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L.A. Parent published Natasha Thapar-Olmos's article "Four Tips to Boost Your Family's Emotional Toolkit."
Chicago Story Press Literary Journal published Bekah Rossman's short story "Like Always".
Little Old Lady published Linda Gerlitz's essay "Nuthatch v. Deadline".
Under the Gum Tree published Clay Halton's humor essay "Saying It."
Bending Genres published Mary DeCarlo's short story "Sick, Dying, Dead."
Michael Sadowski won the 2024 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Award for his novel-in-progress Indiana Queer. The award is given by The Pirate’s Alley Society, Inc., a nonprofit literary and educational organization based in New Orleans. The competition honors not-yet-published works in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, often by new writers, or writers new to their genres.
The Packingtown Review published Emily Hegland's short story "The Timber Loft."
The Village Sun published Connie Murray's op-ed "Mayor Adams, Please Let Us Keep Elizabeth Street Garden, Our Jewel Box."
Judy Penz Sheluk's book Finding Your Path to Publication won the 2024 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award for Best Nonfiction.
The Sun magazine published AnnMarie Antenucci's essay "Submerged" in its Readers Write column.
Fenrir Bogear self-published a short story and poetry collection, Death Follows Me.
The Plenitudes published José Ureña Martínez's short story "White Ceiling," which he began in a Gotham class.
Maria Ordova-Montane launched the Out There podcast with a first episode called "Running as Medicine".
The Chicago Sun-Times published Sheldon Bernard Lyke's op-ed "Northwestern Law School Is Target of Conservative Attacks on Faculty Diversity."
Eclectica Magazine published Kristina Garvin's essay "You Were Down the Road Eating".
The Pen to Print Book Challenge 2023/2024 chose James Marshall's novel The Poster as a first runner up.
The San Antonio Review published Sheldon Siporin's poem "Insight", under his pen name Jan Cronos.
NRS Duct Tape Diaries published Janina Edwards' story "In the Wake of York: A Missouri River Story". AARP's The Ethel published another of her pieces, "Black and Single: I Got '0 Matches' on Dating Apps: How I Learned to Embrace Life On My Own".
TODAY published Amre Klimchak's essay "After My Dad Died, I Took a Cross-Country Road Trip to Reconnect with Nature and Recapture Our Past."
Plenitudes named Alisha Acquaye the winner of the 2024 Nonfiction Prize for her essay "I Dream of Mermaids, Memories, Shapeshifting, and Serpents."
Catina Bacote's memoir "Eastern Circle: Searching for a Just End to My Grandfather's Murder" sold to Henry Holt publishers, in a major deal at auction.
Adelaide Magazine published several of Sheldon Siporin's poems, writing under his pen name Jan Cronos. Included are "Anti-Militaristic Stomp", "Lying in the Gutter", "Landscape", and "Why Do the Birds Still Sing?"
The Huffington Post published Aizhan Yesbolatova's essay "After 3 Years, I Finally Got Pregnant. My Joy Turned Into a Nightmare I Wasn't Sure I'd Survive".
The Knight Agency signed Lauren Khan and will be submitting her debut novel.
The Palisades Review published Kristina Garvin's lyric essay "It's The Only Thing Keeping Us Alive".
Atria Books released Vanessa Walters's debut novel The Lagos Wife in paperback. A selection of the Good Morning America Book Club, the suspense novel was originally titled The Nigerwife when it came out in hardcover last year.
Last Leaves Magazine published Judi Mae "JM" Huck's poem "Before Starlight". You can see the rest of her work here.
The Ulu Review published Gail Sher's story "Three Evening Bells".
Allan Air wrote, directed, and produced his own short film "Querk."
Olympia Publishers published Kumkum Ahluwalia's poetry collection, Birdsong.
Men's Health published Michael Schnaidt's essay "My Dog Almost Killed Me."
Morgan James Publishing will publish Karen Katz's memoir Getting Sauced: How I Learned Everything I Know About Food from Working in TV in June.
Peter Flom self-published his memoir, Twice as Weird: A Memoir About Twice Exceptionality.
Reverie Magazine published Dinah Alobeid's short story "The Surgical Pause".
The Common published Lei Hu's flash fiction story "A Good Girl in the People's Republic," which she started in a Gotham Fiction I class.
Smokelong Quarterly published Dana Brewer Harris's flash story "Under the Rose," as well as an interview with her about writing it.
Isele Magazine published Joan Slatoff's short story "The Innocents".
Feminist Press published three pieces by Cathy de la Cruz in The Weird Sister Collection: Writing at the Intersections of Feminism, Literature, and Pop Culture edited by Marisa Crawford.
Cornerstone Press published Bonnie Jill Emanuel's poetry collection Glitter City.
The University Press of Kentucky announced it will publish Serkan Görkemli's debut short-story collection Sweet Tooth and Other Stories on May 14th.
Donna Huddleston's essay "Customary Prayers for Marie" was selected for the 2023 Corpus Christi Writers anthology.
Christola Phoenix performed a story about Destiny for Story Collider.
Bella Books published Felicia Carparelli's Sapphic novel Tile M for Murder.
Tales from the Moonlit Path published Matt Hollingworth's story "Candles at Night".
Shimmy Braun's original musical parody Five will be playing at Theater 555.
Harper Collins published Natasha Alford's memoir American Negra.
The Upper New Review published Stacy Boone's story "Connect-the-Dots: Following the Unnatural Path of Water from the South San Juan Mountains to Albuquerque". Another of her stories, "Broken Pieces: An Accident that Felt Destined, Despite Every Effort to Avoid Complacency" was published in Appalachia.
One Art: a journal of poetry published Debbie Feit's poem "18 Reasons Why I Haven't Lost Weight". Another poem, "A (Mulberry) Tree Grows In Brooklyn", was published by Wild Greens Magazine.
Why Vandalism published Sheldon Siporin's poem "Bench".
Craft Literary published Dana Brewer Harris' story, "Sweet Knife"
Dreamforge published Richard Shury's Cli-Fi story "Petrichor".
Juniper literary magazine published Rose Auslander's poem "Swan Days."
Oldster magazine published Starina Catchatoorian's essay "The Golden Seed."
The Sullivan County Democrat published "What Oppenheimer Missed" by William Lenczuk.
Texas Tech University Press published Jefferey Spivey's debut short story collection, The Birthright of Sons.
Your Tango published Robin MacDonald's essay "I Met the Love of My Life on a Small Ship to Antarctica."
Penguin Random House Australia published Nicholas Bhasin's novel I Look Forward to Hearing from You.
Sequestrum published Joan Slatoff's story "Mermaids for Seashorses".
Book Funnel/Uplift Press included Jacqueline Kaufman's short story "Day Ninety-three" in its The Sun Still Rises anthology.
Union Square & Co. published Jessica Saunders' debut novel Love, Me.
The New York State Council on the Arts awarded Starina Catchatoorian a 2024 Artist's Grant.
Robin Michel Caudell's book Black Heel Strings: A Choptank Memoir won the 2023 Veterans Writing Award, given each year by Syracuse University to "recognize contributions by military veterans to the literary arts."
CandleLit Magazine published James Marshall's short story, "Three Wishes."
