
Conversations & Connections Writers’ Conference in Philadelphia

The Common will be attending the Boston Book Festival in October! Come see us there.
The Boston Book Festival is New England’s largest annual literary event. 2012’s Boston Book Festival featured more than 125 presenters and dozens of sessions for kids and adults,. The BBF also boasted a bustling street fair, workshops for aspiring authors, an outdoor music stage, and more! For more info on this year’s event, see www.bostonbookfest.org
Image of the cast of The Wire, from “The Art of the Wire,” the opening event of last year’s Boston Book Festival. Courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons user bradalmanac.
Electric Literature covers The Common in the City 2013.
Thank you to the VIP attendees of this year’s Silent Art Acution and congratulations to the winners!
To view the original prints, photographs, rare books, and other gorgeous artworks and read about our remarkable artists on the The Common in the City 2103 Silent Art Auction webpage.
Join The Common’s boards, benefit committee, editors, writers, artists, and many friends for an evening of literature, art, music, food, and drink.
ArabLit chats with editor-in-chief Jennifer Acker and contributor Hisham Bustani on Arabic Literature and his translated piece in Issue 06.
Amherst Magazine highlights editor-in-chief Jennifer Acker’s year in Abu Dhabi and The Common‘s foray into Middle Eastern and Arabic literature.
The PEN American Center features The Common‘s interview with Shawn Vestal, author of Godforsaken Idaho, on their Recommended Reading List. Vestal has won the 2014 Shortlist PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize.
The Best American Short Stories 2013, ed. Elizabeth Strout, named Jennifer Haigh’s “A Place in the Sun,” from The Common Issue 04, as a Distinguished Story of 2012.