May 2023
“What potent blood hath modest May,
What fiery force the earth renews . . .”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Inheritance" from the novel Arroyo Circle by JoeAnn Hart will be available from Short Editions, a fiction-dispensing machine at Michigan State University Library.
F. 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.
We’re expanding! MicroLit Almanac now publishes reviews, and our first publication looks at Richard Wagamese’s Walking the Ojibwe Path (Milkweed), an insightful look at the memoir by Ruth Edgett.
Our InConversation event with Jeannie Marshall and Judith Baumel brought on a great discussion about the Sistine Chapel Here’s the link to the recording if you missed it.
Based on the success of our February session and the call for another workshop we’ll be offering Summer Kaleidoscope gatherings. Stay tuned!
Join us Tuesday, May 16th for a spring event featuring Denton Loving and Erika Nichols-Frazer. (Registration is required.)
Come write with us!
Tuesday, May 9th, join us for Mix & Meet. Spring into flash fiction and nonfiction — and poetry—with a generative Birch Bark Editing workshop!
April’s issue contained work by Amie McGraham, Daniel Reeves, and Andre F. Peltier. And don’t forget our new Reviews section! More to come!
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Save the Date!
Tuesday, June 27th: Lauren Kay Johnson and Matt Gallagher InConversation
