January 2023
Andrea Caswell’s essay, “Sailor Wife,” appeared in The Coachella Review and “The Perfect Age” appeared in Hags on Fire.
Gail Hosking’s poems “The Art of a Would-Be-Anniversary: When Glue Won’t Stick” and “Wife Writes Husband a Final Letter” appeared in The 2River Review.
Margaret Luongo’s essay, “Communing with My Mother at Home Alone” is MicroLit Almanac’s Best American Essays nomination.
Erika Nichols-Frazer’s book, Feed Me, launched in December.
Cheryl Pappas received a MacDowell residency. In addition, she was featured on the Short Story Toda podcast!
February 2023
Heidi Barr’s collection Collisions of Earth and Sky was published January 31!
An interview with Erika Nichols-Frazer about her book, Feed Me, took place on WCAX3, and a review appeared in Vermont’s Seven Days.
Poetry: the Art of Words, hosted by Miriam O’Neal, received a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant.
Carrie Nassif’s review of Ann Bookman’s Blood Lines was published in The Colorado Review.
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November 2023
Willa Carroll’s poem, “Score for Vector Body,” appeared in The Dodge.
Andrea Caswell interviewed Cecile Callan in Cleaver Magazine.
Lorraine Comanor’s essay “Moonshadow” is a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2023. Her flash nonfiction appeared in a few journals: “Unspoken Accord” came out in The Healing Muse, “The Potato Spoon Race” in Unstamatic, and “Twilight Zone” in Burningwood.
Valerie Fox’s review of Dan Crawley’s Blur appeared in Your Impossible Voice.
JoeAnn Hart, author of Highwire Act & Other Tales of Survival, discusses her writing tips and tricks on Talking Writing!
“A Plume in Blue Ash,” an excerpt from F. Scott Hess’ as yet unpublished historical novel appeared in Sundial Magazine.
Adieu, Gail Hosking’s new book of poems, is available for pre-order from Main Street Rag!
Tara Ison’s story, “Anosmia,” appeared in Aromatica Poetica.
Tom Keating’s flash, "Ritual Interrupted," is included in the Vine Leaves Press new anthology, The 50-Word Stories of 2023.
An interview with Jeannie Marshall, author of All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel, appeared in ArtCurious.
Mandira Pattnaik’s flash collection Girls Who Don't Cry (Alien Buddha Press, 2023) was reviewed by Rhashi Rohatgi in Waxwing Magazine.
Genevieve Plunkett’s short story, “The Keeper and the Tether,” appeared in The Sewanee Review.
Les Schofield’s reviews of books by Danuta Hinc and Dan Hunter received mention in the National Book Critics Circle newsletter.
Dawn Tasaka Steffler won the October 2023 Bath Flash Fiction First Prize with “Détente.”
October 2023
Erika Nichols-Frazer’s poetry collection, Staring Too Closely, is now available!
An interview with JoeAnn Hart, author of Highwire Act & Other Tales of Survival, appeared in EcoLit, and a review of her book, “Local author's 'Highwire Act' looks at climate change” was published by the Gloucester Daily Times.
“Chains and Snow and Sex” by F. Scott Hess, was published by Masque & Spectatcle.
Danuta Hinc, author of When We Were Twins, was interviewed by Elizabeth Hazen for Baltimore Review.
Lisa Johnson Mitchell’s, So As Not to Die Alone, published by Finishing Line Press, is on the stands!
Karen Schauber’s “Expiration Date”' (from 2019) was included in the latest Fiction Kitchen Berlin Anthology and “The Garden Party,” was published in A-Minor Magazine.
Cheryl Pappas published two fairy flashes in -ette.
Miriam Camitta’s essay entitled “Necessary for Life” published in Fourth Genre has been selected as “Notable” in this year’s Best American Essays.
Carrie Cooperider’s “For My Money” published in 3:AM Magazine.
September 2023
A review of Linda Dittmar’s memoir, Tracing Homelands; Israel, Palestine, and the Claims of Belonging, appeared Mondoweiss.
Suzanne Hicks published “My Sincerest Apologies” in Atlas + Alice.
Gail Hosking’s poetry collection, Adieu, will be published by Main Street Rag. Her essay, “In Preparation: Dancing for Your Life,” appeared in Adelaide.
Genevieve Plunket’s novel, In the Lobby of the Dream Hotel, has been featured in LitHub, Campaign for the American Reader, The Page 69 Test, and Electric Lit.
Mary Ellen Redmond’s poem “In English Class Discussing Signs & Symbols” appears in Rattle #80.
Mariana Sabino’s short story collection The Verdigris Stories is forthcoming from K + P Press.
August 2023
JoeAnn Hart’s novel, Arroyo Circle, will be published by Green Writers Press in 2024.
