Enzo Silon Surin (Poetry, 2012) has a new podcast It’s a Poetic Life w/Enzo the Poet up on Spotify. He is also offering poetry consultations through his website and a Masterclass for beginner poets.
Caitlin Krause (Poetry, June, 2007) has published a new book Digital Wellbeing: Empowering Connection with Wonder and Imagination in the Age of AI.
UCP has acquired the rights to Katie Cotugno’s (Fiction, June 2015) novel Heavy Hitters with plans to develop it as a TV series.
Jason Reynolds’s (YFYP, MFA Faculty) forthcoming YA novel twenty-four seconds from now… is featured in an article in Publishers Weekly, “Fresh, Frank—Even Funny: A New Wave of Books About Bodies, Puberty, and Sex Ed.”
Jody Hobbs Hesler, (Fiction, June 2017) discusses her new novel Without You Here in an interview on the blog Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb. She also discusses the playlist that is central to the book in an article on Largehearted Boy. Her dual book launch with Benjamin Roesch is also now available on the Cambridge Common Writers’s YouTube channel.
Jo-Anne Hart (Nonfiction, January 2019) has a personal essay “By-Pass” in Plexus.
A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall by Jasmine Warga (WFYP, June 2013) debuted on the New York Times-bestseller and ABA indie bestseller lists.
Michelle Knudsen’s (WFYP, MFA Faculty) picture book Luigi: the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten is now available as an audiobook from Libro. Mikki does the narration.
“From Attorney to Award-Winning Caribbean Author: Celeste Mohammed’s Pivot to Best-Seller Success” features Celeste Mohammed (Fiction, June 2016) in The Karibbean Kollective.
Diane Griffin (Nonfiction, January 2018) has a new piece “A Spell for Crossing the Liminal Barrier” out in Realmwalker.
Where Are You Going, Butterfly? by Hunter Liguore (Fiction/WFYP, 2012) was shortlisted for The Original Art 2024 Exhibition of Children’s Books Illustration from The Society of Illustrators.
Mark Akins (Fiction, January 2018) has a story “All We Ever Had” out in Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores.
Candice Iloh (WFYP, June 2017) has had two book projects acquired by Dutton: Subwoofer, a near-future YA in which a teen with a spotless reputation in her community discovers an off-the-radar refuge for runaways ; plus Glad UR O.K., an epistolary novel that explores guilt in the aftermath of surviving a near-death experience. Publication is set for 2026 and 2027.
Suzanne Edison’s (Poetry, July 2016) poem “Refusal” was Poem of the Week at The Missouri Review.
David Farrow’s (Fiction, June 2022) short story “Pay the Ferryman” has been published in Host, one of six collections in Disturb Ink Books’s anthology series, Sinister Century.
Elizabeth Shick (Fiction, January 2019) has an article “Ten Books That Reveal Myanmar for the Complex Mosaic It Is” in Literary Hub.
Shari Caplan (Poetry, June 2014) is featured in an interview in Tupelo Quarterly.
The Terrible, Thanks for Asking podcast features an extended interview about divorce with Lyz Lenz (Fiction, June 2011) on their Patreon.
Benjamin Roesch (Fiction, January 2016) discusses his new book The Rest of Your Life Soundtrack (which was #1 on IngramSpark’s 2024 list for Young Adult Fiction/LGBTQ+/Lesbian) on a special episode of the podcast Perspectives on Pages. His dual book launch with Jody Hobbs Hesler is also now available on the Cambridge Common Writers’s YouTube channel.
The most recent issue of Salamander Magazine features D. Dina Friedman’s (Fiction, January 2016) poem, “What I Want to Understand.”
Robbie Gamble (Poetry, January 2017) has two new poems out: “Pause” in Pangyrus and “Leuven” in Hare’s Paw Literary Journal, which is published and edited by Olivia Thomes (Poetry, June 2019). His narrative piece “Marta” has been nominated by the editors of Tahoma Literary Review for Best of the Net in nonfiction.
Resources & Opportunities
- The Creative Writing Program at Stony Brook University’s Lichtenstein Center seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Fiction. The search chair reached out to Janet directly so they are actively looking at Lesley candidates
- 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.
- The 2025 Perugia Press Prize is open for submissions until November 15th. They are looking for poetry manuscripts by U.S.-based woman-identifying poets with no more than one previously published full-length book. You are still eligible if you have published a poetry chapbook/s or books in other genres.
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Creative Nonfiction: SUBMIT!
Dedicated time for nonfiction writers to submit their work for publication. Every other Tuesday starting October 8th from 6:00-7:15pm. A solid hour of cameras-off work. Brief hello and recap at end for those who want to. Shared Google spreadsheet of lit mags dates of submission and kinds of work accepted.
Link to shared Literary Magazines Sheet
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