January 2023
“Ring out the false, ring in the true.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Happy New Year! This newsletter is coming to you a little on the early side as we’re taking December 23, 2022 - January 2, 2023 off. May you take some time to yourselves, too.
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!
Our Benefit for Ukraine and Best of the Net reading was phenomenal. Many thanks to our Microlit Almanac/Best of the Net nominees: Judith Baumel, Ciaran Cooper, Ruth Edgett, Gail Hosking, Craig Holt, Erica V. Plouffe & Cheryl Pappas who read their work. Judith Baumel spoke about the situation in Ukraine and we hope you all will keep Ukraine in your hearts as you ring in the New Year. Please consider making a donation to Razom, a nonprofit organization benefiting Ukraine. Another possible way to support Ukraine is to buy the anthology Ukrainian-American Poets Respond. All proceeds from the sale of this anthology support the Ukrainian people in this time of war.
Here’s the recording of the event.
Join us Tuesday, January 24, 2023, at 7 p.m. Eastern (4 p.m. Pacific) for a reading with Kathy Fagan and Debra Monroe. Kathy will be reading from her most recent poetry collection Bad Hobby and Debra will be reading from her collection of essays, It Takes a Worried Woman. Registration is required! Please register to receive the Zoom link.
Tuesday, January 10th, join us for our New Year’s Mix & Meet. Begin 2023 with fresh flash fiction and nonfiction — and poetry!
We’re developing our class schedule for 2023. What would you like to see us offer?
December’s issue contained work by Jennifer Barber and Anatoly Molotkov, Margaret Luongo, Kate E Lore, and Lasell Bartlett. Submissions open again March 1, 2023!
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Jamie Zvirzdin and Rina Palumbo InConversation on February 21st!