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SUMMARY:Lifting Up Marginalized Voices: Reading and Discussion with Jody Hobbs Hesler\, Sunu P. Chandy\, and Jeffrey Dale Lofton
DESCRIPTION:Join Jody Hobbs Hesler and her fellow authors at Hundred Acre Books as they read from their work and discuss how it lifts up marginalized voices.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/lifting-up-marginalized-voices-reading-and-discussion-with-jody-hobbs-hesler-sunu-p-chandy-and-jeffrey-dale-lofton/
LOCATION:Hundred Acre Books\, 172 E Davis St\, Culpeper\, Virginia\, 22701\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Hundred Acre Books":MAILTO:hundredacrebookshop@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Book Launch for Andrea Wang: In Conversation with Malia Maunakea
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Andrea Wang’s (WFYP\, June 2011) newest book\, Summer at Squee! Summer at Squee is a new middle grade novel about a Chinese American tween who attends a Boston-based Chinese cultural overnight camp and the many ways it transforms her. Andrea Wang is a favorite local author and has received many awards including a Caldecott Medal\, a Newbery Honor and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. \n\n\n\nAndrea will be joined in conversation with another local favorite\, Malia Maunakea\, author of Lei and the Fire Goddess. \n\n\n\nFollowing the conversation books will be available for purchase and signing. Registration required.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/book-launch-for-andrea-wang-in-conversation-with-malia-maunakea/
LOCATION:Golden Library\, 1019 10th St.\, Golden\, Colorado\, 80401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Second Star to the Right Books":MAILTO:info@2ndstarbooks.com
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SUMMARY:Finnegan Lecture 2024 Jasmine Warga
DESCRIPTION:Jasmine Warga (WFYP\, June 2013)\, the 2024 Finnegan Lecturer\, will talk about the power of stories\, particularly the power of narrative and stories for young people in her talk “Connecting Through Story.” Jasmine is the New York Times-bestselling and award-winning author of many books for young people\, including Other Words For Home and A Rover’s Story. She lives in the Chicago area with her family.  \n\n\n\nPrevious Finnegan lecturers have included award-winning authors and illustrators such as Carole Lindstrom\, Ekua Holmes\, Candice Illoh\, Tracey Baptiste\, Jack Gantos\, Joel Christian Gill\, Steve Jenkins\, Renee Kurilla\, and E.B. Lewis & Susan Goodman.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/finnegan-lecture-2024-jasmine-warga/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event,Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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SUMMARY:Meet the Author: Lyz Lenz - This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
DESCRIPTION:Meet author Lyz Lenz (Fiction\, June 2011) as she discusses This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life\, a deeply validating manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America today\, and an argument that the former needs a reboot. This event will be moderated by Kali White VanBaale. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLyz Lenz is a journalist and the author of God Land and Belabored. She has written for Insider\, The New York Times\, Marie Claire\, and The Washington Post. Lenz also writes the newsletter Men Yell at Me\, about the intersection of politics and personhood in red-state America. She lives in Iowa with her two kids.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/meet-the-author-lyz-lenz-this-american-ex-wife-how-i-ended-my-marriage-and-started-my-life/
LOCATION:Beaverdale Books\, 2629 Beaver Avenue\, Des Moines\, Iowa\, 50310\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Beaverdale Books":MAILTO:beaverdalebooks@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:The 2023-24 Lesley University Thought Leadership Series - Jasmine Warga
DESCRIPTION:The Thought Leadership Series at Lesley University welcomes guest presenters who engage members of our community and the public in conversation and\, through that exchange\, encourage us all to act as catalysts for a more connected and just world. \n\n\n\nThese presentations are free and open to all. \n\n\n\nJasmine Warga (WFYP)\, a 2013 graduate of Lesley University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program\, is the New York Times-bestselling and award-winning author of many books for young people\, including “Other Words For Home” and “A Rover’s Story.” “Other Words For Home” earned multiple awards\, including a John Newbery Honor\, a Walter Honor for Young Readers\, and a Charlotte Huck Honor. Her book “The Shape of Thunder” was a School Library Journal and Bank Street best book of the year\, a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Children’s and YA Book Award\, and has been named to several state award reading lists. “A Rover’s Story\, “her latest novel\, was an instant New York Times bestseller\, an Indie Next List and a Junior Library Guild selection\, and was named a best book of the year by many outlets including Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/the-2023-24-lesley-university-thought-leadership-series-jasmine-warga/
