Naomi Mulvihill (Poetry, 2011) is the winner of the 2023 Clayton Prize, awarded by the editors the Michigan Quarterly Review for her poem “Poly-, Ambi-“ Katie DeBonville (Nonfiction, January 2023) has an essay “Bridges” in the March 2023 […]
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We’re always thrilled when one of our alums speaks about the impact of the Lesley MFA program. Those of us who attended the January 2023 graduation ceremony were fortunate to hear from Meenakshi Chhabra, a June 2022 graduate, […]
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In our first Spotlight Interview of 2023, Claudia Rueda talks to us about her work with PEN, Domestika, some of her early literary influences, and changing the world through children’s picture books. CLAUDIA RUEDA – WRITING FOR YOUNG […]
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Enzo Surin Silon (Poetry, 2012) is featured in an article in The Item, where he discusses winning the Massachusetts Book Award, and his forthcoming poetry collection American Scapegoat, now available for preorder from Black Lawrence Press. Jennifer LeBlanc […]
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Caitlin T.D. Robinson (WFYP, June 2018) is the winner of the 2022 Princemere Poetry Prize for her poem “A Mother’s Sestina.” Frances Donovan (Poetry, June 2019) has a new poetry collection, Arboretum in a Jar, out with Lily […]
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Check out the below video to watch the Cambridge Common Writers-hosted book launch for Elizabeth Shick’s (Fiction, January 2019) debut novel, The Golden Land. A debut novel that digs deep into the complexities of family history and relationships. When […]
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Patty O’Connell Pearson’s (WFYP, June 2015) new middle-grade book We Are Your Children Too is now available for preorder from Simon & Schuster. Karin Cecile Davidson’s (Fiction, June 2009) new novel The Geography of New Kisses, winner of […]
Here we are again, at the end of another year. It’s been a productive time for the Cambridge Common Writers community, with book launches, readings, awards, and so much writing. In honor of all these achievements, we are […]
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Mary Ann Honaker (Poetry, June 2016) has a poem “Shame” in the November 2022 issue of Better Than Starbucks. Saraciea J. Fennell (WFYP, January 2020) hosted the 2022 National Book Awards Finalist Reading in New York City. Celeste […]
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YA author Hayley Krischer takes some time to talk to us about why kids need books that don’t shy away from darker subjects, highlights from her long career in journalism, and her very different experiences publishing Something Happened […]