The Best American Essays 2013, ed. Cheryl Strayed, named Rolf Potts’ “Tourist Snapshots,” from The Common Issue 03, as a Notable Essay of 2012.
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.
NEWS AND EVENTS
Join The Common's special events team on April 13th at 7:00pm for our 2022 Festival of Debut Authors, an evening devoted to emerging talents!
We are thrilled to announce that "The Old Man of Kusumpur,” written by Amar Mitra and translated by Anish Gupta, has been selected for the O. Henry Prize for 2022.