LOCATION:District of Columbia
CATEGORIES:Alum Event,Lesley Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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SUMMARY:THIS AMERICAN EX-WIFE by Lyz Lenz in conversation with Laura Danger
DESCRIPTION:Join Women & Children First in welcoming Lyz Lenz (Fiction\, June 2011) to celebrate the release of This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life. For this event\, Lyz will be joined in conversation by Laura Danger. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA deeply validating manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America today\, and an argument that the former needs a reboot—from journalist and proud divorcée Lyz Lenz \n\n\n\nPlease note: Pre-registration for this event is required. By pre-registering\, you are verifying that you are fully vaccinated and will wear a mask throughout the entirety of the event. \n\n\n\nLyz Lenz is a journalist and the author of God Land and Belabored. She has written for Insider\, The New York Times\, Marie Claire\, and The Washington Post. Lenz also writes the newsletter Men Yell at Me\, about the intersection of politics and personhood in red-state America. She lives in Iowa with her two children. \n\n\n\nLaura Danger is a Licensed Educator\, Certified Coach and Creator who has taught and facilitated in Chicago for over 12 years. She is also a gardener\, hiker\, mother of two\, partner\, and passionate advocate for balanced partnerships and a society centered around connection and community.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/this-american-ex-wife-by-lyz-lenz-in-conversation-with-laura-danger/
LOCATION:Women & Children First\, 5233 N. Clark St.\, Chicago\, Illinois\, 60640\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Women & Children First":MAILTO:wcfbooks@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Nathan Tavares: Welcome to Forever - Brookline Booksmith
DESCRIPTION:In person at Brookline Booksmith! Celebrate the launch of Welcome to Forever with author Nathan Tavares (Fiction\, June 2011). This event will also be live-streamed to the store’s YouTube channel. Books are available for pre-order and to purchase at the event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA sweeping\, psychedelic romance of two men caught in a looping world of artificial realities\, edited memories\, secretive cabals and conspiracies to push humanity to the next step in its evolution.For fans of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow\, Ubik\, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mindand Evangelion.Fox is a memory editor – one of the best – gifted with the skill to create real life in the digital world. When he wakes up in Field of Reeds Center for Memory Reconstruction with no idea how he got there\, the therapists tell him he was a victim in a terrorist bombing by Khadija Banks\, the pioneer of memory editing technology turned revolutionary. A bombing which shredded the memory archives of all its victims\, including his husband Gabe.Thrust into reconstructions of his memories exploded from the fragments that survived the blast\, Fox tries to rebuild his life\, his marriage and himself. But he quickly realises his world is changing\, unreliable\, and echoing around itself over and over.As he unearths endless cycles of meeting Gabe\, falling in love and breaking up\, Fox digs deep into his past\, his time in the refugee nation of Aaru\, and the exact nature of his relationship with Khadija. Because\, in a world tearing itself apart to forget all its sadness\, saving the man he loves might be the key to saving us all. \n\n\n\nNathan Tavares is a writer from Boston\, Massachusetts. He grew up in the Portuguese-American community of southeastern Massachusetts and developed a love for fantastical stories at an early age. He is the author of A Fractured Infinity and Welcome to Forever. \n\n\n\nRegistration required for in-person.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/nathan-tavares-welcome-to-forever-brookline-booksmith/
LOCATION:Brookline Booksmith\, 279 Harvard Street\, Brookline\, Massachusetts\, 02446-2908\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Michelle Knudsen launches new book\, in conversation with Tracey Baptiste
