August 2023
The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.
~Sue Monk Kidd
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.
Check out the latest review on our new reviews page: Les Schofield extols the importance of Danuta Hinc’s When We Were Twins and Carlene Gadapee explores Tender Machines by J. Mae Barizo.
July’s MicroLit Almanac contained work by Priscilla Hodgkins, Jean Hey, A.K. Cotham, and F. Scott Hess.
Our beloved Mix & Meet workshop will start back up in the fall on September 12th. Registration is open.
Meanwhile, check out Kaleidoscope for August!
August 13-20, 2023 (asynchronous, self-paced)
Beat the summer heat and commit to your writing with a week of stories, essays, poems, and prompts, all designed to help you create new work. This is an opportunity to expand your horizons by experimenting with creative work, either in traditional literary form or in one of the many genres (SciFi, Fantasy, Horror, Crime, whatever you choose).
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Cat & Max
