July/August 2024

The closure of Small Press Distribution, a nonprofit that served nearly four hundred publishers, is prompting a reimagining of how books get into readers’ hands as independent publishers search for viable alternatives. 

The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Call This Mutiny: Uncollected Poems by Craig Santos Perez and The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma. 

Primero Sueño Press, which translates to “First Dream Press,” envisions deeper recognition for historically underrepresented Latinx readers and authors with an out-of-the-box, bilingual, bicultural imprint led by Michelle Herrera Mulligan.

A look at two new anthologies, including Rescue Party: A Graphic Anthology of COVID Lockdown, edited by Gabe Fowler. 

The Equity Directory is just one of the resources that the Literary Agents of Color initiative has developed to increase visibility of BIPOC agents and encourage new, fruitful relationships between agents and authors.

Founded seventeen years ago to support poetry from the Pacific Northwest, Airlie Press is a nonprofit publisher guided by a unique rotating editorial board of poets from Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.

The author of The Story Game, a debut memoir, introduces some of the journals that helped her explore the interplay between memory and storytelling, including So to Speak and Colorado Review.

Twenty tiny books, including poetry collections, short tales, plays, and other works, were added this year to the miniature library collection in Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House to celebrate the royal dollhouse’s centennial anniversary.

The executive director of the Loft Literary Center, a literary arts nonprofit in Minneapolis, celebrates the organization’s fifty years of connecting authors with audiences and reflects on future plans.

Write an angsty poem that utilizes sound and diction to guide readers toward the light, a short story that employs subheadings to provide an alternate perspective, or a series of short musings that riff on amusing fragments of language.

A formerly incarcerated writer reflects on the healing power of words and how writing sustained him during the twenty-seven years he served in prison for a crime he committed as a teenager.

From her home just outside of Fairbanks proper, a poet subverts mainstream Alaskan imagery to conjure the reality of her writing life, which includes a local waste transfer site, muddy shoulder seasons, and slow internet.