The author of Thin Places celebrates hot-blooded writing.

“I was surprised by how much agency my characters seemed to have.” —Francesca Ekwuyasi, author of Butter Honey Pig Bread

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. 

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

The fiction writer on five journals that published stories from her debut collection, If the Body Allows It. 

Five authors over the age of fifty—Elizabeth Wetmore, Vivian Gibson, A. H. Kim, Susan Buttenwieser, and Daniel Becker—share excerpts from their first books.

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.