Goat Hill Writing Workshops with Ann Hood and Hester Kaplan

Online Zoom Event

Join Ann and Hester (Fiction, MFA Writing Faculty) for an hour of writing prompts, critiques, and community! Writers of all stages in their writing lives welcome. A new workshop begins every Monday weeks of November 2, 9, and 16. Sessions are held 12:00 - 1:00pm Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on Zoom. Space is limited.

$100

Listen: A Reading with Steven Cramer

Online Event

Steven Cramer (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty) reads from his new poetry collection, Listen, alongside Joyce Peseroff’s reading from Petition, her sixth book of poems.

Free

Chapter and Verse: Adair, Gamble, Kittredge

Online Zoom Event

Join the Jamaica Pond Poets for their second virtual reading in the Chapter and Verse Reading series! Featuring Robbie Gamble (Poetry, January 2017).

Free

An Interactive Livestream Reading Series with Steven Cramer

Online Zoom Event

LIT BALM is a new weekly interactive livestream reading series from Marc Vincenz of MadHat and New American Writing (Magazine), Jonathan Penton of Unlikely Stories Mark V and Unlikely Books, and Larissa Shmailo of Scribes Media. This event features Steven Cramer (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty) reading from his new poetry collection, Listen.

Free

Goat Hill Writing Workshops with Ann Hood and Hester Kaplan

Online Zoom Event

Join Ann and Hester (Fiction, MFA Writing Faculty) for an hour of writing prompts, critiques, and community! Writers of all stages in their writing lives welcome. A new workshop begins every Monday weeks of November 2, 9, and 16. Sessions are held 12:00 - 1:00pm Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on Zoom. Space is limited.

$100

Les Bleues Literary Salon with Karin Cecile Davidson

Online Zoom Event

Join Les Bleues Literary Salon for an online event with writers Jeff Bens, Sara Schaff, Tara Isabel Zambrano and our own Karin Cecile Davidson (Fiction, June 2009) and they talk about their works.

Free

Poetry for Black Lives: A Reading and Conversation

Online Zoom Event

Lesley University MFA Program in Creative Writing, the Boston Public Library, and the Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture present Poetry for Black Lives: A Reading and Conversation, which showcases contemporary elegies and critical ruminations from the recent volume Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era (Routledge, 2020). The co-editors of the volume, Sequoia Maner, darlene anita […]

Free

Lisa Gruenberg: My City of Dreams

Online Event

In this second-generation Holocaust memoir, Gruenberg, confronted with her elderly father’s flashbacks, explores the life of her aunt Mia, who disappeared in Germany in 1941. After her father’s death, Gruenberg traveled to Vienna, Germany and Israel to explore this lost landscape, and to trace the fates of Mia, their extended family, friends and neighbors. Join […]

Free

Locating Me Chapbook Virtual Launch

Online Event

Ella, Labrador Inuk (Nonfiction, June 2018), is involved in the BIPOC poetry group led by Straw Dog Writers' Guild member Nicole M. Young. Their group met for six months and will have a chapbook published. They will have a reading on Zoom on December 5th. Attendees will be able to purchase the book prior to […]

$10 – $40

Solidarity Salon: Virtual Version!

Online Event

Lisa DeSiro (Poetry, June 2010) and Frances Donovan (Poetry, June 2019) will co-host this online event. The Solidarity Salon is a performance series that features literary, musical, visual, theater, and movement artists who gather together to share their creations and aims to especially amplify the voices of women, people of color, immigrants, LGBTQ+ persons, and those […]

Free

Readings on the Pike: December

Online Zoom Event

This online event will feature readings by our own Karin Cecile Davidson (Fiction, June 2009), as well as E.A. Aymar, Nandini Bhattacharya, Katie Gutierrez, Liliana Morrison, Danielle Williams, Lauren Woods, Benjamin Woodard, and Danielle Zaccagnino.

Free