Lara Ehrlich featured on Poets & Writers
Date: October 22, 2020
“Plot does not come naturally to me. Instead of staring at a blank page hoping for inspiration, I take a long walk and dictate to myself using my phone’s recording […]
News & Reviews
News:
Q&A with Donna Hemans about her novel TEA BY THE SEA in the New York Writers Institute!
Date: October 22, 2020
You recently published your second novel. Congratulations! Thank you. Publishing a book in the midst of a pandemic is a humbling experience, and all writers who published this year will […]
Donna Hemans’ heartfelt Essay: SECRETS THAT HOLD US, come read it!
Date: October 22, 2020
“I didn’t grow up with my mother,” Mom tells me. We’re sitting on the front verandah looking out at the grass before us wilting in the afternoon sun and the […]
Poet David Mason featured in the Times Literary Supplement!
Date: October 22, 2020
Author of THE SOUND: NEW & SELECTED POEMS, David Mason is published on TLS with his new poem “Antipodes.” Read a brief excerpt below: i.m. Derek Mahon, 1941–2020 The death […]
Jen Risher, author of WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH interviewed by Bookclubz
Date: October 19, 2020
At a time when income inequality is a huge problem, our country’s economic system is broken, and money is still a taboo subject even among those closest to us, this […]
BEYOND REPAIR: LIVING IN A FRACTURED STATE author participates in Brattleboro Literary Festival
Date: October 19, 2020
BRATTLEBORO — Among the authors Zooming in to this weekend’s virtual Brattleboro Literary Festival is Sebastian Matthews, who wrote a book of personal essays related to his family’s recovery from […]
Thank you Malden Public Library for your addition of ANIMAL WIFE to your staff picks!
Date: October 15, 2020
Malden Public Library in Malden, MA has recently added Lara Ehrlich’s short story collection ANIMAL WIFE, to their staff picks. A thank you to them! Be sure to always check […]
Jennifer Risher on list of 25 most influential people in Silicon Valley from Modern Luxury magazine!
Date: October 14, 2020
WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH author Jennifer Risher has been added to Modern Luxury | Silicon Valley’s list for the top 25 most influential people. What an […]
The Broad Museum features Amy Uyematsu in a recent video series on L.A. talent.
Date: October 14, 2020
Amy Uyematsu author of BASIC VOCABULARY is featured in the three-part video series entitled L.A. Intersections displaying diversity and talent with those based in Los Angeles. To watch the full […]
Joshua Rivkin featured in Poems.com poem of the day!
Date: October 12, 2020
Rivkin’s piece “New Economy” was featured on Poems.com Friday, October 9th, 2020. To read the poem in it’s entirety visit the link below.
Reviews:
Andrew Lam’s STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SEA reviewed in The Common
Date: December 17, 2025
…In his latest collection Stories from the Edge of the Sea, Andrew Lam delivers work far beyond that narrow definition of the form. The settings are complex. Even a five-page […]
Adela Najarro’s VARIATIONS IN BLUE reviewed in Escape Into Life
Date: December 17, 2025
…Dr. Adela Najarro’s fifth book of poetry, Variations in Blue, is bright blue, black and blue, with dark reaching light. This bicultural-bilingual author “stands on the edge of volcanoes” to […]
Louise Wannier’s TREE SPIRITS AROUND THE WORLD reviewed in She Scribes
Date: November 4, 2025
This book encourages children to use their imagination. Throughout the book there are photos that encourage readers to really examine and appreciate. Just like cloud watching, you’ll eventually see something […]
TREE SPIRITS AROUND THE WORLD by Louise Wannier reviewed in Crafty Moms Share
Date: October 14, 2025
This book is so interesting. After meeting Tilly, Tilly travels around the world and shares trees from around the world. With each tree there is Tilly in a boat with […]
Booklist reviews TIMBER & LUA by Vi Khi Nào and Lily Hoàng
Date: October 8, 2025
Award-winning interdisciplinary writers Hoàng and Nào provocatively interrogate language,comprehension, and communication in a global world. Their collaborative result is a polyglotshowcase that combines English, Vietnamese, and a hybrid Vietlish to […]
BIND ME TIGHTER STILL by Lara Ehrlich reviewed in PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Date: October 7, 2025
With nods to “The Little Mermaid,” Ehrlich’s lovely sophomore outing (after Animal Wife) again probes themes of womanhood and monstrosity. Ceto, a siren and hunter of men, yearns to break the […]
Midwest Book Review places Jade Shyback’s AQUEOUS on their September 2025 Bookshelf
Date: September 30, 2025
This is the debut novel written by author Jade Shyback. I believe this is the first book in the new young adult series. While the focus may be young adult, […]
A Review of Alison Hawthorne Deming: To Make the Broken Whole
Date: September 18, 2025
I finished Alison Hawthorne Deming’s latest poetry collection, Blue Flax and Yellow Mustard Flower, and sat quietly absorbing it, stunned by its power. Deming is a writer whose work in […]
TIMBER & LUA by Vi Khi Nào and Lily Hoàng reviewed in Publishers Weekly
Date: September 16, 2025
Nào (The Six Tons of Water) and Hoàng (Underneath) join forces for a lyrical bilingual story collection. Each tale is presented three times, first in a combination of English and […]
“Nimbly probes the corporeal, familial, and flighted,” West Trade Review on M. Soledad Caballero’s FLIGHT PLAN
Date: September 9, 2025
M. Soledad Caballero’s Flight Plan spans geographies both physical and psychological—from cells to continents, from quotidian to unusual, from grounded to soaring. Intertwining seemingly dissimilar topical threads that include cancer, a […]