Join Black Writers Read for a chat with Nada Samih-Rotondo (Fiction, June 2012) on her debut book, All Water Has Perfect Memory. Nada 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. […]
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.
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! There will be a talkback […]
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). Registration required. This event will take place synchronously in-store at 6 Plympton Street and on Zoom.
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. MICHELLE KNUDSEN is the New York Times best-selling author of fifty books for children and teens, including the award-winning picture book Library Lion, […]
Join patrons of the Cambridge Public Library on Saturday, January 6th to hear Sara Levine (Nonfiction/WFYP, January 2006) read Sensitive. This 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 […]
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. […]
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. KEVIN PRUFER is the author of seven books of poetry and the editor of numerous anthologies, the most recent of which […]
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.
PANELISTS: Tracey Baptiste, Chris Lynch, Patricia Pearson. Moderator: Sara Farizan. This event will be both in person and on Zoom.
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. KATE SNODGRASS served as the Artistic Director of Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and of the Elliot Norton Award-winning Boston Theater Marathon (which she […]
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. STEVEN CRAMER is the author of six poetry collections and has published poems and essays in journals such as The Atlantic Monthly, […]
