The Common will be one of the featured journals at this year’s Conversations and Connections Conference, held for the first time In Philadelphia, PA. Organized by Barrelhouse, a DC based literary magazine and arts organization, the conference brings together an eclectic mix of writers, editors, and publishers for an all day event of panel discussions, craft workshops, guest speakers, including keynote Stewart O’Nan and featured panelists Ken Kalfus, Paul Lisicky, Don Lee, Katie Ford, Josh Emmons, Laura van den Berg, and Andrew Ervin. Among the other participating journals are Artichoke Haircut, Barrelhouse, the Believer, Big Lucks, StoryQuarterly, Gigantic Sequins, Painted Bride Quarterly, Cobalt, Eyeshot, Philadelphia Stories, Three Quarters Review, and Northville Review.

Click here to learn more about the conference, what it offers to budding and experienced writers alike, and how to register.

The reading period for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry will reopen on September 1, 2012, and close on December 1, 2012.
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At Forbes Library in Northampton with Amity Gaige, Victoria Redel, Claire Messud, and Jennifer Acker. Part of Local History/Local Novelists series.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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.