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Angie Romines’ essay, “Gone for a Spell,” is reprinted in Best American Essays 2025. More info here.
Laura Cresté’s debut poetry collection, In the Good Years, was published by Four Way Books in September of 2025. More info here.
Ellen Bravo collaborated with Gary Tyler on his memoir, Stitching Freedom: A True Story of Injustice, Defiance and Hope. The book, which will be released by One Signal Publishers on October 7, earned a starred review from Booklist. More info here.
Ann Fisher-Wirth has been appointed Mississippi Poet Laureate for the four-year term 2025-2029.
Kazim Ali received the 2025 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. More info here.
Janell Strube’s debut novel, Adélaïde: Painter of the Revolution, will be published in January 2026. Inspired by the true story of one of the first women admitted to the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, Adélaïde: Painter of the Revolution, is a sweeping, evocative portrait of ambition, courage, and resilience in the face of history’s fiercest storm. More info here.
Heidi Seaborn’s third collection of poetry, tic tic tic, was published by Cornerstone Press in September 2025. More info here.
Monika Rose was appointed Poet Laureate of Calaveras County, 2024-2026. She co-directed the first three Annual Poetry Events in Calaveras County, 2022-2024, and organized the first annual Mother Lode Book Festival in May, 2025, and is organizing a November Poetry Celebration for 2025 and an anthology based on poetry and prose about the North Grove giant Sequoia at Calaveras Big Trees State Park. Her new Middle Grade poetic narrative novel, Moths on a Limb, was published November 2024. More info here.
AnnElise Hatjakes’ debut short story collection, Matter Out of Place, will be published by the University of Nevada Press in February of 2026. More info here.
Colleen Morton Busch’s The Problem of Happiness was a finalist for AWP’s 2025 Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction, judged by Cheryl Strayed. More info here.
David Koehn’s third poetry collection, Sur (Omnidawn, 2024), is a Hoffer Award finalist. He recently released several chapbooks: intervals of (Blue Bottle, 2024), an erasure of Doyle’s Sign of the Four, and As a Signal Magnification of the General Miracle (cuckoo grey, 2020), both co-authored with Rebecca Resinski. For Omnidawn, he has long taught “Prosody as a Form of Revision” and “Forms: Breaking the Bowl,” the latter now open for enrollment in Fall 2025 with guest speakers Lisa Rosenberg, Maria Nazos, Maw Shein Win, and Randall Mann. Now a lecturer in Comp and Creative Wrtiing at SJSU, Koehn has new work forthcoming in Lana Turner, Swing, Thimble, Atlanta Review, and Blood + Honey. More info here.
Ilana DeBare’s novel Shaken Free—the conclusion to her fantasy duology set in an unjust, unraveling Hell—was published by Hypatia Press in June 2025. More info here.
Anita Amirrezvani wrote the libretto for the opera “Earth 2.0” composed by Jake Heggie, which premiered at the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra on December 6, 2024. More info here.
Leslie Hsu Oh talks about the memoir she worked on as a Writers Workshops Participant, how the natural world shapes her creative process, and how she raises resilient children and champions for change in “People and Planet: Episode 6, Delaware Humanities Podcasts.” Listen here.
Alissa Lee’s novel, With Friends Like These, will be published by Simon & Schuster on November 4, 2025. Find it here.
Varun Ravindran’s debut full-length poetry collection, Betweenness, was published by Baobab Press. More info here.
Vishwas Gaitonde’s prize-winning short story collection On Earth As It Is In Heaven has been published by Orison Books. More info here.
Vishwas Gaitonde’s short story “The Street With Five Speed Bumps” was published in Oratoria magazine. You can read it here.
A.M. Sosa’s latest novel, And I’ll Take Out Your Eyes, will be published in October, 2025 by Algonquin Books.
Jimin Han’s latest novel, Dreamt I Found You, will be published by Little, Brown and Company in April 2026. Find it here.
In February 2026, Screen Door Press, an imprint of the University Press of Kentucky will publish the linked short story collection But Where’s Home? by Toni Ann Johnson. Winner of the 2024 Screen Door Press Fiction Prize, the book follows Johnson’s previous collection, Light Skin Gone to Waste, a 2023 NAACP Image Award nominee for Outstanding Literary Work and winner of the 2021 Flannery O’Connor Award. Deeply emotional, funny, and unflinchingly honest, But Where’s Home? lays bare the realities of Black life in America, challenging readers to confront issues of racism and classism as well as narcissistic abuse and parent-child relationships. More info here.
Patricia K. Meyer launched a podcast: Daughters and Their Fathers: It’s Complicated, to explore the under-charted subject of daughters and how they are influenced and informed by the first man in their lives. Tune in to listen to experts in the field, including the lone dad so far, the esteemed Ernest Thompson who wrote the seminal father-daughter play and film, On Golden Pond. Listen here,
as well as RSS, Apple, Amazon, and Spotify. I invite the daughters and dads in the Community of Writers to join me for a conversation about your experience “raising each other.” Please reach out via Facebook: @Patty Meyer or #pattymeyerwriter.
Vishwas Gaitonde’s short story “To Tame A Monster” was published in Pleiades Magazine Spring 2025 issue. This story was discussed in workshop at the 2022 Community of Writers conference. More info here.
Amy Shimshon-Santo’s new book Piecework: Ethnographies of Place is available to preorder (Unsolicited Press, Year of Womxn Series). The book of essays, with prose poems sprinkled in, shares life lessons from collective action for access to the arts in urban schools, neighborhoods, museums, and households in California. Real world strategies for community action are the pulse of every piece. The book honors public memory at a time when we are facing unprecedented disinvestments, and even punishment, for efforts to create and sustain inclusive spaces in education, libraries, and museums. (Resource for arts educators and creatives with a vital social practice.) More info here.
James Richardson’s book, The Abolitionist’s Journal: Memories of and American Antislavery Family, published by High Road Books, won the Forward Reviews INDIE Gold Award for History 2022. More than 2,600 titles in 55 categories were considered. “Independent presses and authors are publishing some of the most innovative, creative, and beautiful books. To honor the very best of indie publishing each year, we’re pleased to host the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.” More info here.
Devi S. Laskar’s debut poetry collection, Self-Portraits Ex Machina, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in November 2025. Her third novel, Midnight at the War, is forthcoming from Mariner Books in April 2026. Her debut spoken-word album, based on her poetry, is forthcoming from Someplace Called Brooklyn record label this winter. More info here.
Towne Street Theatre selected Stephen Blackburn’s 10-minute monologue, Frederick Douglass-Unexpected, 1884, as one of 9 winners to be produced for four weeks in October at the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood as part of the fifth “In Response” theater festival. According to TST: “This year’s festival’s theme is RISE UP!, continuing its tradition of offering playwrights, directors, actors and other performing artists a dynamic platform to respond to today’s urgent events, social issues, and personal experiences through compelling plays and other performing arts mediums.” More info here.
Cate Lycurgus’s chapbook Seacliff is forthcoming from Bull City Press in October 2025. Anchored by a vivid and resounding sequence, Seacliff enacts the relentless crash and dissolution of our bodies, landscapes, and spirits, even as they are recombined to return. Unlike other works, this seascape impels a meditation that is not merely metaphorical. In the face of very real forces, the uncertainty is not whether one must surrender, but when and how. This testament of perseverance invites us to submit to—and to celebrate—the vast vigor of our planet. Here, alongside the Northern California coast, Seacliff offers a path, one lyric runner of shine, out to a fresh horizon. More info here.
Daniel Pope’s newest novel, Go Help Yourself, will be available in May 2026 from University of New Orleans Press. It won the University of New Orleans Publishing Lab Prize, and was longlisted for the First Pages Contest.
Peter Orner’s newest novel, The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter, was published by Little, Brown and Company in August 2025.
The cold case of a young Hollywood starlet’s death sets a contemporary writer on an epic and comic quest to uncover the truth, and its connection to his own family—a new novel by “a major talent” (New York Times) and “one of the most distinctive voices of his generation” (Granta).
Jeanine Stevens’ latest poetry collection, Left Handed Hummingbird, was published by Clare Songbirds Publishing House in 2025. The title poem began at the Community of Writers in 2007 in Jimmy Santiago Baca’s Workshop.
Lester Graves Lennon (along Sehba Sarwar) was named a 2025 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow of Altadena, California.
Per the Academy of American Poets: “In partnership with the Altadena Library District, Lester Graves Lennon and Sehba Sarwar will launch “After the Fires: Healing from Histories,” a poetry initiative that seeks to provide space for the Altadena/Pasadena community to document history and heal from the devastation caused by the 2025 Eaton Fire. They will work in collaboration with the library district and local arts spaces to offer monthly workshops and readings that will culminate in a publication and a daylong festival. The participation of Altadena residents, especially those who experienced displacement and/or loss as a result of the fires, will be prioritized. Lennon and Sarwar will build upon the work started by past poets laureate who have been serving the community since 2006.
Nick Makoha’s second collection, The New Carthaginians, was published by Penguin (Allen Lane) in February 2025. The book, a mythic and formally inventive long poem, explores flight, identity, and the 1976 Entebbe hijacking through three interlinked figures: Jean-Michel Basquiat, a Black Icarus, and “the Poet.” Combining poetry, myth, and history, Makoha builds a new diasporic epic that bridges personal memory and collective mythmaking.
Makoha’s recent work includes essays in Callaloo and Unbound Magazine, a portfolio of poems and prose edited for the Poetry Foundation, and performances across the UK and US, including headline events at the Coronet Theatre, Verve Festival and Hay Festival.
Meriwether Clarke’s debut poetry collection, Body Memory, will be released from Unsolicited Press on October 7, 2025.
Shobha Rao’s novel, Indian Country, will be published on August 5, 2025. She is also the author of the novel, Girls Burn Brighter, and the short story collection, An Unrestored Woman. More info here.
Rowena Leong Singer’s essay, “Ghost from Chickens Past”–about vandal ghosts, kamikaze birds, and the lingering effects of trauma–appears in the Summer 2025 issue of North American Review (with a shoutout from the editors!) More info here.
Jen Sperry Steinorth’s hybrid documentary, Boys Behind Glass, is forthcoming from TRP in September. In this third full-length collection, portraits from artist Jenny Walton’s online dating catalog, Match/Enemy, coupled with ekphrastic sonnets & a maximalist glossary– lyric notations of pop culture, masculinity, politics, tech and intimacy–a rollicking diagnostic of loneliness, longing, and the ailing hearts we hide. More info here.
Ananda Lima’s Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil came out in paperback in June 2025. Craft was longlisted for the Story Prize, the ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal. The New York Times describes it as “a remarkable debut that announces the arrival of a towering talent in speculative fiction. More info here.
Robin Somers released Eleven Stolen Horses (Sibylline Press fall 2024), a Wild Horses Mystery. The book was the Finalist in Best Western for Pacific Book Review. More info here.
DeWitt Henry’s novel Top Cop Kills was published in April, 2025 by Pierian Springs Press, which has also revived his Peter Taylor Prize novel The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts with a foreword by Margot Livesey (April, 2024) and will publish Perspectives: Uncollected Essays in Winter, 2025. More info here.
In her second chapbook, Periodic Elements, Georgia San Li explores both love and lamentation. Her poems have been shortlisted for the 2023 Oxford Poetry Prize, longlisted for the 2024 London Magazine Poetry Prize, and nominated twice for the 2025 Pushcart Prize. Her chapbook arrangement of “Small Galaxies for Breakfast” was a semifinalist for the 2024 Tomaž Šalamun Prize. She lives and writes in New England. More info here.
Alison Turner’s poem written during the Los Angeles fires was selected by Alicia Ostriker to win the 2025 Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation Poetry Prize. More info here.
Karen Fang’s nonfiction book, Background Artist: The Life and Work of Tyrus Wong, was named Honorable Mention in the 2025 Chinese American Librarians Association Best Book Award for Adult Nonfiction. More info here.
Swetha Amit’s latest chapbook, Sailing Paper Boats & other stories, was published by Alien Buddha Press and released on April 6th, 2025. The chapbook is a collection of flash fiction stories about the impact of climate catastrophe on human lives, relationships, their beliefs, and faith. It’s available for purchase on Amazon. More info here.
Terry Shames’ DEEP DIVE, the second in the Jessie Madison thriller series comes out July 2 from Severn House Publishing. Booklist calls it a “must-read thriller.” More info here.
Lauren Barbato’s short story “The Great Renunciation” won the 2025 Short Fiction Award from American Literary Review and appears in the journal’s spring issue. Her story “Dhamma Talks” was also shortlisted for the 2024 Reprint Prize from The Masters Review. More info here.
Colleen Morton Busch’s debut poetry collection, Smolder, was a finalist for both The Word Works’ 2024 Summer Reading Period and the 2024 Laura Boss Narrative Poetry prize. More info here.
Stella Santamaria’s second poetry collection, PERPETUAL, is a finalist for the Two Sylvias Press Wilder Prize 2024. More info here.
Dan Alter’s second collection, Hills Full of Holes, was published by Fernwood Press in March 2025. In addition, Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited, a volume of his translations from the Hebrew of Yakir Ben Moshe, was published by Ben Yehuda Press in the fall of 2024. More info here.
Maw Shein Win’s third full-length poetry collection, Percussing the Thinking Jar, was published by Omnidawn in Fall 2024. More info here.
Joy Ma’s documentary “Voices of Deoli” sheds light on the untold stories of individuals interned in Deoli Camp after the brief Indo-China War of 1962. The film premiered at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and will be screened on June 29 in San Francisco. Through firsthand accounts and historical insights, the film brings to life a chapter of history that deserves recognition.
The event includes a Q&A session with the film crew, offering a chance to engage in meaningful discussions. Reserve your spot now and be part of a community that values storytelling and historical awareness. More info here and here.
Rickey Fayne’s debut novel, The Devil Three Times, was published by Little, Brown and Company on May 13, 2025. More info here.
Almost Family, the debut novel of AWA affiliate Ann Bancroft, was awarded this month with both the Sarton Prize for best contemporary fiction and the Somerset Award for literary fiction. The novel is the story of three people who meet in a comically awful support group for metastatic cancer. They ditch the group and form their own, calling themselves the Oakland Mets. Their goal is to have some fun outdoors, but they wind up helping each other reach acceptance and solve the unfinished business of their lives. More info here.
Michelle Yang’s Memoir Phoenix Girl: How A Fat Asian with Bipolar Found Love launches on May 6, 2025, from Fifth Avenue Press. More info here.
Marianne Villanueva’s fourth short story collection, Residents of the Deep, is forthcoming in August 2025 from Unsolicited Press.
She has been granted admission to Yaddo this summer, where she will focus on completing her first novel, White Sails, Green Oceans, about a priest who is sent to the Philippines to fight demons. More info here.
Charles Douthat’s second collection of poetry, Again, was published by Unbound Editions Press in April 2025. More info here.
Karleigh Frisbie Brogan’s memoir, Holding: A Memoir About Mothers, Drugs, and Other Comforts, will be published by Steerforth in August 2025. Excerpts from this book won her a 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship. More info here.
Dan Bellm’s most recent translation, Central American Book of the Dead, by Mexican poet Balam Rodrigo, was a finalist for the 2024 National Translation Award. More info here.
Jason Roberts’ book, Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life (Random House) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. More info here.
Stella Santamaria is a writer in residence at T.S. Eliot House in Gloucester, Massachusetts next summer as part of The Ottoline Book Prize for California Silence, forthcoming 2026 by FENCE Books.
Tom Lutz’s new book, 1925: A Literary Encyclopedia, was published by Rare Bird Lit in March 2025. More info here.
A new novel, Chagos Archipelago is due in October from Red Hen Press.
Joe Lamb’s poem, “Trinity”, was published in Attached to the Living World, A New Ecopoetry Anthology
Edited by Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street.
Joe’s poem, “The Lowly Worm Climbs up a Winding Stair”, will be published in upcoming print edition of The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders. Five of Joe’s poems have been published in the accompanying online gallery. Find them here.
Tyler McAndrew’s debut book, My Prisoner & Other Stories—which won the 2024 Non / Fiction Prize with Mad Creek Books / Ohio State University Press—is now available for pre-order. More info here.
“Voices of Deoli”, produced by Joy Ma, premieres at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
A feature documentary that shares the untold stories of survivors from the Deoli Internment Camp in India, this timely and deeply resonant film sheds light on a nearly forgotten chapter of history in which around 3,000 Indian Chinese were unjustly imprisoned after the 1962 Sino-India war. As immigration policies and narratives around national identity continue to evolve, both in the U.S. and globally, the film offers powerful insights into how the past still echoes today. What happened in the past can happen again, and often does.
Find more info about the screening here.
Vishwas Gaitonde’s short story “Open Secrets” was published in The Brussels Review, Spring 2025. This story was discussed in workshop in 2014. More info here.
Sarah Perrin’s short story “Just Girls” was published in Granta. More info here.
Vishwas Gaitonde’s memoir slice ‘Happy Days with Perry Mason’ was published in Gargoyle, March 2025. You can read it here.
Kenneth Weinberg’s latest book, Exquisite Moment of Sorrow and Grace, was published in April 2025. Find it here.
Antonio López was named San Mateo County Poet Laureate in April 2025. More info here.
Rebel Falls by Tim Wendel captured the 2025 W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for excellence in military fiction. The book was published by Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press. The Boyd Award honors the best American military fiction set in a period when the United States was at war.
“Rebel Falls is a riveting novel set during the American Civil War,” the ALA says. “The book was inspired by true stories of female spies who risked everything for the Union cause.” More info here.
Jeanine Steven’s newest poetry collection, Left-Handed Hummingbird, was published by Clare Songbirds Publishing House in January 2025. Her title poem was developed at the Community of Writers in 2007.
May Kuroiwa’s poem, “When Nothing is All You Can Do”, is included in the anthology Chaos, Crises, Conflict, published by Moonstone Arts Center in Philadelphia.
Cathy Wang is featured in Issue 43 of KHÔRA. Her piece, “The Shape of Hope,” is published under her pen name “Cathy Lue-W.” More info here.
Andrew Roe’s short fiction has been recently published in Story, Wigleaf, MoonPark Review, and Pithead Chapel. More info here.
Bridge Across The Sky, Freeman Ng’s verse novel based on the Chinese immigration experience through Angel Island, won the National Consortium For Teaching About Asia’s 2024 Freeman Award (name correspondence entirely coincidental!) for Young Adult/High School literature. More info here.
Therí Pickens’s debut poetry collection, What Had Happened Was, has been published by Duke University Press in March 2025. More info here.
Andy Young’s poetry collection, Museum of the Soon to Depart, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in October 2024. More info here.
Jessica Danger was recently named the Nonfiction Alumni Fellowship at Bennington College (Winter 2025) and was selected as a nonfiction mentor in The Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship program for Summer of 2025. Danger also has a forthcoming publication, due out in May 2026 with Santa Fe Writers Project, titled No Heroic Measures: A Memoir. More info here.
Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology, coedited by Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray
Street, was published in March 2025 by Trinity UP. This updates the 2013 Ecopoetry Anthology with poems written and/or published since 2010 by poets not in the first book.
Ann’s eighth book of poems, Into the Chalice of Your Thoughts, was published in 2024 by Guadalajara UP. It is an ekphrastic project with Guadalajara-based photographer Wilfried Raussert; the poems were translated into Spanish by the Women in Translation group based at U Wisconsin-Madison. Works were exhibited at the 2023 Guadalajara Book Festival and in Mexico City. Now, an expanded MS seeks an American publisher. More info here.
Ronald Lauderbach and his wife, Kathleen Hurder, have published a book containing photos of oil paintings showing their Provence experiences, with accompanying poems. The poems were translated into French by Dr. Hadley Wood, Professor Emerita of Point Loma Nazarene University.
Claudia M. Reder’s third collection of poems, Dizzying Words, was published by Main Street Rag, January, 2025. More info here.
Tim Foley’s collection of ghost stories, Tales Nocturnal, has been published by PS Publishing, UK. More info here.
Dave Essinger’s second novel, This World and the Next, was released from Main Street Rag Publishing Company in 2024. “Some fiction feels so real it is astonishing. This book is like that. …it almost felt like it could have been tracking real events.” -Vick Mickunas
More info here.
Sarah Perrin’s short story “Just Girls” won the 2025 DISQUIET Literary Prize for fiction and will be published in Granta. More info here.
Mark Gozonsky published an essay in The Los Angeles Times about his successful quest to play tennis on every public tennis court in LA County.
Nettie Reynolds essayist and playwright most recently had her essay “Safety with Gene Hackman” published in popular humor’s Little Old Lady Comedy. The essay is an homage to youthful longing and Gene.
Andrew Tonkovich’s review of Sue Coe and Stephen F. Eisenman’s The Young Person’s Illustrated Guide to American Fascism appears in the online Los Angeles Review of Books.
Daniel Pope has won the 2024 University of New Orleans Press Publishing Lab Prize! His winning manuscript, Go Help Yourself, is set for publication in Spring 2026.
A gripping exploration of obsession and loneliness in the vein of Gabe Habash’s Stephen Florida with the sharp comic edge of Gabriel Smith’s Brat, Go Help Yourself examines the American fascination with self-help, pop psychology, and compulsive dieting through the poignant lens of a troubled mother-son relationship.
Sue Repko’s essay “What To Do With The Bodies” appeared in The Manifest Station in February 2025. More info here. More info here.
Karren Terrey was named 2025 Poet Laureate of Nevada County.
John Harvey’s most recent chapbook, Blue in Green, was published in the UK by Shoestring Press in March, 2025.
Jeffrey Kingman’s poem “Lake Michigan” was published in eMerge Magazine in January of 2025. More info here.
Diane Tober’s new book, Eggonomics: The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Donors Who Supply Them, was awarded the Carol R. Ember Book Prize by the Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS). The SAS Carol R. Ember Book Prize recognizes books whose significant theoretical, empirical, or methodological contributions to anthropology embody the mission of SAS to advance the scientific study of human societies.
“Dr. Tober’s eye-opening exposé on the treatment of egg donors is a much-needed challenge to the hearts-and-flowers narrative that relies on exploitative, harmful practices to fuel the ready supply of eggs to desperate infertile recipients.” Liz Scheier, author of Never Simple: A Memoir.
More info here.
Janet Constantino’s debut novel, Becoming Mariella, will be released on February 4, 2025. The novel is published by SheWrites Press and is distributed by Simon & Schuster. Ms. Constantino won 2nd prize in the MFK Fisher Last House Writing Contest, for an excerpt from Becoming Mariella. More info here.
