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SUMMARY:Pleasantview by Celeste Mohammed
DESCRIPTION:Cambridge Common Writers is proud to host a celebration of Celeste Mohammed’s (Fiction\, June 2016) debut novel-in-stories\, Pleasantview. Join us for a reading by Celeste\, as well as appearances by some special guests! \n\n\n\nClick here to register for this Zoom event. \n\n\n\nCeleste Mohammed’s work has appeared in The New England Review\, Litmag\, Epiphany\, and The Rumpus\, among other places. Several of the stories in Pleasantview have won awards\, including the 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers\, the 2019 Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction\, and the 2017 John D Gardner Memorial Prize for Fiction. A native of Trinidad and Tobago\, Celeste graduated from Lesley University with an MFA in Creative Writing. She currently resides in Trinidad with her family.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/pleasantview-by-celeste-mohammed/
LOCATION:New York
CATEGORIES:CCW Event
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SUMMARY:Building Alexandria Book Launch: Clarissa Adkins
DESCRIPTION:Join Clarissa Adkins (Poetry\, June 2018) at the launch of her first poetry collection\, Building Alexandria. The event will be hosted by Eileen Cleary (Poetry\, June 2016) and Clarissa will be interviewed by Rex Arrasmith (Fiction\, January 2018; Poetry\, June 2020). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Clarissa Adkins has a mind I’d love to inhabit\, fully attuned to the strangenesses of love\, parenthood\, mortality\, and fleeting beauty. These poems are playful\, sharp\, dextrous\, and witty—but they’re also filled with sonic brilliance\, her mastery of the musical possibilities of language evident throughout. This is a terrific first book\, one that I’ll return to with great pleasure.” — Kevin Prufer\, author of The Art of Fiction
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/building-alexandria-book-launch-clarissa-adkins/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Dr. Lisa Gruenberg discusses her memoir My City of Dreams with Dr. David Urion
DESCRIPTION:Join author Dr. Lisa Gruenberg (Nonfiction\, June 2007) for a special virtual conversation with Dr. David Urion about her second-generation Holocaust memoir\, My City of Dreams. This event\, hosted by the bioethics centers of Harvard Medical School and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus\, will not only discuss Gruenberg’s personal journey\, but will also examine her memoir’s importance from the point of view of living ethically. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn My City of Dreams\, Gruenberg\, confronted with her elderly father’s flashbacks and nightmares\, begins to inhabit the story of his sister Mia\, who disappeared into Germany in 1941 when she was just fifteen years old. After her father’s death in 2005\, Gruenberg traveled to Vienna\, Germany and back to her childhood to explore this lost landscape\, and to trace the fates of Mia\, their extended family\, friends and neighbors. Using letters\, old photographs\, primary source documents and her father’s writing\, she weaves her story with theirs.  \n\n\n\nJane Brox (Nonfiction\, MFA Writing Faculty)\, author of Brilliant and Silence writes: “Gruenberg’s search for coherence becomes a journey of both discovery and imagination\, and ultimately brings her to an understanding that proves also to be a form of healing.” My City of Dreams is a gift – an honest and thoughtful book\, beautifully written and full of compassion. \n\n\n\nLearn more about My City of Dreams here: lisagruenberg.com
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/dr-lisa-gruenberg-discusses-her-memoir-my-city-of-dreams-with-dr-david-urion/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:White Whale Bookstore Presents Springtime Online Reading & Conversation: Karin Cecile Davidson & William Lychack
