Thea Prieto featured in CRAFT!
Date: February 22, 2022
News & Reviews
News:
Eleanor Wilner interviewed for Harvard Review Online!
Date: February 15, 2022
Eleanor Wilner, recipient of the 2019 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America, published her first book of poetry when she was forty-two. She has […]
Diane Thiel interviewed for DailyLobo.com!
Date: February 15, 2022
In a digital age, classic romantic gestures can go a long way, especially during the month of love. Two University of New Mexico creative writing professors sat down with the Daily […]
Andrew Lam’s BIRDS OF PARADISE LOST in a study in Studies in the American Short Story
Date: February 10, 2022
In Andrew Lam’s “Birds of Paradise Lost” and Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Immolation,” the act of self-immolation is perceived differently by members of the first-generation and second-generation Vietnamese Americans. In […]
Joan Nockels Wilson is a guest on Speaker’s Forum!
Date: February 3, 2022
This episode of Speakers Forum centers around three very different experiences of childhood sexual abuse. However, all three guests consider the responsibility of caregivers to prevent abuse and the difficulty […]
Maurya Simon essay featured in Press Enterprise
Date: February 1, 2022
Memory is fickle, quixotic and slippery as an eel. It latches itself onto strong emotions like fear, anger, or surprise and it won’t let go. Up until adolescence, children often […]
Beth Gilstrap interviewed on This Podcast Will Change Your Life!
Date: February 1, 2022
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars the Beth Gilstrap (Deadheading & Other Stories, I Am Barbarella: Stories). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your […]
Kim Stafford’s “What For?” featured in The Writer’s Almanac!
Date: January 30, 2022
Thanks to The Writer’s Almanac for featuring Kim Stafford’s poem “What For?” from his latest collection SINGER COME FROM AFAR on January 30, 2022!
Charles Harper Webb, author of URSULA LAKE, guest writes for Psychology Today!
Date: January 25, 2022
Surely one of the most vivid and memorable metaphors in psychology is Carl Jung’s shadow. Similar in many ways to Freud’s “Id,” the term shadow helps us to visualize the way in which troublesome […]
The National Features a Poem by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Date: January 19, 2022
Reviews:
Anchorage Daily News: Review of Mostly Water
Date: June 30, 2020
The best memoirs invite us into the interesting minds of writers, carry us into territories we might not have tread ourselves and leave us with new perspectives on life. Some […]
Denali Sunrise: Review of Mostly Water
Date: June 30, 2020
Water flows over and through the pebbles on the cover of Mostly Water: Reflections Rural and North. Water connects. Mary Odden, a long-time resident of rural Alaska, has graced us with this […]
Writers’ Voices: Aimee Liu Sets
Date: June 30, 2020
In the South Asian archipelago known as the Andaman Islands, aboriginal tribes thrived for 60,000 years before the onset of British colonialism nearly wiped them out. Best selling novelist Aimee […]
Washington Independent Review of Books: Glorious Boy
Date: June 30, 2020
Aimee Liu’s fourth novel, Glorious Boy — a family drama set against the backdrop of World War II and the rumblings of Indian independence from British colonialist rule — is big, ambitious, […]
Booktrib: Family and Priorities Collide in Her Sister’s Tattoo
Date: June 30, 2020
This is a powerful story of political activism, family betrayal, allegiance and love. When two sisters get arrested during a Vietnam War protest in 1968, they must decide where their […]
Sugar, Smoke, Song by Reema Rajbanshi: A book review by Moazzam Sheikh
Date: June 30, 2020
Many readers of this review may or may not be aware of the rasa theory, but it is maintained that classic works of literature created within the boundaries of what is today […]
Review of IN THE KEY OF NEW YORK CITY: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS by PANK magazine
Date: June 26, 2020
I’ve never lived in New York City, though I’ve always loved it from afar. Visits to friends in Brooklyn, a few work jaunts into Manhattan, a research trip one summer […]
Terrain.org: Reviews Toward Antarctica
Date: June 5, 2020
Reading poet Elizabeth Bradfield’s latest collection, Toward Antarctica: An Exploration, may not be as dramatic as actually visiting the continent, but it will likely be as close as many of us will get. Thanks […]
Anchorage Daily News: Debut novel set in Bristol Bay delivers generations of women’s storytelling
Date: June 4, 2020
Mia Heavener, now living in Anchorage, grew up fishing in Bristol Bay, where she absorbed stories her mother and other women told between tides and over tea. Her lovely debut […]
Anchorage Press: Just to the Side: Reflections on a New Native Novel and Alaska’s Epidemic History
Date: June 4, 2020
Seagulls swoop and dive, crying in the salty air. The waves of Nushagak Bay crash on sandbars and rocky shores. Machines rattle the warehouses on the cannery side of the […]