Rachel Richardson’s third collection of poems, Smother, was published by W. W. Norton in February 2025. More info here.
The Invisible Sun by Attar was collected and translated by Sholeh Wolpé. (Harper Collins, 2025)
Twelfth-century Persian poet Attar (1145–1221) was revered by Rumi and though his work is beloved around the world, he is mostly unknown to English readers. Translated in simple, elegant language by poet Sholeh Wolpé—one among generations of poets influenced by Attar’s poetry—The Invisible Sun is a beautiful treasury of Attar’s most prescient poetry, offering comfort and inspiration. More info here.
Yuki Tanaka’s first full-length poetry collection, Chronicle of Drifting, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in April 2025. More info here.
Ann Graham’s short story, “Sparkle and Shine,” was published by Muleskinner Journal, Another Twist of Fate issue. More info here.
Georgia San Li’s poetry chapbook, Wandering (FLP), was released in 2024. Her poetry was longlisted for the 2024 London Magazine Poetry Prize. We Eat Ugly Lionfish (Willow Springs, Winter 2024) and The Full Report (Exposition Review, Summer 2024) have been nominated for the 2025 Pushcart Prize.
Susan Browne’s fourth poetry collection, Monster Mash, will be published in March, 2025, by Four Way Books. More info here.
Under the mentorship of Brian Tierney, Jim Gunshinan is experimenting with the Pantoum. Three of these poems were published by the Hudson Valley Writers Guild.
Adela Najarro’s latest book, Variations in Blue, was chosen by the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Collaborative as the second volume in their curated series, published March 2025. More info here.
Sarah Ghazal Ali’s debut collection Theophanies recently won the 2025 GLCA New Writers Award in poetry, and was just named a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. More info here.
Sameer Pandya’s upcoming novel, Our Beautiful Boys, will be published by Ballantine Books on March 18, 2025. Preorder it here.
Vishwas Gaitonde’s short story “God Made Chardonnay, The Devil Made Merlot” was published in Litro magazine. You can read it here.
Lindsey Steffes’ debut novel, Gichigami, won the Juniper Prize for Fiction and will be published by the University of Massachusetts Press in March 2025. More info here.
Jon Riccio’s newest chapbook, The Orchid in Lieu of a Horse, was published by Seven Kitchens Press in November 2024. More info here.
Lydia T. Liu’s first chapbook of poems, the problem of deer, was published by Finishing Line Press in January 2025, after being selected as a finalist for the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. the problem of deer is a lyrical exploration of transitory landscapes. “This is a short book that contains thousands of books.” (Eileen Myles) More info here.
Alix Christie’s novel, The Shining Mountains, appears in paperback in March 2025. Her short story “Everychild” won a 2024 Pushcart Prize, and the opening of her forthcoming novel, Rubble Women, won the gold prize in the 20th-century category of the Historical Fiction Society’s 2024 First Chapters Competition. More info here.
Nanda Reddy’s novel, A Girl Within A Girl Within A Girl, debuts March 4, 2025 (Zibby Books). In this story of identity and immigration, an Indo-Guyanese woman grapples with revealing her hidden past to her husband of decades. She peels back secrets to reveal the multiple identities she inhabited to survive her adolescence. “Too important and gripping to put down…” Kirkus. “A powerful story of resilience and reinvention…” Publisher’s Weekly. More info here.
Pamela Pan’s story “Baba’s Accordion” is published in California Writers Club’s Best of the Best: 2024 Literary Review. Her short story “Waiting” is published in Vision & Verse: A Fusion of Poetry, Prose, and Photography, 2024. More info here.
Jeanette Horn’s debut novel, Play, With Knives, was published by Regal House Publishing in March 2025. More info here.
Ann Graham’s short story, “Sparkle and Shine,” is in The Muleskinner Journal: Another Twist of Fate. More info here.
Amelia L. Williams’ debut poetry collection Species of Concern from Shanti Arts (January, 2025) is now available from the publisher and other booksellers. The book examine braided journeys of personal loss and environmental grief, of grasping and letting go. Each section opens with a poem set in a speculative future; subsequent poems return readers to the teeming planet we inhabit—where grounding practices of mindfulness allow us to manage many species of concern—humans among them, both vulnerable and culpable. More info here.
In December 2024, Sherry Smith’s article, “The Vote for Freedom to Liberia from Prospect Hill Plantation, 1847,” and dataset, were published in the Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 5, no. 4 (2024): 93-101. More info here.
Jeanne Wagner won the 2024 Catamaran Poetry Prize for her manuscript One Needful Song. More info here.
Yiskah Rosenfeld’s poem “Bird Call Koan with Glossary” from her new book Tasting Flight was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. It first appeared in Issue #14 of OGQ. More info here.
Kevin Fitchett has received a second-year fellowship for fiction at the Fine Arts Work Center, where he will be in residence until April 2025.
Samiya Bashir’s upcoming book, I Hope This Helps, will be published in May, 2025 by Nightboat Books.
Dawn Angelicca Barcelona’s debut chapbook, Roundtrip, will be published by Finishing Line Press in March 2025. Roundtrip was named as the second honorable mention in Finishing Line Press’s 2023 New Women’s Voices chapbook competition. More info here.
Tara Dorabji’s debut novel, Call Her Freedom, won the Books Like Us Grand Prize and will be published by Simon & Schuster in January 2025. More info here.
Toni Martin’s short story “Hold On” won the Craft 2024 Short Fiction Prize, judged by Deesha Philyaw . She is the author of When the Personal Was Political: Five Women Doctors Look Back (2008) and her short stories and essays have appeared in Zyzzyva, The Bellevue Literary Review and The Threepenny Review. More info here.
Scot Siegel’s fourth collection of poems, Tender Currencies, won the Sally Albiso Book Award, and will be published by Concrete Wolf-MoonPath Press in January, 2025. More info here.
Andrew Tonkovich’s first stanzas of a post-election Bob Dylan-inspired ekphrastic poem, “Rows of Desolation,” appear in the current The Journal of the Plague Years. He continues writing daily, in dialog with both Dylan’s song and our political moment. More info here.
Wendy Scheir’s short stories appear in the Spring 2024 issue of The Thieving Magpie and the Fall/Winter 2024 issue of Hypertext Review. More info here.
Karen Fang’s new book, Background Artist: The Life and Work of Tyrus Wong, which she workshopped with the Community of Writers, is out in print and audio. The biography of a Chinese American immigrant artist launched with several events in California, and has been praised as “the definitive new biography” (Smithsonian Magazine) and “a deserving tribute to a groundbreaking artist” (Publishers Weekly). More info here.
Jessica Cohn launched Gratitude Diary (Main Street Rag, NC), her first poetry collection, in October 2024. Cohn, a long-time nonfiction writer, debuted at age 66. More info here.
Jami Macarty’s fourth chapbook, The Whole Catastrophe, was published by Vallum Chapbook Series in September 2024. More info here.
Holaday Mason’s 6th full length collection, As If Scattered, was published by Giant Claw/What Books Press in October of 2024. More info here.
Janine Kovac’s The Nutcracker Chronicles: A Fairytale Memoir was a finalist for the American Best Book Award in the Performing Arts category. In their 5-star review, Readers Favorite had this to say: “The descriptions of [Kovac’s] emotional highs and lows of pursuing a passion—such as the thrill of performance, the sting of competition, and how personal relationships coexist—will resonate with anyone who has ever chased a dream.” The Nutcracker Chronicles launches on November 12, 2024 and is available wherever books are sold. More info here.
“As Man Is To God”, Andrew Nicholls’ long poem in Seussian verse on the troubled making of Werner Herzog’s 1982 film Fitzcarraldo, was published by Slow Lightning Lit, November, 2024. More info here.
KB Ballentine’s ninth collection of poetry All the Way Through will be released this November with Sheila-Na-Gig Inc. More info here.
James Toupin’s first book, Upon the Century Called American, was issued in November 2024 by Main Street Rag Publishing. It tells, from the author’s point of view, histories running from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire through the Covid pandemic. Of local Community interest, it includes a poem inspired by the drive from San Francisco to the 2010 Workshop (which remembers the author’s taking the same ride as a child) and another depicting Lake Tahoe in the drought of the 1980s that first ran in an anthology next to a poem by Robert Hass. More info here.
Martin J. Smith’s latest essay, “For the Love of A Smart Dog”, is now available on Garden & Gun. Read it here.
Yuki Tanaka’s co-translation with Mary Jo Bang, A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi, was published by Princeton University Press in November as part of The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation. This is the first time the work of the great Japanese surrealist has been made available in English. More info here.
Anthony J. Mohr’s essay “They Went Around My End” was published in volume 13.4 of the Cumberland River Review. His essay “Totally Atwood” appeared in Isele Magazine. More info here.
Ananda Lima’s novel Craft Stories I Wrote for the Devil, published by Macmillan, is a 2025 Long List Selection of the American Library Association’s Carnegie Medal. The short list will be announced in November.
Alex Espinoza’s novel Sons of El Ray, published by Simon and Schuster, is a 2025 Long List Selection of the American Library Association’s Carnegie Medal. The short list will be announced in November.
Blas Falconer’s newest poetry book, Rara Avis, was published by Four Way Books in September 2024. More info here.
Michael Croft’s upcoming novel, The Eleanor, is set to release on November 15 from ELJ Editions.
Laura Paul’s new book, Film Elegy, was published by PRROBLEM Press in October, 2024. More info here.
Andrew Tonkovich curates a show of the painting, drawing, and writing of his mentor-teacher: “Peter Carr: Artist for Survival.” It opens at Cerritos College Art Gallery Monday, October 28 with a reception talk by Tonkovich: a long-ago student of the “outsider artist,” Comp Lit professor, activist, and writer at CSU Long Beach. Carr’s paintings, drawings, and illustrations evoke Blake, Whitman, German Expressionism, Kenneth Patchen, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti with celebratory emphasis on the ecosystem of Laguna Beach and popular resistance to war, nuclear power, US intervention, and ecological destruction. Carr self-published a dozen books including Aliso Creek. Free through December 13. More info here.
Lisa Alvarez’s short story “Strongman” appears in the new issue of About Place Journal. The issue is a special themed one titled Shaping Destiny: Election Season, Before, During and After. Alvarez read from the story at last summer’s workshop. More info here.
Evie Shockley was awarded the $25,000 2024 Academy of American Poets Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement. More info here.
Alison Owings most recent oral-history book, Mayor of the Tenderloin / Del Seymour’s Journey from Living on the Streets to Fighting Homelessness in San Francisco, was published in September, 2024 by Beacon Press. An unforgettable account of Del Seymour, who overcame 18 years of homelessness and addiction to become one of the most respected advocates in San Francisco. Honest and compelling, Mayor of the Tenderloin follows homelessness in one of America’s toughest neighborhoods as it was lived—in the words of someone who lived it and is now fighting to solve it. This book was nine-years in the making, and San Francisco Chronicle called it “A richly satisfying tapestry.”
Stephen Massimilla’s new prizewinning poetry book, Frank Dark, was published by Barrow Street Press and won the 2023 American Book Festival Best Book Award, the North American Book Award, and others, and has been reviewed widely. (Massimilla also did the cover painting.)
And his co-edited anthology, Stronger Than Fear: Poems of Empowerment, Compassion, and Social Justice, won several recent awards, such as the International Book Award, The ABF Best Book Award, and the IPPY Living Now Award. It includes work by many of today’s most accomplished poets, including alumni of and poets who have taught at the Community of Writers: Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, Brenda Hillman, Major Jackson, Patricia Spears Jones, Ada Limón, and several others. More info here.
Sue Repko’s essay, “Air and Light and Time: Pruning Your Writing Projects for a Better Harvest,” appeared in the August 28, 2024 issue of the Brevity Blog. More info here.
Robin Romm’s second story collection, Radical Empathy, was recently published by Four Way Books. The first story in it won a 2024 O’Henry Prize and will also be published in The Best Short Stories 2024: The O’Henry Prize Winners. More info here.
Emily Hyland’s first collection of poetry, Divorced Business Partners, debuts through Howling Bird Press on October 21st, 2024. She will be reading in conversation with Mark Doty at Poets House in NYC on 10/22. More info here.
Marcia Meier’s 2021 memoir, Face, won the New Mexico-Arizona Book award and several other honors. Kirkus Reviews called it “a philosophically searching memoir, and it’s emotionally stirring, as well—a profoundly personal work that should resonate with anyone who’s wrestled with trauma and its aftermath.”
Her February 2023 anthology, Writing Through the Apocalypse, Pandemic Poetry and Prose, includes the work of members of her Writing Through the Apocalypse writing group, which has been meeting weekly since early 2020. From Kirkus: “A heartfelt collection that captures the resilience and creativity of a virtual writing community in a trouble time.” More info here.
Jami Macarty’s fourth chapbook The Whole Catastrophe (Vallum Chapbook Series, 2024), which critic Rosie Long Decter calls “a testament to the necessary entanglement of all things,” was published on September 11, 2024. More info here.
Ruben Quesada’s new poetry collection is now available for Pre-order. Brutal Companion, winner of the Barrow Street Press Editors Prize, will be published on October 15, 2024. More info here.
Ruben Quesada will be read from his award-winning collection of poetry at Grace Cathedral with poets A. Van Jordan, Dorianne Laux, and Alice Templeton on Wednesday, October 23, 2024, from 7:30-9:00 PDT. Save the date and RSVP here.
Marty Mitchell’s piece “Ridge Walk,” excerpted from her book-in-progress, The Lost Sierra, has been accepted for the inaugural edition of Haymaker, to be published in December. Three other pieces from The Lost Sierra have been published in the past year, in Haimat, Meadowlark Review, and the Canadian journal Prairie Fire.
Cintia Santana’s debut poetry collection, The Disordered Alphabet (Four Way Books), won the 43rd Annual Northern California Book Award in Poetry. More info here.
Jeanne Wagner’s book, One Needful Song, will be published in late 2024 as winner of the Catamaran Poetry Prize. More info here.
Mark Gozonsky’s story-essay “Wattle” will appear in a forthcoming issue of The Sun. More info here.
Matthew Zapruder’s newest poetry collection, I Love Hearing Your Dreams, was published by Scribner on September 24th, 2024. More info here.
Poet Brenda Hillman’s first book of prose, Three Talks (Metaphor and Metonymy, Meaning and Mystery, Magic and Morality) was published by University of Virginia Press.
Vishwas Gaitonde’s short story ‘The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of’ was published in Jerry Jazz Musician magazine. You can read it here to ponder over dreams turning to reality, and reality fading into dream.
Michael Zysk’s third poetry collection, Sophia’s Wisdom (Wipf and Stock) integrates themes of Shekinah Theology with Sophia Christology. Verses of Part 1 explores cosmic creation and destruction with images from astrophysics woven with Jewish hermeneutics; verses of Part 2 survey the evolution of the divine personification of Wisdom across Jewish, Christian, and Gnostic scriptures. More info here.
Vishwas Gaitonde’s longform essay “American Lotus: The Cultural Strengths of Kamala Harris” has been published on Medium. You can access it here. It is suggested that you watch the short embedded videos as you come to them as they complement the narrative
Patricia Spears Jones’ poetry collection, The Beloved Community, was a finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Awards.
Meg Waite Clayton’s upcoming novel, Typewriter Beach, will be published by HarperCollins on July 1st, 2025.
Sue Parman’s short story, “Gannets and Ghouls,” appears in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine September/October, pp. 83-94. Her nonfiction memoir essay, “You Can’t Get There from Here,” won Travelers Tales, Eighteenth Annual Solas Awards Grand Prize Gold Winner for Best Travel Tale of 2024. More info here.
Ellery Akers’ new book, A Door into the Wild: Poetry and Art, won the 2024 Blue Light Award and is forthcoming in September. Gary Young has called it a” sublime conjunction of word and image….an extraordinary conversation between dazzling drawings and subtle, heart-rending poems. This book is a gift.” Akers’ previous collection, Swerve: Environmentalism, Feminism, and Resistance, won BookAuthority’s Award for Best Environmentalism Books of All Time. More info here.
Edith Friedman’s collection Reconstruction was chosen by Lee Ann Roripaugh as the 2024 Lefty Blondie Press First Chapbook winner, and will be released September 7, 2024. More info here.
Eugenie Montague’s new novel, Swallow the Ghost, was published on August 20, 2024 by Mulholland Books.
Cintia Santana’s debut poetry collection, The Disordered Alphabet (Four Way Books), won the 2024 IPPY Bronze Medal and is a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. More info here.
Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras is the recipient of a 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. More info here.
Jesse Nathan’s first book of poems, Eggtooth, has been nominated for the 2024 Northern California Book Award. More info here.
Beverly Parayno’s debut short story collection Wildflowers has been nominated and shortlisted for the 43rd Annual Northern California Book Award in Fiction. More info here.
Karen Fang’s biography of Chinese immigrant artist, Disney legend, and centenarian, Background Artist: The Life and Work of Tyrus Wong, will be published in October. More info here.
Bridge Across The Sky, Freeman Ng’s young adult novel-in-verse about the Chinese immigration experience through Angel Island in the early 1900’s, goes on sale on August 27. Published by Atheneum Books For Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, the book is a Junior Library Guild “Gold Standard Selection” and received a starred Publishers Weekly review. More info here.
Lisa Sewell’s upcoming book of poetry, Flood Plain, will be published by Grid Books in January 2025. More info here.
David Lukas now writes a weekly nature newsletter (www.lukasguides.com) that covers a wide range of nature and language topics.
Tyler McAndrew’s debut book—a short story collection titled “My Prisoner & Other Stories”—won the 2024 Non / Fiction Prize and will be published fall 2025 with Ohio State University Press / Mad Creek Books. More info here.
Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum’s debut novel, Elita, will be published in January 2025 by TriQuarterly/Northwestern University Press. Unfolding during the moody Pacific Northwest winter of 1951, Elita is a literary mystery, about which author Melissa Febos writes, “I devoured this novel, held sway by its expert construction and luminous prose, and I am haunted still by the wise and impossible questions that simmer under its breathless plot and within its indelible characters.” More info here.
Amy Shimshon-Santo’s new book is out with Flowersong Press and includes a plurilingual Orality Archive. “Random Experiments in Bioluminescence is a remarkable collection of luminous poems for cherishing cultures, languages, and the Earth.” More info here.
Last Breath Home is Laurie’s debut novel. Having dyslexia from an early age, she had difficulty reading. Following a trip to the book store and discovering Louis L’Amour, she grew to love reading one sentence at a time. Life was not easy for Laurie’s family when her brother returned from Vietnam following a psychotic break, eventually, schizophrenia. Through a series of tragic events, and with God’s help, she healed and grew to love her brother. Redemption flourished. Attending The Community of Writers Workshop gave her the courage to complete this novel.
Her story is the motivation for Last Breath Home.
Lynne Goldsmith’s new poetry collection, From the Edge of Chaos and Form, was published in July, 2024 by the Transnational Press.
Apple Thieves, Beverley Bie Brahic’s fifth collection of poetry, will be published by Carcanet Press in the U.K. in August 2024. More info here.
Shi Naseer’s debut novel, The Cry of the Silkworm, was released in June 2024 with Atlantic Books/Allen&Unwin. Set against the backdrop of the one-child policy, it is the story of a girl’s poignant coming of age in rural China and her quest for vengeance against a government official in Shanghai. Her personal essay on the inspiration behind her novel is forthcoming in The Guardian‘s A Moment That Changed Me column. More info here.
Jeanne Carstensen’s A Greek Tragedy: One Day, A Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis will be published by Simon & Schuster/One Signal in March, 2025. More info here.
Beverly Parayno’s debut short story collection Wildflowers (PAWA Press) won a 2024 IPPY Bronze Medal, a 2024 National Indie Excellence Award for Asian American & Pacific Islander Fiction and was named a 2023 Foreword INDIES Finalist. More info here.
Lori D’Angelo’s debut short story collection, The Monsters Are Here, will be published by ELJ Editions in 2024. More info here.
Lynne Goldsmith’s middle grade novel The Language of Fragments was publised in June 2024 by Wipf and Stock.
Gina DeMillo Wagner’s memoir, Forces of Nature, was published in May by Running Wild Press and received a rave review from The Washington Post. More info here.
Ann Bancroft’s debut novel, Almost Family, was just published by She Writes Press on May 28th, 2024. It’s a tender and darkly funny story of a lonely, obsessive woman who meets two unlikely friends in a support group for Stage Four cancer patients. The three of them ditch the group and form their own — The Oakland Mets (for “metastases”) aiming to enjoy life toward its end and not talk about cancer all the time. In the process, they help one another accept their fates and resolve family issues, finding love and peace at the end of their lives. More info here.
Jamie Cat Callan recently received fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center (2024) and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2023). More info here.
Radha Marcum’s second poetry collection, Pine Soot Tendon Bone, winner of the 2023 Washington Prize, is now available. Carol Moldaw says: “Radha Marcum writes unflinchingly and with a rare synthesis of lyric and scientific intelligence, investigating just what it is to exist with consciousness now. Charged, luminous, and hard-won, these poems are indispensable.” More info here.
Howard Rappaport’s novel, Arnold & Igor, a historical/contemporary fiction about the rivalry of modernist composers Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky, was published by Fomite Press in June (2024). More info here.
Yiskah Rosenfeld’s first full-length collection, Tasting Flight, was published June 18, 2024 by Madville Books. Tasting Flight was runner-up for the Arthur Smith Award, a finalist for the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, and received a Louis Award honorable mention. Chad Sweeney writes, “Tasting Flight is a Hebraic Sutra where Rosenfeld sits in meditation until she and the garden are one, bread and night are one, sacred and mundane, the cursed and the blessed, until Lilith and Eve complete the circle whose center is everywhere.” More info here.
Barbara Ristine’s unpublished novel The Face Painter has been selected as the Second Place/Silver Medal Winner for Children’s and Young Adult Historical Fiction in the Historical Novel Society’s First Chapters Competition. Her short story “Canary Girl” has been published in the historical anthology Feisty Deeds: Historical tales of Daring Women, which launched June 8, 2024.
Rickey Fayne‘s first novel, All God’s Children, is forthcoming from Little, Brown in 2025.
Rowena Leong Singer’s short story, “Mister Birdcage,” is now in the Spring/Summer 2024 Black Warrior Review Issue 50.2 (for the second 50th-Anniversary edition)!
“Mister Birdcage”—along with other stories, poems, nonfiction pieces, and flash—is only available in print, which you can purchase here.
Jeffrey Kingman’s (’12, ’22) poem, “We Can All Listen,” was published in Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, April 2024. His poem, “College,” was published in Your Impossible Voice, Issue 30, May 2024. More info here.