DESCRIPTION:Join New York Times bestselling authors Michelle Knudsen (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty) and Tracey Baptiste (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty) for a conversation and reception to launch Michelle’s new picture book\, Luigi\, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten. \n\n\n\nReaders and book lovers of all ages are welcome to join us as we mark the publication of this warm (and delightfully fuzzy) storybook about learning to be—and be loved for—exactly who you are. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCopies of the book and other titles by Michelle Knudsen will be available for purchase\, and the author will be on hand to sign them.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/michelle-knudsen-launches-new-book-in-conversation-with-tracey-baptiste/
LOCATION:Lofty Pigeon Books\, 743 Church Avenue\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11218\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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SUMMARY:First Friday Book Talk & Reading with Pamela Petro
DESCRIPTION:Join Larksong Writers Place for a book talk and reading of The Long Field: Wales and the Presence of Absence\, A Memoir with Pamela Petro (Nonfiction\, Graphic Novels & Comics\, MFA Writing Faculty). Registration is required. \n\n\n\nSign ups are also available for Pamela Petro’s writing workshop “In Search of Home” scheduled for Saturday\, March 2\, 9 – 11 am CENTRAL TIME.  \n\n\n\nPamela Petro is an author\, artist\, and educator living in Northampton\, MA\, with her partner\, Marguerite\, and Pembroke Welsh Corgi\, Topaz. She has written four books of creative nonfiction including her latest\, The Long Field – Wales and the Presence of Absence\, a Memoir\, as well as Travels in an Old Tongue\, also about Wales; Sitting up with the Dead\, about the American South; and The Slow Breath of Stone\, about Southwest France. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Sunday Telegraph\, The Atlantic\, Granta\, Guernica\, The Paris Review\, and others. The Long Field was shortlisted for The Wales Book of the Year Award and was named to Top Ten Travel Book lists by The Financial Times and The Sunday Telegraph. Pamela teaches creative writing at Smith College and on Lesley University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program\, and is co-Director of the Dylan Thomas Summer School at the University of Wales\, Trinity St Davids\, where she is also a Fellow. She has widely exhibited her photography and has also created an artist book\, AfterShadows – A Grand Canyon Narrative\, and a graphic script\, Under Paradise Valley.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/first-friday-book-talk-reading-with-pamela-petro/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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SUMMARY:Blacksmith House Poetry Series - David Daniel and Steven Cramer
DESCRIPTION:Steven Cramer (Poetry\, MFA Writing Faculty) reads from Departures from Rilke\, with David Daniel\, whose new collection is What Love Is. \n\n\n\nFounded in 1973\, the award-winning Blacksmith House Poetry Series brings established and emerging writers of poetry and fiction to Harvard Square. In person readings will take place at 56 Brattle on Mondays at 8pm. Admission is $5\, tickets are available at the door. \n\n\n\nSteven Cramer is the author of seven poetry collections\, including\, most recently\, Departures from Rilke and Listen. His poems have appeared in publications such as The Atlantic Monthly\, The Nation\, The New Republic\, and The Paris Review\, and Poetry. The recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the NEA\, he founded and now teaches in Lesley University’s MFA Program in Creative Writing. \n\n\n\nDavid Daniel’s books include Seven-Star Bird\, winner of the Larry Levis Reading Prize\, Ornaments\, and most recently\, What Love Is\, a collaboration with artist George Cochrane. Daniel directs the undergraduate creative writing program at Fairleigh Dickinson University and is the creator and producer of FDU’s WAMFest: The Words\, Art\, and Music Festival.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/blacksmith-house-poetry-series-david-daniel-and-steven-cramer/
LOCATION:Blacksmith House\, 56 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Blacksmith House Poetry Series":MAILTO:info@ccae.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240224T123000
