Lyz Lenz (Fiction, June 2011) is interviewed on the podcast The High Life with Ricki Lake in an episode called “You Got a Divorce? Congrats!” Lyz discusses her book This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life.
Jody Hobbs Hesler (Fiction, June 2017) has a new short story, “Never Gone,” published in BULL. She is also interviewed in Southern Literary Review, discussing her novel Without You Here.
Tracey Baptiste’s (WFYP, MFA faculty) middle-grade novel Moko Magic: Carnival Chaos is featured on the Bookshop.org “Middle Grade Books (Age 9-12) Gift Guide.” Her middle-grade novel Boy 2.0 is listed as one of “The Best New Books for Kids Published in 2024” in The Strategist.
Caitlin Krause (Poetry, June 2007) is featured in an interview on the Coffey & Code Podcast, “Exploring Digital Wellbeing with Caitlin Krause.”
July Westhale (Poetry, June 2013) has a forthcoming poetry collection Moon Moon, now available for preorder from Black Lawrence Press.
Fred Joiner (Poetry, June 2015) has a poem “Sikasso Snow” in the anthology Embodying Biodiversity: Sensory Conservation as Refuge and Sovereignty from The University of Arizona Press.
Nada Samih-Rotondo (Fiction, June 2012) is interviewed in Raising Mothers, where she discusses the joys and challenges of parenting and the writing life.
D. Dina Friedman (Fiction, January 2016) appears in the Independent Author Network 2024 IAN Book of the Year Award Winners as a finalist in the short story collection category for her book Immigrants.
Jason Reynolds (WFYP, MFA faculty) is featured in a Publishers Weekly article, “On Tour with Jason Reynolds,” and his latest book, Twenty-Four Seconds from Now… has been listed as one of School Library Journal’s, “Top 10 Audiobooks of 2024.”
Sara Levine (WFYP, January 2006) is happy to announce that Alexandra McKenzie at Charlesbridge has bought world rights to her forthcoming picture book Talking to Worms, illustrated by Duc Huy An. Publication is slated for summer 2026.
Sharisse Zeroonian (WSS, January 2024) is featured in an interview on the Playwright’s Spotlight podcast, discussing her evolution as a writer through academia, offending your audience, and many more topics.
Wendy Weitzel (WFYP, June 2023) has a travel essay “The Price of Stillness” in the November 2024 issue of Segullah.
Mary Ann Honaker, (Poetry, June 2016) has three new poems out: “A Plea to Ozzy Osbourne” in DIAGRAM, “The Laws of ME/CFS” in the current issue of Bare Hills Review, and “Disabled, After Trump Wins” which appears in Poets Reading the News.
Amy Grier (Nonfiction, January 2017) has a review of the novel The Golden Land by Elizabeth Shick (Fiction, January 2019) in Compulsive Reader.
“Ides” the prose poem published in Dialogist last March, Robbie Gamble (Poetry, January 2017) has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
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Opportunities & Resources
- David Elliott, emeritus faculty for the Writing for Young People genre, is conducting a writing retreat focused on retellings May 2025 in Greece. Participants will stay in a beachfront hotel in a village on the island of Evia, visit ancient sites as inspiration for workshops, and then participate in seminars and workshops meant to generate new work as the writers hone their craft. Those interested in attending should fill out this form.
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