Subscriber News: March 2026
Recent Honors
Congratulations to J Brooke. Their debut poetry collection, I Can Tell You the Version That Will Make You Take My Side, is now available for pre-order from Driftwood Press, with a June release date. Hannah Gadsby calls this book "funny and surprising, a real gem." J will be reading with poets Brad Richard and Winning Writers Editor Jendi Reiter in the event "Queering Family Legacies" at the Bureau of General Services–Queer Division (BGSQD) on Sunday, March 22, at 3:00 pm. The BGSQD is a bookstore within The LGBT Center, 208 W. 13th Street, Room 210, New York City. The event will also be livestreamed and recorded on the store's YouTube channel.
Congratulations to R. Bremner. His book You Who Are the Stranger: Collected Poems 1979-1989 was published by Westbrae Literary Group. From the book jacket: "The poems in You Who Are the Stranger trace an arc from the late-70s counterculture through the dawn of the digital age—a time when the poet worked as a cab driver, security guard, and later as a computer programmer. Those experiences flicker through these pages: bus rides into Paterson, late-night diners, office corridors, and philosophical moments in the half-light of American cities."
Recent Publications
Jacoby A. Matott was profiled in the Wisconsin culture magazine Volume One for winning the 2025 North Street Book Prize, Graphic Novel & Memoir category, with his horror comic Pumpkin Guts: The Hellbound Halloween. In the article, Matott thanks another of our past winners, Ned Gannon, for encouraging him to enter. Gannon's Peregrination was a 2023 Honorable Mention for Graphic Novel.
Ann Thompson's book Whole Soul Caregiving is available from Balboa Press, the self-publishing division of Hay House Books.
Angeline Walsh's essay "To reference after the disaster: When the Warning Signs of Depression Are Ignored" was published March 4 at OC87 Recovery Diaries, an online publication that highlights stories written by survivors of mental health disorders.
Charles Sartorius' story "Abhartach" was published in the horror anthology From the Yonder 5, edited by Joshua Sorensen. Abhartach was an Irish king who allegedly drank his enemies' blood, a tale that may have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula. Charles' comedic song "A Fart is the Best Response" was featured on the Australian radio show Antipodean SF on February 1 (21:12 into the show). His horror story "Ache" will air on their show on April 1.
Published: March 8, 2026