Corey Campbell was named a MacDowell Fellow in fiction writing in Spring-Summer 2024. More info here.
Carrie Nassif’s speculative memoir in experimental poetry, The Vulture Girl, comes out from Saddle Road Press June 17th. Her book launch will be at SOMOS in Taos, NM, July 27th. More info here.
Nicholas Yingling’s debut poetry collection, The Fire Road, was published by Barrow Street Press in April 2024. More info here.
Mara Finley won a Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless Nason Participant Scholarship in Nonfiction for the 2024 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
Diane Wolff launched her new book, Cobalt Blue: Marco Polo in Dadu, on the occasion of the citywide celebration of the city of Venice for the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo’s death. More info here.
Molly Giles’s memoir, Life Span, was published by WTAW Press in June. More info here.
Amy Tan’s new book, Backyard Bird Chronicles (Knopf, 2024), made the New York Times Bestseller List.
Diannely Antigua’s recent poetry collection, Good Monster, was published by Copper Canyon Press in May 2024. Good Monster grapples with the body as a site of chronic pain and trauma. Poignant and guttural, the collection “voyage[s] the land / between crisis and hope,” chronicling Antigua’s reckoning with shame and her fallout with faith.
Holly LaBarbera’s debut novel will be released on June 11 and is available now for preorders. All I Know is the story of a young woman who overcomes childhood trauma and tragedy to try and build a life with the boy she’s always loved. LaBarbera, a psychotherapist and professor, uses her extensive knowledge and experience to explore the complexities of romantic relationships as well as those within families and among friends, showing that love comes in many forms, including choosing to love oneself. It’s a hopeful, uplifting story about strength and resilience, rising from devastation to build and rebuild a life, over and over again. More info here.
R. O. Kwon’s second novel, Exhibit, will be published on May 21 with Riverhead Books. Exhibit has been named a most anticipated book by over 20 outlets, including The New York Times. Poets & Writers called it one of the buzziest books of the year, and said it’s “fiery, sexual, and undeniably original.” Kwon will be on tour for three weeks, and her tour stops are listed at here.
Rochelle Duffy workshopped her book Flight from Silence A Journey to Free One’s Voice in a Family of Seventeen Children in the 2019 Writers Workshops. It was published in March 2024 by Empress Publications.
Tamam Kahn’s poetry book Across The Difficult: With Rabia of Basra and Others won a first place award from The BookFest, Spring 2024. More info here.
Cintia Santana’s first collection of poems, The Disordered Alphabet (Four Way Books), received the 2023 North American Book Awards Silver Medal and was short-listed for the 2023 Golden Poppy Prize. More info here.
Joe Bardin’s essay, “Forever House”, is published in the Spring 2023 issue of Superstition Review. More info here.
Ann Graham’s short story, “Pour Your Own Joe,” is in the current, spring 2024, issue of October Hill Magazine. More info here.
In 2024, Peter Dale Scott published two interrelated books, Reading the Dream: A Post-Secular History of Enmindment (Rowman & Littlefield), and Dreamcraft (McGill-Queen’s University Press). Both are sequels to his 2023 book, Ecstatic Pessimist: Czeslaw Milosz, Poet of Catastrophe and Hope (Rowman & Littlefield). More info here.
Anthony J. Mohr’s memoir, Every Other Weekend—Coming of Age With Two Different Dads, swept the spring 2024 Outstanding Creators Awards, including tying in first place for the best nonfiction book and first place in the categories of autobiographies and memoirs, biographies, family, and parenting. His essay “The Last Carefree Summer” was published in Volume 20, No. 1 of the Loch Raven Review. More info here.
Armen Davoudian’s debut book of poems, The Palace of Forty Pillars, was published by Tin House in March 2024. Titled after a landmark in Isfahan, Iran, where twenty pillars are reflected in a courtyard pool, thereby becoming forty, the book explores a life divided between home and exile, queerness and familial belonging. More info here.
Amy Tan’s Backyard Bird Chronicles will will officially launch on April 23, 7 PM at Book Passage’s event at Angelico Hall at Dominican University in San Rafael.
In conversation: Amy Tan and Keith Hansen. Tickets are in-person or virtual, and include a signed book, illustrated bird postcard, and quick start guide to nature journaling.
Angela Siew’s poetry chapbook, Coming Home, was a finalist for the 2023-24 CutBank Chapbook Contest (University of Montana). More info here.
Mara Finley’s story, “Her Berliner” (originally published in The Missouri Review) won first runner up in the Lighthouse Emerging Fiction Writers contest, as well as a fellowship for Jenny Offill’s Advanced Fiction Workshop. More info here.
Cameron Walker’s essay collection, Points of Light: Curious Essays on Science, Nature, and Other Wonders Along the Pacific Coast, was published this spring by Hidden River Press.
Sara Ellen Fowler’s first book, Two Signatures, has been selected by Joan Naviyuk Kane for the 2023 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize. It will be published by the University of Utah Press in April 2024. More info here.
Susan Pope’s memoir Rivers and Ice: A Woman’s Journey Toward Family and Forgiveness was published in March 2024 by Riddle Brook Publishing. She began working on the book during her week at Writers Workshop. More info here.
RJ Ingram’s debut poetry collection, The Autobiography of Nancy Drew, is forthcoming in April 2024 from White Stag Publishing. Pre orders will start coming out early April. More info here.
J.W.M. Morgan is writing a novel-in-stories titled Dangerous John, about the inspiration of the abolitionist John Brown. Stories from the collection have appeared in Valparaiso Fiction Review, The Courtship of Winds, AvantAppal(achia), Unlikley Stories Mark V, and Isele Magazine. More info here.
Andrew Tonkovich, founding editor of Citric Acid: An Online Orange County Literary Arts Quarterly of Imagination and Reimagination, announces the release of the spring issue, themed “Resistance.” Among other contributors, CW fiction alum Mary Camarillo (Those People Behind Us) offers an essay on Huntington Beach, CA and poetry alum Chris Davidson (Why To These Rocks: 50 Years of Poetry from the Community of Writers) shares new work. More info here.
Jason Roberts’ upcoming book, Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life, will be will be available on April 9th, 2024.
Anara Guard’s second poetry book, Kansas, Reimagined, is published by The Poetry Box. These persona poems give new life to familiar characters and to prairie entities. Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked, said that in these poems “the world of Kansas (and of Oz) does come filling in with a heavy, gravitational physicality. I so enjoyed reading them.” More info here.
Saba Keramati’s debut poetry collection, Self-Mythology, was selected by Patricia Smith for the Miller Williams Poetry Series and is available now. More info here.
Mara Finley’s story, “Her Berliner,” was published in The Missouri Review’s online BLAST series. More info here.
Chuck Joy was featured poet in the Periodical Issue #2 from Poets’ Hall Press in Erie PA. Find his website here.
Lisa Kusel’s psychological thriller novel, The Widow on Dwyer Court, will be published by Blackstone Publishing on July 16, 2024. More info here.
Dashka Slater’s book Accountable: the True Story of a Racist Instagram Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed has won the prestigious J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. It is the first young adult title to ever win the award. The awards, established in 1998 and named for the late Pulitzer Prize-winning author and investigative journalist, are presented by the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Previous winners include Robert Caro, Jill Lepore and Isabel Wilkerson. More info here.
G. J. Berger’s recent book, released February, 2024, To Steal A Moment’s Time, is a first-person memoir by the most famous and sought after German actress in the last year of WWII. Kirkus Reviews says, “This work is a rare feat, a seamless amalgam of an unflinching literary realism with an unsentimental affirmation of life. A beautiful war account—both unsettling and inspiring.” More info here.
Terence Clarke is the co-author, with Ron Kaufman, of the novel M.M. Diaries, published in January 2024. He continues writing a regular column on Substack.
Rajeev has published numerous short stories and novelettes in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Haven Speculative, Catamaran Literary, TasuvaarNama, and other markets. He is currently drafting a fantasy novel set in a mythical South Asia. More info here.
Ann Bancroft’s debut novel, Almost Family, will be published May 28, 2024 by She Writes Press. Kirkus Reviews said “It’s a story that follows a remarkable trajectory from loneliness and heartbreak to lasting love, An often-resonant narrative of adversity and friendship.” Ann worked on the novel at the Community of Writers in 2019. More info here.
Parul Kapur’s debut novel, Inside The Mirror, Winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel, was published on March 1, 2024 by the University of Nebraska Press. Set in 1950s Bombay (Mumbai), India, the novel centers on twin sisters who aspire to become artists in defiance of a protective family and shaming society. It is an exploration of female creativity and identity-making in a society remaking its own identity in the aftermath of colonial rule. More info here.
Armen Davoudian’s new collection The Palace of Forty Pillars was published by Tin House Books in March, 2024. More info here.
Eggtooth, Jesse Nathan’s debut collection, has won the 2024 New Writers Award in Poetry. It’s also been long-listed for the Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize, and been named a finalist for the Golden Poppy and the Medal Provocateur/Eric Hoffer Award. More info here.
Patricia Spears Jones has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Porter Fund, an organization supporting the literary arts in Arkansas. The Porter Fund’s Lifetime Achievement Award is given out every five years to an Arkansas writer with a substantial and recognized body of work.
Marguerite L Harrold’s first book, Chicago House Music, Culture and Community (Belt Publishing) will be published August 13, 2024. It is available for pre-order. More info here.
Rashaan Alexis Meneses’ review of Beverly Parayno’s debut short story collection Wildflowers (PAWA Press 2023) wass published in Positively Filipino.
Peter Stenson’s fourth novel, We, Adults (Regal House Publishing), will be released on March 26th, 2024. More info here.
Max Stone recently published three poems. “Would you date yourself?” in the February 2024 issue of Ghost City Review, “Dysphoria Blues,” in Issue 2 of Frozen Sea, and “Something is always burning,” in Baby Teeth Journal. His chapbook, Temporary Preparations, was published by Bottlecap Press in July 2023. More info here.
Lauren Barbato’s latest short story, “We Heard You Had Something to Say to Us,” appears in the Spring 2024 print issue of North American Review.
Jaclyn Moyer’s debut hybrid memoir, On Gold Hill: A Personal History of Wheat, Farming, and Family from Punjab to California, is forthcoming from Beacon Press on March 26th, 2024. More info here.
Sue Parman’s short story, “You Can’t Get There from Here,” was awarded the Grand Prize by Travelers’ Tales in their Eighteenth Annual Solas Awards for Best Travel Story of the Year on March 1, 2024. Her short story, “Gannets and Ghouls,” was accepted for publication in November 2024 by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. More info here.
Lawrence Coates received an Individual Excellence Award in Fiction from the Ohio Arts Council. He submitted an excerpt from the novel-in-progress that he brought to the Writers Workshops in Summer 2023. More info here.
Beverley Bie Brahic’s translation of Hélène Cixous’s Well-Kept Ruins (Paris, Gallimard, 2020) was published by Seagull Books in 2022. Apple Thieves, her fifth collection of poetry, is forthcoming from Carcanet (U.K.) in 2024. More info here.
Gwen Goodkin’s TV pilot “The Plant” was selected as a semifinalist for Cinestory’s TV Retreat & Fellowship Contest. More info here.
Elizabeth Rosner’s newest book of nonfiction, coming in September 2024 from Counterpoint, Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening (here) is a hybrid memoir interweaving personal stories of a multilingual upbringing with the latest scientific breakthroughs in inter-species communication to show how the skill of deep listening enhances our curiosity and empathy toward the world around us.
Gravity, her poetry collection (Atelier26 Books, 2014), will be published as Gravedad in a bilingual Spanish/English edition this March 2024 from Bajamar Editores, translated by Laura Miñano Mañero.
More about her previous books here.
Barbara Ridley’s second novel Unswerving, will be published March 2024 by University of Wisconsin Press. Foreword Reviews calls it “gripping…a woman facing tremendous losses transforms because of her courage, resilience, and community.” More info on author website.
Désirée Zamorano’s novel Dispossessed is forthcoming from RIZE Press, September, 2024.
As a small boy, Manuel is separated from his parents during the mass expatriation of Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals in Los Angeles during the 1930s. He spends a lifetime in search of the missing pieces of his heart. More info here.
Hot Dish Confidential – That Year My Friends Taught me to Cook by George Sorensen is being published by Flexible Press. This is a small press in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This creative non-fiction memoir recount the raucous year when George organized his friends, who claimed they were gourmet cooks, to teach him cooking skills. This resulted in themed dinners including a Greek Tunic Party, Charles Dickens Christmas, South of France, New Orleans, and other events. It also resulted in wine store adventures, romance, ill mannered guests and a blue ribbon for apricot jam at the state fair. More info here.
Marisa Lin’s chapbook, Dream Elevator, will be published on March 12, 2024 by Kernpunkt Press. More info here. More info here.
Rashaan Alexis Meneses’ short personal essay “Tribute to a Lost Star” was recently published in Write or Die Magazine.
Gretchen McCullough’s linked book of short stories, Shahrazad’s Gift, set in Cairo, Egypt, was published by Cune Press, February 2024. More info here.
Lisa Alvarez’s debut collection of short fiction, Some Final Beauty and other Stories is forthcoming from the University of Nevada Press, as part of their New Oeste series.
Tim Wendel’s historical novel, Rebel Falls, will be published by Three Hills/Cornell Press in May. Ken Burns says, “Once again, Tim Wendel finds a riveting story to tell, this time in a little-known theater of our most complicated of wars.”
Amanda Churchill’s debut novel, The Turtle House, will be published by Harper Books on February 20, 2024. Moving between late 1990s small-town Texas to pre-World War II Japan and occupied Tokyo, The Turtle House is an emotionally engaging story about a grandmother and granddaughter who connect over a beloved lost place and the secrets they both carry. “Sweeping yet intimate, Amanda Churchill’s Turtle House spans cultures and continents. Minnie and her granddaughter Lia are unforgettable protagonists, whose grit and grace will inspire you. Together, they find a way through in this gripping debut.” -Vanessa Hua, author of Forbidden City. More info here.
Joe Bardin’s essay, “Blessings from the Devil”, is published in the Examined Life Journal, Volume 11, a publication of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. More info here.
Eugenie Montague’s debut novel, Swallow the Ghost, will be published by Mulholland Books in August 2024. Part Rashomon, part Cloud Atlas, part the internet, Swallow the Ghost traces the impact of one event on three different lives, each interlocking story offering a complex, contradictory truth. More details and available for preorder here.
Yiskah Rosenfeld’s poem won a Frontier Poetry Roots and Roads Prize, judged by Craig Santos Perez. The poem will appear in her next book, Tasting Flight (Madville Publishing, June, 2024).
Lauren Hohle’s short story “Basements” (workshopped at the Writers Workshops) was published by the Sun, in January 2024. She is the new managing editor for Conjunctions.
Ann Graham published a poem, “From There to Here,” in the Texas Observer, Nov-Dec 2023 issue.
Michael Zysk’s third poetry collection Sophia’s Wisdom will be published in 2024 by Wipf and Stock. Blending astrophysics with hermeneutics, the poems trace the evolution of Biblical Wisdom, its enlightenment, and divine person as the feminine aspect of God. More info here.
Featuring a foreword by the Dalai Lama, Scott Snibbe’s first book, How to Train a Happy Mind: A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment, will be released by Penguin Random House on March 12, 2024. Find it here.
Tricia Knoll’s newest chapbook, The Unknown Daughter, will be released by Finishing Line Press on March 1, 2024. Twenty-four poems by different speakers who acknowledge what it means to be unknown at the monument to the Unknown Daughter. More info here.
Charlotte Suttee’s debut speculative fiction novel Weather and Beasts and Growing Things (2023) has been published through Lethe Press. Find Independent Book Review’s glowing review of it here.
Joanna Solfrian’s fourth poetry collection, Temporary Beast, is available for order from Beltway Editions.
She is also teaching a generative, in-person workshop in March on symbolic details at Brooklyn Poets. Find her website here.
Roxi Power’s book, The Songs That Objects Would Sing, was published Fall 2023.
C.S. Giscombe writes, “The first line of Roxi Power’s incredible burst of poems lays down the law with one hand and sets things in motion with another—that is, she writes, as if to remark on the coming noise made by fire, death, love…The many motions of this music, of these songs that objects would sing, will brush the reader with a difficult and worthy joy.”
Tracy Fuad’s second collection of poetry, Portal, won the Phoenix Emerging Poets’ Prize and will be published on February 19th by University of Chicago Press. More info here.
Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s biography Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer was published as an audiobook in January 2024. Listen to it here.
Georgia San Li’s poetry chapbook Wandering will be published May, 2024 by Finishing Line Press. This collection explores questions of myth and meaning through strands of broken history, ambition, love, abandonment and connectivity. Advance sales are available now at Finishing Line Press. Her poetry work was shortlisted for the 2023 Oxford Poetry prize and appears or is forthcoming in The Glacier, LIT Magazine, SWWIM, Willow Springs and The Missouri Review.
Yiskah Rosenfeld’s ekphrastic chapbook Naked Beside Fish will be published in March, 2024. Advance sales are available now at Finishing Line Press or here.
Ellen Morris Prewitt’s literary thriller, In the Name of Mississippi, was named to the Long List in the Grindstone International Novel Competition and Finalist, Killer Nashville, Mainstream/Commercial, joining a previous naming as runner-up in the William Faulkner Literary Contest. More info here.
Vishwas Gaitonde’s story “Mahatma Gandhi’s Pen” has been published in Bewildering Stories magazine. You can read it here.
Nora Rodriguez Camagna’s essay, “Boysenberry Girls” was published in The Common’s Issue 26 portfolio of writing from the farmworker community. Read it here.
Arthur Solway’s most recent poetry collection, Friday Night, Shanghai, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2023.
“Friday Night, Shanghai is a love letter to one of the most dynamic cities on the planet. Living as an expatriate in China for well over a decade, Solway’s poems are intimate meditations on what it means to be nomadic at heart, or “stranded in a world that won’t let go.” “
Mark Coggins’ newest novel, Geisha Confidential, the eighth in the August Riordan crime fiction series, will be released from Down & Out Books on March 4, 2024. More info here.
Renée Thompson’s short story, “The Spectacular,” won Narrative Magazine’s Fall 2023 Story Contest, and placed as a finalist in The Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize. Find her website here.
Victoria Chang’s forthcoming book of poems, With My Back to the World will be published in 2024 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Corsair Books in the U.K.
In Jeremy Nobel’s most recent book, Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection, he leverages many voices, from pioneering researchers, to leaders in business, education, the arts, and health care, to the lived experience of lonely people of every age, background, and circumstance. He discovers that the pandemic isolated us in ways that were not only physical, and that, at its core, a true sense of loneliness results from a disconnection to the self. He clarifies how meaningful reconnection can be nourished and sustained. More info here.
Barbara Ridley’s upcoming novel, Unswerving, will be published on March 26, 2024 by University of Wisconsin Press.
Ruben Quesada’s collection of poetry, Brutal Companion, has been selected for the 2023 Editors’ Choice award for poetry. The collection will be published in late 2024. More info here.
Robin Luce Martin won the Eyelands Three Rock Prize in 2020 for her novel manuscript Lizardmaid, securing a Greek translation. It was published by Strange Day Books in November 2023. More info here.
Julia Park Tracey’s historical novel, The Bereaved, which was inspired and workshopped at the Community of Writers, was given a starred review by Kirkus, and then selected for their top 100 Indie Books of 2023.
Molly Fisk’s third collection, Walking Wheel, a series of linked poems set in 1875, is under contract with Red Hen Press for publication in 2026. Find her website here.
Find Terence Clark’s ongoing translations of Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire (and other news) here.
Terence Clark’s review of The Only Playboy: “What It’s Like to be the Playboy of the Western World” can be found here.
Jeff Adams’ short story “The Citron Tree” appears in Once Upon a Crocodile. Find it here.
His essay, “Power Failure” was published in the Winter, 2024 Issue of the ThreePenny Review, edited by Wendy Lesser. Read it here.
Joseph Zaccardi’s new collection, Songbirds of the Nine Rivers, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2023. During his time as a Navy corpsman in the Vietnam War, he found refuge in a volume of ancient Chinese and Vietnamese poetry. His study, now lifelong, has borne fruit in this present volume. For more details, visit Sixteen Rivers Press.
Vishwas Gaitonde’s collection of short stories, On Earth As It Is In Heaven, has won the 2023 Orison Fiction Prize, and will be published by Orison Books.
Joan Baranow’s sixth collection, Reading Szymborska in a Time of Plague, won the Brick Road Poetry contest and was published in June 2023. Much of the book centers around the covid-19 pandemic; many were inspired by Galway Kinnell’s “Sheffield Ghazals.” Michael Waters says, “Whether writing elegies or confronting her own mortality, Baranow leans toward community for consolation and renewal.” More info here.
Jay Aquinas Thompson is publishing a hybrid memoir, The Resurrection Appearances: Fragments of a Daybook, with Gold Line Press in January 2024. An account of a grief year told in dreams, poetry, myth fragments, and childhood memories, Resurrection received its first readers as hybrid texts in the poetry workshops at Community of Writers.
William Ward Butler co-founded a new online poetry journal called Frozen Sea; Issue Two was published on December 15, 2023.
Slow Lightning: Astonished Poetry, was released on November 12. Edited by Peggy Dobreer, this wildly diverse collection of poems, all originating in Slow Lightning daily somatic writing practice, was written with several Community of Writers faculty and alum includes: Janet Fitch, David Francis, Georgia San Li, Jacinta Camacho Kaplan, Darothy Durkac, Carrie Nassif, Jamie O’Halloran and others. More info here.
Haley Lasché published her first full-length poetry collection, ONE with Beauty School Editions, LLC, a poetry press she founded and runs with poet Paula Cisewski. She continues to edit and produce Concision Poetry Journal triannually.
Anthony J. Mohr’s memoir, Every Other Weekend–Coming of Age With Two Different Dads, placed third in the parenting and relationship category of the BookFest Awards. It also became a finalist in the IAN Book of the Year Awards. In April, it won first place in nonfiction in the Firebird Book Awards. More info here.
Across the Difficult: With Rabia of Basra and Others—Poems by Tamam Kahn was published by Albion-Andalus Books in July. “A book of history and bravery, poems that burst through silences of centuries, unafraid of either bliss or agony. Tamam Kahn has become a branch on the mighty tree of knowledge that is women’s knowledge of the unbreakable connection between flesh and spirit. She declares, and we all can declare, ‘We could have world history rewritten. Right now. Why not?’” Alicia Ostriker, author of Waiting for the Light and The Volcano and After. More info here.
