Massachusetts Statewide Poetry Calendar

What's more satisfying than leaving work behind on a Friday evening? Rounding out the week with a free virtual writing session, of course! Maximize that Friday night feeling and kick off your writing weekend with us online! Join us for a Friday Night Writes Session on Friday, June 10th, from 5:30pm-6:30pm and log into GrubStreet Remote for some writing! In 60 jam-packed minutes, you’ll meet fellow writers and get your creative juices flowing with some great writing exercises. Best of all, you’ll sign off with some new ideas to ponder for the rest of your evening and beyond. Please make sure to register in advance so we can email you a link to join!

A multidisciplinary award-winning writer of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, Rolando-André López is currently pursuing a Creative Writing MFA at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA. In 2020, he was a 1st Place Voices of Color Fellow at Martha's Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing, and his essay, "ya tú sa'e," was a finalist for the Ray Ventre nonfiction prize at Passages North Literary Journal. A performer as well, he read for the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture in Boston, after his poem, "wealth," was selected by Porsha Olayiwola for its representation of Afrofuturism. In 2021, he was awarded a Winter/Spring 2022 Fellowship at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. His work has been featured in Orca Literary Journal, America Magazine, Sacred Trespasses, The Coffin Bell Journal, and Bellow Literary Journal.