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.
Deborah Sosin (Nonfiction, January 2015) speaks about Micro Memoirs with Maximum Impact on Freelance Writing Direct with Estelle Erasmus (Episode#198). Sara Levine (Nonfiction/WFYP, January 2006) has two new picture books, How We Fly and Talking to Worms, now available for pre-order. Also, her picture book A Terrible Place for a […]
WSS Mentor Ellen Lewis’s play The View From Here was selected for The Road Theatre’s Summer Playwright’s Festival 17. Michelle Knudsen (WFYP, Mentor) won an Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction for her novel Into the Wild Magic. Eileen Cleary (Poetry, June 2016) has had […]
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 […]
March 16, 2027
Dial Books
February 9, 2027
Charlesbridge
January 5, 2027
St. Martin’s Publishing Group
November 17, 2026
Wesleyan University Press
October 20, 2026
Amulet Books
October 13, 2026
Delacorte Romance
September 15, 2026
Clarion Books
September 1, 2026
Viking Books for Young Readers
July 14, 2026
Greenwillow Books
June 23, 2026
Atheneum Books for Young Readers