Victoria Dalkey’s new poems “Sleepwalker” and “Kulicke’s Orange” will appear in the Summer 2023 issue of The Sacramento Poetry Center’s Tulle Review and six of her recent poems “Floating Island,” “Our Peaches,” “Sea Change,” “Nile Fable/Babylonian Tale,” “Sappho’s Breath,” and “January Night, 28 Degrees” are included in Cold River Press’s new anthology Voices 2023: Dahlias, Gods & Mermaids.
Amanda Churchill’s debut novel, The Turtle House, will be published by Harper Books on February 20, 2024. Moving between late 1990s small-town Texas to pre-World War II Japan and occupied Tokyo, The Turtle House is an emotionally engaging story about a grandmother and granddaughter who connect over a beloved lost place and the secrets they both carry. “Sweeping yet intimate, Amanda Churchill’s Turtle House spans cultures and continents. Minnie and her granddaughter Lia are unforgettable protagonists, whose grit and grace will inspire you. Together, they find a way through in this gripping debut.” -Vanessa Hua, author of Forbidden City. More info here.
Alex Russell’s novel was selected by Percival Everett as the sole finalist for the 2023 AWP James Alan McPherson Prize. More info here.
Ananda Lima’s short story collection Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is forthcoming from Tor (a Macmillan imprint). Craft is a surreal linked stories collection revolving around the absurdity of our times, art, and writing, as well as a complex view of the immigrant experience. The stories are written by a fictitious writer who sleeps with he Devil at a Halloween party in 1999 and sees him again and again throughout her life as she writes him stories about things that are both impossible and true. Kelly Link, author of Book of Love, calls it “an absolutely thrilling reminder that short stories can be the best kind of magic.”
Meg Waite Clayton was in Paris for the launches of two new editions of Dernier Train pour Londres, the French translation of her international bestseller and Jewish Book Award finalist, The Last Train to London. A France Loisirs book club edition released it on October 20, and a new Pocket Books paperback on October 26. A Ukrainian translation will release it in November. The novel is being published in twenty languages. More info here.
T.N. Eyer’s debut novel Finding Meaning in the Age of Immortality was released on November 7 by Stillhouse Press. Finding Meaning is an arresting work of speculative fiction set in a near future, where the discovery of a cure for mortality—a very expensive and difficult cure—rips apart the fabric of society and brings two very dissimilar families together in a fraught and unlikely partnership. More info here.
Leah Korican’s excerpt, “Evergreen”, from her in-progress memoir about growing up on a hippie commune in backwoods Oregon was published in the Fall issue of Heartwood Literary Magazine. More info here.
Valyntina Grenier’s first full-length collection of poems, Honeymoon Shoes, was published by Cathexis Northwest Press in October, 2023. She is a multi-genre eco artist living with her wife in Tucson, AZ. She works with paint, ink, Neon, encaustic medium, recycled or repurposed materials and words. She is the author of the chapbooks, Fever Dream/ Take Heart (Cathexis Northwest Press, 20) and In Our Now (Finishing Line Press, 22). You’ll find her work in, Beyond Queer Words, Genre: Urban Arts, Impermanent Earth, Querencia, and The Wardrobe. Find her work here.
Caroline Frost’s second novel, The Last Verse, will be published by William Morrow on March 5, 2024. Set in the Nashville music scene of 1977, the story follows a struggling musician who writes a hit song that both promises her fame and implicates her in a heinous crime. More info here.
Her second novel, Crow Talk, will be published April 30, 2024. It tells the story of three wounded souls whose lives intersect at a remote alpine lake. Crow Talk is a story of love, loss, and the healing power of the natural world.
Héctor Tobar (Teaching Staff: 2020, 2021, 2023) was awarded the Kirkus Prize for his nonfiction, Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”. The Kirkus judges called Our Migrant Souls a “vital work of autobiography and cultural commentary — which also serves as a potent manifesto. “
Ken Weinberg’s recent memoir weaves together his many stories from the ER, Urgent Care and house calls, with chapters covering his participation in The Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia P&S, political activism with Physicians for a National Health Program and more. He submitted a chapter on literature and medicine to Psychology Today and now has a blog.
Peter Vanderwall’s children’s picture story book, Mac’s Big Wish, was recently published by Luminare Press. The book has just been named one of five nominees for the 2024 Patricia Gallagher Children’s Choice Picture Book Award. Oregon school children of all ages are eligible to vote for their favorite title during the current school year. The Oregon State Literacy Association will announce the winner in May 2024. More info here.
Santa Monica Review editor Andrew Tonkovich announces the fall 2023 issue of the magazine, marking its 35th year of publication. The newest collection of fiction and nonfiction includes writing from four (!) Community of Writers alums: Rebecca Schultz, Lauren Hohle, Michael Guista, Laurel Leigh, and Victoria Patterson. Read it here.
Chuck Joy has a new collection, “Vinyl”, of 15 poems from What Why Aesthetics (Erie PA) exploring the border between this book and a record album.
New collection of poetry, On Balance, published by Shoestring Press, Nottingham UK, November 2023.
CJ Palmisano’s short story, “How Far to Woodstock?” was published in Stanford’s 2021 Annual Anthology, 166 Palms. The London Writers’ Salon published two of her short stories in their annual anthologies: “Roundabout” (in 2022) and “Cotton Candy and the Tilt-A-Whirl” (in 2023). Palmisano’s screenplay, ROADS TAKEN, was selected by the Nostos Screenwriters’ Lab in Tuscany. Along with eight other screenwriters, she spent 3-1/2 weeks working with professionals to develop the script in Arezzo, Italy this past May (2023).
In mid-May, after 27 years, Each One Teach One-Up and Out of Poverty: Memoirs of a Street Activist, by Ron Casanova as told to Stephen Blackburn was re-issued in paperback by Curbstone Press/Northwestern University Press. “An eloquent voice for Americans too often ignored or scapegoated.” – Booklist. More info here.
Mary Camarillo’s second novel, Those People Behind Us, was published in October of 2023. Set in the summer of 2017 in a suburban coastal town, five neighbors’ lives are impacted by politics, protests, and escalating housing prices. Each character searches for home and community in a neighborhood where no one can agree who belongs. Those People Behind Us was a finalist for General Fiction in the 2023 American Book Awards and was shortlisted for the 2023 Hawthorne prize. More info here.
Kristen-Paige Madonia’s short story, “Free Weights”, was recently published in the 2023 issue of Boulevard Magazine. More info here.
Parul Kapur’s short story “Geronimo!” about the troubles around the forthcoming marriage of the son of aspiring Indian Americans and the daughter of old-money Atlantans, appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Ploughshares, dedicated to longform prose.
Mary Otis’ most recent book, Burst, won the Silver Medal in Literary Fiction 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards. It was also chosen by Good Morning America and the New York Post as a “Best of Spring Books” pick.
Rosa Lowinger’s memoir, Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile and Repair was published by Row House Books on October 10, 2023. More details can be found on her website.
Stella Santamaria was nominated for Best of Net Nominee for her poem on a kayak in this miami bedroom published by the Rising Phoenix Review. Read it here.
Diana Fuller’s newest movie, Tails of the City, is set to premiere at the prestigious 2023 San Francisco Short Film Festival. Tails of the City is a visual adventure, experienced through the eyes of dogs and their parents that proves mixed breeds can find love, laughter and mutual pleasure when sharing common ground.
Patricia Spears Jones’ fifth poetry collection, The Beloved Community, was published September, 26 2023 by Copper Canyon Press. More information here.
Barry Garelick had several short stories published in online journals: “The Invisible“, “Elizabeth“, “How Has 1973 Been for You?“, and “Pretty Girls Who Never Wear Lipstick“.
Jessie Ren Marshall’s debut story collection, WOMEN! IN! PERIL!, will be published April 2, 2024 as part of a two-book deal with Bloomsbury. In this ferociously feminist, genre-bending book, Marshall balances humor and gravitas to explore the complexities of queerness, toxic relationships, parenting and divorce, Asian and Asian American identity, and so much more. Whether they exist in the grounded realism of a college dance studio or the speculative world of Deep Space, the women of WOMEN! IN! PERIL! push against the status quo to find a better future. Jessie’s website can be found here.
Tamam’s new book of poetry, Across the Difficult: With Rabia of Basra and Others, was published in July, 2023 by Albion-Andalus Books, with poems about Rabia of Basra and historical women of the Middle East.
Swathi Desai’s novel excerpt “An Offering to the Gods” was a finalist in the 2023 DISQUIET literary prize.
Ann Fisher-Wirth’s book-length poetry/photography collaboration with Wilfried Raussert, Into the Chalice of Your Thoughts, will be exhibited at the Guadalajara Book Fair in November 2023 and published by Guadalajara University Press, with facing translations of the poem into Spanish by the 4W-Women in Translation Project located in Madison, Wisconsin.
Ann’s seventh book of poems, Paradise Is Jagged, was published in February 2023 by Terrapin Books. Also in February 2023 she received the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Poetry and Literature from the Mississippi Arts Commission. Find her website here.
Adela Najarro has been selected as a 2023 Individual Artist Fellow by the California Arts Council for the Central California Region. The California Arts Council and the administering organization SVCREATES has recognized her as an established artist with a stipend in unrestricted funding to support her writing endeavors. Find her website here.
Hermelinda Hernandez’s poem “The Exit” won the 2023 Ernesto Trejo Memorial Prize and was published in the Academy of American Poets prizes for the University & College Poetry Prizes. More information here.
Kazim Ali’s newest collection of poems, Sukun, was published by Wesleyan University Press in September 2023.
Jesse Nathan’s first collection of poems, Eggtooth, with a foreword by Robert Hass, was published in September 2023.
Sally Van Doren’s fourth poetry book, Sibilance, was published by Louisiana State University Press in September 2023. You can find it here.
Matt Broaddus’ first book of poetry, Temporal Anomalies, by was published by Ricochet Editions on September 15, 2023. You can find it here.
Cintia Santana’s first collection of poems, The Disordered Alphabet, was published by Four Way Books on September 15. You can find her website here.
Rosa Lowinger’s forthcoming book (Row House Books, October 2023), Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile and Repair, received a starred review from Kirkus in August 2023 and has been selected as a 2023-2024 Book Club pick from the Jewish Women’s Archive. Some upcoming West Coast events can be found on her website.
Helena Mesa’s Where Land Is Indistinguishable from Sea was published by Terrapin Books. More details.
Violeta Orozco’s second full-length poetry collection Stillness in the Land of Speed, winner of the New Voices Award was published by Jacar Press in North Carolina.
Molly Giles’ most recent book, The Home for Unwed Husbands, was published by Leapfrog Press in August 2023. She will be touring the U.S., reading from her new novel starting August 19, 2023. Find her website here.
Patricia Spears Jones was just named the New York State Poet and will receive the Walt Whitman Citation of Merit for Poetry at a special ceremony hosted by University at Albany President Havidán Rodríguez to take place at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, at the University at Albany’s Campus Center West Auditorium.
Stella Santamaria has just accepted a lecturer position in the Writing Studies Department at the University of Miami.
John H. Zobel’s biography, Eugene Ely, Pioneer of Naval Aviation, published by the U.S. Naval Institute Press, will be released on October 15, 2023. John was working on the book at the time of his death in 2017, and it will be published posthumously.
Julia Park Tracey’s historical fiction, The Bereaved, was published in August by Sibylline Press, a new press publishing the works of women/FemID ages 50+. She is on book tours throughout the fall in New York, Denver, Portland, Chicago and then Kansas City in the spring. Find her website here.
Nicole Sealey’s newest volume of poetry, The Ferguson Report: An Erasure, was published on August 15, 2023 by Knopf. A redacted audio version, read by Nicole herself, was published in The New Yorker, and a Q&A published in Poets & Writers as well.
Patricia Spears Jones’ fifth poetry collection, The Beloved Community, is forthcoming September 2023. More information here.
Jon Riccio’s recent “Teaching Takeaways” craft articles for the literary nonprofit organization 1-Week Critique include commentary on poems by Community of Writers alumni Emily Wolahan and Maria Nazos. 1-Week Critique was co-founded by another Community of Writers alum, Matthew Schmidt.
Loisa Fenichell’s poetry collection, Wandering In All Directions Of This Earth, has been selected by Eduardo C. Corral as winner of the Ghost Peach Press 2022 Poetry Prize, and is forthcoming from Ghost Peach Press come September. Preorders are available now!
Ted Fowler’s essay, “Lookout Towers and a Legacy Wall: On the Mass Confinement of Japanese Americans Eighty Years On,” appeared in the Summer Solstice, 2023 issue of Citric Acid, with a focus on Orange County and the Poston, AZ camp .
Matthew M. Monte just published his second poetry collection, All Tomorrow’s Train Rides, with Sixteen Rivers Press. You can find his website here.
Terence Clarke’s novel, The Splendid City, which features Pablo Neruda as its central character, will be re-published in a new edition in December 2023. His new novel, The Last of Nico Sombra, which takes place in Buenos Aires, will be published next year. He is now writing a regular column on Substack.
Andrea Hollander’s sixth full-length poetry collection, And Now, Nowhere But Here, was released on July 28, 2023, by Terrapin Books.
Emi Nietfeld’s memoir, Acceptance, came out in paperback from Penguin Press. Named a best book of the year by NPR, it’s available wherever you buy books.
Barbara Fischkin, author of three books of narrative nonfiction and satiric fiction, has been selected as a “Monday Magazine” columnist for the literary website 3QuarksDaily. She is writing a monthly column on a variety of topics. 3QuarksDaily is a well-respected literary agregator. It presents eight to twelve items from around the web each day, in the areas of science, design, literature, current affairs, art, politics, philosophy—and more— and a daily poem. The “Monday Magazine” columns are original to the site. Access to the site is gratis. A small monthly donation provides advertising-free browsing.
Anthony J. Mohr’s essay “The Only Child at the Party” was published on June 22 in the Los Angeles Review.
Vishwas Gaitonde’s essay “Jaya He! The Story of India’s National Anthem” was published by Serenade Magazine, August 2023 issue.
Margaret Elysia Garcia’s first poetry collection, the daughterland, was published by El Martillo Press in June 2023.
In March of 2023, Elizabeth published a cover essay in American Scholar about the Met’s looted Mother Goddess, and an interview on the research ran on KERA Dallas’s Think. Her ongoing research for the project is supported by a 2022-2024 Fulbright scholar flex grant to India, which follows from Elizabeth’s yearlong Fulbright to India in 2019-2020. Elizabeth is nonfiction editor at New England Review, a role that she took on in 2019. She is a core creative writing faculty member at Penn State University, where she was promoted to Professor in July 2023.
He recently released an album, with selections from his recent book The Distant Sound–poems accompanied by guitar.
C Pirloul’s doubleheader chapbook, 7 Cervicals / Riga Pine, was released by Thixotropic Press in June. The chapbook is composed of a spine of sestinas with a global cast of characters, as well as a conversation with a riga pine off the Talinn Highway near Skultes Muiza in Latvija.
“To rotate the Atlas thereby turning our face in time…”
Cintia Santana’s first collection of poems, The Disordered Alphabet, published by Four Way Books, will be released on September 15, and is available for pre-order now.
The first book of poetry, Temporal Anomalies, by Matt Broaddus (he/him) will be published by Ricochet Editions on September 15, 2023.
Sommer Schafer’s inaugural collection of short stories, The Women, will be published by Unsolicited Press on November 14, 2023. Pre-orders begin September 1.
Her novel, How to Care for a Human Girl, will be published by Atria Books on August 8, 2023. The novel follows estranged sisters Jada and Maddy as they come together to deal with simultaneous unplanned pregnancies in the wake of their mother’s death.
Her novella, Seconds, came out in July 2023 from Neutral Zones Press. Novelist Robin Black has said: “There is a wealth of brave wisdom in this novella. Putnam takes a social encounter and peels back its layers-through time, ancient longings, lingering dishonesties-until reaching unsettling but crucial insights. I love when a short book takes on the truly big issues of human experience, and Putnam’s does so triumphantly here.”
His poem “What the Cedar May Have Said” appeared this spring in The New York Review of Books. Nathan’s first collection of poems, Eggtooth, appears in September with a foreword by Robert Hass.It can be preordered here. It was named a “must-read” by The Millions.
Vishwas Gaitonde’s short story ‘Boys on the Bus’ has been published in the magazine Across the Margin.
Alta Journal has published her whimsical short story “Magda’s Hen” in their summer issue #24.
Founding editor of Citric Acid: An Online Orange County Literary Arts Quarterly of Imagination and Reimagination, announces the release of the journal’s Summer Solstice issue. Among regionally themed poetry and prose, comics, art, journalism and activism, it features work by Community of Writers alums Lisa Alvarez, Ted Fowler, Rhoda Huffey, and Tonkovich himself.
Her fourth poetry book, Sibilance, will be released by Louisiana State University Press in fall 2023. This insightful abecedarian collection includes work which first appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry London and Prairie Schooner. The cover features an asemic drawing by Van Doren, who is also an exhibiting artist. As Poetry Participant Chanda Feldman notes, “Van Doren’s trim and brisk poems display a thrilling diction at every turn. She applies wit and acuity to both exultation and elegy.”
His fifth book, A Northern Spring (Trio House Press, July 1, 2023), is a hybrid work of lyrical prose and poetry, the spring in focus being the COVID spring of 2020. “Part memoir, part needle-skipping-in-its-groove travelogue, part collection of lyric poetry,” says Michael Bazzett of this chronicle that opens in Northern Ireland when a travel ban is announced for “everybody in Europe” and ends the last week of May 2020, when George Floyd was murdered, an uprising began, and the world turned its gaze to South Minneapolis, where Mauch lives. Says Heidi Czerwiec, “This collection tries to connect us, blur genre & even grammar, to turn violence toward justice, a true revolution.”
She is a faculty fellow for the XM Scifi Summer Institute for the Science & Fiction Lab at Florida International University, 2023, in Miami, Florida.
Her third novel and first psychological thriller, Her Father’s Daughter (Crooked Lane Books), is coming out on July 18, 2023. Her Father’s Daughter is the Mysterious Bookshop’s August 2023 First Mystery Crime Club Pick.
Her creative nonfiction chapbook Something I Might Say will be published with WTAW Press on July 18, 2023.
She and illustrator Chris Turnham have a new children’s book, National Monuments of the U.S.A., which will be published by Wide-Eyed Editions in June 2023.
He published two new books in spring 2023, the chapbook Counting (Finishing Line Press) and a translation of Mexican poet Balam Rodrigo’s Central American Book of the Dead.
She’s pleased to announce the publication of Volcanic Interruptions, which combines her poetry with the acrylic/mixed media paintings by Janet Trenchard. As feminists, both artists want to depict how a woman’s power arises from the earth, soil, and volcanoes, and they have been collaborating on this theme throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. The poems in this collection were started during Adela’s 2016 poetry workshops!
Her book, Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden was published in May by Simon and Schuster. She spoke with NPR’s Melissa Block about the journey that gardening put her on, and what it’s revealed about who gets to write about the environment.
President Joe Biden awarded her with a National Humanities Medal in March of 2023.
Her full-length poetry collection, Expert Terrain, has been published by Word Poetry. It was previously shortlisted by the Harbor Mountain Press MURA Book Award and awarded Honorable Mention by the Concrete Wolf Louis Poetry Book Award.
Her book, Forget I Told You This will be published September 1, 2023 By University of Nebraska Press.
She was selected as a 2022-23 Emerging Writer Fellow with The Center for Fiction. The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowships annually provide a diverse group of nine early-career, New York City-based writers with grants; editorial mentorships; monthly dinners with eminent editors, agents, and authors; access to The Center’s Writers Studio; a Master Class on Performance and Public Reading sponsored by Audible; two public readings in The Center’s performance space; and ongoing support in establishing their literary career. The Fellows were chosen from an impressive pool of 706 applicants in a blind judging process by Cara Blue Adams, Raluca Albu, and Ian Denning.
Her memoir, The Fine Art of Camouflage, was published by MilSpeak Books in March 2023. An excerpt from the book, “The View From Under My Scarf”, which was workshopped in the Community of Writers Open Workshop with Sands Hall, recently appeared in the Boston Globe Magazine Connections column.
Her new book The Khan’s Mistake: The Fight for the Throne was published in May 2023. This is the story of the rise of Genghis Khan and the rivals he faced in the building of his empire.
The book is historical fiction based on an authoritative bibliography and 30 years of research and writing. It is suitable for students from 9th grade and above to undergraduate level as assigned reading for courses in global history.
The book is published on the serialized story platform Amazon Kindle Vella in 40 episodes.
Her 4th novel, Trinity, (HarperCollins, Amistad) will be published July 4. Preorders are available now. Trinity is the riveting story of the daughter-spirit born to stitch love back into the scattered wombs of her Black mothers and call love back into the fishing blues songs of her Black male kin. Praise for Trinity: “If we are ancestrally haunted, we may also be ancestrally healed. This is the lesson of Zelda Lockhart’s Trinity, an epic, vivid and heart-wrenching novel. Reminiscent of the work of Gayl Jones and Alice Walker.” -Imani Perry, author of NYT bestseller South to America.
His short story “The Procedure” appears in the Spring 2023 Issue of 34 Orchard Journal.
His sonnet crown “After The Planets” won Poetry by the Sea’s Kim Bridgford Memorial Sonnet Crown Contest.
Her new novel The Last Animal was released from Riverhead Books in April 2023. NPR’s Scott Simon interviewed her on Weekend Edition Saturday.
Six of her poems were published in the April edition of NYC arts journal, The Brooklyn Rail.
Chris Lombardi’s novel Blue Season was published in 2022 by Mumblers Press.
A literary mystery, set in the 1990s: How did Molly, a promising musician and graduate student, end up in a Baltimore psychiatric hospital calling herself Lucia? Readers unravel the clues as hospital scenes alternate with Molly’s journals. A story about memory, trauma, and Lucia Joyce — the daughter of Irish writer James Joyce, who died in 1982 in the Swiss mental hospital where she’d lived for more than 40 years.
Her short story “The Unbearable Weight of My Heart” was selected by Jennifer Haigh to win First Prize in Pangyrus Magazine’s Fiction Contest. She’s especially grateful for David Ulin’s insightful comments and edits.
Her latest book of poetry, Your Form Became My Own, was published by Kelsay Books, January 2023.
Her book, A Slight Thing, Happiness was published by Saint Julian Press in 2022. Two additional books will be published this spring: her chapbook Aphids in the Rose (Finishing Line Press) is about breast cancer, interwoven with poems about the resiliency of nature, and her full-length collection, Reading Szymborska in a Time of Plague, won the Brick Road Press poetry contest.
