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Lesley University MFA in Creative Writing Reading Series – Karen Zacarias

Online Zoom Event

This Residency's All Lesley Reads visitor is the award-winning playwright Karen Zacarías. Karen Zacarías has been named by American Theater Magazine one of the most-produced playwrights in the country, as well as one of the most-produced theater-for young-people playwrights. Her new play, The Copper Children, about an explosive child separation case set in 1905, premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival […]

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Lesley University MFA in Creative Writing Reading Series – Sharon Bryan & Tony Eprile

Online Zoom Event

Sharon Bryan is the author of four books of poems, most recently Sharp Stars, which received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award. She edited Where We Stand: Women Poets on Literary Tradition, and co-edited, with William Olsen, Planet on the Table: Poets on the Reading Life. Her awards include NEA Fellowships in Poetry, arts grants from Tennessee and Washington, and an Arvon […]

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Lesley University MFA in Creative Writing Reading Series – Steven Cramer & Rachel Manley

Online Zoom Event

Steven Cramer published his sixth poetry collection, Listen, this year. Previous collections include Clangings and Goodbye to the Orchard, which won the Sheila Motton Prize from the New England Poetry Club and was named an Honor Book in Poetry by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. A recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the […]

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Alumni Pajama Party and All-Genre Invitational

Online Zoom Event

We at Cambridge Common Writers are pleased to invite you to the second virtual Alumni Pajama Party and All-Genre Invitational at the Lesley MFA in Creative Writing program's January residency. We've got an excellent line-up of readers from all genres and hope to see you there! Aqueela C. Britt (Fiction, June 2018)Fabia Oliveira (Nonfiction, 2017)Lisa […]

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17th Annual Virtual Palm Beach Poetry Festival

Online Event

The annual festival offers six days and evenings of extraordinary workshops, talks on craft, Q&A, panel discussions, readings, and social events with award winning-faculty and special guests. Workshop and featured faculty poets include David Baker, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Traci Brimhall, Eduardo C. Corral, Vievee Francis, Kevin Prufer (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty), Martha Rhodes and Tim Seibles; the Special Guest Poet, Gregory […]

Hayley Krischer Author Visit – Limited Seating

Online Event

Hayley Krischer (Fiction, June 2009) joins the Montclair Public Library for a virtual discussion of her debut young adult novel Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf. The themes of this novel are timely, focusing on sexual assault and the aftermath for survivors. She will be joined by Kiara Sarner, a Sexual Violence Prevention Specialist from SAVE […]

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Writing by Ear: Incorporating the Poetic, with Michael Mercurio

Online Event

Every writer—no matter how accomplished they may be—feels the pressure of finding the right words to invigorate their manuscripts, to tell stories that resonate with readers and that linger for a long time. In this half-day workshop, writers will explore how the origins of words we use and the sounds of them can enhance their […]

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