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Congratulations to Kathryn Brown Ramsperger, whose novel A Thousand Flying Things won the 2023 International Book of the Year Award from the Pulpwood Queens! It also won first place for fiction in the Royal Dragonfly Awards and has been shortlisted for two Chanticleer awards.


Rosalia Scalia is hosting Literary Nights with Unsolicited Press where she is joined by authors for readings. It runs every other Wednesday on YouTube and also IG and Twitter. Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/@unsolicitedpress9716


Congratulations to Naomi Ruth Lowinsky! Her poem “The Ghost of My Father Remembers Himself Playing the ‘Moonshine’ Sonata” won Synkroniciti’s “Space” poetry contest and was also nominated for a 2023 Pushcart Prize by them.


Congratulations to John Murray! His essay “The Ashes” was nominated for a 2023 Pushcart Prize by Gold Man Review.


Congratulations to Alison Hicks! Her poem “Self-Portrait in Dog Years” has been nominated for a 2023 Pushcart Prize by Nude Bruce Review.


Congratulations to Ellis Elliott! Her poem “Back to School” has been nominated for a 2023 Pushcart Prize by Delmarva Review, and her poem “Turquoise Sweater” has been nominated by Nude Bruce Review.


Congratulations to Leila Farjami! Her poem “Caspian Sea” has been nominated for the Best of the Net anthology.


Congratulations to Maryanne Chrisant! Her short story “Dia de los Muertos” was nominated for a 2023 Pushcart Prize.


Congratulations to Telisha Moore Leigg, whose novel through short stories The Fire For Lucky Horseshoes was recently published with the help of Self-Publishing Relief. Get your copy at Amazon or BarnesandNoble.com! For more information about Telisha, visit her website.


Congratulations to Andrea Ehrgott, whose book Weathering Widowland: A Journal of Landscapes and Loss, was recently published with the help of Self-Publishing Relief! The powerful book is part memoir, part travel story collection, part grief journal. Get your copy at Amazon!

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Congratulations to Kathleen Glassburn! She has been the managing editor of The Writer’s Workshop Review for nearly 20 years. Issue 17 is now available here and submissions are read year-round: www.thewritersworkshopreview.net


Congratulations to Patricia L. Meek! Her poem “A Dialogue With Georgia O’Keeffe III: The Simple Truth of Light” has been selected for the 2023 International Poetry Film Festival in Los Angeles, California.


Congratulations to Gail Walsh Chop and Margaret Corbett Wiley, whose historical coming-of-age novel Flashbulb Memories was recently published with the help of Self-Publishing Relief! Get your copy at Amazon or BarnesandNoble.com!

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Congratulations to Yvonne Higgins Leach! Kelsay Books is going to publish her second book of poems! Due out in January 2024.


Congratulations to Laura Hope-Gill! Her poem “The Dimension of Dog” has been nominated by Denver Quarterly for the 2022 Pushcart Prize.


Congratulations to Alita Pirkopf! Her poem “Shale Bluffs” has been nominated by Voices de la Luna for the 2022 Pushcart Prize.


Congratulations to Betsy Martin! Her poem “To Missoula” has been nominated by Wrath-Bearing Tree for the 2022 Pushcart Prize.


Congratulations to Lynne Pickett! Her short story “Pick a Side” has been nominated for this year’s Pushcart Prize by Coffin Bell.


Congratulations to Alison Hicks! Her poem “Predation” has been nominated for this year’s Pushcart Prize anthology by ൪uartet.


Congratulations to Patricia Meek! Her poem “A Dialogue with Georgia O Keeffe III: The Simple Truth of Light” will be screened at Monologue & Poetry International Film Fest in December 2022.

Her poem “Weather” was accepted in the anthology Level Ground: Poems For and About the I35 Corridor by Craig Hill and Todd Fuller, is now out for release on November 1st.


Congratulations to Brigitte Cushman! Her debut children’s book, Junior’s Dragon, was recently published with the help of Self-Publishing Relief and is available on Amazon.


Congratulations to Mark Belair! His book Edgewood has been published by Turning Point.


Congratulations to Ellis Elliott! Her poems “Easy Fix,” “After Words,” and “Our Truest Hungers” have been nominated for the Best of the Net awards.


Congratulations to Karen Sirabian, whose novel Hogge Wild was recently published with the help of Self-Publishing Relief and is available on Amazon.

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Congratulations to Abby Caplin, who Published: A Doctor Only Pretends: Poems About Illness, Death, and In-Between.


