MCC Visiting Writers Series
MCC Visiting Writers Series!
With the help of our Creative Writing Program faculty, we host a Visiting Writers Series where published writers can share and read their work on the Bedford and Lowell campuses during the fall and spring semesters.
Each event is co-sponsored by the Office of Student Engagement.
The writers and poets who share their work come from different backgrounds and concentrations. Before reading, they share their stories relating to the craft and what led them to create the piece. Oftentimes, the readers talk about the creative process, publishing their work, and staying motivated. Anyone in attendance is free to ask questions once the reading finishes.
Genres include:
- Fiction
- Nonfiction
- Poetry
Upcoming Events
MCC Visiting Writers Series presents: Danielle Legros Georges
11 a.m. on Tuesday, February 11
Lowell Campus – Federal Building, Assembly Room
Danielle Legros Georges is the author of several books of poetry, including the newest, "Three Leaves, Three Roots: Poems on the Haiti–Congo Story" (Beacon Press, 2025) and "The Dear Remote Nearness of You" (Barrow Street Press, 2016), as well as the translator and editor of anthologies. Boston's Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2019, her award-winning poems have appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies.
MCC Visiting Writers Series presents: Maureen Stanton
12:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 3
Bedford Campus – Cafe East
Maureen Stanton is the award-winning author of "The Murmur of Everything Moving: A
Memoir" (Columbus State U. Press, 2025), "Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent
Girlhood" (Mariner Books, 2019), and "Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: An Insider’s
Look at the World of Flea Markets, Antiques, and Collecting" (Penguin Books, 2011).
Her nonfiction has been widely published, and she has been awarded fellowships and
grants.
Previous Fall 2024 Events
12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 19
Bedford Campus – Cafe East, Campus Center
Krysten Hill is the author of “How Her Spirit Got Out” which received the 2017 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize. She has featured work, on stage, at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Boston Book Festival, Blacksmith House, Cantab Lounge, Haley House, and U35 Reading Series. Her work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day Series, Poetry Magazine, Painted Bride Quarterly, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Winter Tangerine Review, and Rust + Moth.
2 p.m. on Wednesday, October 9
Lowell Campus – Academic Arts Center, Recital Hall
Pablo Medina is the author of many published books, including poetry, fiction, memoir, and works in translation, most recently the poetry collection Sea of Broken Mirrors (Hanging Loose Press, 2024) and the novel The Cuban Comedy (Unnamed Press, 2019).
10 a.m. on Wednesday, October 2
Bedford Campus – Campus Center, Cafeteria
Author, social justice activist, and MCC professor emerita Jean Trounstine discusses her new short story collection “Motherlove” (Concord Free Press), a powerful short story collection about 10 mothers of children who kill. Trounstine will share how fact becomes fiction in the aftermath of the teens’ murders and how she created the book with her 30+ years of experience with prisoners and their families.
Contact Us!
Office of Student Engagement
StudentEngagement@middlesex.edu
1-800-818-3434