Sebastian Murdoch (Fiction, June 2019) has a new short story “Piecemeal” out in Crow and Cross Keys. Pam Petro’s (Nonfiction, MFA faculty) book The Long Field, has been shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year Award. Jon […]

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The mentors in our lives can have huge impacts on our writing. Writing for Stage and Screen alum Wendy Ewan talks about her mentors from the Lesley MFA in Creative Writing program, discovering her talent for humorous writing, […]
Sonia Phillips Resika’s (Fiction, June 2020) short story “Slip, Fall,” which appeared in the Winter 2021-22 issue of Ploughshares, has been nominated for for a PEN 2023 Emerging Writers Award. Sara Levine (WFYP, January 2006) has a new […]

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Although we may not always know where our writing paths will lead us, if we follow our passions, we usually end up somewhere pretty great. Alum Kate Estrop discovered a joy for writing short comics after receiving their […]
Join Cambridge Common Writers for an evening of reading from a selection of our incredible alums: Featured Readers: Fabiola R. Decius – WSS, June 2015 Dan Carey – Poetry, June 2021 Emily Inouye Huey – WFYP, June 2011 […]

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The Lesley MFA Program in Creative Writing opened up new avenues for many of us in exploring ourselves and our writing. WFYP alum Kate Fussner talks about how her mentors encouraged her to start writing in verse, which […]

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After finding her way back to writing after some time in web development, Frances Donovan went on to self-publish her own chapbook, which became a finalist in the 31st annual Lambda Literary Awards. Her next manuscript will be […]

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Rex Carey Arrasmith talks about the interplay between his poetry and his fiction, the influence of place on his writing, and going through Lesley University’s MFA in Creative Writing program twice. Read on to learn more about alien robots and […]
Cindy House (Fiction, June 2017) was interviewed by Leah Glennon (Fiction, June 2019) at the launch of her debut book Mother Noise. Their conversation is posted on YouTube. Cindy is also interviewed by Jennie Burke in Literary Mama. […]

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Lesley’s Creative Writing MFA program boasts some very accomplished alums, including Saraciea J. Fennell, whose work reaches beyond the page to an extent that she was recently immortalized in a Bronx Legends mural in New York. In June, […]
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