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SUMMARY:You Were Born a Poem: a Master Craft Class by Enzo Silon Surin (via Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:There are a number of things that inform who we are as individuals\, which consequently inform the way we process and reflect the world we inhabit. These same factors are at play in the decisions we make as writers and they have a profound effect on how\, when\, and where we make use of the necessary language to convey our experiences. As such\, the Poet as “literary device” is not a stretch by any means.  \n\n\n\nThis master craft class will explore what it means to be a poem and how the way we move through the world can have an impact on what we choose to write about. You will also discuss how this impacts the way you craft a poem\, from its shape and sounds to its rhythm and movements. \n\n\n\nNB: This class will be taught on Zoom and will be capped at 15 students. Registrants will receive the Zoom link to the email address they use to register. Please email misty@writerscenter.org with any questions. \n\n\n\nAll HVWC scholarship applications will be available on Dec 1 and will be due on Dec 15 for all winter/spring 2024 classes. \n\n\n\nEnzo Silon Surin (Poetry\, 2012) is a Haitian-born\, award-winning poet\, educator\, speaker\, publisher and social advocate. He is the author of four collections of poetry\, including American Scapegoat (Black Lawrence Press\, May 2023)\, and When My Body Was A Clenched Fist (2020)\, winner of the 21st Annual Massachusetts Book Awards for Poetry.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/you-were-born-a-poem-a-master-craft-class-by-enzo-silon-surin-via-zoom/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Hudson Valley Writers Center":MAILTO:ask@writerscenter.org
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SUMMARY:Gotham Writers Workshop: Tricky Topics with Cindy House
DESCRIPTION:Join Melissa Petro\, Jerald Walker\, and Cindy House (Fiction\, June 2017) as they discuss how to handle challenges such as writing about family and tackling supercharged material. Kelly Caldwell will moderate.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/gotham-writers-workshop-tricky-topics-with-cindy-house/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Poetry at Fruitlands with Robbie Gamble
DESCRIPTION:Join the New England Poetry Club at Fruitlands Museum for monthly poetry readings this winter. This month’s poets are Chard deNiord\, Robbie Gamble (Poetry/Nonfiction\, January 2017/June 2020)\, and Pamela Gemme. \n\n\n\nSponsoring poetry in New England since 1915\, the New England Poetry Club presents readings by poets with ties to the New England states and annual poetry contests. Members of the NEPC benefit from being part of a community of poets\, gathering for readings by members with new books\, and participating in monthly writing workshops. \n\n\n\nThis poetry reading will be held in the Fruitlands Museum Wayside Visitor Center. Parking is available next to the building and the Visitor Center is wheelchair accessible.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/poetry-at-fruitlands-with-robbie-gamble/
LOCATION:Fruitlands Museum\, 100-132 Prospect Hill Rd\, Harvard\, Massachusetts\, 01451\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240217T190000
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SUMMARY:The BCA Playwright Residency presents a reading of current resident Fabiola R. Decius’ play: (UN)HOUSED
DESCRIPTION:(UN)HOUSED is a story about a single mother\, Elianie\, and her recent college graduate daughter\, Skylar\, who has moved back home. As Skylar tries to navigate the world of adulthood\, she and her mother learn that their two-bedroom home of ten years has been put up for sale by their landlord. When a new landlord purchases the home and allows for Elianie and Skylar to remain as tenants\, they believe all is well until a series of incidents put their housing in jeopardy. Tickets are free with an option for donation.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/the-bca-playwright-residency-presents-a-reading-of-current-resident-fabiola-r-decius-play-unhoused/
LOCATION:BCA Black Box Theatre\, 539 Tremont St\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Boston Center for the Arts":MAILTO:info@bostonarts.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240210T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240210T150000
DTSTAMP:20260527T130419
CREATED:20231211T220743Z
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SUMMARY:Gathering the Loose Petals: A Celebration of the Work of Afaa Michael Weaver
DESCRIPTION:This gathering of writers and scholars seeks to celebrate and honor the work of Afaa Michael Weaver and his storied career as a poet\, essayist\, playwright\, mentor and much more. A number of presenters\, including Dr. Tara Betts\, Danielle Legros Georges\, and Enzo Silon Surin (Poetry\, 2012) will discuss poems by Weaver that have inspired them and facilitate a timely discussion about the impact that a writer can have off the page. Weaver will then close with brief remarks and a few new poems from his recent work. \n\n\n\nPanelists: Tara Betts\, Enzo Silon Surin\, Danielle Legros Georges\, Bro. Yao Glover\, Afaa Michael Weaver
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/gathering-the-loose-petals-a-celebration-of-the-work-of-afaa-michael-weaver/
LOCATION:Room 2211\, Kansas City Convention Center\, Street Level\, 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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240209T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240209T210000
