Check out these upcoming events from the Cambridge Common Writers community:
September 5 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
Conversations with the Nonfiction Creative Writing Faculty: What We Love to Read and Write.
Online Zoom Event
Join Lesley University for conversations with Nonfiction Creative Writing faculty hosted by Jane Brox. You’ll learn about the ways the program’s faculty teach and have the opportunity to get all your questions answered. Faculty members Kyoko Mori and Jane Brox will be in attendance.
September 8 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
Conversations with the Nonfiction Creative Writing Faculty: What We Love to Read and Write
Online Zoom Event
Join Lesley University for conversations with Nonfiction Creative Writing faculty hosted by Pam Petro. You’ll learn about the ways the program’s faculty teach and have the opportunity to get all your questions answered. Faculty members Rachel Manley and Pam Petro will be in attendance.
September 11 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm EDT
Cambridge Common Presents: An Online Reading with Lesley MFA Alums and Mentors
Online Zoom Event
If you’re nostalgic for the on-campus residencies of old, want to hear what your fellow classmates and your mentors have been working on since graduation, or if you’re curious just what exactly you can do with an MFA in Creative Writing, here’s your chance to hear alums and faculty from the Lesley University low-res MFA.
September 12 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Beyond Comics: Creating Narratives with Words and Pictures
Online Zoom Event
Join Lesley University for the Beyond Comics Workshop, hosted by faculty member Pam Petro. You’ll explore alternative contemporary word-image combinations and learn about the MFA in Creative Writing program.
September 12 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Join Lesley MFA Poetry Faculty for a Free Workshop
Online Zoom Event
Join Sharon Bryan and Steven Cramer (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty) of the Lesley University MFA Program in Creative Writing for a free poetry workshop that demonstrates how work is analyzed and discussed in the Program. An information session on the Program will follow.
September 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT
So You Want to Write for Young People
Online Zoom Event
Meet members of the Writing for Young People faculty–Tracey Baptiste, David Elliott, and Mikki Knudsen–as they discuss the features that make the Lesley MFA Program in Creative Writing distinct from other programs. There will be plenty of opportunity for Q & A.
September 17 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
“Designing Wonder” Book Launch in AltspaceVR with Caitlin Krause
Online Event
Designing Wonder: Leading Transformative Experiences in Virtual Reality by Caitlin Krause is a masterful guide on how to create VR experiences with emotional resonance and impact. She introduces a new methodology for how to design meaningful experiences in VR, filled with wonder, exploring the virtual concepts for experiences and education from The Hero’s VR Journey to Maslow Before Bloom. The book is about experience design from education to corporate training, and those specializing in social groups in VR.
September 17 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT
Meet the Fiction Faculty
Online Zoom Event
Join Fiction faculty mentors Tony Eprile, Laurie Foos, Hester Kaplan, Rachel Kadish, and Michael Lowenthal for a fun and informal discussion of the genre and Q & A about the Lesley MFA Program in Creative Writing.
September 19 – September 20
The Dream Team Writing Retreat: aka “The Weekend That Changed Your (Writing) Life!”
Online Zoom Event
Sessions run from 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM EST on Saturday and Sunday. Join Laurie Foos (Fiction, Core Faculty) and Tony Eprile (Fiction, MFA Writing Faculty) for two intensive days of writing and revising fiction.
September 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT
Monday Night Reading Series with SigWorks: At the Full Yum by Rahima Rice
Online Event
Complete opposites Darecia and Jacob struggle to civilly co-parent their teenage son, Ohaji. When a riot that breaks out after a Black teenager is killed by police causes a lockdown, the two are trapped together in their Michigan Park neighborhood – with Ohaji nowhere to be found. The same night is then relived through an alternate reality in a thrilling and captivating reflection of DC – and those who call it home – outside the political bubble.
September 22 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT
Books are Magic – Candice Iloh: Every Body Looking w/ Jason Reynolds
Online Zoom Event
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 the hands of a young cousin, her mother’s rejection and descent into addiction, and her father’s attempts to create a home for his American daughter more like the one he knew in Nigeria. The present-tense of the book is Ada’s first year at a Historically Black College, where she must finally confront the fundamental conflict between who her family says she should be and what her body tells her she must be.
September 24 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm EDT
Schomburg Center Lit Fest: Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh
Online Event
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 writer, organizer, and educator Mahogany L. Browne.
September 24 – September 26
Panel Presentation (TBA) with Aimee Noel
Kilcawley Center 1 University Plaza, Youngstown
This year’s conference will be centered around the theme In Many Tongues, a conversation bringing together writing and publishing, literary inclusion, translating and translation, dialect and dialog, atypical modes of speech, and the generational, political, ecological, and experimental elements that add to the wider literary conversation.
September 24 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm PDT
Connection: A virtual ten-minute play & spoken word reading – featuring “The Contract” by Wendy Ewan
Online Zoom Event
How do we allow ourselves to be open enough to connect?What links us?How are we interrelated?What are the moments that bind people together?Let’s explore our connection together. “The greatest distance between two people is misunderstanding.” Join Scribe Stages for a reading of 22 short pieces, including one from Wendy Ewan (WSS, June 2018).
September 25 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Every Body Looking with Candice Iloh in conversation with Nic Stone
Online Event
Join Candice Iloh (WFYP, June 2017) and Nic Stone on Instagram Live @becomher to discuss Candice’s novel, Every Body Looking.
September 25 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm PDT
Connection: A virtual ten-minute play & spoken word reading – featuring “The Contract” by Wendy Ewan
Online Zoom Event
How do we allow ourselves to be open enough to connect? What links us? How are we interrelated? What are the moments that bind people together? Let’s explore our connection together. “The greatest distance between two people is misunderstanding.” Join Scribe Stages for a reading of 22 short pieces, including one from Wendy Ewan (WSS, June 2018).
September 26 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Lesley Stage & Screen Meet and Greet
Online Zoom Event
Meet members of the Lesley MFA Program’s Stage & Screen faculty–Kate Snodgrass, Barry Brodsky, Sinan Unel and Jami Brandli–and speak informally with them about the Program.
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