Mara Reinstein is a finalist for the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award in the Celebrity Feature category for her article "Tragedy, Tenacity, and Triumph," which originally appeared in Emmy Magazine.
LIT Magazine published Michael Montlack's poem "Ode to Edith Massey."
The Los Angeles Times published Teresa Wong's op-ed comic "My Family Has a Legacy of Absent Fathers. But That Doesn't Define Our Future."
Jessica Ogilvie covered Hunter Biden's federal tax-evasion trial in Los Angeles, for the Washington Post.
Rachel Simon interviewed screenwriter Sandra Hamada about what it was like to write her first-ever episode of Grey's Anatomy—based on one of her own real-life experiences, no less — for Shondaland.
"You will not see a pastel!" Mara Reinstein writes about filmmakers finding and styling the perfect midcentury modern home in which to shoot the new movie Goodrich, for Architectural Digest.
Hell World published Rax King's essay "The Time It Takes to Buy It," about the film Anora.
HarperCollins announced it will release George Jreije's novel Bashir Boutros and the Jewels of the Nile, the first book in a new middle-grade fantasy series, on May 27th.
Fran Schumer's essay "A Good Marriage" is up now at Dorothy Parker's Ashes.
Susan Breen's short story "Eruptions" is included in the anthology Crimes Against Nature: New Stories of Environmental Villainy, out now from Down & Out Books.
Time magazine published Melissa Petro's essay "How My Shame Became My Strength."
Tasting Table published Mike Dunphy's article "The Origins of Frozen Food Go Back Further Than We Thought."
Erin Entrada Kelly's middle grade novel The First State of Being is a finalist for the National Book Award in Young People's Literature.
Shearsman Books announced it will publish Carmen Bugan's poetry collection Tristia in early 2025.
The Nation published Melissa Petro's essay "What We Owe Stormy Daniels."
Dorothy Parker's Ashes published Beth Livermore's essay "Highway to Hell" in its Brains issue.
Lara Ewen covered New York Fashion Week for FashionDive and wrote about five top trends she noticed among the collections.
The Walrus named Teresa Wong's new graphic memoir All Our Ordinary Stories one of its Best Books of Fall 2024.
Kirkus reviewed James Preller's new middle-grade novel Shaken, (released by Feiwel & Friends on September 12th) calling it an "introspective and realistic coming-of-age story about rediscovering oneself."
Erin Entrada Kelly is longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature for her novel The First State of Being.
James Preller's new easy reader Two Birds and a Moose has been named a Junior Library Guild selection.
Amazon named Melissa Petro's debut nonfiction book Shame On You: How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification an Editors' Pick, and one of the best nonfiction books of the fall, while Bustle named it one of the Best New Books of Fall 2024.
Mike Dunphy wrote "The Best European City Best Explored After Dark" for Islands magazine.
Laura Yeager is blogging for Cure Today. Recent posts include "Feeling Like Cinderella Again," "Giving Back to Family After Cancer," and "Crossing Paths With My Breast Surgeon in Public."
Lara Ewen's solo acoustic album Lucky As Sin is out now on unstrung music.
"Soon, she was crafting elaborate storylines involving Barbie and her friends, who shop on El Paseo, drink from tiny Starbucks cups, and party at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, sometimes wearing impeccable replications of designer threads — Chanel suits, Tiffany diamonds, Louis Vuitton handbags," writes Jessica Ogilvie about the popular Instagram "Tiny Palm Springs," for Palm Springs Life magazine.
The Common Reader published Lyndsey Ellis's essay "How Black Migration in St. Louis Sparked Generation Nope."
Michael Montlack's poem "Stash" appears in the new issue of 45th Parallel magazine.
Southern Humanities Review published Casandra López's short story "She Calls Me Sara."
Cutleaf published Michael Backus's essay "Lt. Dan Takes a Trip."
The Meadow Literary Arts Journal published David Berner's short story "A Good Sleep."
Superman Doesn't Steal, a short film co-produced by Cleve Lamison, won Best Film at the Diversity in Cannes Short Film Showcase. It also won Best Film at the Tylerman Social Awareness Film Festival, and the A Day in the Sun Film Festival, and the Audience Award at the Pan African Film Festival Vision Fest.
CutBank published Casandra López's essay "Erasure: Meadowbrook."
The New Yorker published Teresa Wong's comic "Capitalism Is Running out of Flavors."
Christine Meade's latest novel The Moon, Her Crown is available now from LitSet Books.
