Date: October 5, 2020
Animal Wife by Lara Ehrlich: Animal Wife is a collection of fifteen stories about girls and women who are seeking liberation. From family, from society, and from themselves. You’ll read about a girl born […]
Date: October 5, 2020
Watch MWW YouTube “Conversation with an Author” Midwest Writers Workshop presents another installment of our “Conversation with an Author” series. MWW board member Lylanne Musselman’s talked with MWW alum Lara […]
Date: October 5, 2020
“I recently saw photos of Instagram influencers who had darkened their faces in a misguided show of solidarity for Black Lives Matter. Their efforts made me cringe and reminded me […]
Date: October 1, 2020
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Date: October 1, 2020
Jennifer Risher took a job in campus recruiting at Microsoft in 1991. She was 25 and given stock options worth several hundred thousand dollars. While working there, she met her […]
Date: September 28, 2020
Rachel Howzell Hall (And Now She’s Gone), Alyssa Cole (When No One Is Watching), Tiffany D. Jackson (Grown), and Tracy Deonn (Legendborn) in conversation for a Black Girl Mystery panel — hosted by Books Are Magic, 7 […]
Date: September 28, 2020
When Publishing Focuses on the Bottom Line Re “Best Sellers Sell the Best” (Sunday Business, Sept. 20): With publishers preordaining certain titles as likely successes, the homogenization of literary culture […]
Date: September 28, 2020
Welcome to the Season Premiere and Episode 14 of “OK, So …”. This week, I sat down with Amy Shearn, Editor at Medium and author of three novels, including her […]
Date: September 24, 2020
Kristen Millares Young (Subduction) in conversation with Elissa Washuta (White Magic), Sierra Crane Murdoch (Yellow Bird), and William F. Deverell. Watch the full video here.
Date: September 23, 2020
As early Microsoft employees, Jennifer and her future-husband, David Risher, made millions of dollars from their stock options in the quickly growing company. When David joined an online book-seller called Amazon, those “millions” became “tens […]
Date: February 6, 2024
A restless millennial editor seeks connection with a former literary starlet in this epistolary novel. Read more here.
Date: January 31, 2024
“Full of eerie atmospheric writing and many unanswered questions, poet Johnson’s fiction debut both disturbs and absorbs. Annika Rose is 17 and living in the middle of nowhere in northern […]
Date: January 24, 2024
Fluid states of being Essays on and by David Mason by Geoff Page American/Australian poet, David Mason, is also a verse novelist, librettist, and essayist. His latest collection of essays, Incarnation and […]
Date: January 17, 2024
Set in 2018, Benedict’s latest follows a group of women who have sought refuge on the Greek island of Samos. The book begins with the frantic rescue of an infant […]
Date: December 12, 2023
Jeannine Hall Gailey and Cynthia Hogue have always written about embodiment. Their first poetry collections addressed what fairy tales and other inherited stories say about womanhood, and what they erase. […]
Date: December 12, 2023
The resilient and confessional eighth book from Rich (Gallery of Postcards and Maps) centers on a pressured midterm abortion undergone when a relationship fails. … these poems offer a surreal […]
Date: December 4, 2023
The book’s title, What Small Sound, refers to the sounds her ears can no longer hear. The title poem takes place in an audiologist’s booth, where clutching for sounds, she thinks […]
Date: November 28, 2023
Alyssa Graybeal begins her memoir with a list of acronyms for a host of medical conditions, the central one of which is Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. This inherited disorder affects the ability […]
Date: November 21, 2023
YOU WERE WATCHING FROM THE SAND by Juliana Lamy is a steely-eyed collection of short stories centered on Haitian life, from the Dominican Republic to Florida. Check out what Genevieve […]
Date: November 21, 2023
Dedicated to her mother, the second collection of poems by Francesca Bell, What Small Sound, is a group of ruminations on being mothered and being a mother, and the way the […]
