GalleyCrush: Popular Longing
Natalie Shapero’s Popular Longing, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press on February 16, 2021.
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Ten Questions for Khaled Mattawa
“Don’t ever find your voice.” —Khaled Mattawa, author of Fugitive Atlas
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GalleyCrush: The Removed
Brandon Hobson’s The Removed, forthcoming from Ecco on February 16, 2021.
Ten Questions for Destiny O. Birdsong
“There are so many ways.” —Destiny O. Birdsong, author of Negotiations
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Craft Capsule: The Writer’s Mind on Music
The author of Each of Us Killers reflects on how music has informed her fiction.
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GalleyCrush: Land of Big Numbers
Te-Ping Chen’s Land of Big Numbers, forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on February 2, 2021.
MacDowell Tests Virtual Residencies
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.
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5 Over 50: 2020
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.
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The Clifton House
Sidney Clifton, the eldest daughter of poet Lucille Clifton, has purchased her childhood home in Baltimore with plans to recreate the space as a haven for emerging and established artists.
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Q&A: House Celebrates Broadside Lotus
Dr. Gloria House, a longtime editor at Broadside Lotus Press, discusses the publisher’s future and role in the literary community.
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The Written Image: Quarantine Public Library
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.
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Literary MagNet: Megan Cummins
The fiction writer on five journals that published stories from her debut collection, If the Body Allows It.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Dearly by Margaret Atwood and Memorial by Bryan Washington.
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The Anthologist: A Compendium of Uncommon Collections
Two new notable anthologies, And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again and African American Poetry, published in the second half of 2020.
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The Politics of Gatekeeping: On Reconsidering the Ethics of Blind Submissions
A writer and editor questions the practice of blind submissions at literary journals as an additional barrier against equity in publishing, and makes the case for diversifying editorial mastheads.
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Small Press Points: FlowerSong Press
The Texas press publishes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that is “not only invested in self but also community” by writers from the United States, Latin America, and beyond.
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A Chicago Press for the People
Big Shoulder Books publishes writing from and about Chicagoans whose stories are overlooked—and then gives its books away for free.
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The Confounding Insistence on Innocence: A Q&A With Danielle Evans
Ten years after her debut story collection was published, Danielle Evans returns with her second book, The Office of Historical Corrections, a timely reckoning with, among other things, America’s history of racialized violence.
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Ten Questions for Heid E. Erdrich
“You may not see it, but I am always writing.” —Heid E. Erdrich, author of Little Big Bully
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Balkan Spring: Report From Literary Sofia, Bulgaria
In a continuing series on international writing communities, contributing editor Stephen Morison Jr. spends time with writers in the capital city of Bulgaria.
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Craft Capsule: Revising Folktales and Myths
The author of Each of Us Killers shares strategies for reinventing folktales and myths for contemporary times.
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GalleyCrush: 100 Boyfriends
Brontez Purnell’s 100 Boyfriends, forthcoming from MCD x FSG Originals on February 2, 2021.
Ten Questions for Cicely Belle Blain
“Write with yourself and your own healing in mind, before you think of anyone else.” —Cicely Belle Blain, author of Burning Sugar
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Craft Capsule: The Art of Literary Criticism
The author of Each of Us Killers shares a manifesto for literary criticism.
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GalleyCrush: The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us From the Void
Jackie Wang’s The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us From the Void, forthcoming from Nightboat Books on January 26, 2021.