Bookpage interviewed Erin Entrada Kelly about world-building her latest novel Felix Powell, Boy Dog, the importance of representing different family shapes in children's literature, and why "it brings me joy to write about kids who do feel a little different because because it's like writing a letter to my young self."
David Berner's novella American Moon won the Fugere Book Prize from Regal House Publishing, which will publish it in 2026.
Cab Tran is co-editing and translating the fiction anthology The Colors of April, (Three Rooms Press, forthcoming) by and about the Vietnamese diaspora in the wake of the Vietnam War.
Simon & Schuster released James Preller's easy-reader book Two Birds and a Moose on August 27th.
Mara Reinstein interviewed Casey Affleck and Matt Damon about Boston, the Red Sox, and their new Apple+ series The Instigators, for Parade magazine.
Rachel Simon wrote about finding a clothing subscription service for petite women and how it "changed the way I shop" for Refinery29.
Rolling Stone published Mara Reinstein's article Bong Hits, Burgers, and Neil Patrick Harris: An Oral History of Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle."
Mike Dunphy is writing for Tasting Table, and recent articles include "The Traditional Dishes You'll Enjoy for Breakfast in Italy," "Nodi Marini: One of Giada De Laurentiis's Favorite Pasta Shapes," and "Opt for a Smokier Whiskey When Pairing With Steak."
David Berner's novella The Islander won a Pencraft Award for Best Book-Summer 2024 in fiction.
The Raven Review published Adela Brito's short story "Mad Love."
The Baltimore Sun published Robert Repino's op-ed "There's No Excuse for Sitting Out This Election."
"My brain remains a radioactive hub of chaos. It’s just that, when it schemes and sizzles now, it does so unimpaired," writes Rax King in her essay "I Don't Want Nothing Anymore," up now at Welcome to Hell World.
Parade magazine named Erin Entrada Kelly's new middle-grade novel Felix Powell, Boy Dog (released on July 16th) one of the best new books of the summer.
Hunger Mountain published Amy Scheiner's essay "Imagery for Grieving."
The Common Reader published Lyndsey Ellis's essay "The More St. Louis Changes, the More It Stays the Same."
Jim Mendrinos's book Hire Yourself as a Writer: Punch Up Your Stand-Up Like a Professional Comedy Writer is available now.
Hunger Mountain published Casandra López's essay "Needle and Thread."
"Nearly three-quarters of fashion consumers think materials such as viscose and lyocell should come from sustainable forests, and only 13 percent felt brands were providing them with a sufficient amount of information on in-store clothing labels regarding sustainability," writes Lara Ewen for Fashion Dive.
More and more breweries are refusing to sell beer flights, and Mike Dunphy explores why, for Inside Hook magazine.
"When you’re an actor in a show like this, the beauty of it is to shift and to evolve and to grow,” Emmy-winning actor Debbie Allen said to Rachel Simon, in her profile for Shondaland.
Publishers Weekly reviewed Teresa Wong's forthcoming graphic memoir All Our Ordinary Stories, calling it "a resonant journey into the past."
Post45 published Rax King's essay "Lindsay Lohan's Splashy, Sensationalized Journey to Sobriety."
Syzygy, written and directed by Jim Mendrinos, won eight awards at the First Monthly Film Festival, including Best Feature Film, Best Ensemble Film, and Best Director.
Amulet Books announced it would publish On Again, Awkward Again, a YA rom-com novel co-written by Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame Mbalia. The dual-POV novel will be released in spring 2025.
Anni Irish is covering the labor movement in arts institutions for the Art Newspaper, and recent articles include "Staff at the American Folk Art Museum Vote Unanimously to Form a Union," and "Mass Moca Employees End Three-Week Strike Following Dispute Over Wages."
Rachel Simon is ready for Season 2 of Orphan Black, and with her catch-up guide for Vulture, "Welcome to the Clone Club," you can be, too.
For the 30th anniversary of the release of the classic comedy American Pie, Mara Reinstein interviewed actor Alyson Hannigan about screening the film for her friends and her surprise at the film's success, for Parade.
"Against a postcard mountain backdrop, Asheville sprawls casually...alongside the French Broad and Swannanoa Rivers, creating a hodgepodge of distinct neighborhoods that always seem to be in full chillax mode," writes Mike Dunphy in this Inside Hook travel article "You Are Here: Asheville."
Bloomsbury Publishing released Rita Chang-Eppig's novel Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea in paperback.
HerMoney published Anni Irish's article "Why the Cost of Surrogacy Is so Expensive for LGBTQ+ Couples."
