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Only What’s Imagined by Geof Hewitt
Winner of the 2023 North Street Book Prize in Poetry
Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop: Erma Home Schooling
Enjoy Erma Bombeck keynote talks and workshops from the comfort of home
Atmosphere Press: The Playa Flamingo Writing Residency in Costa Rica
The world’s best getaway for writers to hone their craft in a beautiful environment
Subscriber News: February 2024
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Blacklist Lit
Crowdsourced info about literary journals and workshops with poor business practices
Girl with a Pearl Earring
By Patricia Olson
Laura Duffy Design
Laura Duffy is a passionate book cover designer dedicated to helping independent authors stand out in a crowded market. As a seasoned graphic designer with experience working with some of the world's largest publishers, she specializes in creating visually stunning and compelling book covers that not only grab attention but…
Small Press Economies: A Dialogue
Chicago Review examines how small presses are shut out of bookstores and review outlets
Chill Subs List of Magazines That Publish Young Writers
Journals that publish authors under 18
Who Is Jo March?
Critique by Jendi Reiter Lin Haire-Sargeant foregrounds the queer subtext of a classic novel in Who Is Jo March?, a Civil War espionage romance whose style recalls Louisa May Alcott's other career as an author of pseudonymous melodramas. As long as there have been Alcott fans, there have been readers…
When Mom Feels Great, Then We Do Too!
Critique by Jendi Reiter I have to admit, I was already won over by the title of Phyllis Schwartz's picture book, When Mom Feels Great, Then We Do Too! Or, as I like to say to my son, “If Mommy-Man ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.” This gentle story, illustrated with…
The Low Country Shvitz
Critique by Jendi Reiter Rick Lupert has the distinction of being our very first Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry winner, back in 2002. In The Low Country Shvitz, the latest in his series of whimsical travelogue poetry collections, he brings his unflagging energy and irreverence to describing a vacation with his…
The Evil Inclination
Critique by Jendi Reiter Daniel Victor's The Evil Inclination is a sensitive, tragic love story between a modern-day Romeo and Juliet who transgress religious boundaries. It's a brilliant novel that works on many levels—theological, personal, cultural—with high stakes and sharply observed humorous moments that make the characters achingly real. As…
The Angel Room
Critique by Jendi Reiter An abused teen's self-hating inner voice develops a separate existence in The Angel Room, Lee Call's insightful young adult novel about how Christian purity culture stymies healing from trauma. Fifteen-year-old Eleanor is perpetually shadowed by Creep, a Gollum-like figure whom only she can see and hear.…
Peregrination
Critique by Jendi Reiter Ned Gannon's visually stunning graphic novel Peregrination weaves together two stories of spiritually sensitive young men who wonder where they fit in the world. One is a wandering monk in a medieval fantasy realm, and the other is the modern-day schoolboy who draws the monk's adventures…
Only What’s Imagined
Critique by Jendi Reiter Geof Hewitt's meditative poetry collection Only What's Imagined is rooted in the rugged landscape and working-class culture of Vermont. In the book's foreword, National Book Award winning poet and critic Hayden Carruth compares Hewitt to Robert Frost, saying, “His poems are tough, very original, occasionally sentimental,…
Nature’s Geometry: Succulents
Critique by Jendi Reiter Gardening aficionado Russel Ray takes readers on a deep dive into his special interests in mathematics and cacti in his colorful photo book, Nature's Geometry: Succulents. Though I'm the Grim Reaper of houseplants, I take delight in the profusion of sedum and stonecrop varieties at the…
Love Like a Dog
Critique by Jendi Reiter A pit bull with a lot of heart transforms a lonely boy's life in Anne Calcagno's gripping and well-researched novel Love Like a Dog. Pits are a maligned and misunderstood breed because unscrupulous owners use them for illegal dog fights. This story shows their loyal and…
Hidden Depths
Critique by Jendi Reiter An unappreciated middle manager comes up with a risky scheme to cover her tracks in an embezzlement scandal in Hidden Depths, J.H. Mann's crime thriller set on the Cornwall coast. Reminiscent of Ruth Ware's mystery novels, Hidden Depths features an anti-heroine trapped by a combination of…
