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Subscriber News: May 2021
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Smoke and Mold
Literary journal for trans writers focusing on nature and climate change
Metonymy Press
Small press in Montreal publishes queer, feminist, and social justice literature
Humor Writing Websites Directory at Point in Case
Links to 50+ humor writing sites with descriptions of their special interests
What Is Creative Nonfiction?
Craft essays on the genre, from the magazine Creative Nonfiction
Independent Book Review
Review site specializing in small press and self-published books
Self-Publishing Made Simple with April Cox
Children’s book author April Cox offers self-publishing coaching, how-to videos, and online courses
Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About Hybrid Publishing
Prizewinning indie novelist Barbara Linn Probst explains this popular new publishing model
College Consensus Ultimate Campus Guide for LGBTQ Students
Advice and links for finding a LGBTQ-friendly academic environment
Grammarly
Free online program checks your writing for grammar and style errors
Tony Keith Jr. and Kayleb Rae Candrilli Win the 18th Annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest Sponsored by Winning Writers
Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its 18th annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest
Press 53 Award for Poetry
The Press 53 Award for Poetry is awarded annually to an outstanding, unpublished collection of poems
The Blue Mountain Review: Call for Submissions
The Blue Mountain Review is published by The Southern Collective Experience. Everyone is south of somewhere.
The Bruise of Your Absence by Cris Mulvey
A chapbook of poems about grief that navigate loss without self-pity
Owl Girl by Jerald Pope
Welcome to Owl Girl, a new fairy tale. Bring along the child that hides in your heart.
Fetch by Jerald Pope
Fetch is a 48-page wordless story that follows a man and his dog as they go out to play for the final time. Winner of the 2020 North Street Book Prize for Children’s Picture Book.
Award-Winning Poetry and Prose 2021
Award-Winning Poetry and Prose 2021
Subscriber News: April 2021
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
The Self Publisher
Novelist and writing coach C.S. Lakin shares advice on designing and marketing your books
Creative Forces: Healing the Invisible Wounds of War
Interactive online exhibit of writing and art by members of the NEA Military Healing Arts Network
Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality & the Arts
Interfaith literary journal with a social justice orientation
The Hub
American Library Association’s YA literature review blog
Rainbow Book List
American Library Association’s annual recommendations of LGBTQ books
Jessica Hische
Graphic designer and lettering artist
Techno-Orientalism in Science Fiction
Fantasy novelist Chloe Gong suggests ways to avoid anti-Asian tropes in cyberpunk and dystopian fiction
Outspoken: Oral History from LGBTQ Pioneers
Archivist Steven F. Dansky’s interviews with leaders and elders in the queer community
Making Manuscripts: An Irregularly Braided Conversation
Poets Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet and Annie Kim discuss methods for ordering poems in a manuscript
Canceling My Book Deal Was the Best Career Move I’ve Ever Made
Memoirist Lilly Dancyger advises authors to wait for a press with resources to promote their books
Mina Manchester
Mina Manchester, final judge of our Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest, is a Scandinavian-American writer chasing the sun in Los Angeles. An editorial assistant at new independent publisher Great Place Books, she holds an MFA from the Sewanee School of Letters. Her work has been featured in…
Follow Rachael A.Z. Mutabingwa on Instagram
Rachael A.Z. Mutabingwa won First Prize for Genre Fiction in the 2020 North Street Book Prize competition
Mine to Carry by Christine Mulvey
Grand Prize Winner in the 2020 North Street Book Prize Competition
End-of-Term Exam
Catasterism
First published in The Nation
American Alien
dear Europe, I believe you dragged my body into your History this colonial legacy you spell like charity is it an apology? or a wedding gift bearing a fragrance of adultery dear Europe, I'm afraid I became auxiliary to my own murder I'm afraid I am guilty out of necessity…
The News
It is, I promise, worse than you think. —David Wallace-Wells, “The Uninhabitable Earth” It's in the news: the world will end in fire. The world will end in natural disaster, and every record of desire, and every work of art by every master, and fields of oleaster— and fields of…
To Be Continued
On my Iranian passport, it reads I cannot go to the Occupied Lands. Maybe that's why Rumi wrote “The wound is the place where the light enters you.” I cannot go to the Occupied Lands because desert light distorts the horizon and “The wound is the place where the light…
Black Man on Fire
Illustrations by Anthony Pugh when I write I'm dangerous I be more lethal in pen than words spoken out-loud cause spoken words are sharp they cut deep they be like daggers they be like swords stuck in concrete they be like letters melted into stone them joints be spelling out…
Subscriber News: March 2021
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Poetry by Josie Whitehead
Prolific Yorkshire poet writes for children and adults
Author Level Up
Sci-fi and fantasy author Michael La Ronn shares tips on writing, publishing, and marketing
Everything Is Normal (Unless You Know Better)
Your mother counts stairs, train cars, birds flying over and birds gathered in trees. She makes lists of what she needs to worry about. Foil-wrapped phones hang like slabs of bacon in her pantry. What would happen if you went in there? Go ahead and try if you want to…
Kathryn Etters Lovatt
Kathryn Etters Lovatt grew up in rural South Carolina where her family owns a Longleaf pine farm. After a lifetime away, with more than a decade spent as an expatriate in Asia and Europe, she returned to her home state. She earned her B.A. from Stratford College and her M.A.…
Spring Tide
By Sherri Felt Dratfield
Words That Didn’t Want to Be Written on Paper
By Elie Azar
The Book Canopy
Monthly online book club
DC, 1978
“The past is a foreign country—” Leslie Poles Hartley The past is another country; you can barely recall your brief stay, stacking chipped red bricks and boards for shelves in a room at the end of the hall Painting sagging walls white in rooms so full of light the rusted…
dementia
dementia she fluffs the clouds and folds the seas
Ghazals Connected as Though Cargo Freights
Illustration by Rowan Fridley I. As a child, my mother boosted me into a dumpster of damp discarded library books. I fished out limericks, and Langston Hughes, and stack after stack of Hardy Boys. Years later, when I came out to my mother, behind a closed door, I cried like…
Deer Season
1. The skin shudders, the haunches cave, intestines unfurl their ruffled waste, filling the bucket as antlers rut through dirt and the pale tongue laps the frozen ground. The deer's shadow lengthens and crosses over the fence, escapes to the darkening field and bare trees where once I stopped to…
Why I Don’t Use the Word Nigger
I don't say nigger because I didn't grow up saying it. I don't say nigger because, in elementary school, I learned it was a bad word, like bitch, like faggot, like cunt. I don't say nigger because, growing up, my [black] mother said, enunciate like the black woman on the…