Date: March 16, 2020
Louise Wareham Leonard’s, 52 Men, is an intense “micro-novel” that captures the emotional and physical possibilities of encounters between 52 men and one woman in the Manhattan of the late twentieth […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Author Amy Uyematsu wrote a post for Huffington Post about growing up in a time where there weren't many other Asian-American poets, and how that has had a large impact […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Red Hen author, Verónica Reyes, is featured in The Advocate for her recent Lambda Award nomination. The Lambda Award is sponsored by The Lambda Literary Foundation that "nurtures, celebrates, and […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Date: March 16, 2020
First the Economist, then the Wall Street Journal, and then the world! Summer Brenner’s wonderful short story collection, My Life in Clothes, has been featured in the Wall Street Journal‘s holiday gift […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Yet another great review of Janice Eidus’s The Last Jewish Virgin, this one from New Pages. It’s like the book is good or something. An excerpt: “…an entertaining, original, and psychologically […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Tess Taylor has had an amazing journey of discovery these past few months. Her debut poetry collection, The Forage House, chronicles the exploration of her familial lineage and ties to Thomas […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Kate Gale, our managing editor, and Kim Dower, author of the wonderful new collection AIR KISSING ON MARS, were interviewed this morning on KUCI for the segment “Writers on Writing […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Camille Dungy’s Suck on the Marrow has won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation! For those of you keeping score at home, that’s the sixth significant honor this book […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Author Ron Koertge wrote a post for Huffington Post about why he loves to write flash fiction: “Flash fiction doesn’t mind giving pleasure. It has a palpable level of affection for its […]
Date: July 25, 2013
Publishers Weekly comments on the remarkable story found in Mary Evelyn Greene's When Rain Hurts.– "With vivid language and strong imagery, [Greene] describes the harsh deprivations characteristic of Russia's orphanages, […]
Date: July 19, 2013
Check out the August issue of Kirkus to read their take on Mary Evelyn Greene's When Rain Hurts.- "A searingly candid chronicle of the heroic struggle of two adoptive parents […]
Date: July 11, 2013
Eric Nguyen applauds Birds of Paradise Lost, calling it short stories of "second chances."- “What is refreshing about Lam’s work is that it defies expectations of ‘immigrant story’…. Lam’s stories […]
Date: July 11, 2013
storySouth applauds Brendan Constantine's poetry in Calamity Joe.- “While the narratives of loss help hold this work together, it’s Constantine’s lyrical touch that keeps the poems engaging…their inventiveness is refreshing […]
Date: July 11, 2013
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram receives a great review from Rain Taxi.- Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise locates the human in a large context, vacillating between the cosmic and […]
Date: July 2, 2013
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise receives an excellent review from Late Night Library.- "Bertram is beyond fearless in her refusal to make reading simple…[her] work can […]
Date: June 26, 2013
Publishers Weekly praises the "close attention to the texture and sound of language" in the poems found in Tess Taylor's The Forage House.– "The confessional and historical poems in Taylor’s […]
Date: June 25, 2013
Hoffert of Library Journal applauds Ron Koertge's The Ogre's Wife– “A pleasure for any reader; in this collection, ‘the straw of the day, bushel after bushel of it, slowly/ turns […]
Date: June 21, 2013
James A. Cox from Midwest Book Review recommends The Earth Is Not Flat by Katharine Coles to readers of poetry.- "With humor and insight, The Earth Is Not Flat is […]
Date: June 21, 2013
Douglas Lord from Library Journal adds John Van Kirk's Song for Chance to his BEA "Books for Dudes" list.- "Debut novelist Van Kirk delivers the highly authentic story of melancholy, […]
