Rebecca O’Conner’s LIFT featured in Heyday Anthology
Date: March 16, 2020
The fall 2009 Heyday Anthology features an excerpt from Rebecca O’Conner’s, LIFT.
Date: March 16, 2020
The fall 2009 Heyday Anthology features an excerpt from Rebecca O’Conner’s, LIFT.
Date: March 16, 2020
Rita Mae Reese’s new book, The Alphabet Conspiracy, was reviewed on The Rumpus: “But at their best, they speak in deceptively straightforward, accessible language, without aiming to impart lessons to the […]
Date: January 13, 2020
Here are 15 recent and upcoming books from small presses that span everything from fantasy and crime fiction to memoir and literary short stories.
Date: December 3, 2019
Artist Trust has announced that Walla Walla author Johanna Stoberock is this year’s recipient of the LaSalle Storyteller Award. The LaSalle Award, which gives $10,000 to a Washington state storyteller with no […]
Date: December 2, 2019
Artist Trust today named Whitman College Senior Adjunct Assistant Professor of English and General Studies Johanna Stoberock as its 2019 LaSalle Storyteller Award recipient. The 2019 award recognizes an outstanding literary artist working in […]
Date: November 22, 2019
The Morning News has unveiled the longlist for their 2020 Tournament of Books, which is almost certainly the only literary competition in the country where the winner receives livestock as a prize. Sixty-two […]
Date: November 18, 2019
In the sixth of this continuing series, Sara McCrea ’21, a College of Letters major from Boulder, Colo., reviews alumni books and offers a selection for those in search of knowledge, insight, […]
Date: November 12, 2019
The most excellent, Rooster-worthy books of 2019. Look for our shortlist of competitors next month for the 2020 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes.
Date: October 31, 2019
In her new novel Pigs (Red Hen Press, 2019), Johanna Stoberock has written a lyrical fable about an island that receives all the world’s garbage. That garbage, both physical and psychological in the forms […]
Date: October 15, 2019
Four children live on an island that serves as the repository for all the world’s garbage. Trash arrives, the children sort it, and then they feed it to a herd […]
Date: June 29, 2022
Ellen Meeropol is a fearless writer. When she picks up her pen and follows her characters, she goes to places and situations lesser writers might avoid: a young pregnant woman […]
Date: June 21, 2022
John Weir’s “Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me,” alternately identified as “Short Stories” and “Linked Stories” — 11 in all — is wise, often funny, and poignant yet unsentimental testimony from […]
Date: June 16, 2022
At this pivotal point in history, the word “refugee” holds many different meanings and connotations. As Russia’s violent invasion of Ukraine progresses and more than five million Ukrainians flee their […]
Date: June 6, 2022
At this pivotal point in history, the word “refugee” holds many different meanings and connotations. As Russia’s violent invasion of Ukraine progresses and more than five million Ukrainians flee their […]
Date: June 6, 2022
“Weir writes beautifully, elegantly.” The horrific AIDS epidemic inspired a flourishing of literature by writers more openly, proudly, often angrily, gay than their predecessors had been. These young writers had […]
Date: June 2, 2022
ADAM KIRSCH’S FOURTH BOOK of poetry, The Discarded Life, is an autobiography in blank verse, organized into 40 numbered parts, like cantos, each averaging a comfortable 26 or 27 lines, […]
Date: May 31, 2022
Are Jigdesh and Charlie, the brilliantly depicted leads in Carlos Allende’s new novel, gay caricatures? The author’s answer may surprise you.
Date: May 24, 2022
Date: May 23, 2022
Beware Kim Dower’s poetry. Again and again, this crafty writer invites you in for a casual chat and then wallops you. Her poem “Game Over” starts with a little comedy about […]
Date: May 17, 2022