Killer Nashville published Angela Lam's flash fiction story "Interrogation."
The Center for Children's Literature named Erin Entrada Kelly's middle-grade novel Only, Only Marisol Rainey one of the Best Children's Books of the Year for 2024.
Anni Irish has been covering the protest encampments against the war in Gaza at colleges of art and design nationwide, and recent articles cover protests at the Rhode Island School of Design, the New School, Parsons School of Design, and the Savannah College of Art and Design, for the Art Newspaper.
Michael Montlack's poem "Honorary Member of the 'Deadbeat Club, (for the B52s)' " is up now at Drunk Monkeys magazine.
Publishers Weekly gave Erin Entrada Kelly's forthcoming novel Felix Powell, Boy Dog a starred review, calling it an "engaging novel [that's] a just-right book for a developing reader."
The Reckon Review published Arlaina Tibensky's essay "When You Sell Mom's Teeth."
Mara Reinstein interviewed comedian Jerry Seinfeld about why he hates birthdays but likes nostalgia, snacks, and the video he watches when he needs a pick-me-up, for Parade magazine.
Susan Breen won the 2024 Margery Allingham Short Mystery Story Award, given by the Crime Writers' Association, for her story "Olga Popova."
Laura Yeager is blogging for CureToday. Her recent posts include "When Your Hero Dies of Lung Cancer" and "The Cancer Community and the Princess of Wales."
For a café to qualify as suitable for remote working, it of course needs wi-fi and power outlets. Mike Dunphy has a more detailed checklist, and he puts several Asheville, North Carolina, cafés through their paces, for InsideHook.
Rachel Simon constructed a crossword puzzle on the theme of TMI for USAToday.
Business Insider published Angie Chatman's article "The U.S. Has Paid Restitution Before, and Juneteenth Reminds Us Black Americans Should Be Next."
"After 20 years of trying to become an author, I finally landed a six-figure book deal," writes Melissa Petro in a How I Did It article for Business Insider.
Alcove Press announced it will publish Susan Breen's novel Merry in fall 2025.
Graywolf Press announced it will publish Mengyin Lin's debut short-story collection The Memory Museum.
Two Gotham teachers are longlisted for the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards: David Berner for his novel American Moon, and Alanna Schubach for her short-story collection The Great Disaster.
"What I wanted at that time was a queer, witchy book about female rage." Holley Cornetto talks about her novel, her work, and writing the book you want to read, at Kandisha Press.
Impossible Archetype published Michael Montlack's poem "The Fool Card."
To celebrate Taylor Swift's new album The Tortured Poets Department, Rachel Simon rounded up some favorite tortured poets of film and television for Vulture.
Five Minutes published Angela Lam's short story "True Love."
The RavensPerch published Adela Brito's poem "Key West Laundromat."
Mike Dunphy asked and answered "What Is Hop Water, and Why Is Everyone Talking About it?" for InsideHook.
Compact magazine published Alanna Schubach's essay "Lessons of a Forgotten Campus Scandal."
HarperCollins announced it would publish George Jrieje's middle-grade fantasy novel Bashir Boutros and the Jewels of the Nile in summer 2025.
"What I learned was how to match the narrative voice of the main character with the story," Philip Cioffari talks about his sixth and latest novel Night and Its Longings, and how he learns something new with each book he writes, in an interview with Nina DelRio on Get Connected.
A Common Well Journal published John Oliver Hodges's short story "The Gulls of Carabelle."
The New York Times published Rachel Simon's article "Want an Insta-Worthy Wedding? Brand Your Love Story."
Livingston Press released Philip Cioffari's novel Night and Its Longings.
Rachel Simon re-visited one of the most talked-about episodes of The Good Wife for its 10th anniversary in her article "A Gunshot in the Courtroom" for Vulture.
Kuros Charney's screenplay Letters from Tehran is a semi-finalist for the ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition.
Four Way Books released Matthew Lippman's poetry collection We Are All Sleeping With Our Sneakers On.
Greenwillow Books released Erin Entrada Kelly's middle-grade novel The First State of Being, which was called "tender and mind-bending" by the New York Times, and "well-rendered and endearing" by Publishers Weekly.
Angela Lam's speculative fiction short-story collection Water Baby and Other Stories is out now.
Oldster published "A Birthday Spent Mostly Alone—But Not Lonely," by David Berner, excerpted from his forthcoming memoir Daylight Savings Time.
The Iowa Review published Alanna Schubach's short story "The Oracle."
