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, June 2026

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 […]

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) […]