Check out the latest and greatest from our Cambridge Common Writers community: Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds (WFYP, MFA Writing Faculty) & Ibram X. Kendi […]

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At Cambridge Common Writers, we know our alums are all immensely talented and work very hard to produce creative works that are a joy and a privilege to read. That’s why we’re always so pleased when that talent […]

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Jason Reynolds (WFYP, MFA Writing Faculty), has been chosen to host the 71st National Book Awards ceremony on November 18, and the NBA’s annual Teen Press Conference on November 16. Robbie Gamble (Poetry, January 2017) has had several […]

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Candice Iloh’s (WFYP, June 2017) novel, Every Body Looking, has been named a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Check out her book in our bookstore! D. Dina Friedman’s (Fiction, January 2016) short story, “Will This […]

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Chris Lynch (Writing for Young People, MFA Writing Faculty), author of Inexcusable (2012), Freewill (2004), and many others, sits down to chat with his former student Sara Farizan (WFYP Alumna), who has written several novels, including Here to […]
Check out these upcoming events from the Cambridge Common Writers community: October 3 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EDT Fiction Writing Workshop and Info Session Online Zoom Event Join Fiction faculty mentor Laurie Foos for a writing workshop and Q […]

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Robbie Gamble (Poetry, January 2017) has a new, untitled poem out in Molecule: A Tiny Lit Mag. Candice Iloh’s (WFYP, June 2017) novel, Every Body Looking, has been long-listed for the 2020 National Book Award for Young People’s […]

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The Spanish edition of Jane Brox’s (Nonfiction, MFA Writing Faculty) nonfiction book, Silence — which was published in the U.S. by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in January 2019 — will be published this Fall. Wendy Ewan’s (WSS, June 2018) […]

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Candice Iloh (WFYP, June 2017) is a first generation Nigerian-American writer, teaching artist, and youth educator celebrating the debut of her novel Every Body Looking. Candice will read from her young adult, novel in verse and discuss her work with […]

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Every Body Looking is a novel of a young woman’s struggle to carve a place for herself in a world of deeply conflicting messages. Told entirely in verse, Ada’s story encompasses her earliest memories as a child, including her abuse at […]
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