The 2011 Commonwealth Reading Series of events with MCC writers and poets continues this week with a reading at Forbes Library in Northampton on Wednesday, March 23, 7 PM. One of the featured writers at the Forbes is Jendi Reiter (Poetry Fellow '10), who recently won the Anderbo Poetry Prize. Once a practicing lawyer in New York City, she now writes - and champions - poetry … [Read more...]
Adam Schwartz and True Fiction
The 2011 Commonwealth Reading Series of events with MCC writers and poets, which began this week, continues TONIGHT, Friday, March 18, 7 PM with a reading at Grub Street, Inc. – Boston's creative writing center. Among tonight's readers is Adam Schwartz (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow '10), author of the "stunningly good" (says Don Lee) new novel A Stranger on the Planet. … [Read more...]
Jamie Cat Callan: Writing Joie de Vivre
The 2011 Commonwealth Reading Series of events with MCC writers and poets begins this week with a reading at Porter Square Books in Cambridge (Tuesday, March 15, 7 PM). That's just the beginning. The series continues this Friday, March 18, 7 PM at Grub Street, Inc. – Boston's hub of literary community and just general coolness. One of the writers reading at Grub is the … [Read more...]
Kathryn Burak on Writing, Unwasted Effort, Vampire Dickinson
Tuesday, March 15 (7 PM at Porter Square Books in Cambridge) marks the first event in the 2011 Commonwealth Reading Series, a schedule of readings by Fellows/Finalists from our Artist Fellowships Program. So, first: Woo hoo! This series is like a warm front of exciting writers rushing into a cold (as in super-cool) front of great reading environments, producing a veritable … [Read more...]
Artist to Artist: Lise Haines and Elizabeth Searle, Part Two
In January, we shared the first half of a conversation between Lise Haines and Elizabeth Searle, where they talked about recent projects, like Lise's novel Girl in the Arena and Elizabeth's rock opera Tonya and Nancy, and otherwise explored the writing life and their life as writers. In this second part of the two-part conversation, they discuss new trajectories in their … [Read more...]