Found
Critique by Jendi Reiter Irene Cooper's psychological thriller Found features a grieving mother with a preternatural ability to find the bodies of missing children. With beautiful writing and distinctive characters, Found is both a literary study of bereavement and a twisty, atmospheric police procedural that bears comparison to successful mystery…
Flowers by Night
Critique by Jendi Reiter Lucy May Lennox's immersive historical novel Flowers by Night explores cultural mores around class and gender in early 19th-century Japan through the love story of Tomonosuke, a low-ranking samurai, and Ichi, a blind masseur. Lennox explains in her author note: “Male homosexuality in Japan of the…
Elephant and Bird
Critique by Jendi Reiter Sally Hinkley's middle-grade novel Elephant and Bird is a charming tale of friendship across generations and species. The titular Bird is an orphaned 11-year-old girl living in her quirky grandmother's old Victorian boardinghouse, which doubles as a hospice residence for a handful of elderly folks who…
Blackwax Boulevard Is Listening
Critique by Jendi Reiter Blackwax Boulevard is back! Our 2019 Graphic Novel winner, Dmitri Jackson, returns with an even stronger second volume of his comic strip about the staff of an urban record store contending with unrequited love, addiction, fallen idols, and customers who have terribly basic taste in music.…
Black on Madison Avenue
Critique by Jendi Reiter “From the very beginning, Black people were always in advertising,” longtime ad executive Mark S. Robinson opens his lively and informative memoir, Black on Madison Avenue. “The only difference—the whole difference—was that the advertising was not created by us, and it was not created for us.”…
Caras Lindas de Colombia/Beautiful Faces of Colombia
Critique by Jendi Reiter Caras Lindas de Colombia/Beautiful Faces of Colombia is a significant book of photojournalism celebrating Colombia's African-descendant communities, with bilingual text by Ruth Goring and black-and-white photos by Michael Bracey. The book is part of Bracey's project of photographing the African diaspora in the Americas. I learned…
Badge of Honor
Critique by Jendi Reiter A tween boy and his dog rescue Navajo cultural treasures from a gang of thieves in Karen Glinski's lively and well-researched middle-grade novel, Badge of Honor. In the middle school and early teen years, young people are discovering who they are outside the parent-child context. Relationships…
Aunty Jane Knits Up a Storm
Critique by Jendi Reiter A creative metaphor for grief becomes literal in Aunty Jane Knits Up a Storm, a dynamic and effective picture book by Steve Wolfson, with illustrations by Charity Russell. Aunty Jane, a middle-aged Black woman with a vibrant bohemian sense of style, is well-known in her town…
A Daughter’s Kaddish
Critique by Jendi Reiter Sarah Birnbach's uplifting memoir, A Daughter's Kaddish: My Year of Grief, Devotion, and Healing, chronicles how she kept her vow to say prayers for her father's soul twice daily for eleven months, in accordance with Jewish law. The Kaddish, a Hebrew blessing praising God's peerless attributes,…
Backbone Press Annual Chapbook Competition
Backbone Press will award $250 and publication for a chapbook-length collection of poems
Subscriber News: January 2024
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Geof Hewitt
In 1966, his senior year at Cornell University, Geof Hewitt started The Kumquat Press to self-publish a pamphlet of his poems, Poem & Other Poems. His little press followed up with three issues of Kumquat (a poetry magazine), a series of letterpress poetry broadsides, and Sphinx, a pamphlet of poems…
Sarah Birnbach
Sarah Birnbach embarked on her encore career as a writer in 2015 after successful careers as an HR management consultant and a family therapist in a juvenile court. She has been a sought-after speaker who has conducted more than 500 workshops and presentations. Sarah is a five-time award winner from…
Mark S. Robinson
Mark Robinson is an award-winning author who has spent the past 40+ years at some of the industry's most prestigious ad agencies. Mark has been featured in Fortune magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Advertising Age, and was chosen by filmmaker Spike Lee to co-found and…
Lin Haire-Sargeant
As an only child who was often alone, Lin Haire-Sargeant lived a lot in her imagination, an imagination peopled by characters from the many books she read. Her parents' religious prohibitions kept television from the house and forbade movie-going, so books reigned free. Lin started writing and drawing early, illustrating…