F. Scott Hess has work going to the moon as part of the Lunar Codex: a short story; his cover art for an issue of PoetsArtists; and information about a show he curated at the Wausau Museum!
Denton Loving’s poem “Under the Chestnut Tree” appeared in the Issue 34 of Ecotone.
Jeannie Marshall’s essay, “Modern Tourism Makes It Difficult to Truly Appreciate the Sistine Chapel” appeared in LitHub.
Andria Williams’s second novel, The Waiting World, will be published with MilSpeak Books this fall.
July 2023
Lorraine Hanlon Comanor’s nonfiction flash, “Compliments,” appeared in Apple in the Dark.
Scott Hess’s reflection “Mythology-Making” appeared in American Art Collector Online.
Suzanne Hick’s “The Fish House” appeared in Roi Fainéant Press.
Ann Leamon’s review, Finding Hope Among the Scars, of John Fulton’s collection of short stories, The Flounder, appeared in Tupelo Quarterly.
Diane Lefer’s “Nothing Out of the Ordinary” appeared in Stickman Review.
Ray Nayler’s The Mountain in the Sea won the Locus 2023 Award for Best First Novel and was the Barnes and Noble Speculative Fiction Pick of the Month for June.
Mandira Pattnaik’s “Dark Matter,” published in Contrary, was chosen for this year’s Wigleaf 50. Her microfiction “WHEN THE TRAIN RATTLES PAST, AT THE STREET CORNER” was also shortlisted for the 2023 Micro Madness competition—published on June 6th.
June 2023
Lasell Bartlett’s “Layers: another cake story” appeared in OSHO News.
JoeAnn Hart’s review of Query, a novel by Zilla Novikov, appeared in EcoLit Books.
Gail Hosking’s essay, “Arlington or No Arlington: That is the Question, Or At Least One of Them,” appeared in Post Road. Her poem “The War First Thing in the Morning” appeared in Split Rock Review.
Tara Ison’s At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf is a May 14th New York Times Editor’s Choice and was reviewed by Alida Becker in NYT’s “Dark Shadows, Dark Times.” The novel will be coming out in July as an audiobook from Tantor Media.
Ann Leamon’s poem, “The Turnip Queen,” appeared in North Dakota Quarterly.
Diane Lefer’s short story, “A Person Like You,” is in Collateral 7.2.
Jeannie Marshall’s memoir, All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel, was featured in the New York Times What to Read section.
Ray Nayler’s The Mountain in the Sea is a Kitschie’s Award Finalist for a Golden Tentacle Award (Debut Novel). The novel will also be translated into Polish (its 10th translation).
Mandira Pattnaik’s book, Where We Set Our Easel, launched and was reviewed in Five South by Dave Nash.
Mary Ellen Redmond’s poem "In English Class, Discussing Signs and Symbols" apears in the 2023 Summer issue of Rattle!
Three of Claudia Stanek’s poems appear in The Phoenix.
Andria Williams’ short story “In the Cafeteria at Walter Reed, 2009,” is in Collateral 7.2
May 2023
"Inheritance" from the novel Arroyo Circle by JoeAnn Hart will be available from Short Editions, a fiction-dispensing machine at Michigan State University Library.
Scott Hess’s memoir excerpt about life drawing in the Academy of Fine Art in Vienna, 1979, was published in PoetsArtists.
Mandira Pattnaik published “In Leaping” in The Citron Review.
Ann Leamon’s review “Family Gifts and Curses: Blood Lines by Ann Bookman” was published in Tupelo Quarterly.
Ray Nayler’s The Mountain in the Sea is a Locus Awards Top Ten Finalist for First Novel.
Miriam Camitta’s “Can’t Elope” is in The Master’s Review.
Linda Dittmar’s memoir Tracing Homelands is available for pre-order from Interlink Publishing.
Sara Kempfer’s short story “Fostering Disorder” is included in Fine Lines Spring 2023 edition!
Ray Nayler’s novel, The Mountain in the Sea, is a Nebula Award Finalist.
Kelly Watt’s chapbook The Weeping Degree is a finalist in a contest sponsored by Poetry Mesa and Wild Rising Press.
April 2023
March 2023
Kavita Lasell Bartlett’s essay “My First Cake” appeared in OSHO News.
F. Scott Hess’s story “Currency Exchange” appears in Sojounal.
Ray Nayler’s The Mountain in the Sea is on The New Yorker’s Best of 2022 list. The UK Booksellers Association selected The Mountain in the Sea as its Indie Book of the month for February. The novel is being translated into Korean, German, French, Spanish, Czech, Slovak, and Chinese.
Gail Siegel’s “What the Mirror Tells You” was selected to appear in the Best Microfiction 2023 anthology.