WSS Mentor Ellen Lewis’s play The View From Here was selected for The Road Theatre’s Summer Playwright’s Festival 17.
Michelle Knudsen (WFYP, Mentor) won an Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction for her novel Into the Wild Magic.
Eileen Cleary (Poetry, June 2016) has had four poems published in The Galway Review: “Raptors,” “Of Mice and Men,” “To Become California Buckwheat,” and “Clouds.”
jodi sh. doff (Nonfiction, January 2013) had two nonfiction essays out this month–a flash piece, “Jackson Heights: A Walking Meditation in the Rain,” in *82 Review, and “One Difficult Choice, One Honest Essay, Five Publications, and Thirty Years” in The Brevity Blog.
Tracy Strauss (Nonfiction, June 2013) recently became a regular contributor for Psychology Today. Her column, “How to Be Dogged in a Doggone World,” is about finding resilience, or just some sanity, in difficult times.
Katherine Karch (WFYP, June 2018) has a story, “Springtime Magic” in the Summer 2026 issue of Hearth Stories.
Rex Arrasmith (Fiction, January 2018/ Poetry, June 2020) was the winner of the “Swimming” category in the Sandcutters 2025 poetry contest anthology of the Arizona Poetry Society, for his poem “Whale Song.”
Jennifer LeBlanc (Poetry, June 2012) has a poem “Abecedarian of Grief” in the current issue of Cloudbank.
Robbie Gamble (Poetry, January 2017/ Nonfiction, June 2020) has a folio of ten prose poems in The Mackinaw. He also has a poem “Flurry” in the June 2026 issue of Bracken.
Jasmine Warga’s (WFYP, June 2013) latest novel, A Martian’s Story, is now available for pre-order.
Raymond Tyler (Fiction, June 2020) contributed to and edited Radical History Review #155 published by Duke University Press, focusing on the radical and subversive elements of the comics medium.
No Ordinary Women: How Progressive Era Reformers Reshaped America by Patty O’Connell Pearson (WFYP, June 2015) is now available for purchase from Simon & Schuster.
“For Our Own Good,” a poem by Steven Cramer (Poetry, Mentor) has been published in the latest issue of The Massachusetts Review.
Natalie Padilla Young (Poetry, January 2009) has a new poem, “Fire Season,” out on Terrain.org, as well as “The View is Always Personal,” in Exponent II.
Boston Gordon (Poetry, January 2015) and Kevin Prufer (Poetry, Mentor) both have poems in the latest issue of The American Poetry Review (Boston, “After the Totality”; Kevin, “The Cocktail Party,” “Memory Machine,” and “Hitchhiker”).
Ever Since We Small by Celeste Mohammed (Fiction, June 2016) has been selected for the 2026 National Caribbean American Heritage Month Book List.
Cassie Seinuk’s (WSS, June 2013 & Mentor) play Rough Trade has been selected for the New York Lift-off Festival, and a staged reading of her psychological thriller, Eyes Shut. Door Open, will occur at The Tank in New York City on August 21st.
Hayley Krischer’s (Fiction, June 2009) essay, “How to Eat Pizza with a Male Model,” has been published in the Modern Love column of The New York Times.
Mundy McLaughlin’s new novel, Blue Life, is publishing with Civil Sector Press on July 6th.
Penelope Positano and the Super-Secret Pen Pal by Katie Cotugno (Fiction, June 2015) is available for pre-order from Amulet Books.
John Westby (WSS, June 2025) has had a promising year so far. His short play, Breakage, was printed in the Summer Issue of River & South Review. His play Dear Abigail/Dear John: An Incandescent Match was produced in May by Stageworks Theatre Company in Nebraska City, NE. Artifact was listed as a semi-finalist in the 2026 Dayton Fusion Playwrights Festival and as a semi-finalist in the 2026 Ojai Playwrights Conference. And John was accepted into the 2026 Sewanee Writers Conference.
Kristin Offiler (Fiction, January 2011) will be one of the authors featured in a special author talk at the Booked and Breezy Reading Retreat on September 26th.
KB Ballentine (Poetry, June 2007) has published a poem, “The Art of Not Breathing,” in iExile.
Late Fall, a short drama film in which Kyle Gregory (WSS, January 2019) plays the role of Danny, a father struggling alongside his wife with transitioning into parenthood, was a Semi-Finalist at Kino London Short Film Festival.
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Resources & Opportunities
- Sharisse Zeroonian (WSS, January 2024) is conducting the interactive workshop “Writing About Illness with Humor & Grace” on August 8. Tickets are available here.
- Bonita Lee Penn (Poetry, January 2015) is offering a series of poetry workshops on Mondays from August 31 – November 30 on campus at Carlow University. The workshops will explore how “poets use language and craft, including imagery, sound, rhythm, form, meter, and revision to shape powerful and evocative work.” Space is limited. Registration and more information is available here.
- Sara Zarr (WFYP, Mentor) will teach a week-long Fiction workshop at The Glen. The workshop will run July 12-18 in San Diego, CA. To register, visit The Glen.
- The Writers’ Room of Boston, a writing space available to writers in the Boston area, is offering discounted memberships to alumni and current students of the Lesley MFA in Creative Writing program. For more details, please email us at lesleycambridgecommon@gmail.com.
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!
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