The Common

The Common is an American nonprofit literary magazine founded in Amherst, Massachusetts, by current editor-in-chief Jennifer Acker. The magazine, which has been based at Amherst College since 2011, publishes issues of stories, poems, essays, and images biannually. The Common focuses its efforts on the motif of "a modern sense of place", and works to give the underrepresented artistic voices a literary space.

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