Mass Cultural Council Events

This is one in a series of nano-interviews, brief in length but expansive of heart, with participants in the Commonwealth Reading Series. Chris Castellani is the Artistic Director of Grub Street, host of the reading this Thursday, January 8 at Grub Street HQ in Boston, at 7 PM. Grub Street is a terrific service organization for writers, offering classes, readings, galas, … [Read more...]

This is one in a series of extremely brief interviews with participants in the Commonwealth Reading Series. Suzanne Matson, the next writer to brave the Q&A shrink ray, reads on Thursday, January 8 at Grub Street in Boston, at 7 PM. Accomplished as both a novelist and a poet, Suzanne has a uniquely thorough perspective on the writing craft - and, it turns out, on the … [Read more...]

This is one in a series of nano-interviews with participants in the Commonwealth Reading Series, featuring literary fellows and finalists from our Artist Fellowships Program. Kim Adrian, the next writer to generously take part, reads on Thursday, January 8 at Grub Street in Boston, at 7 PM. Kim is an essay, memoir, and short story writer (read a story of Kim's published … [Read more...]

In January and February, we're putting on the Commonwealth Reading Series, featuring literary fellows and finalists from our Artist Fellowships Program. The readings will include both poets and prose writers and will be, to mix vernaculars, all milieus of awesome. To promote the readings, the participants were invited to take part in miniaturized versions of interviews. The … [Read more...]