Cindy House (Fiction, June 2017) has an interview in Publishers Weekly about her forthcoming book, Mother Noise. Lisa Weiss (Fiction, June 2015) has an essay “For My Father” in the Spring 2022 issue of Fine Lines. Rahima Rice […]

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Next up in our series of March interviews is Kelly Fig Smith! Kelly talks to us about using poetry as a means of working through writer’s block, the important power held within the hands of teachers, and the […]

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In our next interview, poetry alum Kate Kearns talks to us about her early influences, sending out her manuscript to indie presses during the pandemic, and how editing other people’s work has influenced her own writing. Read on […]

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Starting us off for Women’s History Month is Writing for Stage and Screen alum Brianne Christopher! Brianne has worked in several different genres since graduating from the program, and talks here about writing horror-themed work, what she enjoyed […]
Laurie Foos (Fiction, MFA Faculty) has a short story “Do Not Touch The Stars” in the Spring 2022 issue of The Gateway Review: A Journal of Magical Realism. July Westhale (Poetry, June 2013) is featured in the CLMP […]

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Here to finish out our Spotlight series for Black History Month is Poetry alum Melanie Henderson! Melanie talks about Elegies for New York Avenue, winner of the 2011 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, writing poetry about place, […]

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Next in our Spotlight series for Black History Month is Fiction alum Buki Papillon. Buki’s debut novel, An Ordinary Wonder, published last March to praise from the New York Times Book Review, among others. In this interview, Buki […]
Jon D. Lee (Poetry, January 2017) has an article “Complicity & the Rise of the Post-Human Poem” in the February 2022 issue of The Writer’s Chronicle. Andrea Wang (WFYP, June 2011) is featured in an article “Andrea Wang […]

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Cambridge Common Writers is thrilled to host another round of Spotlight interviews in honor of Black History Month! We’re pleased to start off this month with Rahima R. Rice, a Writing for Stage and Screen alum who tells […]
Andrea Wang (WFYP, June 2011) has been awarded a 2022 Caldecott Medal, a Newbery Honor Medal, and the Asian/Pacific Islander Award for Literature for her picture book, Watercress. Read more about the experience from the perspective of her […]
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