PhD in Creative Writing & Literature at USC

Check out this article in Condé Nast Traveler where Melissa Chadburn talks about how her experience working in an airport influenced her writing of A TINY UPWARD SHOVE!
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/how-working-in-an-airport-helped-shape-melissa-chadburns-novel?fbclid=IwAR3XgAKkZL4XGSFrwawCAwk1aBXmRWBolZK7vHWG9VC1Odx2Hszxs8hCJdI

How Working in an Airport Helped Shape Melissa Chadburn’s Novel Melissa Chadburn's new novel “A Tiny Upward Shove” was written while the author worked for a labor union representing airport workers.

Updated Weekly: 2022 Submission and Freelance Writing Opportunities | Don't Write Alone Here’s a full list of submission and freelancing opportunities we’ve shared in 2022, updated at least twice a month. Bookmark this list to stay up to date on new postings!

Library Journal’s lists Jonathan Escoffery's IF I SURVIVE YOU as one of the Top Debuts of Spring/Summer!
https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/Reviews%2B/Top-Spring-Summer-Debuts-39-Titles-To-Know?fbclid=IwAR28ys668rpc0gnwsEr0Sm2dVhy1xppnl_1OajB6yS8PWxybKVHobnjCCaE

Top Spring/Summer Debuts | 39 Titles To Know This edition of LJ’s thrice-yearly list of top debut novels covers the spring/summer season, including some key April titles but focusing on especially promising works published from May through August and stretching to include two exciting September titles. Together, they reflect the strengths of...

"...a hip, intimate, and heartfelt exploration of our multicultural, cosmopolitan world, one full of promise and yet under threat.
He is one of the great advocates and defenders of such a world, so urgently embodied in this very necessary novel.”

- Viet Thanh Nguyen on AMNESIA OF JUNE BUGS

Get your copy of Jackson Bliss's debut novel!

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Order your copy of Anna Journey's poetry collection, THE JUDAS EAR!
https://lsupress.org/books/detail/judas-ear/

"I look to the chorus, modeling
wholeness, how to remain intact.
Absorbed in music,
its supplications, they seem purer,
don’t they?"

Read more of Callie Siskel's MOURNER'S LOGIC in 32 Poems Magazine.

Callie Siskel | 32 Poems Magazine Callie Siskel Mourner's Logic When the congregation assembles, I look to the chorus, modeling wholeness, how to remain intact. Absorbed in music, its supplications, they seem purer, don’t they? Those whose voices make meaning, while their bodies dematerialize, or mean to, or should. They sing Avin...

Neil Aitken reads AFTER, a poem of his recently published in Hyphen magazine, in this episode of The Hermit Poetry Series!

Hermit Poetry E324 - "After" by Neil Aitken Neil Aitken reads "After" from his current manuscript-in-progress.More about the authorNeil Aitken is the author of two books of poetry, Babbage’s Dream (Sun...

Arthur Golden, MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA

Congratulations to Austen Leah Rose!
https://www.umasspress.com/announcing-the-2022-juniper-prize-winners/?fbclid=IwAR3rlzLK6U1D1wtRlFVd1Gi7l5zS5GsIuQxgRdY_CEjLHJDIi_zi1ZYxpgs

Stay up-to-date with Melissa Chadburn's tour of her debut novel, A TINY UPWARD SHOVE!
https://www.melissachadburn.com/events-and-appearances/

Dive into the latest issue of the The Kenyon Review featuring poetry by Blas Falconer!
https://kenyonreview.org/journal/marapr-2022/

Spring into the new month with these new reads!

Here Are the 12 New Books You Should Read in April Including much-anticipated titles from Jennifer Egan, Ocean Vuong, and Emily St. John Mandel