Anne Calcagno
Anne Calcagno is a fiction writer and a travel journalist. Her fiction includes the short story collection Pray For Yourself, and the novel Love Like a Dog, with a second novel What I Would Do for You currently being marketed. Her fiction award credits include the James D. Phelan Literary…
Lucy May Lennox
Lucy May Lennox is a connoisseur of novels featuring men with physical disabilities. After growing frustrated with all the cliches, ignorance and stereotypes, she decided to write her own positive take on disability. She also loves immersing herself in earlier historical periods and imagining the lives of people who don't…
J.H. Mann
Jason Mann, writing as J.H. Mann, is an English journalist and writer with a passion for Cornwall. He has swum and surfed there much of his life and has strong family connections with the county's wild Atlantic coast. In fact, his father took time off from his job as a…
Lee Call
Lee Call (they/them) is an award-winning author and studio artist with a couple decades of experience and a degree in Illustration. As a nonbinary, autistic creative, they feel sharing queer and neurodivergent narratives to be a personal moral imperative. They are driven to create things that they would have needed…
Irene Cooper
Irene Cooper is the author of the noir feminist thriller Found, as well as the novel Committal, poet-friendly spy-fy about family. Her first poetry collection, spare change, was a 2022 finalist for the Stafford/Hall Award in the Oregon Book Awards. With Ellen Santasiero, Irene co-edited the anthology Placed: An Encyclopedia…
Ned Gannon
Painter, illustrator, and writer, Ned Gannon atended the Kansas City Art Instute and the School of Visual Arts in New York where he received his MFA. He lived and worked on the North Shore of Staten Island in New York City for over seven years before moving to Wisconsin. His…
Sally Hinkley
Sally Hinkley graduated from Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire where she received a BA in art. She is a former Board Member of The Writers' Loft in Hudson, MA where she was also a contributor and art advisor to An Assortment of Animals: A Children's Poetry Anthology and…
Karen Glinski
Born in Yokohama, Japan, Karen grew up the eldest of six children in a military family. She majored in Anthropology at the University of New Mexico where she formed a lifelong love for many different world cultures and a special interest in the Native American cultures of the Southwest. Her…
Phyllis Schwartz
Phyllis Schwartz is a married mother of two, who, after a highly successful career in the television news business, finally has the time to indulge in and focus on her “civilian” writing. She is a poet and writer of children's books, and even as a child, kept a diary and…
Steve Wolfson
Steve Wolfson was born in Omaha, Nebraska and moved to St. Petersburg Beach, Florida when he was 11. He lives and creates in Regina, Saskatchewan with his wife Penny and their two 13-year-old granddaughters. Steve started telling stories to child patients in dental school to help them relax. He sold…
Russel Ray
Russel Ray is from Kingsville, Texas, where he was born and then raised mostly by his paternal grandmother. He has lived in the San Diego area since April 1993. His business career has seen him self-employed his entire life, mostly as a “serial entrepreneur” specializing in getting companies through startup…
Michael Bracey and Ruth Goring
Award-winning Chicago-based photographer Michael Bracey has received rave recognition for his lectures and exhibitions in the United States and abroad. His accomplishments include the Chicago Alliance of African-American Photographers' (CAAAP) award, a Chicago Arts Assistance Council grant, and the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for Africans Within the Americas, a ten-year…
Daniel Victor
Daniel Victor specializes in writing Jewish-themed fiction and has written three novels, two novellas and a collection of short fiction. The Evil Inclination is his first published novel. His fiction explores the challenges of remaining an observant Jew in the modern, secular world; his protagonists are often Orthodox Jews struggling…
North Street Book Prize 2023
Honoring the best self-published and hybrid-published books of poetry, children’s picture books, middle grade books, art books, graphic novels & memoirs, genre fiction, mainstream/literary fiction, and creative nonfiction & memoir
Climate Visionaries Artists’ Project
Fiction and poetry on climate change by notable contemporary writers
Passeridae
By Julie Novak-McSweeney