Business Insider published Melissa Petro's reported essay "I'm an Extrovert Who Realized Working Remotely Was Bad for My Mental Health. These Four Things Helped Me Combat Loneliness."
Mara Reinstein asked Today host and author Hoda Kotb about making herself feel at home in Moline, Illinois, and whether she's ever just a little bit snarky, among other things, for Parade magazine.
Rachel Simon interviewed actor Katy O'Brien about bodybuilding, lesbian romance movies, and tweeting her way into her role in the new film Love Lies Bleeding, for W Magazine.
Angie Chatman's article "Sixty Years After Americans Marched for Economic Freedom, Work Is Completely Different. Retirement Needs to Catch Up" is up now at Business Insider.
HarperCollins released Caela Carter's book The World Divided by Piper, a middle-grade novel about a math genius, on Pi Day.
Literary Hub published Shahnaz Habib's article "Colonizing Plants: How Bougainvillea Conquered the World."
Laura Yeager is blogging for Curetoday. Recent posts include "Cancer Can Be a Living Sentence" and "The Best Turkey Sandwich I Ever Ate."
Tar River Poetry published Michael Montlack's poem "Befucked."
Simon & Schuster will publish James Preller's easy-reader book Two Birds and Moose on August 27th.
"It's hard to ignore the lack of empathy in all of this," writes Robert Repino in his essay for Religion Dispatches, "Lost and Found: Despite the Hope, Morality, and Meaning Inspired by Deconversion, Why Is Rspect Only for Those Who Find God?"
Arlaina Tibensky is a finalist for a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship in prose.
Extra-tailored, ultra-feminine and more: Lara Ewen digs into the new trends on the runways during the 2024 Fashion Week in NYC, for Fashion Dive.
Dorothy Parker's Ashes published Fran McNulty's essay "High Anxiety" (as Fran Schumer.)
Rachel Simon assembled "The 18 Essential Episodes of Gilmore Girls" for Vulture.
Michael Montlack's poem "How to Write a Poem" is in the Waterfall, Blackout, Roadkill issue of 3Elements Literary Review.
The University Press of Kentucky announced it will publish Roohi Choudhry's debut novel Outside Women.
Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan, announced it will release James Preller's middle-grade novel Shaken in September.
Angie Chatman told a story about postpartum depression on The Story Collider.
NetGalley named María Alejandra Barrios's forthcoming novel The Waves Take You Home to its list of Books by Debut Authors to Read in 2024.
Erotic Edges magazine featured an interview with Scott Alexander Hess about his recently released novella A Season in Delhi and the fusion of queer and literary fiction.
Jil Picariello is one of the winners of the Writer's Digest Personal Essay Award, with her essay "My Mother's Purse."
He's the subject of a new Netflix documentary. He's judging American Idol again next season. He's going to be a grandfather for the third time. And next summer, he's touring with Earth, Wind & Fire. Lionel Richie talks to Mara Reinstein about how good it is to be him right now, for Parade magazine.
Rachel Simon asks "Should You Turn Down a Promotion at Work?" (and the answer is "Maybe"), for Shondaland.
Reactor published Robert Repino's essay "The Essential Storytelling Device That Fuels Superman and The Matrix."
"I expect to retire, but as an African-American woman, the numbers make me wonder if I should plan for a funeral instead," writes Angie Chatman, for Business Insider.
Every Day Fiction published Angela Lam's short story "The Wedding Dress."
Ploughshares named Mengyin Lin and her story "野火烧不尽/no prairie fire can destroy all the weeds" winner of its annual Emerging Writers Contest in Fiction.
"If I were to offer advice about how to begin such conversations, I would suggest listening with a nonjudgmental heart," writes N. West Moss in her essay "Talking About Death and Dying," in The Saturday Evening Post.
NPR's Code Switch featured Shahnaz Habib and her new nonfiction book Airplane Mode, in the episode "Travel Is Supposed to Expand Your Horizons...But It's Complicated."
SugarSugarSalt published Kelly Caldwell's essay "Perihelion."
Erin Entrada Kelly's middle-grade novel Maybe, Maybe Marisol Rainey is one of seven finalists for the Beverly Cleary Children's Choice Award. Young readers up through high school will begin voting on the winner on March 15th.
The Pine Hills Review published Michael Montlack's poem "Tongue Twisters Inspired by the Great British Bakeoff."
Novus Literary Journal published Adela Brito's essay "90 Miles."
Angie Chatman was awarded a fellowship to the Collegeville Institute’s About Me, About You Writing Workshop By and For Women of Color.
