faculty and staff\, followed by a reception. \n\n\n\n\nEmmaJean Holley\n\n\n\nJennifer LeBlanc (Poetry\, June 2012)\n\n\n\nAnna V.Q. Ross\n\n\n\nNoa Saunders\n\n\n\nDavid Valdes
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/tufts-english-department-creative-writing-showcase-with-jennifer-leblanc/
LOCATION:Granoff Music Center\, Room 155\, Tufts University\, 20 Talbot Ave\, Medford\, Massachusetts\, 02155\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Tufts University Department of English":MAILTO:english@tufts.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231203T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231203T150000
DTSTAMP:20260527T152735
CREATED:20231110T204926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231110T204927Z
UID:9289-1701612000-1701615600@cambridgecommonwriters.org
SUMMARY:Lily Poetry Review Presents Askold Melnyczuk and Steven Cramer
DESCRIPTION:Join Lily Poetry Review as Askold Melnyczuk and Steven Cramer (Poetry\, MFA Writing Faculty) read from their works.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lily-poetry-review-presents-askold-melnyczuk-and-steven-cramer/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231202T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231202T160000
DTSTAMP:20260527T152735
CREATED:20231126T185256Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231126T185257Z
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SUMMARY:Care in Publishing: Resilience in the Face of Rejection with Nada Samih-Rotondo
DESCRIPTION:Local authors share strategies for coping with rejection on the road to publication at LitArts RI. \n\n\n\nThe path to publication can be riddled with rejection. Whether you are looking for an agent\, submitting to publishers\, sending your manuscript out to contests\, or receiving a challenging round of editorial feedback\, cultivating care is key. On Sat\, Dec 2\, join local authors Rebekah Bergman\, Nada Samih-Rotondo (Fiction\, June 2012) and Candace Williams at LitArts RI for an honest discussion about the difficulties inherent in traditional publishing—including the barriers writers from historically underrepresented identities are forced to navigate—and explore the resources and self-care practices these recently published authors turned to in moments of despair. Learn productive strategies for approaching the publishing world\, connect with fellow writers facing these challenges\, and shore up your resilience in the face of rejection. \n\n\n\nThis event is made possible by funding from Providence Arts Culture and Tourism and the Dexter Donation. \n\n\n\nAbout the Panelists \n\n\n\nRebekah Bergman‘s debut novel The Museum of Human History (Tin House\, 2023) was named one of Wired Magazine’s best books of summer and received starred reviews from Kirkus\, Booklist\, and Shelf Awareness. Her writing appears in Joyland\, Lit Hub\, Electric Literature\, and other journals. She lives in Providence\, Rhode Island with her family. \n\n\n\nNada Samih-Rotondo is a multi-genre Palestinian American writer\, educator\, and mother. A graduate of Rhode Island College\, she earned degrees in English and Education and an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University. When she is not befriending trees or attuning to hidden stories\, she is leading transformational educational experiences and addressing the social-emotional needs of historically underserved and multilingual youth. Her writing has appeared in Masters Review\, Gulf Stream Literary Magazine\, and Squat Birth Journal. She lives in Providence with her husband and three children and works at Brown University’s Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice as the Public Education and Community Engagement Coordinator. All Water Has Perfect Memory is her first book. \n\n\n\nCandace Williams is a poet and interdisciplinary artist. I Am the Most Dangerous Thing (Alice James Books\, 2023) is their debut full-length poetry collection. Candace earned their Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy\, Politics\, and Economics (PPE) from Claremont McKenna College and Master of Arts in Education from Stanford University. They grew up in the Pacific Northwest and found love and poetry in Brooklyn\, New York. Now\, Candace lives and makes art in New England.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/care-in-publishing-resilience-in-the-face-of-rejection-with-nada-samih-rotondo/
LOCATION:LitArts RI\, 400 Harris Ave Unit E\, Providence\, Rhode Island\, 02909\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:All Water Has Perfect Memory: Book Talk with Nada-Samih-Rotondo
DESCRIPTION:Mystic Seaport Museum is excited to host local author Nada Samih-Rotondo (Fiction\, June 2012) as she reads excerpts from her new memoir\, All Water Has Perfect Memory\, in the Treworgy Planetarium. Guests will enjoy an immersive storytelling experience that showcases the exact star patterns overhead as they appear in her book\, followed by a Q&A session and an opportunity to purchase a signed copy of All Water Has Perfect Memory. This program is best for ages 13+. Registration is required to attend.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/all-water-has-perfect-memory-book-talk-with-nada-samih-rotondo/
LOCATION:Mystic Seaport Museum\, 75 Greenmanville Ave\, Mystic\, Connecticut\, 06355\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Lifting Up Marginalized Voices: Reading and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join Sunu P. Chandy\, Jody Hobbs Hesler (Fiction\, June 2017)\, and Martha Anne Toll for Lifting Up Marginalized Voices: a Reading and Discussion at The Potter’s House! \n\n\n\nSunu P. Chandy (she/her) is a social justice activist including through her work as a poet and a civil rights attorney. She’s the daughter of immigrants from Kerala\, India\, a queer woman of color\, and lives in Washington\, D.C. with her family. Her award-winning collection of poems\, My Dear Comrades\, was published by Regal House in 2023. \n\n\n\nJody Hobbs Hesler has written ever since she could hold a pencil and now lives and writes in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Her debut story collection\, What Makes You Think You’re Supposed to Feel Better was published by Cornerstone Press in October 2023. Jody teaches at WriterHouse in Charlottesville\, Virginia and reads for The Los Angeles Review.  \n\n\n\nMartha Anne Toll’s debut novel\, Three Muses\, was shortlisted for the Gotham Book Prize and won the Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction. Toll brings a long career in social justice to her work covering authors of color and women writers as a critic and author interviewer at NPR Books\, the Washington Post\, Pointe Magazine\, The Millions\, and elsewhere. Toll is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and serves on the Board of Directors of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lifting-up-marginalized-voices-reading-and-discussion/
LOCATION:Potter’s House\, 1658 COLUMBIA ROAD NORTHWEST\, Washington\, District of Columbia\, 20009\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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