His new book, Hands Like Trees, a story cycle about one immigrant family’s tryst with hope and despair, rupture and belonging, spanning three decades and two continents, is available for purchase at your nearest book store!
“Glows with life in every story. Here are characters that are complex, astute, painful, funny, enlightening and most of all enjoyable. Restless men and willful women, who seek escape but also belonging, a contradiction and elusiveness that bursts with wit and empathy. These are nimble stories imbued with insight into the ties that bind, the ties that break, stories that shimmer with the soul of a poet…A marvelous debut.” – John Vigna author of No Man’s Land
Her debut full-length poetry collection, Expert Terrain, is being published by Word Poetry and will be available in May/June 2023.
Her book, titled Risk, will be published by Black Ocean Press in spring, 2024.
Her debut novel Shaken Loose will be published by Hypatia Press in July. Speculative fiction set in an unraveling Christian Hell, it raises questions about how a supposedly just God can allow so much injustice. Community of Writers instructor Karen Joy Fowler calls it “a compulsive read, a narrative full of surprises about a woman who becomes more herself after death than she ever was in life.” Pre-order now here.
Her eighth collection of poetry Spirit of Wild was published in March by Blue Light Press.
She published a Science-Fantasy novel, The Life Of Death Show, which holds five stars on Amazon. She is actively seeking an agent.
His new book, Story of a Poem, a memoir about writing poetry and fathering, is available for pre-order!
“… the luminous, lyrical meditation on wringing from suffering and air, threaded with a singular, moving story about parenting an atypical child. I read it in a single gulp, and you will too.”
—Mary Karr, author of THE LIARS’ CLUB
As founding editor, he is proud to announce the newest issue of Citric Acid: An Online Literary Arts Quarterly of Imagination and Reimagination. The spring 2023 edition is the fifth collection of writing from and about Orange County, California and includes original prose and poetry.
Her chapbook, Volcanic Interruptions was published by Jamii Press. The chapbook combines her poetry with Janet Trenchard’s acrylic/mixed media paintings so that the written word and image come together in conversation.
Her new historical novel The Shining Mountains was published in April 2023 by High Road Books, an imprint of the University of New Mexico Press. It’s the epic tale of her ancestor’s brother and his Scots-Native family caught in the crossfire of Manifest Destiny in the American Northwest. Her short story “Everychild,” a dystopian environmental fable, won the 2021 Editor’s Prize in Fiction from The Missouri Review.
Her latest book, Where My Umbilical Is Buried, a poetry collection that delves deep into the waves of grief, was published by Sundress Press.
His short story ‘Swayamvara’ has been published in Brink literary magazine (Issue 5, Spring 2023).
Her latest novel, Call Me When You’re Dead, was published in September of 2022 by She Writes Press. An excerpt from her previous novel, Jenna Takes The Fall, appears alongside works by Joyce Carol Oates, Joseph Di Prisco, Katharine Ogden Michaels, and others in Volume 4 of the Simpsonistas: Tales from the New Literary Project.
Her debut, Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea, a historical novel with speculative elements based on the life of a legendary Chinese pirate queen, will be published by Bloomsbury in May, 2023. It has been named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Debutiful, The Chicago Review of Books, The Rumpus, Polygon, Tor, and The Washington Post.
Natasha Saje’s book of poems, The Future Will Call You Something Else, will be published by Tupelo Press in May 2023.
His fourth full-length book of poems, The Rwanda Poems: Voices and Visions from the Genocide, was published in March 2023 by New York Quarterly Books. It is based on months of interviews he conducted with genocide survivors and perpetrators in Rwanda and with sex slavery survivors in Eastern Congo. Poems from from the book have appeared or are due to appear in 50 years of Poems from the Community of Writers, Bitter Oleander, Christianity and Literature, Great River Review, New York Quarterly, Poetrybay, Skidrow Penthouse, Tar River Poetry Review, Terminus, and Today’s American Catholic. He wrote the first drafts of 7 of these poems while taking part in the 2008 workshops.
She has published a new chapbook (pamphlet in the U.K.), Tea in the Nuns’ Library, (Eyewear Publishing Ltd). This collection of meditative, lyric poems is always on the move: from the quiet politeness of a garden lunch in England and a puppet performance of Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon, to Folsom Prison, the ancient Rocky Mountains, and a coyote with a platinum tinged coat rummaging through supermarket bins in winter.
She will be Santa Barbara’s 10th Poet Laureate, 2023-2025. Her poetry books include Folsom Lockdown, How Fire Is a Story, Waiting (Tía Chucha Press 2012) and Bird Forgiveness (3: a Taos Press).
She published her second children’s picture book, Elbert in the Air (Dial Books, 2023, illustrated by Jerome Pumphrey.)
She won the Jeffrey E. Smith Poetry Prize from The Missouri Review for a portfolio of poems. Her work will be published in the Spring issue of The Missouri Review and she receives a $5000 award.
Michelle Bracken’s short story, “The Crush,” was published in Across the Margin.
His second poetry collection, Unusually Grand Ideas, was published by LSU Press in February.
His new collection of new poems called Vinyl, was published by What Why Aesthetics (Erie PA).
Her debut novel, Inside the Mirror, won the 2022 AWP Prize for the Novel, judged by Brandon Hobson, and will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in Spring 2024. The story maps the estrangement of twin sisters in 1950s Bombay, India, as they struggle to find their voice as artists and independent young women in the devastating aftermath of colonial rule.
For over 20 years, David Lukas led morning nature walks for the Community of Writers and loved sharing his amazing nature stories with writers. David has now started a weekly nature newsletter as a way to continue sharing these stories, and he also gives short weekly nature talks on a wide variety of topics,
Sukun: New and Selected Poems, by Kazim Ali, will be published by Wesleyan University Press in September 2023.
Hula, the debut novel by Jasmin ʻIolani Hakes about a family navigating Hawaiian colonization alongside a burgeoning sovereignty movement, is set to release on May 2, 2023 with HarperVia.
Joe Bardin’s essay, “Waiting for It,” was published in Bull Journal.
Her debut novel Italian Love Cake (Bordighera Press, 2021) is named 2023 Distinguished Favorite in General Fiction by the Independent Press Award. Italian Love Cake is available in two French editions, under the title Liberata, Éditions Anne Carrière (2022), and Pocket (2023),
Her fourth poetry collection This Morning the Mountain was published in March ’23 by Cherry Grove Collections and is available from Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com.
His multimedia essay “The Harmonium Across Continents and Centuries,” has been published in Serenade magazine. It chronicles the odyssey of a musical instrument, the harmonium, across its 230+ years of existence from Europe to Asia, Africa and the Americas. Embedded music videos provide examples of harmonium music.
His short story, “Three Acts in Three Plays (Plus One)” appears in the print edition of the spring issue of Juked.
Elizabeth Filippouli adapted and produced a play inspired by Alexander the Great that invites audiences to rethink the idea of greatness and re-imagine the personality of the statesman through the eyes of his tutor, the philosopher Aristotle. In this contemporary adaptation the old is intertwined with modern references, making Alexander’s life relevant to today’s context. The hybrid staged reading brought together a modern epic poem by Greek playwright Stamatis A. Filippoulis, art by leading British artist Paul Benney and music by Greek composer Stamatis Spanoudakis that lifted words and visual poetry. Over 500 theatre lovers attended in the British Library in London in February 2023.
Vishwas Gaitonde’s short story ‘Carabas’ appears in ‘The Journal’ (Issue 46.2, Spring 2023).
Michael Golding’s fourth novel Quick Bright Things — about the Golden Age of Broadway — will be published in April 2023 by Butterfish Press.
She was runner up for the 2022 Arthur Smith Poetry Prize. Her collection, Tasting Flight, will be published by Madville Books in 2024. Naked Beside Fish, a chapbook of ekphrastic poems, is also forthcoming (Finishing Line Press, 2023).
Her debut novel, Fire, is the grand prize winner for The Simon & Schuster Books Like Us Award.
Her chapbook, lithopaedion will be released from Finishing Line Press in March 10, 2023. A Greek term translated, literally, to “stone baby”, a lithopaedion is a very rare phenomenon that occurs when, in a failed ectopic or abdominal pregnancy, the fetus cannot be reabsorbed by the mother’s body. Instead, it becomes calcified in order to prevent infection, sepsis, and even death in the mother. Nassif could think of no better metaphor for the sacrifices a parentified child often makes to protect the well-being of its parents, one of the motherhood related themes of this collection.
His new book Handling the Bones will be one of three featured in an online reading hosted by Broadstone Books on February 18, 2023, at 1 PM Pacific. Larry Moore, Broadstone publisher and editor, is a terrific reading host and you may enjoy his introductions to the books as much as the poems. Register here.
His seventh novel, The Last of Nico Sombra, was published on February 14, 2023 online in a serialized edition on Substack. Placed in Buenos Aires, it tells of the complicated, perhaps disastrous, love between the crime lord, Nico Sombra, and a daughter of the Argentine aristocracy, Natalia Faustino.
You can find more about the book here.
Her debut children’s book, Arletis, Abuelo, and the Message in a Bottle, will be published simultaneously in English and in Spanish by Star Bright Books in April, 2023. The Spanish edition was a Junior Library Guild selection.
His poem “Vestiges” was recently featured on the Academy of American Poets’ website as part of their Poem-a-Day series.
Her debut collection, originally titled Wandering in All Directions of this Earth, but being changed to A Novel About Feelings Already Known, is forthcoming from Ghost Peach Press, having been selected by Eduardo C. Corral as the Ghost Peach Press prize winner.
Bridge Across the Sky, his Young Adult novel-in-verse based on the Chinese immigration experience through Angel Island in the early 1900’s, was acquired by Simon & Schuster for publication in Fall of 2024.
Her debut poetry collection, General Release from the Beginning of the World, was released on January 1, 2023. Her book was chosen for publication by Brenda Hillman and published by Free Verse Editions, Palette Press.
Her fourth poetry book, Leave Me a Little Want, was published by Terrapin Books. Her third, Latter Days of Eve, won the John Ciardi Prize.
His new book, Ecstatic Pessimist: Czeslaw Milosz, Poet of Catastrophe and Hope, focuses on Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Laureate for literature. This biography of Czesław Miłosz is a first hand account of the poet’s life and his relationship to the author, beginning in the 1960s. Milosz was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy called Miłosz a writer who “voices man’s exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts”.
His new novel, The Sons of El Rey, just sold to Simon and Schuster.
Her new poetry collection, Territorial, was selected by Terrance Hayes and published in the Pitt Poetry Series in November, 2022.
The launch of his book The Abolitionist’s Journal: The Memories of an American Antislavery Family about his ancestors’ work on the Underground Railroad, was recently broadcast on C-SPAN; serving a Black Union regiment in the Civil War; and founding a college in Texas for the previously enslaved. Richardson was interviewed at the Beers Books in Sacramento by Ginger Rutland, another alum of the Community of Writers.
Her new book of poems, Heart’s Core, is now available from Finishing Line Press.
His short story “At the End of the Day” appears in Adelaide Literary Magazine.
Her short story “Fatherhood” is featured on The Razor, a publication from the Gotham Writers Workshop. Accompanying her story is a professional recording from voice actor Alex Shafer.
His multimedia essay “Bringing in the Sheaves: The Samuels of Chennai,” about a trio of brothers who sing southern gospel in southern India, was published in Serenade magazine, January 2023.
His thriller/suspense novel Criminals, set in Tokyo, received a starred review and was named one of Kirkus Reviews‘ “Best Books of 2022,” Indie edition. It was first workshopped at the Community with Ann Close. His new comic novel about a New York family, The Wealthy Whites of Williamsburg (Mumblers Press, 2022), was published Dec 20, 2022.
J. David Cummings has a new collection of poems, Handling the Bones, published in December, 2022 from Broadstone Books.
Christopher Upham’s first novel, Daktoum has been published by Cereus Press and is available in all major outlets. Based on Upham’s experience as a medic in Vietnam, Daktoum explores the effects of trauma on masculinity when diverse young Americans are abandoned by their own government on a remote jungle fire base.
Clare Frank’s Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire is due out from Abrams Press in May, 2023.
Yeva Johnson’s debut chapbook, Analog Poet Blues, will be published by Nomadic Press in February 2023.
G. J. Berger’s third novel, a legal thriller titled, Chasing Justice was published in November, 2023. “With Chasing Justice, accomplished historical novelist G.J. Berger makes an impressive debut in the conspiracy thriller genre. In a league with the best of Grisham and Baldacci.” -Dan Pollock, author of Lair of the Fox and Duel of Assassins
Sensational Nightingales, the Poems of Walter Pavlich, was edited by David Axelrod, Scott Edward Anderson, and Sandra McPherson (Lynx House Press, 2017). He was loved as a teacher at Art of the Wild. He died unexpectedly in 2002 at age 46.
Ann Fisher-Wirth’s seventh book of poems, Paradise Is Jagged, will be published February 1, 2023 by Terrapin Books. It’s available for preorder now! It’s also also available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Bookshelf. Ann has also received the 2023 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Poetry and Literature from the Mississippi Arts Commission.
Her second novel, In the Time of Our History, about rebellious women in a large Iranian-American family, will be published on January 3rd, 2023. It is a Buzz Books selection and will appear on the January Indie Next list. Amy Tan says, “I fell in love with this jewel of a novel from the first page.’ Rabih Alameddine calls it “both unique and universal, a must-read tile in the new mosaic of American novels.” Publishers Weekly calls it “a luminous multigenerational tale…that navigates the cultural differences between newer Americans and older immigrants and provides a frank look at fraught family dynamics.”
Two of her collections were published in 2022: Speech Crush (Gunpowder Press, Santa Barbara); and The 5150 Poems (Nine Mile Books, Lafayette, NY).
Her fifth collection of radio commentary, Everything But the Kitchen Skunk, came out in November, 2022. She publishes this series herself; you can order it from your favorite independent book seller through Ingram.
Her new full-length poetry collection, By Light and Hidden Matter, is now out and available online.
His first prose-poetry chapbook, The Way Back, was published by Foglifter in November, 2022.
Her novel My Nemesis will be published by Grove Press in February, 2023. Her previous novel, Miss Burma, was longlisted for the National Book Award and the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
His debut poetry book, Sad Asian Music, was published by Finishing Line Press in October 2022.
His new book of poetry, Sonnets with Two Torches and One Cliff, will be published in February, 2023, by Carnegie Mellon University Press, and is available for preorder now. 80 nontraditional sonnets explore love and jealousy—the traditional obsessions of sonnets—from nontraditional angles.
His short story ‘Mardy Gras’ has been published in The MacGuffin, Fall 2022 issue.
His short story, “Detainment,” was included in 2022’s Best American Mystery and Suspense.
His collection of poetry, Knot, a project in collaboration with photographer Jack Shear, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in November, 2022.
Her novel Confessions of a Knight Errant was recently published by Cune Press. The novel is a comedic, picaresque novel in the tradition of Don Quixote with a flamboyant cast of characters. Dr. Gary Watson is the picaro, a radical environmentalist and wannabe novelist who has been accused of masterminding a computer hack that wiped out the files of a major publishing company. His Sancho Panza is Kharalombos, a fat, gluttonous Greek dancing teacher, who is wanted by the secret police for cavorting with the daughter of the Big Man of Egypt. Self-preservation necessitates a hurried journey to the refuge of a girls’ camp in rural Texas. Then a corpse turns up.
His commentary “Wash or Wipe? – That is the Question!” has been published in the inaugural issue of Arasi literary magazine.
Her debut novel Like a Complete Unknown is a finalist for the Chicago Writers Association’s 2022 Book of the Year in indie fiction.
Her short story “Everybody’s Good” appeared in The Gettysburg Review, volume 24, number 1.
His debut novel Bark On is will be available through Driftwood Press in February, 2023.
Her second novel Circa was published by Mariner Books in May, 2022, and her third novel, Midnight at the War, will be published by Mariner Books in 2024. Circa was chosen by Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Book Club this summer.
She has been awarded a fellowship by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA). Jamie Cat Callan will be among 22 Fellows focusing on their own creative projects at this working retreat for writers, poets, visual artists, and composers. VCCA fellows have received worldwide attention including MacArthur fellowships, Pulitzer Prizes, Guggenheim fellowships, National Endowment of the Arts awards, Grammy Awards, and Academy Award nominations. Jamie Cat Callan has received several previous fellowships from VCCA as a fiction writer, but this is her first VCCA fellowship as a visual artist.
His novel Ursula Lake was published in Spring 2022 by Red Hen Press.
Her fiction debut Graft was released by Tolsun Books on October 11, 2022; her poetry memoir Burn Scars was published July 1, 2022 by Lit Kit Collective. Graft is a collection of short stories set in southeastern Los Angeles/north Orange County and is an across the century response to Nathanael West’s Day of the Locusts–done Chicana noir style. Burn Scars describes the days leading up to and then the burning of Margaret’s adopted hometown of Greenville in the Dixie Fire of 2021 and the aftermath.
Her 8th novel, the international bestseller The Postmistress of Paris—a New York Times Editors Choice and GMA Buzz book—is out in paperback. It’s the Costco Book Club pick for October and on the IndieNext New in Paperback list for November. Her book, The Last Train to London, is now out in French, the 18th of the 20 languages it will be published in.
Her most recent book, The Track the Whales Make: New & Selected Poems, won the High Plains Book Award for Poetry.
Her newest, Book of Knives, was published in October, 2022, from Poisoned Pen Press.
She was named a 2022 Whiting Award Winner in Fiction, and her short story collection, Site Fidelity, won the 2022 High Plains Book Award for Short Stories.
His essay “Four Years Before the Break-in” was published in the summer 2022 issue of The Main Street Rag.
Her memoir-in-essays, Pojangmacha People, won the 2022 Graywolf Press Literary Nonfiction Prize (to be published in June 2025).
Her poem, “The Miami Cemetery” was selected for The Islandia Journal, issue 4. Santamaria created this experimental poem during her time in the Valley.
His memoir, Refraction, will be published on November 15, 2022. It has won several writing awards, and is published by Wayfarer Books, an Eco-Lit imprint of Homebound Publications. Homebound is a partner of One Tree Planted, and for every book they sell in their store, a tree is planted.
Her short story, “Pastoral Funkitude”,” appears in Killens Review of Arts & Letters, Fall/Winter 2022 issue.
Her debut novel, The Home for Wayward Girls, will be published by HarperCollins in April, 2023. This work of fiction dives into the Troubled Teen Industry in our country and tells the story of one woman’s escape from a residential program on a ranch west of the Rockies. The novel details abuse, the anxieties she carries on her journey, and ultimately how through her survival she finds hope in the future.
Her serialized story Fish Shoes: A Palace Drama has been nominated for the Buchanan Prize of the Association for Asian Studies.
She was selected as a 2022-23 Fellow with the Center for Fiction. She is also screening her new short film at Cinema Village on 10/26 at 2PM.
She has been chosen as the winner of the 2022 Chestnut Review Stubborn Writers Contest. Her winning story, “Fish Mother,” which she workshopped at this summer’s workshop, will appear in the January 2023 issue.
His short story, “Last Stop,” has been published in Issue 43 of the Bellevue Literary Review.
Her newest collection of poetry, Brown Girl Chromatography, was published in October, 2022, by Pitt Poetry Series.
His new collection of poetry, Please make me pretty, I don’t want to die, was published in September, 2022, by Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets.
Her newest collection of poetry, Bluest Nudes, was published in September, 2022, by Milkweed.
Her poem “In the Mortgage of Desire” was selected for an honorable mention in Spoon River Poetry Review‘s annual contest and will be published in their upcoming Winter 2022 issue.
Her debut novel Shadows of Pecan Hollow was longlisted by the Center for Fiction for best first novel and shortlisted by the Crook’s Corner Book Prize for best debut novel set in the American south. She will be speaking on panels at the upcoming Texas Book Festival and Tucson Festival of Books.
Her newest, Murder at the Jubilee Rally, a Samuel Craddock mystery, was published in October, 2022.
Her story collection The Woods has won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award through the Iowa Short Fiction Award Series and will be published in November, 2022.
Her second book, Flutter, Kick, selected by Jeffrey Harrison for the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press, will be published by Red Hen Press on November 8th, 2022.
His essay on the life and times of Queen Elizabeth II, “The Second Elizabeth – A Life Appreciated” was published in Merion West.
Her short story “Women of a Certain Kind” appears in the fall 2022 issue of The Georgia Review.
Her novel, Women and Children First, will be published by SJPLit/Zando in fall, 2023.
She has been awarded the 2021-2022 Five Points James Dickey Prize for Poetry. Her work will be published in the 23.1 issue of Five Points, and she will receive $1,000.
She has won a mentorship with The Writers Lab – sponsored by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman- to further develop her TV pilot The Plant.
His memoir, Solito, was published in September, 2023, and is a New York Times Bestseller.
Her third novel, On the Rooftop, was recently selected as Reese’s Book Club pick.
Her fiction manuscript-in-progress, Craft, is a finalist for the 2022 Restless Books prize for New Immigrant Writing.
Her newest book, Balladz, is on the long list for the National Book Award for Poetry.
Her newest book of poetry, As She Appears, in on the long list for the National Book Awards for Poetry.
She has published two new poetry books. The first, Swimming Through the Generations, completes her now five volumes of poetry memoirs. It focuses both on ancestors and grandchildren beginning with Brewster and James Hill, who designed a revolutionary war ship that is on the cover and continues to playing with her granddaughter Rachel and Barbie and Ken dolls. It also includes a poem written at the Community of Writers Poetry Workshop on acceptance. The second is a chap book entitled Pandemic Poetry. The cover, front and back, are abstract collages of Mary’s paintings.
Her second collection, An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe, which won the [PANK] Poetry Prize (June 2021), has been re-released by [PANK] as Marilyn: Essays & Poems, A Collector’s Edition of an Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe to include essays that Seaborn had previously published in LitHub, Brevity, the Hunger and elsewhere as well as new criticism, photographs and the entire poetry collection.
She will be a Parent-Writer resident at Mineral School, Washington, this Fall 2022, and will participate in the AWP 2023 panel “Impossible Balance: Re-examining the narrative about writing and parenting” with John Messick, Keema Waterfield, Sean Prentiss, and Ukamaka Olisakwe
Her fourth collection, Leave Me a Little Want, is now available from Terrapin Books.
His latest novel, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy, was named the #1 Indie Next List book for August 2022. It was also chosen for the Today Show’s Read With Jenna book club, and has been optioned for a streaming series by Universal Content Productions.
His poem “Oath Keeper” was published in The New York Times on Sunday, August 14, 2022. It is also available online.
