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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Come out to this young adult author alumni panel on Wednesday 11/17 at 7pm on Zoom! Hear from Amy Tintera (All These Monsters & All These Warriors), Margot Wood (Fresh), Maurene Goo (Somewhere Only We Know & The Way You Make Me […]
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Michael Mercurio (Poetry, January 2017) has two poems, “some other world” and “there is neither world nor wine enough” in the October 2021 issue of The Inflectionist Review. Sebastian Murdoch (Fiction, June 2019) has an article “Horror and […]
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S.E. Clark (Fiction, January 2015) has a story, “Feast” appearing in Issue 3 of Weird Horror magazine from Undertow Publications. Tracey Baptise (WFYP, MFA faculty) has received a starred review (“Game changing.”) for her history book African Icons: […]
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Enzo Surin Silon (Poetry 2012) has two poems in the Summer 2021 issue of Spoon River Poetry Review: “How to Craft an American Scapegoat” and “Interrogating Past & Future Constellations.” He also has two poems in the current […]
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What do books that investigate bodies, Blackness, the judicial system, and the end of the world have in common? Join 2020 National Book Award–honored authors Rumaan Alam (Leave the World Behind, Finalist, Fiction), Lillian-Yvonne Bertram (Travesty Generator, Longlist, Poetry), Michelle Bowdler (Is Rape a […]
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Everyday lives and experiences feed into the creative force behind these powerful books, from exploring the Latinx diaspora through fifteen different voices and the trials and triumphs of growing up Black and queer, to the life of a […]
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Julie Wittes Schlack’s (Nonfiction, June 2013) debut novel, Burning and Dodging, will be released in December 2021, and is now available for preorder from Black Rose Writing. Danielle Legros Georges (MFA Program Director) has been awarded a PEN […]
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Cambridge Common Writers is thrilled to return to our Spotlight series for National Hispanic Heritage Month! Join us as we speak with some of our Hispanic alums about their writing journeys during the Lesley MFA program and beyond. […]
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Sara Farizan’s (WFYP, January 2012) YA novel, If You Could Be Mine, has been listed by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best YA books of all time. KB Ballantine (Poetry, June 2017) has a poem “One […]