Don't miss out on our next virtual information session to get answers to your questions about earning an MFA with Solstice. Get to know us on Oct. 15 at 12 p.m. ET by registering here: applygrad.lasell.edu/register/?id...

Contemporary literature and AWP have benefited from the efforts of individuals who have done their utmost to support the next generation of writers. To help us recognize them, submit a nomination for the AWP George Garrett Award, open through October 31.

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We're excited to announce that our Writer-in-Residence Terrance Hayes will join us in person for our upcoming January 2026 residency to teach a class and give a reading that will be open to the public. Stay tuned for more details, and check out his bio here: www.lasell.edu/graduate-stu...

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Winter/spring '26 deadlines are approaching. Apply by Nov. 10 (Oct. 27 for fellowship consideration). Decisions in as few as 10 biz days if we have your personal statement, writing sample, and 2 recommendation forms. (Transcripts due by Jan. 2 at the latest.) More info: buff.ly/gBgQGLr

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Congrats to our faculty member @joshneufeld.bsky.social, who self-published a zine related to his book, A.D.: After the Deluge, called Beyond A.D.: 20 Years After the Deluge, gathering material related to the book and its characters in the years after Hurricane Katrina.

Congrats to our alum @ellenaustinli.bsky.social, who spoke with Katerina Stoykova about her poetry collection Incidental Pollen on Accent Publishing's podcast! Check it out here:

Our submission period is open for Issue 16! Send us 1–3 poems via Submittable—it’s free to submit, and we pay $10 per published poem. 🔗Full guidelines here: smallharborpublishing.submittable.com/submit #PoetrySubmissions #LitMag #poetry

Perugia Press’s annual prize is open through 11/15, for what will be our 30th collection. Open to women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities, who have not published more than one full-length collection. Guidelines & info at linktree in bio. We look forward to reading your work!

For our friends in and around Portland, ME, our founding director @megkearney.bsky.social and faculty member Iain Haley Pollock will read with Myronn Hardy at Print: A Bookstore on Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. Get more details here:

Grab your copy of Issue 15 of Palooka & consider sending your own chapbooks, prose, poetry, comics, art, & photography for future issues or chapbook publication. Open year-round. Fees vary. #writers #litmag #callforsubmissions

December 31 is the deadline for girls and young gender-expansive artists ages 14-21 to submit fiction, nonfiction, poetry, & art to Girls Right the World for Issue 10. Read up on past issues before submitting. #writers #litmag #callforsubmissions

Happening tonight! Register here: applygrad.lasell.edu/register/?id...

Teachers! We need your words (now more than ever)! Send us your poems, CNF, and stories. We want your protests, your triumphs, your adoration, and your care. porcupineliterary.submittable.com/submit

Congrats to our writer-in-residence Dzvinia Orlowsky and her co-translator Ali Kinsella, whose co-translation from the Ukrainian of Haylna Kruk’s Lost in Living has been longlisted for the American Literary Translators Association’s 2025 National Translation Award in Poetry!

Congrats to our alum Jonathan Todd, whose short story comic “Canine Intelligence” appeared in Shenandoah! Check it out here:

For our friends in and around Dayton, KY, our alum @ellenaustinli.bsky.social will read at Roebling Point Books on Sept. 27 at 2 p.m. Get more details here: buff.ly/z6jByHJ

Todays #tbt is another look back at our recent July 2025 #SolsticeMFARes. For those of you who missed our evening reading series, you can now watch all the recordings on our YouTube channel:

A list that includes our faculty-at-large José Angel Araguz!

LIVE NOW! Pedagogies for Justice Join Haymarket Books and Parceo for a discussion on how our pedagogies can ground our organizing in collective struggles for justice. Stream here:

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For our friends in and around Cambridge, MA, our alum Dustin Grinnell will host a booth at the Cambridge Science Carnival on Sept. 21 in the Kendall/MIT Open Space, where he will showcase his books and podcast. More details:

For our friends heading to the Provincetown Book Festival, our faculty-at-large Amy Hoffman and co-editor Professor Jyotsna Vaid will speak about their book, The Dream of a Common Movement: Selected Writings of Urvashi Vaid, on Sept. 21 at 4 p.m. Get more details here:

For those attending the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival in Amherst, MA, our alum María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado will lead a poetry workshop, “Children’s Book Covers: Diving Boards Into Our Imagination,” on Sept. 21 at 10 a.m. More details here:

For those in and around Newmarket, NH, our faculty member @adirule.bsky.social will read, underscored by the music trio Ghost Emoji, at “Spooky Scary Storytellers” on Sept 20 at 7:30pm at Newmarket Millspace. More details here:

We rely on donations from readers and patrons of the art, so please consider donating so we here at Solstice can keep our writers' voice loud and strong. Learn how here: solsticelitmag.org/donate/

On Sept. 18 at 7pm ET, our assistant director Quintin Collins, faculty member Iain Haley Pollock, and alum @bennysummerhill.bsky.social will read via Zoom for the Words Like Blades series. Get more details here:

Ready to learn more about earning an MFA with Solstice? Join us for our next virtual information session on Sept. 24 at 6 p.m. ET. We'll discuss our curriculum, faculty, and more. Register here: applygrad.lasell.edu/register/?id...