Dorothy Parker's Ashes published "Lost Angela" by Fran McNulty, (under her author's name Fran Schumer).
Mara Reinstein interviewed Law & Order star Christopher Meloni about the enduring appeal of his character Elliot Stabler, working after the SAG/AFTRA and WGA strikes, and what his kids think of his racy Peloton ad, for Parade magazine.
Fashion Dive published Lara Ewen's article "Garments Burned for Fuel in Cambodia Factories Causing Health and Environmental Issues."
"But ambition isn’t just destructive to you; it’s harmful to others as well," writes Brendan Halpin in his op-ed piec "Against Ambition."
"When Lily Gladstone was a child, she and her father communicated in their sleep," writes Jessica Ogilvie in her profile, "Before the Film Festival, Lily Gladstone Visits the Indian Canyons," for Palm Springs Life magazine,
Rachel Simon interviewed novelist Nita Prose about her best-selling mystery novel The Maid and its follow-up The Mystery Guest, and why she won't diagnose protagonist Molly's "something unique about her personality, something very different about how her brain works," for Shondaland.
Rita Chang-Eppig's novel Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea is included on the Chicago Review of Books's Best Debuts of 2023.
The New York Times reviewed Shahnaz Habib's new book Airplane Mode, calling it "a lively and, yes, wide-ranging book that interrogates the conventions and most prominent chroniclers [of travel]."
George Jreije talked about alchemy, Harry Potter, and "writing to humanize [Lebanesee] people and our culture," and his recent middle-grade novel Shad Hadid and the Forbidden Alchemies with Worcester Magazine.
The Riverfront Times interviewed Scott Alexander Hess about marriage, India, and his new novella A Season in Delhi.
The Manhattan Review published Carmen Bugan's poem "Archer Street."
Shahnaz Habib's nonfiction book Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel is out now from Catapult Books.
McSweeney's published Janine Annett's essay "Realistic Cold-Weather Clothing Options for Tweens."
Cultural Daily published three poems by Michael Montlack: "Scientists Identify 29 Planets Where Aliens Could Observe Earth," "Goat Song," and "Unrequited Love Song."
Fran Schumer is the featured artist in Synkroniciti, for its Curiosity issue, which also includes three of Fran's poems, "R.I.P.," "Self Portrait," and "Market Hill Road."
Kelp Journal published Barbara Demarco-Barrett's short story "Rowboat."
Jessica Sticklor named of the three best books she read in 2023, with Shepherd magazine.
Dorothy Parker's Ashes published N. West Moss's essay "The Story of the Lost Friend."
The Watershed Review published Amy Scheiner's essay "Such a Beauty."
Business Insider published Angie Chatman's essay "I Don't Have a Spare $150K, so Long-Term Care Insurance Is Absolutely Worth the Cost."
Style, protest, and destigmatization — some of the reasons why women are transforming their expired IUDs into jewelry, explains Rachel Simon in her article "Why People Are Making Jewelry Out of Their Birth Control" in Teen Vogue.
Queer Forty magazine interviewed Scott Alexander Hess about his new novella A Season in Delhi, believing in muses, and writing "LGBTQIA fiction that is both highly literate and highly sensual."
For its Unusual Suspects roundup, Book Riot recommended Lev A.C. Rosen's YA novel Jack of Hearts (And Other Parts), saying they "adored Jack and the voice of this novel."
Rachel Simon gave real, numerical rankings to the fake prep schools of our favorite movies and TV shows, for Vulture.
N. West Moss interviews the Poet Laureate of New Jersey Ann E. Wallace about gardening, poetry, and other wild things, for The WildCast.
Mengyin Lin is on the longlist for the 2023 Granum Foundation Prize, "awarded annually to help U.S.-based writers complete substantive literary works."
Queerlings published Michael Montlack's poem "Medusa Goes to the Salon."
SugarSugarSalt published Amy Scheiner's essay "The Burdens We Carry."
Mara Reinstein is a finalist for the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award in the TV Industry Feature - Longform categeory for her article "Yes, Chef!" The Los Angeles Press Club will announce the winners December 3rd.
Mike Dunphy wrote "Czech Beer Is Having a Moment — And Brewers Are Thrilled" for InsideHook.
Kirkus reviewed David Berner's memoir Daylight Savings Time (forthcoming in July 2024 from Collective Ink Books), saying "The author’s skillful balancing of the weighty and the ordinary illuminates both, making ... the everyday meaningful."