Congratulations to Meredith Hadaway Davies, who is Sophie Kerr’s Writer in Residence for Spring 2022.


Congratulations to Shawna Ervin, who is a mentor and guest artist for a nonprofit in Denver called Art from Ashes. She is also a poetry reader for Adroit.


Congratulations to Jeanne Rana, who was awarded a space as a Contributor in Poetry for the 2022 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference!


Congratulations to Maria Wickens, whose unpublished book “Drown ‘Em Like Puppies” was longlisted for the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize!


Congratulations to Rin Kelly, whose short story “Wax Works” was nominated for a 2021 Pushcart Prize!


Congratulations to Tim Tuttle, whose first novel, Time Out!, was recently published with the help of Self-Publishing Relief. It is available at Amazon.

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Congratulations to James Seawel! His essay “The Big Fat Free Bird End of Times” has been nominated for the 2021 Best of the Net.


Congratulations to Abby Caplin! Her poem “Ways to Know Your Father Has Alzheimer’s” has been nominated for the 2021 Pushcart Prize. Abby will also be the Featured Reader for Coastside Poetry at their Virtual Event on 3/8/22 at 6:00 p.m. PST. Learn more here: https://coastsidepoetry.org/current-features/.


Congratulations to Gladys Justin Carr! Her poem “Numbers” has been nominated for the 2021 Pushcart Prize.


Congratulations to Alise Versella! Her poems “Lilly” and “Seeds Do Not Shrink Smaller Into The Soil, They Unfurl from When Wolves Become Birds” have been nominated for the 2021 Pushcart Prize.


Congratulations to Judith Ford! Her essay “The Mountains Are Home” has been nominated for the 2021 Pushcart Prize.


Congratulations to Rosalia Scalia! Unsolicited Press is holding a virtual reading for her collection Stumbling Toward Grace on 11/30/21 at 5:45 p.m. PDT. Learn more here: https://www.unsolicitedpress.com/events.html


Congratulations to Eleanor Windman! Her short story “Sundays at the Automat” has been nominated for the 2021 Pushcart Prize.


Congratulations to Deborah Prespare! Her short story “Selvage” has been nominated for the 2021 Pushcart Prize.


Congratulations to Jacqueline Henry! Her poems “The Bean Pole,” “Hemingway on Toast,” and “Still We Pulse” have been nominated for the 2021 Pushcart Prize.


Congratulations to Rosalia Scalia! She was interviewed by WYPR to discuss her recently published short story collection Stumbling Toward Grace. Click here to listen to the interview to learn more about the immersive stories and be sure to pick up your copy here!


Congratulations to Mary Warren Foulk! Her manuscript Erasures of My Coming Out (letter) won first place in The Poetry Box’s 2021 chapbook contest.


Congratulations to Maria McLeod, winner of our 2020 WaterSedge Poetry Chapbook Contest, on the publication of her chapbook! Mother Want was published with the help of Self-Publishing Relief and is available at Amazon.


Congratulations to Mary Warren Foulk! She recently won the “Teach! Write! Play!” fellowship to the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and her poem “The Inventory of Fumbling” received first place honors.


Congratulations to Lenny Levine, whose third novel, Diehard Fan, was recently published with the help of Self-Publishing Relief! Get your copy at Amazon or BarnesandNoble.com! For more information about Lenny, visit his website.


Congratulations to Patricia L. Meek! Her video poem, “Dialogue with Georgia O’ Keeffe I: Chimney Rock” was screened at the 2020 Film and Video Poetry Symposium, Los Angeles, California.


Congratulations to Rochelle Jewel Shapiro! Her poem “Makeup at Seventy” has been nominated by Hollins Critic for a 2021 Pushcart Prize.


Congratulations to Leisha Douglas! Her poem is featured in Corona City: Voices from an Epicenter. The proceeds of the sales will benefit food programs nationally. Click here to purchase your copy!


We celebrate three clients receiving 3 Pushcart nominations: Judith C, Will W, and Meredith H. We are so happy to help you submit your fine work!


Congratulations to J Dan Francis! His short story “Charlie Dixon’s Last Ride” has been nominated for a 2021 Pushcart Prize.


Congratulations to Lisa L. Leibow! Her work has been nominated for a 2021 Pushcart Prize.


Congratulations to Bobbi Dean, whose poetry collection, Wish Weeds, was recently published with the help of Self-Publishing Relief! Get your copy at Amazon!


