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The Common Magazine Announces Inaugural David Applefield ’78 Fellow

The award-winning, international literary journal The Common announced today that Sam Spratford ’24 will be the inaugural recipient of the David Applefield ’78 Fellowship. The fellowship, the magazine’s first endowed student internship, was established in 2022 by a group of friends and family organized by David Whitman ’78, in honor of his late classmate and roommate.

Issue 26 cover: light pink background with a turnip and greens

Issue 26 of The Common

Half of our fall issue is dedicated to a portfolio of writing and art from the farmworker community: over a hundred pages filled with the stories, essays, poems, and artwork of immigrant agricultural workers.