“Words Not Said (Enough)”, “Silence Between Notes”, and “In Defense of Nature” by KB Ballentine appear in the Fresh Words International Literary Magazine (Vol 5 – No 6 – November 2025). “Outside The (Out)lines”, “Rejoining”, “The Heart Pauses”, […]
Throughout the year, it has been our great pleasure to shine a spotlight on the many accomplishments of our talented authors who make up this wonderful community. From numerous awards, film festivals, and grants to audiobooks, poetry collections, […]
It’s a great joy, as the year comes to a close, to look back on all of the accomplishments of the Lesley MFA community from the past twelve months. The End-of Year Celebration and Gift Guide is becoming […]
Of all the features on our website that we get to share with the Lesley MFA community, our End-of-Year Celebration and Gift Guide is our favorite. Not only do we get the opportunity to show the cumulative yearly […]
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 […]
As 2021 comes to a close, we at Cambridge Common Writers have carved out a space to celebrate our community’s many accomplishments throughout this year by compiling a list of publications and other creative ways in which Lesley […]

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Check out the latest news from our Cambridge Common Writers community! Kate Kearns (Poetry, June 2008) has a new poem published in the Northern New England Review. Thato Mwosa’s (WSS, June 2017) Memoirs of a Black Girl has been selected […]

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Check out the latest news from our Cambridge Common Writers community! Lisa DeSiro (Poetry, June 2010) has a new poetry collection out with Kelsay Books: Simple as a Sonnet. Amber Wong (Nonfiction, January 2014) has an essay out […]

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Check out the latest news from our Cambridge Common Writers community! Candice Iloh (WFYP, June 2017) and Jason Reynolds (WFYP, MFA Writing Faculty) were both featured on USA Today‘s “50 Black young adult novelists you should read, from […]

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Check out the latest news from our Cambridge Common Writers community! Celeste Mohammed (Fiction, June 2016) published an essay in The Common as an Inauguration Day feature: “Split Me in Two.” Sugar House Review has published a review of Steven Cramer’s […]
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