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating Karin Cecile Davidson’s (Fiction\, June 2009) Sybelia Drive and William Lychack’s Cargill Falls. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKarin Cecile Davidson is originally from the Gulf Coast. Her novel Sybelia Drive was published by Braddock Avenue Books in Autumn 2020. Her stories have appeared in Story Magazine\, The Massachusetts Review\, Five Points Journal\, Colorado Review\, and elsewhere. Her awards include a Fine Arts Work Center Summer Residency\, an Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency\, a Studios of Key West Artist Residency\, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award\, an Orlando Prize for Short Fiction\, the Waasmode Short Fiction Prize\, and a Peter Taylor Fellowship. She has an MFA from Lesley University and is an Interviews Editor for Newfound Journal. For more\, please visit her website. \n\n\n\nWilliam Lychack is the author of Cargill Falls\, The Wasp Eater\, and The Architect of Flowers\, and his work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories\, The Pushcart Prize\, The Best Small Fictions\, and on public radio’s This American Life. He currently teaches at the University of Pittsburgh\, where he is Director of the Graduate Writing Program. For more\, please go to www.lychack.com
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/white-whale-bookstore-presents-springtime-online-reading-conversation-karin-cecile-davidson-william-lychack/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Chapter and Verse Reading Series -- Jennifer LeBlanc and Jane Brox
DESCRIPTION:Join Jennifer LeBlanc (Poetry\, June 2012) with Jane Brox (Nonfiction\, MFA Writing Faculty) and Jeffrey Harrison for a reading hosted by Susanna Kittredge at Chapter and Verse.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/chapter-and-verse-reading-series-jennifer-leblanc-and-jane-brox/
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SUMMARY:Massachusetts Poetry Festival -- Voices Amidst the Virus: Poets Respond to the Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:When coronavirus started closing down New England in March 2020\, life changed dramatically. People quickly rethought their approaches to work\, school\, shopping\, socializing and more. In response\, Lily Poetry Press created an anthology\, Voices Amidst the Virus\, edited by Eileen Cleary and Christine Jones\, which features poems by Kevin Prufer\, Annie Finch\, Daniel Summerhill\, Dzvinia Orlowsky\, Anne-Marie Oomen\, Sean Thomas Dougherty\, and many others that explores our shared experiences of isolation\, lock-down\, re-entry. In this panel discussion\, the editors and two poets from the collection will talk about the inspiration behind the project as well as their experiences writing through the pandemic. They will read a selection of poems that confront despair and reach for hope. And there will be sourdough! During the interactive session\, the audience will be invited to share their own Covid-19 stories and poems. \n\n\n\nParticipating CCW community members: \n\n\n\nSteven Cramer (Poetry\, MFA Writing Faculty)Eileen Cleary (Poetry\, June 2016)Christine Jones (Poetry\, January 2014)
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/massachusetts-poetry-festival-voices-amidst-the-virus-poets-respond-to-the-pandemic/
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SUMMARY:We Contain Multitudes: Supporting Diverse Diversity Within Asian American Voices
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Debbi Michiko Florence\, Christina Soontornvat\, Andrea Wang (WFYP\, June 2011)\, Veera Hiranandani\, and Mike Jung. \n\n\n\nJoin Middle Grade authors as they share their experiences growing up as Asian Americans and how their backgrounds influence the books they write. Discussion will center on the need for MANY Asian American penned novels to reflect the diversity of the Asian American experience. Alum Andrea Wang will be talking about her upcoming MG\, The Many Meanings of Meilan.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/we-contain-multitudes-supporting-diverse-diversity-within-asian-american-voices/
LOCATION:YouTube
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Asian Author Alliance":MAILTO:asianauthoralliance@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210518T190000
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SUMMARY:Blue Desert by Celia Jeffries -- Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Author Celia Jeffries (Fiction and Nonfiction\, 2008) will be joined in conversation with Janet Pocorobba (Nonfiction\, 2006)\, Associate Director of the Lesley MFA Program\, to celebrate the launch of Jeffries’ new book\, Blue Desert. