Rees Collier (Fiction, January 2025) has a feature, “Love’s Improbable Odds” in The Boston Sunday Globe Magazine.
Abbie Harlow (WFYP, June 2019) has announced that her debut YA novel, A Butterfly’s Sting will be published in October 2025, and is now available for preorder.
Sara Levine (Nonfiction/WFYP, June 2006) has a forthcoming picture book Hello Dog/ Hello Human, now available for preorder.
Robbie Gamble (Poetry, January 2017) has two new poems out: “After the Prado” in The Indianapolis Review and “Red-Eye” in Rise Up Review.
Candice Iloh (WFYP, June 2017) is featured in an article in Brittle Paper: “Candice Iloh Centers Nigerian-American Boy on the Autism Spectrum in Forthcoming Children’s Book.” Emeka, Eat Egusi will be published by Atheneum Books in Spring 2026.
Sharisse Zeroonian’s (WSS, January 2024) play, “Glass Child,” has been accepted for the 2025 Palace Theatre Short-Play Festival at The Rex Theatre in Downtown Manchester, NH.
Michelle Knudsen (WFYP, MFA Faculty) has a forthcoming middle-school novel, Into the Wild Magic, now available for preorder from Candlewick Press.
Hayley Krischer (Fiction, June 2009) has an excerpt from her recent novel You Belong to Me, featured in Cosmopolitan.
Sari Boren’s (WSS, January 2023) play WHO’S THERE won the Region 1 Gary Garrison Award, and is now a semi-finalist for the National Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.
Rachel Becker (Poetry, January 2025) has a poem “The day after the last school shooting” in the current issue of The Tusculum Review.
An adaptation of Jason Reynolds’ (WFYP, MFA faculty) YA novel Long Way Down has been nominated for the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical Adaptation. He is also set to release Soundtrack, an original, YA audiobook with Penguin Random House Audio and Listening Library.
Kristin Offiler (Fiction, January 2011) has a substack guest post “How many times can you revise a novel?” in PRESENT TENSE: Suspense Fiction and More.
Mary Ann Honaker (Poetry, June 2016) has been prolific of late. She has a poem “Feather in the Balance” in the current issue of River Heron Review, and she has a folio, “5 Poems about Living with ME/CFS” (myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome), in The AutoEthnographer. And her second book, Whichever Way the Moon, has been chosen for Sundress Publication’s The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed!
Jill Johnson (Nonfiction, January 2017) has an essay “Port Authority” published in The Manifest Station.
Michelle Boland (Poetry, January 2019) has a poem “X” in Mud Room.
Jody Hobbs Hesler’s (Fiction, June 2017) short story, “O Say Can You See,” has been published in Pinch Journal.
Ever Since We Small, the second novel-in-verse from Celeste Mohammed (Fiction, June 2016) has been acquired by Jacaranda Books, and will be published in Trinidad and Tobago in May 2025 before publication in the UK in October 2025. Available for pre-order now.
Do you have any recent writing successes or news you’d like to share with the Cambridge Common Writers community? Let us know by reaching out to us at lesleycambridgecommon@gmail.com!
Opportunities & Resources
- MFA Program Director (and nonfiction alum!) Janet Pocorobba and nonfiction alum Holly Claytor are hosting Zoom submissions sessions every other Tuesday evening, starting on January 28th, from 6-7:15pm EST. This group is open to all genres to dedicate time to work on submitting their work for publication. No need to RSVP, email CCW for the link.
- The Emory University Creative Writing program is now accepting applications for its inaugural Screenwriting Fellowship (2025-2027). Applicants must have an MFA or equivalent degree with related teaching experience, and a promising record of sold or produced screenplay and/or development, or produced teleplay. Secondary interest/experience in television writing, short film writing, and/or producing is also a plus. Submit all materials to http://apply.interfolio.com/162183 by 11:59pm on March 15, 2025.
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