Her first full-length poetry collection, Salt & Roses, has been published by Cirque Press.
She has two novels coming out in September, 2022: Unleashed (A Publishers Weekly BuzzBook 2022) from Dutton, and Livid from Red Hen Press. These books were sold on the same day within half an hour of each other! Despite having lost her voice to ALS, she is doing her best to get the books into the hands of readers.
Her feature film, El Ganador (The Winner) was awarded Best Small Budget Film in the 2022 Symbiotic Film Festival (Kyiv, Ukraine), and Official Selection (2022) of Oaxaca Film Fest, Iconic Images Film Festival (Lithuania) and Anatolia International Film Festival (Turkey). In 2021 El Ganador was a finalist in Blue Star International Film Festival (Brazil) and an award winner in the United Latino International Film Festival (USA) in 2019. She is the writer, producer, and director.
She is the recipient of a generous 2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council artist fellowship to support the completion of her memoir about growing up in the backseat of Delilah, her family’s big blue Ford LTD, as they moved back and forth between the Rajneesh Commune in Oregon and Las Vegas during the 1980s.
His newest, Agoreography, was published by 3: A Taos Press in June, 2022.
Her new book, Sweet in Tooth and Claw: Stories of Cooperation and Generosity in Nature, will be released by Patagonia Books on September 6. Publisher’s Weekly says, “Journalist Ohlson (The Soil Will Save Us) pushes back against the Darwinian notion that “competition rules” in this vivid survey. Despite the popular notion that nature is a “vicious and never-ending battle of survival for meager resources,” Ohlson makes a solid case that the opposite is often true…This is as charming as it is enlightening.”
She was awarded a 2022 Poet Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets.
Her latest poetry collection, No Lunch Among the Day Stars, will be released in October, 2022, by Cold River Press.
She was recently appointed the Chair of the MFA Writing Program at California College of the Arts, where she is also an associate professor. Her books include The Bohemians, Song of a Captive Bird, and The Good Daughter.
His new piece on the Turkish Harem is now live on Substack. It’s more than what you think.
Her debut book of fiction, It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories, won the 2022 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and is available for purchase (release date Oct. 4, University of Pittsburgh Press).
Her new novel, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea, was published by Macmillan in August, 2022.
Her new book, Tracing Inca Trails: An Adventure in the Andes, will be published on September 20, 2022.
Her chapbook If There Are Horns, including four poems written during Community of Writers summer workshops, will be published by Finishing Line Press in October, 2022.
Her newest book, Booth, was recently long listed for the Booker Prize.
His book, The Abolitionist’s Journal: The Memories of an American Antislavery Family, will be published in fall 2022 by High Road Books, an imprint of the University of New Mexico Press. Over the course of more than twenty years, Richardson and his wife, Lori, retraced the steps of his ancestor, George Richardson (1824–1911), revealing his great-great-grandfather Richardson’s involvement in the Underground Railroad, serving as the chaplain to a Black Union regiment in the Civil War and founding a college in Texas for the formerly enslaved. The author raises questions about why this fervent commitment to the emancipation of African Americans was nearly forgotten by his family. More info.
In Swimming with Corpses, published in June, 2022, Margaret Allen has pieced together the early years of a doctor, a soldier, and a nurse, from their 1920s English childhoods in Portsmouth, Manchester, and India to their experiences in the London Blitz, on the D-Day beaches of Normandy, and in the chaos of war-torn Europe. This true story of three people who would probably never have met were it not for the lacerating events of the Second World War illuminates unfamiliar intimacies that occur during conflict and their impact on subsequent relationships. More info
Her self-published Critters in the Neighborhood Come and See with Me picture book for kids was a Purple Dragonfly Award Winner–Honorable Mention.
His chapbook, I Look at You Instead of the Road (Bottlecap Press), is now available.
His new story collection, San Francisco, was published on June 1, 2022. To order, click here. He is also writing on The Arts on Substack.
She has published a debut children’s picture book, Leo + Lea (Scholastic, illustrated by Kenard Pak, August 2022). Leo + Lea is a celebration of math, friendship, and different ways of seeing and being in the world. The words and illustrations follow a math pattern called the Fibonacci sequence (a pattern often found in nature), creating a beautiful metaphor for our connection to each other and the natural world.
Her third collection, Democracy of Fire, is due for release September 30 by Broadstone Books. A finalist for the Washington Prize, Wilder Prize, and Richard Snyder Prize, it includes poems honored by Richard Blanco, Vievee Francis, Kimberly Blaeser, Arthur Sze, and Mark Doty, and several begun at the Community of Writers.
Her debut novel The Lockhart Women is the 2022 WILLA Literary Award Finalist in Multiform Fiction. The WILLA Literary Awards, named in honor of Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Willa Cather, recognizes the best in literature, featuring women’s or girls’ stories set in the North American West that are published each year.
Her debut poetry collection, Sister Tongue زبان خواهر, was selected by Tracy K. Smith as winner of the 2021 Wick Poetry Prize and will be published at the end of August, 2022, by Kent State University Press.
Traveler’s Mind: UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center has awarded authors Michael Shapiro and Ethan Watters a grant to study the concept of intellectual humility, the idea that not everything you think is right and not everything you believe is true. During the next 18 months, Shapiro and Watters, both longtime journalists, will be interviewing scientists and travelers to glean how (or if) travel makes us more open-minded. GGSC said there were 150 applicants; just 18 grants in various topics were awarded. Other winners include reporters from NPR and Scientific American – for the full list and more about the award, see link.
Her short story “Everychild” won the 2021 Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize in fiction from The Missouri Review.
Her debut novel, Sirens and Muses, will be published by Penguin Random House in July, 2022.
Her chapbook, Ornate Persona, is soon to be released by Clare Songbirds Publishing.
This chapbook features poems influenced by dance, film, art, literature, starring Nijinsky, Apollinaire, Siddhartha, Chagall and others. The poem sequence, “Six Paintings by Miss X,” was started at Community of Writers in 2010 at Kazim Ali’s workshop.
Her longform essay “Following Floodlights Instead of the Moon” won the CRAFT Creative Nonfiction Prize.
Her 19th book, Even When We Sleep, was recently published by Commonwealth Books, Black Widow Press. It is her 8th book of lyric poetry.
Her novel-in-progress Proposition has been selected for fiscal sponsorship by Fractured Atlas.
Proposition follows the sex-trafficking epidemic in Oakland from the dual perspective of survivors striving to create a better world for themselves and white-savior activists oblivious to the ways they perpetuate systemic inequality, and is based on her essay, “Dancing on the Blade,” for which she received the San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Award for Nonfiction.
Her debut novel Sirens & Muses will be published by Ballantine/Random House on July 12, 2022. She is on tour promoting the book and will be doing events in Minneapolis, Brooklyn, Cape Cod, Stillwater, MN and Northfield, MN. See her website for more details.
Her latest full-length poetry collection Refuse to Disappear (Word Works Books, 2022) was selected for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection and is the June 2022 selection for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club.
Her short story, “We Will Live Here Forever,” has been published in the KGB Bar Online Literary Review and appears in the April 2022 issue.
She was a finalist in Phoebe’s 2022 short fiction contest. Her story, “We Can’t Live Without the Birds and Animals,” appears in the Spring 2022 issue of Phoebe.
Her eighth book of poems, Even When We Sleep, will be published on June 1st from Commonwealth Books/Black Widow Press, Boston. These are bluesy love poems, songs of healing, poems of Jewish identity. The title comes from Paul Eluard’s line, “Even when we sleep we watch over one another.”
He has started Di Freyd fun Yidishn Vort/The Joy of the Yiddish Word, a free online newsletter of Yiddish poetry in translation.
His essay on Michelle Latiolais’ novel SHE appears in a new collection, The Many Voices of
the Los Angeles Novel (Cambridge Scholars Press). The essay, “Ariadne’s Thread or Things Befall Apart (Together) in L.A.: She by Michelle Latiolais,” appears alongside laudatory meditations on the work of writers Wanda Coleman, Joan Didion and Carolyn See, among others.
His story “The Ferry and the Road,” which appeared in Story in 2021, was named a Finalist for the 2022 Spur Award in Short Fiction, given by Western Writers of America. The story was workshopped at the Community of Writers in 2018. It is also the first chapter of his novel-in-progress.
His latest novel, Escape from Castro’s Cuba, received the Professional Achievement Award for Johns Hopkins University faculty. In addition, the novel was a finalist, and the only work of fiction, selected for the Casey Award, given annually to the best baseball book.
His short story “Around Here Somewhere” appears in the Spring 2022 issue of 34 Orchard.
Her short story “In a Burning Volcano” appeared in Salamander, issue #53 (Fall/Winter 2021-2022). It was a finalist for the Salamander 2021 Fiction Prize.
Her Palace Drama Fish Shoes has been posted on the story platform Wattpad in episodes. “What happens when the daughter of Emperor Khubilai Khan must persuade her father to listen to her husband, the King of Korea and desist from invading Japan by sea? To read it for free, download the Wattpad app and go to Historical Fiction.
Her piece on “finding current relevancy—and outrage—in the accusations of plagiarism that have long haunted a classic of the West: Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose” is out now in Alta.
His fourteenth book, a story collection titled San Francisco, will be published on June 1, 2022. It is so titled because every story takes place in that city. One of the stories, “Crusts of Bread and Such,” will appear in the Fall 2022 issue of Catamaran Literary Reader.
Her most recent book Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in Verse (University of Arkansas Press, March 2022) is hailed by Ilya Kaminsky as a book “that created its own genre—a thrill of lyric combined with the narrative spell.” A short film about the book marries her poetry and voice to music and film: https://youtu.be/0iHMAZwYrhw
Her short story “Everychild” won the 2022 Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize in fiction from the Missouri Review and appears in the spring 2022 issue. Her second novel, a family epic of the fur trade set in the 19th century Pacific Northwest, will be published in spring 2023 by High Road Books, an imprint of the University of New Mexico Press. Her latest book, “Toxic: A Daughter’s Memoir of Desertion”, is out on submission.
Her translation with the poet, Mohamed Metwalli’s book, A Song on the Aegean Sea will be published by Laertes Press, May 2022.
Her “zip ode” was selected as the week 1 spotlight poem for WLRN/ O, Miami Zip Ode Project and featured on air and on instagram for the O, Miami Poetry Festival. She will be reading her poem in the virtual Zip Odes Finale on Wednesday, April 27 at 7 PM ET.
His short story ‘Vermin’ was published in the 2021 issue of Descant.
His essay, “The Wonderful World of Beverly Hills,” was published in the winter 2022 issue of Mason Street Review. In March, 2022, his essay, “The Hamburger,” appeared in Ink, a Hippocampus anthology.
Raven Braids the Wind, from Wisdom through Manzanita Writer’s Press (MWP), is her first poetry collection to be published.
His short story, “Good Neighbors,” which was chosen as a finalist for the 2021 Narrative 30 Below Contest, was published as a Story of the Week in Narrative Magazine in April 2022.
Her poem was selected for the WLRN/ Zip Odes Project for the O, Miami Poetry Festival.
Her debut novel, The Long Answer, was published by Riverhead Books (Penguin Random House) on June 21, 2022.
His anthology of edited essays, Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry, will be published by the University of New Mexico Press this November.
He has a new poem “My Mother Is a Garden” in Issue 41 of The Adroit Journal.
Her poem “Emerald (a charm for ash)” won the 2021 Winter Anthology Contest, and appears in volume 12 of the Winter Anthology online.
She is retiring in June after nearly 50 years of university teaching. She is currently coediting an anthology of eco-poetry, prose, and art from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania, and the Southern US for the journal Global South; and coediting a Literary Field Guide to Mississippi. She will be in residence at Storyknife, the women writers’ retreat in Homer, Alaska, in October 2022, where she’ll work on a new book of poems.
Her new historical novel-in-verse, An Art, a Craft, a Mystery (Livingston Press, 2022), is
a family saga told in a series of short poems. A hybrid of poetry, historical fiction and feminist literature, it tells the stories of two real women, Lydea Gilbert and Katherine (Kate) Harrison, who lived along the frontier of the Connecticut River in the mid 1600s. They were healers, midwives, farmers and ordinary women who faced the struggles and joys of life in a wild new land. They were women in a puritan culture, women of intuitive genius and healing powers, who lived through times where feminine power and the value of women’s lives was suspect and condemned.
Her fourth historical mystery in the John Singer Sargent/Violet Paget series is out now! The Eleventh Commandment was dubbed by Kirkus Reviews as “A thrilling whodunit and an edifying work of historical fiction….an exceedingly intelligent and entertaining novel.”
Her short story “Motherhood” appears in the Spring 2022 Issue of STORY Magazine.
Her poem Making Love I Remember a Dark Wood appears in the Spring 2022 issue of Birmingham Poetry Review number 49.
In April 2022, Rosebud Magazine published “The Forbidden Kingdom”, a poem selected as finalist in the 2021 Rosebud Poetry Contest.
Sergio wrote this poem, originally entitled “Monday blob” for a Monday morning workshop led by Camille Dungy in 2020. By coincidence, Lester Graves Lennon also attended this workshop. Later that year, he assumed the role of Poetry editor for Rosebud Magazine and judged the poetry contest.
Issue #69 of Rosebud Magazine is currently available at Barnes & Noble bookstores.
Her new novel, The Candy House, was published on April 5, 2022 from Scribner’s.
Her debut full-length poetry collection As She Appears (YesYes Books), winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize, will be published in May, 2022.
She is the recipient of the 2022 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry, and will be honored at a benefit put on by the Poetry Society of America on May 12. Named for Robert Frost, and first given in 1930, the Frost Medal is one of the oldest and most prestigious awards in American poetry and is awarded annually at the discretion of the PSA’s Board of Governors. Previous winners of the award include Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Lucille Clifton, and most recently, N. Scott Momaday.
Her second full-length book of poetry, What Flies Want, was chosen by judge Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the Iowa Prize. Poet Wayne Miller calls it “a broad and ambitious book well-tuned to the concerns of the present moment as it attends in smart and nuanced layers to sexual violence, constructions of gender, the complexities of race, the disappointments and redemptions of marriage, and the entwined hopes and fears of raising boys in a world where ‘every man’s a ticking bomb.’” The book is available for pre-order on Amazon and the University of Iowa website, and it will be available in May, 2022.
His newest collection of poetry, My Little Book of Exiles, was recently published by Maida Vale.
His multimedia essay “There Will Always Be Stars In the Sky,” on the life and legacy of Lata Mangeshkar, India’s beloved diva, was published in Serenade magazine, March 2022.
She has a new novel out, Standing Up: Tales of Struggle, written with her husband Larry Miller. Inspired by five decades of organizing, Standing Up is about those who clean bloody hospital sheets, forge parts for sewer pipes, arrange flights, or process checks — all while caring for kids, holding relationships together and wrestling with multiple forms of oppression. As the characters stand up, slow down, form unions, leave an abusive relationship or just stir up good trouble, they entertain and enlighten and encourage us to love deeply, as we continue the fight for justice. Best-selling author Jacquelyn Mitchard calls it “Shocking, terrifying, inspiring and deeply felt lives of the unsung.”
She is being honored at The Poetry Project Gala in New York City on April 8. More details can be found here: https://www.poetryproject.org/gala?token=5de6c2883029110cb33f6ec372915af1ac1545ae
Her short story collection, Proof of Me and Other Stories, is now available for pre-order at Barnes & Noble.com. It will be released by New American Press in Philadelphia on March 24, 2022 during AWP. To preorder: tinyurl.com/5f58mcf4
Her essay, “The Man with the Poodle: Political Theater in the Time of CRT” was recently featured in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
His first collection of poetry, My Little Book of Exiles, comes out March 1, 2022 from Eyewear Press, London.
Her play Whippoorwill is being produced by Centenary Stage Co, March-April 2022, winning the Women Playwrights Series Susan Glaspell Contest. Her most recent play, The Field, has been nominated for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Drama.
She won the 52nd New Millennium Award for Fiction for her story, War Paint, included in her collection, Hold Off The Night, forthcoming from Bequem Press.
Her new book, Perishable World, (Pleasure Boat Studio Press, 2021) won the 2021 Grand Prize from the international Eyelands Book Awards.
She co-edited the forthcoming anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. The anthology–a collection of poems, essays, and writing prompts–features work by several members of the Community of Writers, including Diannely Antigua, Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Meg Day, Keetje Kuipers, Khadijah Queen, Chelsea Rathburn and others. The book is available for pre-order and will be released by University of Georgia Press in April, 2022.
Her debut novel for adults, Last Stop on the 6 (Bordighera Press), workshopped during her time at Community Writers, was published in November, 2021.
Her new short film Final Curtain Call, on Radio City Music Hall’s Chief organist Ray Bohr, is in post-production.
Her short story, “Date of Death”, was nominated for the Pushcart Prize and appears in Volume 24 of Water~Stone Review.
Her short story “A Dying Breed” appears in the Spring/Summer 2021 issue of Hayden’s Ferry Review.
Her short story “ESL” will be published in the ninth issue of Huizache. During the fiction workshops of 2019, her individual conference mentor was founding editor Dagoberto Gilb. Her pen name is Cathy Lue-W.
Her new novel, Booth, will be published by Penguin in March, 2022.
His short story, “October in Kauai,” was selected to be in the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022. It originally appeared in the Mystery Tribune, Issue No. 15.
Her debut novel, Shadows of Pecan Hollow, was just published by William Morrow! A chapter was workshopped at the Community of Writers Fiction Workshop in 2017.
Her second collection of poems, Ceiling Fan, was published by Rare Swan Books in February 2022.
He recently had a poem entitled “EL Silencio” published in the online literary journal TriQuarterly. The first draft of this poem was written for a workshop led by Bob Hass during the 2020 Poetry Workshop.
He almost scrapped the poem after writing the first few lines because he felt that it had nothing to do with the pandemic or was relevant to what everyone was going through during the lockdown. However, he went ahead and wrote it because he needed to turn something in for Saturday session.
She won the 2022 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for her linked short story collection It Falls Gently All Around. It will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in October, 2022.
The inaugural volume of a short story anthology, Coolest American Stories 2022, founded and edited by Mark Wisniewski, has been published and received early praise from Ben Fontain, Lori Ostlund, The Washington Independent Review of Books, and the Santa Fe Reporter. Mark’s goal is to publish “interesting, compelling storytelling that appeals to people from all walks of life,” thus, he hopes, providing a yearly collection of tales that can serve as a common ground for enjoyment rather than divide Americans nationwide.
Her debut collection, The Land of Stone and River, won the Moon City Press poetry prize and is now available for preorder, to be published in March, 2022.
The inaugural issue of his newest project, Citric Acid: An Online Orange County Literary Arts Journal of Imagination and Regimagination, features writing by Community of Writers friends Victoria Patterson, Grant Hier, Lisa Alvarez and Mary Camarillo, among OC writers sharing poetry, fiction, and memoir from and about the region.
Her personal essay, Double Negative, won the Split/Lip Press CNF chapbook contest and is forthcoming March 15, 2022. It is available for preorder starting on February 15.
His short story, “The Girl from Yesterday,” appears in the Hive Avenue Literary Journal.
Her full length poetry collection, Double Helix, will be published in May, 2022, and is available now for preorder.
His new translation of the classical Tamil masterpiece on ethics, power, and love, The Kural: Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural, was published by Beacon Press on January 11, 2022.
His second collection of poems, The Next Breath, will soon be his first published book (the first collection is still looking for a home) when Finishing Line Press releases the book this year.
Her poem, “How a lake flash-froze a herd of horses,” was selected by Kaveh Akbar for inclusion in Best New Poets 2021. This is McCoy’s second appearance in the Best New Poets anthology.
His third book of poetry, Lynchings: Postcards from America, was released the first week of January, 2022. The title section (all started in the Valley) consists of 13 poems that look at 12 lynching photographs, some of which were turned into postcards.
She has poems appearing in the Spring 2022 issues of Press Pause (vol 6), Radar Poetry (Issue 32 XXII), The Round (Issue XXII), Sequestrum (Issue 30), and Visitant (2/23).
She is the recipient of a generous 2022 Elizabeth George Foundation grant to support the completion of her memoir about growing up in the backseat of Delilah, her family’s big blue Ford LTD, as they moved back and forth between the Rajneesh Commune in Oregon and Las Vegas during the 1980s.
Her essay, “Hole(s),” won the 2021 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize and appeared in the Winter 2021 issue.
Her debut novel, Shadows of Pecan Hollow, was just published by William Morrow. It’s a gritty Texas thriller about a fierce woman and the partner in crime she can’t escape. Caroline workshopped a chapter from her novel at Community of Writers in 2017.
Her newest work of poetry and visual art, Her Read: A Graphic Poem, was published in 2021 by Texas Review Press.
His poetry collection, Burying the Mountain, was recently published by Copper Canyon Press.
Her novel, Poser, will be published by Outcast Press in February, 2022.
First in a noir series called the Eucalyptus Lane Novels, set in and around Palo Alto, CA, Poser offers a “class-conscious, peeping-Tom gaze into Silicon Valley’s bedrooms and back-alleys, where dreams really do come true and unlikely, life-altering connections are made, for better—or worse.”
Her novel Away to Stay comes out with Regal House Press in February, 2022.
She won the 2021 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. The award includes publication in The Hippocrates Prize Anthology and 1,000 British pounds. Her poem, “Voice Mail,” was chosen from a record number of entries submitted from 30 countries to The Open Category for Poets. There was a separate division for health professionals and another for young writers of poetry. A video of Fran reading “Voice Mail,” one of a series of poems she wrote while her friend battled pancreatic cancer, can be seen on the society’s website: www.hippocrates-poetry.org.
Her short story collection, Proof of Me and Other Stories, is now available for pre-order at Barnes & Noble.com. It will be released by New American Press in Philadelphia on March 24, 2022 during AWP. To preorder: tinyurl.com/5f58mcf4
Her first poetry chapbook, Rainbow Body, is now available for purchase. This 12-poem collection tells the story of self-discovery amidst the sex and lights of Miami Beach. You can get your copy at your local bookstore or at any online retailer. Visit www.neysaking.com/rainbow body or follow Neysa on IG @neysaking for more details.
Her debut novel, Like A Complete Unknown, will be published in March, 2022 by New Wind Publishing.
Her memoir, My Unexpected Life: An International Memoir of Two Pandemics, HIV and COVID-19, has just won an award from POZ Magazine for 2021 Best in Literature. While it holds less literary weight, it does hold high endorsement from the community of people living with HIV which, considering the subject matter of Clark’s memoir and her own life with HIV, it sends a resounding endorsement from a key readership.