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlue Desert is the story of Alice George\, a headstrong young British woman\, and her life among the Tuareg\, a tribe of nomadic warriors. While the outside world faced the catastrophe of World War I\, the Tuareg continued to crisscross the Sahara as they always had. A matrilineal society in which the men are veiled and the women hold property—a world in which anything can happen—it was a world well suited to eighteen-year-old Alice\, who discovers a life she could never live in corseted England. \n\n\n\nJeffries and Pocorobba will focus their discussion on the fine art of revision and read from their books. \n\n\n\nJeffries’ work has appeared in numerous newspapers and literary magazines including Westview\, Solstice Literary Magazine\, and Puerto del Sol\, as well as the anthology Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper. She has received grants from Turkey Land Cove Foundation\, The Massachusetts Cultural Council\, and La Muse. Jeffries holds an MA from Brandeis and worked in news and educational publishing before earning an MFA from Lesley University. She has worked with writers at all levels\, from elementary school to university both here and abroad\, and in many different communities\, including incarcerated\, literacy\, and ESL programs. Her own writing has been nurtured in the community of writers in Western Massachusetts\, where she is on the steering committee of Straw Dog Writers Guild\, and where she offers workshops at Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop. Pocorobba’s book\, The Fourth String: A Memoir of Sensei and Me\, was published in 2019. Her essays and memoirs have appeared in publications including The Rumpus\, River Teeth\, Harvard Review\, Nixes Mate\, The Writer\, and forthcoming in Writers’ Digest. She is also a book editor and coach and works with writers in all stages of the projects as The Book Whisperer.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/blue-desert-by-celia-jeffries-book-launch/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:CCW Event
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SUMMARY:Story Time with Asian American Picture Books
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Andrea Wang (WFYP\, June 2011)\, Kristen Giang\, Benson Shum\, Wendy Wan-Long Shang\, Gracey Zhang\, and Mượn Thị Văn  \n\n\n\nEntertain your little ones! Join six Asian American/Asian Canadian authors as they read their recent picture books: Andrea Wang (WATERCRESS)\, Kristen Giang (GINGER AND CHRYSANTHEMUM)\, Benson Shum (ALEX’S GOOD FORTUNE)\, Wendy Wan-Long Shang (THE RICE IN THE POT GOES ROUND AND ROUND)\, Gracey Zhang (LALA’S WORDS)\, and Mượn Thị Văn (WISHES).
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/story-time-with-asian-american-picture-books/
LOCATION:YouTube
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Asian Author Alliance":MAILTO:asianauthoralliance@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210523T170000
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SUMMARY:MOTHERS\, A Virtual Reading of New Works
DESCRIPTION:A Reading of New Works… in honor of mothers everywhere. Featuring works from: \n\n\n\n“A Lovely Day Outside” by Rhiannon Ciara Vaughn (WSS\, January 2019) \n\n\n\n“Leftovers” by Sarah Hunter \n\n\n\n“You’ve Got to Keep Mother Alive” by Vance Walker \n\n\n\n“Counterpoint” by Hortense Gerardo \n\n\n\n“Crusades” by John Mabey \n\n\n\n“Mom’s Recipes” by Ken Levine
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/mothers-a-virtual-reading-of-new-works/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:CCW Debut Book Launch for Clarissa Adkins and Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:CCW book launch\, featuring Clarissa Adkins (Poetry\, June 2018) author of Building Alexandria (Lily Poetry Review\, 2021). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin on Sunday\, May 23\, 2021 at 7:00 pm Eastern to hear Clarissa read from her book and for you to share your poetry. After Clarissa’s reading there will be time for an open-mic for those who are interested.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/ccw-debut-book-launch-for-clarissa-adkins-and-poetry-open-mic/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:CCW Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210528T190000
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SUMMARY:K-pop in YA panel -- Axie Oh
DESCRIPTION:Featuring: Kat Cho\, Axie Oh (WFYP\, June 2017)\, Lyla Lee\, Stephan Lee\, Maurene Goo \n\n\n\nA BTS look at the Blood\, Sweat\, and Tears that goes into creating the DNA of a K-Pop Young Adult book. From the bright lights of the stage to the sweet bloom of first love\, these authors write it all amid the backdrop of the Hallyu wave.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/k-pop-in-ya-panel-axie-oh/
LOCATION:YouTube
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