Cambridge Common Writers exists to provide a supportive community for alumni, faculty, and friends of Lesley University’s MFA Program in Creative Writing, situated in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We seek to promote new and diverse literary voices from the Lesley MFA community, and to connect alumni with opportunities to advance and sustain their writing careers after graduation.

Publication News & Announcements, May 2026

Michelle Knudsen (WFYP, Mentor) had her flash fiction story, “Biter,” published in Adventitious. Hester Kaplan (Fiction, Mentor) features on a podcast episode of Biographers in Conversation to discuss her memoir, Twice Born: Finding My Father in the Margins of Biography. Katie DeBonville (Nonfiction, January 2023) had a well-attended book launch […]

Publication News & Announcements, April 2026

Lee Okan (Fiction, January 2015) has published a monograph, Sexual Violence in Comics:The Ethics of Visualizing Trauma with Bloomsbury. Use Code GLR AT8 for a 35% discount! Thato Mwosa’s (WSS, June 2017) short film, Until Further Notice, has been selected for the 33rd New York African Film Festival (May 16) […]

Publication News & Announcements, March 2026

Three of our CCW community members received a grant from the Mass Cultural Council in recognition of their work! Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Comics & Graphic Novels, Mentor) will use her grant to support the writing of her book Haunts — Ghostmaking Past & Present. “In Haunts, I use memoir and research […]