Her self-published picture book, The Story of Doves, won Honorable Mention in the 2021 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards for Picture Books 5 & Younger.
His short story “The Sensible Gardener” appears in the December 2021 issue of Anti-Heroin Chic.
Her debut poetry collection, Firewatch, will be published by Fonograf Editions on December 7th, 2021.
Her first chapbook of poetry, Rainbow Body, will be released on December 12, 2021.
His short story, ‘The Queen of Artichoke Hearts’ was published in the inaugural online issue of The Other Side of Hope, a new literary magazine in Britain dedicated to refugee and immigrant writing.
His chapbook Eye, Romanov was published in July as one of the James Tate Prize’s shared winners (SurVision Books). His chapbook Bayou Oncology will be published in 2022 with Osmanthus Press.
His commentary “The Queens on the Throne of Kings,” written to mark Queen Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee (70 years on the throne) which falls on Feb 6, 2022, was published in Merion West on November 8.
Her fifth story collection, Wife with Knife, won the Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Prize and is being published both by Leapfrog Press in the US in November 2021 and by Can of Worms Press in the UK in 2022.
His satirical short film “Representation Matters?” was named “Best Short Film” at the Atman Film Festival in Los Angeles on 10/31/21. The film also garnered nominations for “Best Script”, “Best Actor”, and won for “Best Actress” at the Atman Film Festival. The film has also been screened at the Buenos Aries Film Festival and Osaka International Film Festival, and several other festivals in the United States, earning nominations for “Best Film”, “Best Script” and “Best Director”.
His debut picture book, a biography of the seminal haiku poet Matsuo Basho (written entirely in haiku, of course!) was released by Stone Bridge Press on October 19, 2021.
He and his writing partner Jean Su’s pilot script “Leading Edge”, an Asian female-led one hour drama television series set in Silicon Valley, was named “Outstanding Drama Pilot” at the Catalyst Story Institute 2021 Content Festival (formerly ITV Fest) for television and web series content.
Her novel Stopgaps was published in May, 2021 and is available through Bookbaby. com or Amazon.com.
Her debut collection, The Second Split Between, selected by Dorianne Laux for the 2021 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets, was published in November 2021 by Catamaran.
Her first poetry collection, A Dangerous Place, was published by Sarabande Books in October, 2021.
His short story “New Lives, Old Habits” was published in the Autumn 2021 issue of Spellbinder magazine in the United Kingdom.
His short story “The Stonecutter’s Wife” appears in Otoliths.
Her debut novel, Sirens and Muses, will be published by Penguin Random House in July, 2022.
His novel, Ramadan Ramsey, was recently selected by Publisher’s Weekly as one of the 20 best works of fiction of 2021.
A play he co-wrote with Linda C. Lederman, An Attitude of Gratitude, will be performed virtually on November 6. To register for the live performance, visit this link.
Her newest book of poetry, Requeening, which was selected by Ocean Vuong as a National Poetry Series winner, was published on October 26, 2021 by Ecco.
The third volume of his travel series, The Kindness of Strangers, was published in October, 2021.
Her work is featured in the upcoming anthology, What Falls Away is Always: Writers Over 60 on Writing and Death. There is an in-person publication reading at Village Well Bookstore this Wednesday, October 27, in Culver City.
Her children’s picture book, Critters in the Neighborhood Come and See with Me, is now available.
Her short essay “Being a Woman is Like Making French Onion Soup” won first place in the WOW! Women on Writing Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest.
Her piece “On Teaching at the End of the World” was recently published in Literary Hub’s series “Teaching Through a Pandemic” on October 18, 2021.
The sequel to her picture book, The Story of Doves: Part Two, is out now!
She was short-listed for the 2020 Montreal International Poetry Prize, and a finalist for the 2021 Coniston Prize, Ruminate’s “The Waking” Flash Prose Contest, and the 2020 Reed Magazine Edwin Markham Prize.
Her feature in Alta Journal, “The Safe Place That Became Unsafe,” won Folio’s national award in the category of Best Investigative Reporting. This is the story about a predatory pastor who abused generations of Chinese boys and a follow-up to her book, The White Devil’s Daughters.
Her newest novel, Monster in the Middle, was recently published by Riverhead Books.
Her short story, “Everyone was Singing Freiheit,” appears in the fall 2021 issue of Air/Light magazine.
They were recently named the associate editor of The Offing, an online literary magazine that publishes creative writing in all genres and art in all media. “The Offing publishes work that challenges, experiments, provokes — work that pushes literary and artistic forms and conventions.”
He was a finalist in The George Floyd Short Story Competition conducted by the Nottingham Writers Studio, in Nottingham, England. His story, ‘The Worth of a Miracle’ was included in the prize anthology Black Lives. An audio recording of the story has been posted on the Nottingham City Libraries website as part of Black History Month (celebrated in October in Britain) & can be accessed here all October.
Her collection of stories,The High Price of Freeways, is co-winner of this year’s Tartt Fiction Award. Livingston Press, from the University of West Alabama, will publish this collection in June, 2022.
Her novel manuscript, All Manner of Beasts, has been selected as the winner in literary fiction in the 2021 Book Pipeline Unpublished Contest. In this novel, a wife becomes the hero to the husband who thought she needed saving in the midst of Japanese-occupied Philippines during World War II, while soldiers hunt for guerrillas and their supporters, making this couple their target. The excerpt she submitted for this contest is a revised version of the one she submitted for critique at the Community of Writers summer Fiction workshop in 2019.
Her piece, “Recovery from Simultaneous Stroke and Cardiac Arrest,” a humorous take on the traditional medical abstract and based on a true story, was recently published in the Maine Review.
His newest novel, A Mistaken Hostage, was published in September, 2021.
Her short story, “Dead Eddie” will be in the 150th anniversary anthology of the Elm Leaves Journal out of Buffalo State.
His newest novel, A Calling for Charlie Barnes, was published in September, 2021, by Little, Brown and Company.
Amanda Moore’s debut collection, Requeening, selected by Ocean Vuong for the 2020 National Poetry Series was published in October 2021 by HarperCollins/Ecco.
Judy Juanita’s poetry collection, Manhattan My Ass, You’re in Oakland, won the American Book Award 2021 from the Before Columbus Foundation. Many of the poems appear in New Verse News online. Her short story collection, The High Price of Freeways, won the Tartt Fiction Prize 2021 at the University of West Alabama [UWA] and will be published by Livingston Press [UWA] in 2022.
Elder Gideon’s debut poetry collection Aegis of Waves was published by Atmosphere Press, with a book launch at the Sacramento Poetry Center in August.
Cai Emmons’ fifth book of fiction, the novel Sinking Islands, was published on Sept. 14, 2021. In addition, she has two novels forthcoming in 2022, Unleashed from Dutton, and Hair On Fire from Red Hen Press.
A short play by Deborah Dashow Ruth is a winner in the Chameleon Theatre Circle’s 22nd Annual New Play Contest. The play is titled “The Previous Incident Versus a Recent Development,” and will be streamed sometime in the fall. Also, one of her poems was accepted for the debut issue of the Thuya Poetry Review, a new journal.
Tiphanie Yanique’s new novel, Monster in the Middle, will be published by Riverhead Books on October 19, 2021.
Two of Stella Santamaria’s poems were published in The Acentos Review, September 2021 issue after attending Community of Writers, Poetry Program in the Summer of 2021 in the Virtual Valley.
Terence Clarke’s latest novel is The Moment Before, was published September 15. Renowned Parisian artist Yvette Roman suffers from epileptic seizures that are preceded by extraordinary visions. Much of her work is based on those visions. While in New York City for an exhibition of her work at The Guggenheim, a painting by Yvette is delivered to her Manhattan gallery. But, Yvette has no recollection of having done it, even though the painting may be her masterwork. Is it hers? Is it a forgery? Is someone trying to destroy Yvette?
This novel is the third of a trilogy. The others are My Father in The Night and When Clara Was Twelve. All three are available everywhere, in print and digital versions.
Martina Clark’s memoir, My Unexpected Life: An International Memoir of Two Pandemics, HIV and COVID-19, is being published by Northampton House Press and comes out October 5th, 2021. This memoir was her workshop piece in 2013.
Barbara West interviewed Megan Stielstra for Another Chicago Magazine on the occasion of Northwestern University Press reissuing two of Stielstra’s essay collections. Topics covered include how we take care of ourselves and each other, Moratorium on Shame and Stielstra instructing me to “Please, look at all the asses, Barbara!”
Amanda Moore’s [Her] debut collection, Requeening, was selected by Ocean Vuong for the 2020 National Poetry Series and will be published in October 2021 by HarperCollins/Ecco.
Lynne’s has new children’s picture book The Story of Doves was published in 2021.
Debra A. Daniel’s novella-in-flash, A Family of Great Falls, was short listed for the Bath Novella-in-flash Award 2021, and was published by Ad Hoc Fiction in the UK. Two of her pieces were also shortlisted for the Smokelong Quarterly Mikey Award, the Bath Flash Fiction Award, and long listed for the Reflex Fiction Award.
Andrea Carter Brown’s fourth poetry collection, September 12, was published by The Word Works in September 2021 to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
Swathi Desai’s short story, “A Girl, Almost Ten”, was featured in the May 2021 issue of Faultline. https://issuu.com/faultlinejournal/docs/faultline30printfinal
Cathy Park Hong has been included in Time Magazine’s 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF 2021!
Forrest Gander’s collection Twice Alive, has been long-listed for this year’s National Book Award in Poetry. His poem “Post-Fire Forest,” was published last spring in The New Yorker.
Her newest book of poetry, Forbidden Plums: Poems in Quarantine, was recently published by Glass Lyre Press. It is a collection of poetry written during the first 40 days of quarantine in 2020.
Her debut poetry collection, Hospice Plastics, was selected by Emma Bolden as the winner of the Cowles Poetry Prize and will be published by Southeast Missouri State University Press in October, 2021. Mary Szybist called Hospice Plastics “that rare collection that I’ve not been able to stop re-reading.” This somewhat autobiographical collection of poetry focuses on the illnesses and deaths of the poet’s parents during her teen years, centering on palliative care and literal plastics: medical tools and supplies—artificial, grotesquely present, weirdly funny, sublimely comforting.
His poetry collection, Boneyarn, was a June bestseller at Small Press Distribution. This collection is the first book of poems about slavery in New York City, where the oldest and largest slave cemetery in the United States is located. If you are interested in a signed copy, you can email David at edgarallanpoit@yahoo.com. Boneyarn is also available at Small Press Distribution and Amazon.
Her newest novel, Sinking Islands, will be published by Red Hen Press in September, 2021.
Her eighth book, The Postmistress of Paris, has been named a Publisher’s Weekly Notable Book for Fall/Winter 2021. The novel, inspired by the efforts of real-life Chicago heiress Mary Jayne Gold’s efforts to rescue artists, writers, and intellectuals from Nazi-occupied France, will be published by HarperCollins November 30, 2021, and in multiple translations. Her most recent novel, the international bestseller and National Jewish Book Award finalist The Last Train to London, has now been published in 17 languages, and will be translated into French, Hebrew, and Turkish in the coming year.
His first book of poems, The Flesh Between Us, selected by Brian Turner as the winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition, is forthcoming from SIU Press this October.
He has two new poems in the current issue of The Literary Review.
His debut collection of poetry, Gentefication, is coming out through Four Way Books September 15, 2021. It was selected by Gregory Pardlo as the winner of the 2019 Larry Levis Prize in Poetry.
Her most recent novel, The Postmistress of Paris (HarperCollins, November, 2021) was included on Publishers Weekly’s notable literary fiction for fall 2021, and received a starred review praising its “lyrical, thought-provoking prose” and concluding, “This sterling portrait of a complex woman stands head and shoulders above most contemporary WWII fiction.” Meg’s international bestseller and National Jewish Book Award finalist The Last Train to London is now forthcoming or published in 20 languages.
Her debut memoir, Everything is Perfect, narrated by the author, was released by Audible on August 5th.
Her novel, Celeste & Chris, workshopped at Community of Writers, was recently published.
His essay “Places of Worship” appeared in Penmen Review on June 11, 2021. His essay “One Year After the Break-in” was published by Eclectica Magazine Vol.25, No.3 (July/August 2021).
His short story “The Saint” was published online in the summer 2021 issue of Baltimore Review, and will be included in the magazine’s annual print anthology. Also published online is an audio recording (check the horizontal black bar at the bottom of the screen) of Gaitonde reading his story, with music by Lydian Nadhaswaram.
Her first book, The Moons of August (2014), was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award. Some of her work has been published in: The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, Orion, The American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner. Her second book, Bonfire Opera, (Pitt Poetry Series), was a finalist for the 2021 Paterson Poetry Award, and was the winner of the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. She was the 2018-2020 Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California, and is currently on the faculty of Pacific University’s low-residency MFA program.
Her first novel, Italian Love Cake (Bordighera Press, 2021), about a young Italian American woman struggling to save her family’s store on the eve of WWII, will be translated into French and published by Éditions Anne Carrière, Spring 2022.
Her manuscript The Second Split Between was selected by Dorianne Laux to be the winner of the 2021 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets. The collection will be published by Catamaran in the fall of 2021.
His book Out on Good Behavior: Teaching Math While Looking Over Your Shoulder was published by John Catt Educational, in January, 2021.
His novel, Two Seasons, workshopped at the Community of Writers in 2010, was recently published and is now available on Amazon.
The concluding collection of his trilogy of memoirs, Endings & Beginnings: Family Essays, was published in April, 2021, by MadHat Press, with an introduction by John Skoyles.
Splitting Heirs, written and illustrated by Anne Chadwick (McCaa Books, July, 2021), reimagines her grandfather’s legal quest to find the rightful heirs of mysterious loner. In 1923, a puritanical lawyer teams with a profligate genealogist on an odyssey from Los Angeles to Paris and Provence, where they encounter characters ranging from grateful to greedy and sympathetic to seductive. This historical courtroom fiction explores multicultural perspectives on families and kinship.
In February 2021, she was appointed Poet Laureate for the city of Los Angeles by Mayor Eric Garcetti.
His short story “Bone Saw,” a fantastical political meditation responding to the murder of journalist Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi appears in the recent Technology issue of ZYZZYVA.
Her chapbook of poems, She Speaks to the Birds at Night While They Sleep, won the 2020 Tebot Bach Clockwise Chapbook Contest and was published in July, 2021.
Her latest book, Face, A Memoir (January 2021, Saddle Road Press), was shortlisted for the 2021 Eric M. Hoffer Book Award grand prize, and won honorable mention in the memoir category. Her essat, “Skin Craft,” which is about her relationship with her surgeon and derived from the book, was shortlisted for the Fish Publishing Short Memoir Prize, and is in the latest edition of Reed Magazine.
Her short story “Outside the Mayan” recently appeared in Story Issue 10.
His story “The Ferry and the Road” appeared in the April 2021 issue of Story. An excerpt of this story was workshopped at the Community of Writers in 2017.
His debut story collection, Golden Heart Parade, will be published by Santa Fe Writers Project in September, 2021. Golden Heart Parade was a winner of the SFWP Literary Awards, which were judged by Carmen Maria Machado. In her comments, Machado wrote, “I loved this collection—it’s raw, dark, and surprisingly funny. . . . There’s so much precision and verve in these stories. I was captivated the entire way through.”
His debut novel, Radiant Fugitives, following three generations of a Muslim Indian family confronted with a nation on the brink of change in Obama-era San Francisco and Texas, was published by Counterpoint Press on August 3, 2021.
He is the winner of the 2021 AASLH Award of Excellence for Individual Achievement, in recognition of his decades-long career.
Her article “A reading guide to legendary Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez” was recently published in the Los Angeles Times Books section.
He has signed an agreement with Los Angeles based publisher Mystic Boxing Commission. His debut novel, A Kiss Away, will be released Fall, 2021.
Her historical novel, Prospects of a Woman, published in October, 2020 from She Writes Press, has won 7 awards: 2021 IPPY Awards Gold Winner in Best Regional Fiction-West-Pacific, 2021 Independent Press Awards Winner in Western Fiction, 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner in Regional Fiction, 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist in First Novel, 2021 National Indie Excellence Awards Winner in Western Fiction, 2021 National Indie Excellence Awards Winner in Regional Fiction: West, and 2021 National Indie Excellence Awards Winner in Book Interior Design: Fiction.
His poem,”Frank Embree Standing on Buggy Facing Camera Fayette, Missouri, July 22,1899 (Photographer Unknown)” which was first written during Poetry Week at the Community of Writers was published by Literary Matters.
Her essay “Dancing on the Blade” won the San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Literary Award in Nonfiction and appears in the spring 2021 issue of Under the Sun.
She did not win the Buchanan Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for her book, Batu, Khan of the Golden Horde: The Mongol Khans Conquer Russia. As they say in Hollywood, it was an honor to be invited to submit, and there are four more books in her Silk Road Series: The Heirs of Chinggis Khan (Genghis Khan). She did do a virtual talk for the American Center for Mongolian Studies to launch the book and it has been peer reviewed in Education about Asia, for use as a course book in global history.
A finalist for the Crab Orchard Review and Richard Snyder Memorial Prize, his third collection, Boneyarn, came out in April 2021 from Ashland University Press. It is the first book of poems about slavery in New York City where the oldest and largest slave cemetery in the United States is located.
His new novel, The Moment Before, will be published on September 1, 2021. It is the third of a trilogy. The others are My Father in The Night and When Clara Was Twelve.
Her short story “Patroness” appears in the latest issue of Pacifica Literary Review.
Her chapbook, Gertrude Sitting: Portraits of Women, won the Heartland Review 2020 chapbook prize.
Her debut collection of poetry, about:blank, was chosen by Claudia Rankine as the 2020 winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize and will be published by University of Pittsburgh Press in October, 2021. The book is available for pre-sale now.
Her new collection, Perishable World, was published by Pleasure Boat Studio press in May, 2021.
She was recently inducted as the Poet Laureate of Los Gatos in April 2021. Selected by the mayor and members of the Los Gatos Library Board and Arts and Culture Commission after an unanimous vote, she will serve a three-year term promoting poetry and literature in the community.
Her short story collection, A Place Remote, (West Virginia University Press) has won a Silver IPPY in the Great Lakes – Best Regional Fiction category.
Inspired by the Greek myth of Iphigenia and the Grimm fairy tale “Brother and Sister,” Michelle Ruiz Keil’s second novel, Summer in the City of Roses, follows two siblings torn apart and struggling to find each other in early ’90s Portland. It will be available July 6, 2021 wherever books are sold.
Her new book of poetry, Diving and Rising, was recently published by Finishing Line Press.
A new documentary, Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir, recently premiered on PBS. Amy Tan is an intimate portrait of the groundbreaking writer that interweaves archival imagery, including home movies and personal photographs, animation and original interviews to tell the inspiring story of Tan’s life and career. To watch, click here.
An artifact of erasure at once poetry and visual art, Her Read, a graphic poem by Jennifer Sperry Steinorth will be published in full color and hardback by Texas Review Press in June, 2021. In the tradition of reusing canvases, with correction fluid, scalpel & embroidery floss, Steinorth transforms a tome of art criticism, The Meaning of Art by Herbert Read, into feminist verse. Though the maternal body appears with frequency in Read’s illustrated text which spans from prehistory to the modern age, he includes zero female artists. Her Read, a graphic poem, is an excavation of buried voices– a reclamation of bodies framed in gilt & an homage to those whose arts remain unsung.
Her debut full-length collection, Wave Says, was published by Kore Press on May 15, 2021.
His poetry collection, Burying the Mountain, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in October, 2021.
Her chapbook, Gertrude Sitting: Portraits of Women, was awarded the Heartland Review Chapbook Award for Poetry 2020, and recently published. The chapbook was also a Main Street Rag Finalist.
Her debut novel The Photographer will be published by Minotaur Books/ St. Martin’s Press (U.S.) on May 25, 2021 and by Hodder Books (UK) on May 13, 2021.
She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2021-2022 to work on a book she is calling The Neuroscience of Craft. The book will analyze contemporary fiction-writers’ techniques for helping readers to blend senses in their imaginations.
Her second poetry collection, Dust Bowl Venus, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in May, 2021.
His book Structures the Moment was published by the Los Angeles press Anonymous Energy.
Her poetry book, Secondary Cicatrices, won a Distinguished Favorite in the 2021 Independent Press Awards.
His first novel, The Brothers Silver, was published by Owl Canyon Press. The Brothers Silver follows the lives of two brothers who grow up in a family haunted by mental illness, drug abuse, and violence.
His new collection Dark Side of North was published in January, 2021 by Press53.
Her short story “What Consumes You” won the 2020 Greensboro Review Robert Watson Literary Prize and appears in the Spring 2021 issue, as well as online.
Her debut short story collection, Site Fidelity, is coming June 15, 2021 from W.W. Norton.
Her novel, Revival Season, will be published by Simon and Schuster on June 15, 2021.
His first novel, A Past That Breathes, will be published by Rare Books, Inc on May 11, 2021.
His debut memoir, The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship, comes out from Godine in June, 2021. A tragicomic story about an (almost) sinking cruise ship, The Passenger journeys from the Norwegian coast to the South China Sea, from post-WWII Korea to pandemic-struck San Francisco.
Her forthcoming narrative history book, Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City, (August 3, 2021 pub date) from Johns Hopkins University Press is now available for pre-sale.
She will be reading on May 16th with Ellen Bass, Jane Hirshfield, Marie Howe, and Naomi Shihab Nye. Donations to this event will benefit the S.H.E. students, young women from the Maasai tribe who have escaped Female Genital Mutilation and early childhood marriage.
His newest book, Street Stories, a street photography monograph, will be published by Poltroon Press in May, 2021.
Her new collection, a more perfect Union, (Mad Creek Books, an imprint of Ohio State University Press) was selected by Kathy Fagan for the 2019 OSU Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize. It was published in February, 2021 and is available now!
A chapter from her memoir-in-progress was published in the February 2021 issue of Travel + Leisure.
An unanchored traveler meets devastating consequences as he searches for a new life in The Salt Fields, a debut work of prose from Stacy D. Flood, a stark and poignant Southern Gothic novella focused on the African American Great Migration after the Second World War, and a work that will leave readers thinking long after the final page.
Her new poetry collection, West: Fire Archive at Jack London State Historic Park was published by the Center for Literary Publishing (Mountain/West Poetry Series) in March 2021
Ron Nyren’s novel The Book of Lost Light was the finalist for the 2020 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction.