DTSTAMP:20260527T130419
CREATED:20240202T032338Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240202T032339Z
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SUMMARY:Cornerstone Press Reading Event with Jody Hobbs Hesler
DESCRIPTION:Join Cornerstone Press at The Brick for a lineup of authors: \n\n\n\n\nKevin Clouther\n\n\n\nBrett Biebel\n\n\n\nDawn Burns\n\n\n\nSusanne Davis\n\n\n\nSteve Fox\n\n\n\nRyan Habermeyer\n\n\n\nJody Hobbs Hesler (Fiction\, June 2017)\n\n\n\nLeah McCormack\n\n\n\nCorey Mertes\n\n\n\nErik Mortenson\n\n\n\nPatrick Nevins
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/cornerstone-press-reading-event-with-jody-hobbs-hesler/
LOCATION:The Brick – Kansas City\, 1727 McGee St\, Kansas City\, Missouri\, 64108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Cornerstone Press":MAILTO:webmaster@uwsp.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240208T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240208T113000
DTSTAMP:20260527T130419
CREATED:20240128T220842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240128T220843Z
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SUMMARY:AWP: Lit Mags Explore Challenges & Methods of Expanding Diversity\, Equity & Inclusion with Robbie Gamble
DESCRIPTION:Solstice Literary Magazine is presenting a panel at AWP 2024 on expanding DEI in literary magazines. This panel\, moderated by Editor-in-Chief Lorena Hernández Leonard\, will include Poetry Editor Robbie Gamble (Poetry/Nonfiction\, January 2017/June 2020); AGNI Senior Editor\, Shuchi Saraswat; and Pangyrus Nonfiction Editor\, Artress Bethany White\, and Reviews Editor\, Anri Wheeler.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/awp-lit-mags-explore-challenges-methods-of-expanding-diversity-equity-inclusion-with-robbie-gamble/
LOCATION:Kansas City Convention Center\, 301 West 13th Street\, 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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240208T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240208T103000
DTSTAMP:20260527T130419
CREATED:20231211T215057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231211T215058Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240123T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240123T200000
DTSTAMP:20260527T130419
CREATED:20231213T013237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T013452Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240117T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240117T203000
DTSTAMP:20260527T130419
CREATED:20231130T015034Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231130T015036Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240111T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240111T200000
DTSTAMP:20260527T130419
CREATED:20231211T222915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231211T222916Z
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="McNally Jackson Independent Booksellers":MAILTO:info@mcnallyjackson.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240110T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240110T193000
DTSTAMP:20260527T130419
CREATED:20231218T001330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231218T001331Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260527T130419
CREATED:20231218T000833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231218T000834Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T193000
DTSTAMP:20260527T130419
CREATED:20231217T230438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231218T001437Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T123000
DTSTAMP:20260527T130419
CREATED:20231217T213808Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231217T213809Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T113000
DTSTAMP:20260527T130419
CREATED:20231217T213308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231217T213309Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240106T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240106T193000
DTSTAMP:20260527T130419
CREATED:20231217T212411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231218T001426Z
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240106T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240106T173000
DTSTAMP:20260527T130419
CREATED:20231217T211946Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231217T213202Z
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley University Graduate Admissions":MAILTO:luadmissions@lesley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240106T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240106T150000
DTSTAMP:20260527T130419
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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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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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