Charles Harper Webb guest wrote for Psychology Today!
Date: February 24, 2022
My first memory of kindergarten is when I’d made an airplane by crossing two thin cylinders of modeling clay. As I “flew” my plane around the room, a bigger boy with a […]
News & Reviews
News:
Thea Prieto featured in CRAFT!
Date: February 22, 2022
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 […]
Reviews:
EVERYTHING NEVER COMES YOUR WAY reviewed in The Anchorage Daily News!
Date: September 7, 2021
In her third book of poetry, Fairbanksan Nicole Stellon O’Donnell firmly establishes herself as both a remarkable artist and a commentator on the role of poet.
NEW MOONS, our upcoming anthology featuring Muslim-American writers, was featured in NewPages List of New and Noteworthy Books!
Date: August 26, 2021
A dynamic collection of contemporary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by North American Muslims. From the Introduction: “The goal with this anthology is to represent that full range of contemporary expressions […]
Review of THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE by Dariel Suarez from Latino Stories!
Date: August 24, 2021
Havana breathes, swears and cries in Dariel Suárez’s first novel, The Playwright’s House (Red Hen Press, 2021). With a plot that blends family stories and national history, this is a beautifully layered […]
THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE reviewed by On The Seawall!
Date: August 24, 2021
This July, Cuba erupted into its widest protests in a generation. News reports credit food and medicine shortages and summer power outages as the catalysts for the demonstrations which have […]
Starred review given to Nicole Stellon’s book EVERYTHING NEVER COMES YOUR WAY!
Date: August 23, 2021
In her inviting third poetry collection, Everything Never Comes Your Way, Nicole Stellon O’Donnell (You Are No Longer in Trouble) muses on the struggles and transcendence of “family-tethered Alaska life.” The […]
JANE OF BATTERY PARK by Jaye Viner gets reviewed by Foreword!
Date: August 19, 2021
A chance encounter changes the trajectory of two lives in Jaye Viner’s novel Jane of Battery Park. Eight years ago, Jane and Daniel met and connected in Battery Park. She saw […]
JANE OF BATTERY PARK by Jaye Viner reviewed in the Midwest Book Review!
Date: August 11, 2021
Read the glowing review here!
Dexter L. Booth’s ABRACADABRA, SUNSHINE was featured on 10 Can’t Miss New Books!
Date: July 21, 2021
Check out the full list here!
FROM THE CAVES by Thea Prieto reviewed in Publishers Weekly!
Date: July 19, 2021
In Prieto’s trenchant debut, the survivors of an apocalypse navigate a scorched land full of desolation and desperation. Among the enigmatic cast is Mark, a bossy young man; Tie, a […]
THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE by Dariel Suarez has an appearance in The Massachusetts Review!
Date: July 14, 2021
In his debut novel, Dariel Suarez takes the reader into the heart of Cuba, of Havana, of the people of the island. As a Cuban American, I notice how the […]