His first full-length poetry book, Beyond That Hill I Gather, will be published by Finishing Line Press in May, 2021. The book features portrait poems of notable women.
Her novel, Italian Love Cake, is forthcoming from Bordighera Press in May, 2021.
Her third poetry collection, Displacement Geology, has been published by fmsbw press.
Her first work of fiction, XISLE, a novel, has been published by fmsbw press.
His story, “Marrow,” appears in the January 2021 issue of The Hong Kong Review. Alexander is an instructor at the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program in Los Angeles.
Her new book, You Look Tired: An Excruciatingly Honest Guide to New Parenthood, was published by Running Press/Hachette in May, 2021. An audiobook is also available.
Her debut novel, The Music of Bees, will be published on April 27 by Dutton.
Her new novel, Sinking Islands, will be published in September, 2021 by Red Hen Press. It has been chosen as the Rumpus Book Club pick for July, and she will be interviewed on A Mighty Blaze by Lisa Genova on April 29.
Her new novel, Monster in the Dark, will be published by Penguin in October, 2021.
Her debut poetry collection, The Gull and the Bell Tower, was recently published by Femme Salvé Books.
Her young adult novel, Wider than the Sky, about sisters in the aftermath of their father’s sudden death who discover family secrets, was published by Soho Teen on January 19, 2021.
Her poetry book, Secondary Cicatrices, won Book Excellence Finalist Award.
Her stories appeared in the spring 2021 issues of Prime Number Magazine and The Louisville Review.
Her poetry collection, Mother/land, winner of the Hudson Prize, is on pre-order (October 21) with Black Lawrence Press. Her fiction chapbook Tropicália, winner of the Newfound Prose Prize is on pre-order with Newfound press. Her micro-chapbook, Amblyopia, was published by Bull City Press as part of their INCH series.
His chapbook Prodigal Cocktail Umbrella was recently published by Trainwreck Press. His debut full-length collection, Agoreography, is forthcoming from 3: A Taos Press.
His short story ‘The Worth of a Miracle’ was a finalist in The George Floyd Short Story Competition conducted by the Nottingham Writers Studio, Nottingham, England. His story, along with stories of other winners and finalists, have been published in the anthology Black Lives, in the United Kingdom, available as print and Kindle editions.
Her memoir, Loving Before Loving: A Marriage in Black and White, will be published May 18, 2021, from the University of Wisconsin Press. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker says, “This book is the real deal, the way it was. A good book for folks to grow on. I love it.”
His newest book, Going to Trinidad: A Doctor, a Colorado Town, and Stories from an Unlikely Gender Crossroads, will be published on April 15 by Bower House Books (hardcover) and Tantor Media (audio). This is longtime staff member Smith’s fifth nonfiction book, in addition to his five suspense novels.
Her novel, Red Widow, will be published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons on March 23.
Her new novel, Vera, was recently published by Scribner.
His debut novel, Chateau Laux, will be released in April, 2021.
Her third literary novel, My Good Son, won the University of New Orleans Publishing Lab Prize. It was published on April 29, 2021.
“MY GOOD SON is about a tailor named Mr. Cai in post-Tiananmen China and the dreams he holds for his only son, Feng. Mr. Cai schemes with one of his clients, Jude, a gay American expat, to get his son to the States, and the novel, about parental expectations, social class, and sexuality, highlights both the similarities and differences between Chinese and American cultures.”
Her poem “Last Epistle” won the first place prize in the anthology This is What America Looks Like. Kateema’s new collection of poems, Transcript of the Unnamed, explores the “brief, bright lives” of missing and forgotten black women.
Her new chapbook, I exit the hallway and turn right, was published by above/ground press in December, 2020.
His debut collection, Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn), was a 2020 National Book Award Finalist in Poetry, Winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize, was recently named a 2020 Southwest Book Award Winner from the Regional Border Library Association, longlisted for The Believer Magazine 2020 Editor’s Award in Poetry, and is now a finalist for the Jean Stein Award from PEN/America.
Her debut novel, What Comes After, will be published by Riverhead Books on April 13th, 2021.
Her drawings are featured in the spring 2021 issue of The 2River View.
Her second book, Post-Mortem, was released April 2, 2021, by Orison Books after winning their annual poetry contest in 2019.
Her new memoir, Who’s Your Daddy, was recently published by Augury Books. Who’s Your Daddy ( is a lyrical, genre-bending coming-of-age tale featuring a queer, Black, Guyanese American woman who, while seeking to define her own place in the world, negotiates an estranged relationship with her father.
“A lyric anthem for the fatherless, for seekers of the places and people that made us, for the artists ready to unearth and reshape their own stories. I gulped this exquisite manual like precious medicine, a spell that made me more myself.” —Melissa Febos, author of Abandon Me
She was recently awarded the 2020 Cave Canem North Western University Press Poetry Prize for her book, Blessed are the Peacemakers.
Her new book, Tropicália, was recently published by Newfound.
Her hybrid chapbook, A Registry of Survival, was recently published by Last Word Press. The chapbook explores her relationship with her mother and how this relationship has been impacted by her mother’s homelessness and mental health struggles.
An excerpt from her memoir and photographs appear in the February 2021 issue of Travel + Leisure Magazine.
She recently received honorable mention in the Backwaters Press Poetry Prize. She will be awarded $1,000 and her manuscript, An Otherwise Healthy Woman, will be published in the spring of 2022. Haddad is a nurse, ethicist and poet who taught in the health sciences at Creighton University in Omaha, NE for 30 years.
Her chapbook, You Should Feel Bad, was selected by Stephanie Burt for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship and was published in November 2020.
Her new poetry memoir, Furs for a Vegetarian, focuses on her artist mother, Sophie, Sonia Avakian, who was born in Moscow, married to escape the Communists and moved to Iran.
He published two books of short poems, Bitter Pills and Smart Pills (Cyberwit.net). His full chapbook, Exile’s Choice, is coming soon from Kelsay Books (March, 2021).
Her novel, Angel Mountain (Wipf and Stock 2020), won Finalist and Inspirational, in the Feathered Quill Book Awards. Set in the present in the hills east of UC Berkeley, the story involves a holy hermit, a Holocaust survivor, a literary librarian, and a Christian geneticist who search for peace and happiness in a culture of chaos. The importance of history, memory, free speech, and human dignity are some of the themes explored.
She was recently named Poet Laureate of Los Angeles by Mayor Garcetti.
Thompson, an Award-winning poet, is nationally recognized as a trailblazer in contemporary literature.
She is the editor of a new collection of stories, Kink, published by Simon and Schuster on February 9, 2021.
Her novel The Bohemians was published on April 6, 2021, by Ballantine. The novel imagines the friendship between a young Dorothea Lange and her Chinese American assistant in 1920s San Francisco.
His novel, Bones of a Saint, will be published by Soho Press March 16, 2021. The opening chapter to this novel was first treated in workshop at the Community of Writers.
Her debut novel Sirens & Muses will be published by Ballantine/Random House in 2022.
Her short story won the Elizabeth Sloane Tyler Memorial Award from Woven Tale Press, judged by Ann Beattie, and appeared in the 2019 issue of Woven Tale magazine.
Her chapbook Idiom recently won the Washburn Prize from Harbor Review.
He has recently been named a fellow in the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard.
Her new book, Permission Granted: Kickass Strategies to Bootstrap Your Way to Unconditional Self-Love, will be published by New World Library in June, 2021. Permission Granted illustrates proven paths from “you couldn’t possibly” to “just watch me!” Regina Louise puts a unique spin on tried-and-true techniques of personal growth, coaching readers to deeply understand who they are and what they have been through. From this self-awareness, they can move into self-compassion and learn to give themselves the care and support they may have lacked.
Her third book, and second novel, Oslo, Maine, releases on March 2, 2021 from Central Avenue Publishing.
Her bilingual poetry collection, Ituzaingó: Exiles and Reveries, was published by Nomadic Press in February, 2021.
Her second novel, In the Quick, will be published by Random House on March 2, 2021.
He has a new book, Comedy Writer, about techniques and habits of mind for humor writing. The paperback is half craft, including exercises, and half information about markets. It covers TV, monologue, animation, stage and print, expanding on an undergrad course Andrew taught at UC Davis as Artist in Residence in 2019. Andrew was also the former head writer for Johnny Carson.
His new novel, Escape from Castro’s Cuba, will be published by University of Nebraska Press in March,2021, with endorsements from Daniel Silva, Jane Leavy and former big-league pitcher Luis Tiant. Escape is a sequel to his award-winning novel Castro’s Curveball.
She was recently selected as a Spring 2021 Arts Research Center Poetry & the Senses Fellow at UC Berkeley in cohort with Vethea Cerna Cole, Elizabeth Zhiying Feng, reelaviolette botts-ward, Noah Warren, Ramona Nadoff, Ken Ueno, and Sara Mumolo. Win’s poetry collection Storage Unit for the Spirit House from Omnidawn was longlisted for the 2021 PEN America Open Book Award.
Her fifth poetry collection, Ordinary Psalms, will be released by LSU Press in March, 2021.
Her essay “Something I Might Essay” appears in the February 2021 issue of The Sun magazine.
Her short story “Key Change” was recently published in the Maine Review.
She has just published The Memory Hive, a novel about a woman struggling to survive with an abusive husband, a demented mother, and a demanding job. In a non-linear way, the story unfolds in 50 interconnected episodes, exploring the way that memory works.
He is celebrating two publications: Empire of Eden (The High Window Press) and the chapbook Sixty-Three Photographs from the End of a War (3.1 Press). He’ll be reading from both in a solo show online at Beyond Baroque, Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 6 pm Pacific. The event is free, but reservations are required through Eventbrite.
His short story “The Tutor” was published in the Winter 2021 issue of Catamaran.
His book, Reagan’s Cowboys: Inside the 1984 Reelection Campaign’s Secret Operation Against Geraldine Ferraro, (McFarland 2020) has been optioned by a major television network for a forthcoming series.
He recently launched Gatsby in Connecticut head-on into the global pandemic thinking the film festival circuit might bring attention to his documentary. The film, starring Sam Waterston and narrated by Keir Dullea, made The New Yorker’s Best Movies List for 2020. According to The New Yorker, the film develops in poignant detail the story of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s wild summer of 1920. Available on Amazon Prime, major cable and other digital platforms in the US/Canada. ROW in 2021. Distributed by Vision Films.
She had the honor of reading alongside Patricia Spears Jones, Ali Black, A. Van Jordan, Janice Lowe, Peter Covino, and Michael Broder this year. You can check out the recording here.
Her short story “Anything You Ask Me To”, was a finalist in the Nimrod Literary Awards and appears in the Fall/ Winter 2020 issue.
Her short story “Fatherhood” appears online in the December 2020 issue of Hobart.
Her poem “New Moon” appears in Juxtaprose Magazine, Vol. 25, Fall, 2020.
His two-part multimedia essay “Ode to Beethoven” (illustrated, with embedded videos) to mark the 250th birth anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven, was published by Serenade magazine.
Her poems have recently appeared in New World Writing, The Inflectionist Review, Catamaran, and the anthology California Fire & Water.
His essay “The Milk in Many Lands” appeared in the 2020 issue (No: 3) of the literary magazine, Stonecrop.
Her debut novel, At the Edge of the Haight, which won the 2019 PEN/Bellwether prize, will be published by Algonquin Books in January, 2021.
She wrote and illustrated an early reader children’s book, Bed Bumps, in 2020, published by Manzanita Writers Press. Bed Bumps is a poetic tale of a little boy grappling with organization issues and a mischievous sister.
A Discerning Eye by Carol Orange was published by Cavan Bridge Press in October 2020. An audiobook narrated by Campbell Scott and Kathleen McElfresh was launched in December 2020. The story takes off from the tragic robbery at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
Jack Estes’ new novel, Searching for Gurney, which follows the lives of three US Marines and a North Vietnamese soldier during the Vietnam war, was published by O’Callahan Press in November 10, 2020.
Anthony Cody’s collection Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn, 2020), was was longlisted for the 2021 PEN America’s Jean Stein Award, and Anthony was named a 2020 Poets & Writers Debut Poet for that collection. To read about his first book and hear him read form his collection visit www.pw.org or pick up the January/February 2021 edition of Poets and Writers.
Jenn Alandy Trahan’s short story, “The Freak Winds Up Again,” is the November 2020 issue (#271) of One Story.
Rhoda Huffey’s novel 31 Paradiso will be published by Delphinium Books in the spring of 2022.
Her book, Face, A Memoir, will be published Jan. 12, 2021, by Saddle Road Press.
Her first collection of poetry, Manhattan My Ass, You’re in Oakland, will be published by EquiDistance Press in December, 2020.
She will be giving a talk on her new book Batu, Khan of the Golden Horde: The Mongol Khans Conquer Russia for the Virtual Speakers Series of the American Center for Mongolian Studies in Ulan Batur.
This is the first book in her Silk Road Series, about the successors of Chinggis Khan (Genghis Khan). The other books in the series are forthcoming.
His short story “How Does Your Garden Grow?” appeared in the 2020 issue of the literary magazine, The Broken Plate.
Her essay “Walking with Birds,” published in Boulevard, fall 2019, made the Notables of Best American Essays of 2020.
His debut novel, Revolver, will be published in 2021 by the Concord Free Press.
Her short story “Lady: Part I” appears in the November 2020 issue of the literary magazine Orca.
His short story and novella collection, Keeping Tahoe Blue and Other Provocations, was published in November, 2020, from What Books Press. The collection features eight short stories which appeared originally in Ecotone, Juked, Orange Coast Review, Faultline and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and a novella featuring the famous alpine lake. Realism and absurdism, unrealism and political autobiography all mixed up for our weird moment. Cover art by the legendary Gronk.
Her piece about her family’s deliberations over what to do about her father’s Michigan mail-in ballot when it arrived one day after he died in September 2020 appeared in The Washington Post. Her piece about Jane Hirshfield’s latest collection, Ledger, was featured in Orion and Wild Hope earlier this year.
She judged the 2020 High Plains Book Award for Fiction (winner: Joe Wilkins’ Fall Back Down When I Die). She taught workshops for Hampton Roads Convergence of Writers and the Brandeis National Committee. And she was recently interviewed by Sean Murphy, Executive Director of 1455 Literary Arts, about books, the writing process, and more.
She will have two new titles published this year: Other Small Histories (Poetry Society of America, 2019 Chapbook Fellowship winner), and Allegiance: Micro Essays, in which she dissects her beliefs and navigates the complexity of family dynamics in search of her identity–– What does it mean to be Chinese American? How are we reflected in the people we love, and us in them? What obligation do we have to those who share our blood, and how does a woman claim her life as her own?
Her new poetry book, Swerve: Environmentalism, Feminism, and Resistance, was recently featured in The New York Times Magazine; Naomi Shihab Nye, the NYT editor, described the book as “powerful.”
Her poem, “As Company,” was recently published in the Southern Humanities Review.
His book-length poem, Azorean Suite/ Suite Açoriana, was published in a bilingual (English/Portuguese) edition by Letras Lavadas in October, 2020.
Her memoir-in-essays, Terroir: Love, Out of Place, was published by Trinity UP in November, 2020. The chapters contain arguments about immigration, nationality, gender, race, sexual orientation, class, and religion.
Her debut novel, Bone Broth, will be published by Hidden Timber Books in spring 2021. Her short story, “Jazz & Other Words for Love,” appeared in issue 2 of the Community of Writers’ new online literary journal, Omnium Gatherum Quarterly.
His debut novel, The Book of Lost Light, won the 2019 Big Moose Prize and will be published by Black Lawrence Press on November 16, 2020. It’s the story of Joseph Kylander, his obsessive photographer father, and the impulsive young cousin helping to raise him, as they take refuge with a group of artists in the Berkeley hills after the 1906 earthquake.
His novel, Fortnight on Maxwell Street, recipient of the Eric Hoffer Award for the best general fiction book of 2018, has been released as an audiobook performed by Chicago voice and stage actor Doug MacKechnie. The novel is a reluctant hero’s journey of fear and courage set in Chicago in the spring of 1968. 24-year-old medical student Nick Weissman spends two weeks delivering babies in the kitchens and bedrooms of the inner-city’s slum tenements. Over his head medically, and unprotected in one of America’s most dangerous neighborhoods, his character and resourcefulness are tested in the extreme when a national tragedy intervenes.
Jacquelyn Stolos’ debut novel, Edendale, will be published by Creature Publishing on October 20, 2020.
Her debut novel, Mother Mother, was published by Loyola University’s Apprentice House Press on October 1, 2020.
His new cynical indie filmmaking case study joint, Still Filmmaking, the Hard Way, is available on Kindle, iBooks, Nook, Kobo, Scribd, and all the other places humans read things.
Her latest novel, Suburban Souls, was published on October 15, 2020, by Tailwinds Press.
His interview with Robert Hass in the Paris Review appeared in the Summer 2020 issue. It is #108 in their “Art of Poetry” series.
His newest collection of poetry, The Voice of Sheila Chandra, was published by Alice James Books in October, 2020.
His essay “The Hardy Girls” appeared in the 2020 spring/summer issue of Maryland Literary Review. His Essay “My Father and Me Too” was published in Green Hills Literary Lantern’s GHLL XXXI (2020).
Her long poem, “from the Covid Notebooks,” appears in the 2020 Summer/Fall issue of the American Journal of Poetry.
Her novel, Away to Stay, will be published by Regal House Press in September, 2021.
His chapbook, The View from January, was published by Kelsay Books in January, 2020.
She is the new editor of Peripheries, a Journal of Word and Image published annually by the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. The new 2020 issue includes work by Poetry Teaching Staff members, Sharon Olds and Evie Shockley, and Poetry Participants ’18, Brionne Janae, KT (Katie Taylor), and Eden Werring.
He will be teaching an advanced poetry workshop on Wednesdays, November 4 – 18, 2020 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. MST on Zoom with the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University.
Over three sessions, students will explore the erotic god, subversion versus abolition in form, and the contemporization of the sonnet through the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Donne, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Countee Cullen, Gwendolyn Brooks, Wanda Coleman, Malachi Black, Phillip B. Williams, Natasha Oladokun, and more. Registration is $109. Learn more and register today at https://piper.asu.edu/classes/jabari-allen/advanced-poetry-workshop
His work, 4 poems and a short personal essay, appeared in the September 8 Litbreak.
Her short story, “Sagrada Familia,” (workshopped at the Community of Writers Summer Workshop in ’17) was featured as ‘Story of The Week’ at Narrative Magazine and appeared in the Fall 2020 issue. Other stories by Holiday are upcoming in the Fall 2020 issue of Ploughshares and the Spring 2021 issue of American Short Fiction.
His short story and novella collection, Keeping Tahoe Blue and Other Provocations, arrives in November, 2020, from What Books Press. The collection features eight short stories which appeared originally in Ecotone, Juked, Orange Coast Review, Faultline and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and a novella featuring the famous alpine lake. Realism and absurdism, unrealism and political autobiography all mixed up for our weird moment. Cover art by the legendary Gronk.
Her historical fiction, Once in a Blood Moon, was a 2020 American Fiction Winner for the African American Category. The novel is also a 5 Star Reader’s Choice pick.
A translation of his novel, The Splendid City, to Spanish by Chilean novelist, Jaime Collyer, will be published on December 1, 2020.
Their documentary film, The Time We Have, is an Official Selection in five festivals and will screen online November 13-14 as part of the UK Film Review Festival.
Her debut novel, Prospects of a Woman, is available October, 2020 from She Writes Press. A gripping and illuminating window into life in the Old West, Prospects of a Woman is the story of one woman’s passionate quest to carve out a place for herself in the liberal and bewildering society that emerged during the California gold rush frenzy. Featured in BuzzFeed as “New Historical Fiction Books You Won’t Be Able To Put Down This Fall.” Favorable Early Reviews: “The author’s language is evocative and beautiful.”—Kirkus. “A lusty, intelligent, and captivating portrait of a woman in early California.”—Foreward. “A fascinating, complex, dark, and beautiful novel.”—Douglas Glover
Her essay “What Would You Call It?” appears online at North American Review.
Her short fiction will appear in the LA Issue of ZYZZYVA, issue no. 119, due November, 2020.
His short story “A Trip to the Store: A Memoir” appears in VOICES 2020, a themed issue of Dreams, Desires & Delusions from Cold River Press.
His poem, “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” originally published in ZYZZYVA, was reprinted in The Best American Poetry 2020, edited by Paisley Rekdal. His fourth poetry collection, “Earthly Delights,” will appear in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets in 2021.
His classic proto-postmodern novel Warlock, is featured in Library of America’s new anthology, The Western: Four Classic Novels of the 1940s & 50, edited by Ron Hansen (September, 2020). The book also includes The Ox-Bow Incident (Van Tilburg Clark), Shane (Schaefer), The Searchers (Le May).
Read Thomas Pynchon’s 1965 review of Warlock.
Her second novel, Land of the Cranes, was published in September, 2020, from Scholastic Press. It is about a little girl and her pregnant mother who are caged in an immigration detention facility. The book has already gained a starred review from KIRKUS who called it, “powerful… lyrical… soaring…” and another starred review by Publisher’s Weekly who called it “Lyrical, passionate, and all-too timely.” It was a BookCon 2020 Middle Grade Buzz Book and was featured on the Cultural Frontline on the BBC’s World Service’s program Cultural Impact.
Her poem “On the Origin of Karl Marx” appears in So It Goes, the annual literary journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library.
Her new book, Just Us: An American Conversation, was recently published by Graywolf Press.
Her upcoming book of poetry, The Wild Fox of Yemen (Graywolf Press, April, 2021), was recently awarded the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets.
Her short story collection, A Place Remote, was published in September, 2020, by West Virginia University Press.
His short story, “The Storyteller,” recently appeared on The Baffler.
Her feature screenplay Wonder Drug is now in the works with producer Stephen Nemeth, who she met at the Community of Writers Screenwriters Workshop when he was a featured guest speaker. Director Tom Gilroy will direct the film.
Her essay, “Restoration,” was published by Entropy Magazine.
His novel, Toxic Spirits (Calumet Editions, 2019), set in Thailand, is now being translated into multiple languages. Reviews have included “A complex and enthralling international intrigue with a treasure of remarkable detail” (Frederick Barthelme) and “Mani tells his story in taut, highly descriptive prose, capturing his Thai setting’s cornucopia of sights and tastes” (Kirkus).
His novel for children, The Silver Arrow, was published in September by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.
Her poem, “Against Temporality,” won the 2020 Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest and will appear in the Winter 2020-2021 issue.
She was recently awarded the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction published in 2019 for her novel The Revisioners.
