The Best American Essays 2013, ed. Cheryl Strayed, named Rolf Potts’ “Tourist Snapshots,” from The Common Issue 03, as a Notable Essay of 2012.
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Applications are now open for The Common Young Writers Program, which offers two two-week summer classes for high school students (rising 9-12). Students will be introduced to the building blocks of fiction and learn to read with a writer's gaze.
Each class is two hours long and includes a craft talk and Q&A with the author, generative exercises and discussion shared in breakout sessions, a take-home list of readings and writing prompts, a free “Behind the Scenes” session (date TBD) about what literary magazine editors look for in submissions.