William Archila featured in the Annulet Poetics Journal
Date: October 17, 2022
“The Colonel” is a poem of witness because it focuses on the human rights violations in El Salvador, but most importantly because it has revealed the ways in which a […]
News & Reviews
News:
YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME by John Weir Featured in Washington Post’s List of 10 Award-Winning Short Story Collections Worth Reading!
Date: October 17, 2022
Each year, among the new fiction collections fighting for attention are a handful published neither through mainstream houses nor the usual small press alternatives but via a third avenue: book […]
Charles Harper Webb, Author of URSULA LAKE, is Featured on the Book Society Podcast!
Date: October 13, 2022
Poet and novelist Charles Harper Webb and host, Lucas Cantor, discuss THE BEST book Cantor’s read for the show. Fools Crow by James Welch. Listen to this show, Or don’t […]
Cai Emmons, author of LIVID, Interviewed by Fellow Red Hen Author Aimee Liu in LA Review of Books!
Date: October 12, 2022
THROUGHOUT HER LENGTHY writing career, Cai Emmons has returned again and again to the topic of catastrophe. Three of her most recent novels, including her 2022 groundbreaker Unleashed, have wrestled with […]
Amy Shearn, Author of UNSEEN CITY, Has an Essay Published In the NY Times!
Date: October 10, 2022
Married heterosexual motherhood in America, especially in the past two years, is a game no one wins. During the height of the pandemic, my mom-friend group chats roiled: I’m going to scream, typed […]
Diane Thiel, Author of QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE, is a 2022 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award Finalist!
Date: October 6, 2022
Diane Thiel’s Questions from Outer Space explores fresh and often humorous perspectives that capture the surreal quality of our swiftly changing lives on this planet. The poems travel through questions […]
Alta recommends IF I WERE THE OCEAN, I’D CARRY YOU HOME by Pete Hsu
Date: October 5, 2022
This debut collection follows a slew of children and young adults as they move through the quotidian patterns of life—celebrating birthdays, enjoying beach parties, attending church events—while also being thrust […]
Good Morning America features IF I WERE THE OCEAN, I’D CARRY YOU HOME by Pete Hsu
Date: October 5, 2022
Good Morning America’s list of 15 October books to make you think and feel includes Pete Hsu’s new book out October 12, saying “Pete Hsu’s debut story collection chronicles scenes […]
Coco Picard Interviews a Character from THE HEALING CIRCLE In Women Writers Women’s Books
Date: October 3, 2022
An aloe plant called Madame Blavatsky sits on the ledge of a window in the Wellness Center outside of Munich, Germany in my debut novel, THE HEALING CIRCLE. The plant […]
Conversations Between Friends: COCO PICARD and Sue Mell in Craft
Date: October 3, 2022
Consider the personal effects one leaves behind, the way those objects, once laid out, recall the idiosyncratic logic of a life—is there more compelling inspiration for a novel? Authors Coco […]
Reviews:
Sugar House Review’s thoughtful take on Gaylord Brewer’s Give Over, Graymalkin
Date: January 31, 2012
Robin Linn for Sugar House Review had this to say about Give Over, Graymalkin: Brewers collection engages with adventuresome verse that is lyrical, rhythmic and lush with allusion. Sugar House […]
Notre Dame Magazine chooses Brian Doyle’s Bin Laden’s Bald Spot as a Cafe Choice Book”!”
Date: January 31, 2012
Notre Dame Magazine spotlights Bin Laden's Bald Spot, saying: In [Brian Doyles] collection of 25 stories, readers will meet a barber who shaves the heads of thugs in Bin Ladens […]
Poetry Salzburg Review Gives Ally Acker’s Some Help from the Dead an excellent review.
Date: January 31, 2012
In the Autumn 2011 edition, Poetry Salzburg Review said: "Ally Ackers Some Help from the Dead offers high-spirited, lively encounters with life and language as well as frequent commemorations […]
Publishers Weekly says Ron Carlson Delivers the Whimsy” “
Date: January 23, 2012
In a recent Publishers Weekly article, Wendy Werris profiles author Ron Carlson for their January 20th edition. Werris acknowledges that "after 10 books of fiction in 35 years [Carlson] will […]
Southern Indiana Review gives great review for Covet by Lynnell Edwards
Date: January 19, 2012
Southern Indian Review reviews Covet by Lynnell Edwards. Here is a small excerpt from the article: “…In Covet, femininity becomes a masterful force and fragility a pointed threat… Edwards uses […]
Covet by Lynnell Edwards reviewed by Book Punch
Date: January 18, 2012
Covet by Lynnell Edwards is reviewed by Book Punch in 200 words or less. “Covet is a verb. It’s active. Here, in these poems, it’s also a constant choice. And […]
Bigcitylit.com reviews Vocabulary Of Silence
Date: November 1, 2011
George Wallace reviewd Vocabulary Of Silence for BigCityLit. He said of it, Vocabulary of Silence is a collection to savor and experience fully, a collection to educate ourselves with. It […]
Hey, Small Press! reviews In the ice house
Date: October 27, 2011
Hey, Small Press! reviewed In the ice house, saying of it, Kaplan’s first collection of poetry somehow straddles the fence of simple and rich. The poet captures the natural world, […]
Bin Laden’s Bald Spot in Shelf Awareness
Date: October 27, 2011
Shelf Awareness, the popular daily e-newsletter, recently ran a review of BLBS, the new short story collection from Brian Doyle: "This is vintage Doyle, and it doesn't get much better. […]
Shelf Awareness looks at Blood Daughters
Date: October 27, 2011
Sara Dobie reviewed Blood Daughters for Shelf Awareness and was pleased to find "Blood Daughters is entertaining and well-written, with a vivacious heroine at the helm and action that doesn't […]