What an incredible line-up (and MFA program)!!!! Solstice is taking applications from poets, fiction writers (for young people or adults), creative nonfiction writers, and comics/graphic novel creators through 11/10 (for a winter/spring start).

We recently revealed our January 2026 special guests, as well as our commencement speaker @malindalo.bsky.social! Check out their bios on our website: www.lasell.edu/graduate-stu...

Subito Press seeks novella-length horror fiction for its Stephen Graham Jones Horror Novella Competition. Submissions are $20, and the deadline Sept. 30 or whenever the press receives 100 submissions. Winner receives $1,000 and 20 author copies. More details here:

Congrats to our Founding Director @megkearney.bsky.social, whose heroic crown of sonnets, Cardiac Thrill, publishes with Green Linden Press today! Read more about the book and get your copy here:

Congrats to our writer-in-residence Dzvinia Orlowsky and her co-translator Ali Kinsella, whose co-translation from the Ukrainian of Halyna Kruk’s poetry collection Lost in Living is featured in World Literature Today. Check it out here:

Congrats to our faculty member Ethan Gilsdorf, who's essay “My Mom, Julia Child and Me” appears in WBUR/NPR's Cognoscenti! Check it out here:

Congrats to our alum Heather Christie, whose anthology LoveNotes! Real Stories. Real People. Real Love. has been named a National Indie Excellence Award Finalist! The book, featuring fellow alums Lisa Mahoney and Kassie Rubico, is inspired by the annual Off Broadway storytelling show.

Congrats to our alum @bennysummerhill.bsky.social, whose essay “‘Tell Me When to Go’ Had Just Dropped and I Was from Oakland” won the inaugural @therumpus.net Prize for nonfiction! Check it out here:

Congrats to our alum Eric Boermeester, who (writing as E.B. Richardson for Stone Pulp Press) has published his children's book Quest For Dreaming Mountain: A Fairy's Tale! See more about the book and get your copy here:

Congrats to our alum and former program Assistant Director Beth Cho Little, who is winner in the Fractured Lit Flash Fiction Anthology Prize. Guest judge Tara Isabel Zambrano selected Beth's story “Weed” to be published online and in this year's anthology! Read it here:

For our friends in and around Columbus, OH, our alum @ellenaustinli.bsky.social will read with Rikki Santer at The Book Loft on Aug. 28 at 7 p.m. Get more info here:

Congrats to our student Shane Morin on being appointed the 2025-27 Poet Laureate of Dover, NH! Learn more about Shane and this honor here:

Congrats to our faculty member Venise Berry and co-editor Janette Y. Taylor, whose anthology The Black Superwoman & Mental Health: Power & Pain published with Peter Lang Publishers! See more about the book and get your copy here (30% off with code #BSMH30 through Aug. 31):

Congrats to our alum Joyce McPherson, who published her newest middle grade biography, A Quiet Faith: The Story of Jane Austen! Read more about the book and get your copy here:

Congrats to our student Sr. Allison Regina Gliot, whose young adult vampire novel, The Curse He Chose, the first of the In Aeternum Trilogy, published with Pauline Books & Media! See more about the book and get your copy here: gliot.pauline.org/the-curse-he...

#tbt to our recent July 2025 #SolsticeMFARes student reading! Many thanks to our partner, the Auburndale Community Library, for hosting us and for the photos.

It's transgender history month! We reached 25% of our goal during non-binary awareness week, and would love if you could keep the love coming! Can we reach 50% of our goal before the end of the month, to support trans creatives? We're so close! Can you help us out? Shares are appreciated!

A big welcome back to our students, faculty, staff, and alums for our July 2025 #solsticemfares, which kicked off this morning. We’re looking forward to 10 days of workshops, classes, readings, and fellowship!

Curious about the latest in bibliotherapy? Check out this article from BBC about potential health benefits of reading:

In the latest issue of Leaves, the magazine of Lasell University, our alum Colleen Egan reflects on her time in the program. Check it out here: