Jo Ann Beard’s Festival Days, forthcoming from Little, Brown on March 16, 2021.

In response to libraries shutting down during the pandemic, artists Katie Garth and Tracy Honn have collected a series of short artists’ books that can be downloaded for free and printed at home. 

The author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities embraces and develops a queer Asian American poetics.

Big Shoulders Books publishes writing from and about Chicagoans whose stories are overlooked—and then gives its books away for free.  

Valuable lessons about characterization, the fundamental core of storytelling, can be found in the panels of superhero comics.

For the first time in its 113-year history, MacDowell launches a virtual residency in an effort to build artistic community and fellowship during a time of social distancing.

The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Dearly by Margaret Atwood and Memorial by Bryan Washington.