The reading period for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry will reopen on September 1, 2012, and close on December 1, 2012.
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The Common: Writers and a Modern Sense of Place
At Forbes Library in Northampton with Amity Gaige, Victoria Redel, Claire Messud, and Jennifer Acker. Part of Local History/Local Novelists series.
“Beyond Geography” at the Center for Fiction
Join us for “Beyond Geography,” a place-based discussion of the art of fiction with Jennifer Haigh, Hari Kunzru, Jennifer Acker, and Sonya Chung. The Center for Fiction, co-sponsored by The Common.
The Boston Book Festival

The Common will share a table with the Journal of the Month at The Boston Book Festival.
The four-year-old BBF has come to be regarded as one of the best book festivals in the country.
Lit Magathon at NYC
This weekend The Common will be at CLMP’s Lit Magathon in NYC! There will be a reading on Saturday at 4pm in the DeWitt Wallace Periodical Room.
Lit Magathon
This weekend The Common is going to the 2012 Lit Magathon in NYC, hosted by CLMP. There will be a reading on Saturday at 4pm.
Margot Livesey
The Common joins the Emily Dickinson Museum for a garden party to celebrate “writers, their homes, and their legacies.” Margot Livesey will read from her latest novel, The Flight of Gemma Hardy. There will be light refreshments, tours, an open house, and a visit from A.N. Devers, the founder of Writers’ Houses:
http://writershouses.com/
More event info here: http://bit.ly/KLzmFP
The Review Review (2012)
The Review Review interviews editor-in-chief Jennifer Acker on “capturing the essence of somewhere particular.”
New York Book Show (2012)
The 26th Annual New York Book Show recognized The Common Issues 01 and 02, which won a second place literary magazine design award.
Writing Real Places in a Virtual World: The Common at NYPL
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Periodically Speaking at the New York Public Library hosts The Common. Join editor Jennifer Acker in conversation with (and readings by): Brook Wilensky-Lanford; Maura Candela; and Angela Veronica Wong.
Periodically Speaking is “a reading series providing a major venue for emerging writers to present their work while emphasizing the diversity of America’s literary magazines and the magazine collections of The New York Public Library.” Find more information about Periodically Speaking here.
Head to the main branch of the Library and enter at 5th Ave (betwixt the famous lions). Once you’re in the lobby, take a left and walk all the way to the end of the hallway—we’ll be in the last room on the left (Room 108).
Admission is free.