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NEW AND EVENTS We are pleased to announce that The Common is among the 99 literary nonprofit organizations to be presented with a 2025 Literary Magazine Fund Grant by the Amazon Literary Partnership Literary Magazine Fund, in conjunction with the Community of Literary Magazines & Presses.
NEWS AND EVENTS Award-winning, international literary journal The Common announced today that Aidan Cooper '26 will be the third recipient of the David Applefield ’78 Fellowship.
NEWS AND EVENTS This May, contributors featured in The Common’s latest issue, Issue 29, gathered in Amman to read their work. The event was organized by HISHAM BUSTANI, the guest editor of the issue’s Amman portfolio, and celebrated the portfolio’s publication by creating a space where these writers could share their pieces aloud.
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