Article Archive: News and Trends

Ten years after its first meeting, Women Who Submit has grown to a global community that continues to empower women and nonbinary writers to seek publication.

To foster a love of reading among kids in North Carolina, Caitlin Gooch started a program through which children can read books to horses.

Three new anthologies including Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry and There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters From a Crisis.

Lara Ehrlich, the host of the podcast Writer Mother Monster, debunks the superwoman myth and considers how to balance writing and motherhood.

The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge and Festival Days by Jo Ann Beard. 

Writer Rachel Syme’s pen pal matching program has connected more than nine thousand correspondents from over fifty countries during the pandemic. 

Artist and author Jillian Tamaki sewed and embroidered a piece called Blue Quilt to document her life during the pandemic. 

The poet on five journals that published pieces from her debut collection, The Wild Fox of Yemen. 

Poet Kaveh Akbar on his role as the poetry editor of the Nation and the challenges and possibilities of literary editing.

The Prisoner Express program, created by Gary Fine in 2004, supports people who are incarcerated by sending them curated packages of books and offering educational programs.

Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham’s book, Black Futures, comprises more than five hundred pages of poetry, artwork, memes, essays, and lyrics from Black artists.