Grace for Grace brings celebrated cult filmmaker Steve De Jarnatt’s distinctive voice and cinematic vision to the page. Lush inner lives, idiosyncratic syntax, and sweeping scale characterize these wildly imaginative stories, which present characters in search of meaning and belonging, and often, at the same time, redemption and revenge.


One of Christopher Kuhl’s poems will be exclusively featured on Batavia (IL) Public Library’s Poetry Line! Listeners can call 630-879-1393, ext. 222 any time during the week of October 27, 2020 to hear the poem “Pastoral: The Poet, the World, the Word.”


Congratulations to Mark Belair on releasing his newest book, Stonehaven! Subtitled “A Fictional Memoir in Prose Couplets,” Stonehaven is a work of fiction with the intimacy and detail of a memoir set in language looser than poetry, tauter than prose. The narrative borrows from music the three-movement form of the sonata—exposition of themes; development; recapitulation—while the text, as in film, renders the behavior of the characters without authorial comment, leaving all interpretation to the reader. These formal strategies seek to draw the signal from the noise of the grinding process of grounding, as we all must, an identity.


Join Donna L. Emerson in a virtual book launch for her second full-length poetry collection, Beside the Well. Jared Emerson-Johnson will be joining her with musical interludes.

The event will be held on September 13th from 4 – 5 p.m. Pacific Time (6 – 7 p.m. Eastern Time) . Click here to register: http://www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org/virtual-book-launch-donna-emersons-beside-the-well-with-musical-interludes-by-jared-emerson-johnson/


Congratulations to Alise Versella! Her book When Wolves Become Birds, which includes many poems Writer’s Relief helped place in journals, has officially been accepted for publication! Golden Dragonfly Press will be publishing When Wolves Become Birds tentatively in October.


Congratulations to Kevin Norwood! He is the winner of The Porch Poetry Prize 2020.


Congratulations to Lisa Leibow! She co-founded an activism through storytelling arts movement called The Scheherazade Project. Check it out here: www.theScheherazadeProject.org


Congratulations to Dvora Rabino! She has won Inscape’s Editors’ Choice award for her essay “At Home With My Herbal Remedy and His Books.”


Congratulations to Rosalia Scalia! She will be doing editorial critique sessions at the 17th Annual CityLit Festival.


Congratulations to Patricia L. Meek! Her screenplay The Brides of Inti was a semi-finalist in the Red Flight Pictures screenplay competition. 


Kathleen Zamboni McCormick’s Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood has won 1st place in the category of First Novel (under 60,000 words) in the 2019 TopShelf Book Awards! Early versions of most of the chapters in her book were first published in journals through Writer’s Relief.


Congratulations to Mark Belair! His poem “the mail slot” has been nominated for a 2019 Pushcart Prize!


Congratulations to Rosalia Scalia! Her Op-Ed “Let’s practice kindness this holiday season” has been published by Baltimore Sun. Read it here.

Her short story collection Stumbling Toward Grace will be published by Unsolicited Press.


Congratulations to Patricia L Meek! Her video poem Dialogue with Georgia O’Keeffe II: Ghost Ranch has been accepted into the 20th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival.


Congratulations to Donna Emerson! Her second full-length poetry collection, Beside the Well, is now available here.


Congratulations to Evelyn Martinez! Her essay “If” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Your Impossible Voice!


Congratulations to Donna L. Emerson! Her poem “Long Distance” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Marin Poetry Anthology!


Congratulations to Mark Belair! His collections Taking Our Time and Running Late are now available. These collections published by Kelsay Books were assembled with each other in mind; formed as twins.


Congratulations to Mark Belair! His poem “Yellow Boots” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Green Hills Literary Lantern!


Congratulations to W. G. Peaks, whose novel Out of Darkness was recently published with the help of Self-Publishing Relief! Get your copy at Amazon or Barnes & Noble!


We’re happy to announce Shawna Ervin’s chapbook Mother Lines is available for preorder at Finishing Line Press. Click here to preorder a copy before January 3rd.


Congratulations to Sandy Ludwig, whose memoir, Don’t Drink the Water, was recently published with the help of Self-Publishing Relief! Get your copy at Amazon today!


Congratulations to C. Benjamin Lattimore, whose novel hell, hell, the gang’s all here! (book one in the ‘idiot spy’ series) was recently published with the help of Self-Publishing Relief! Get your copy at Amazon or Barnes & Noble and find out more about Lattimore and his work by visiting his website.


Congratulations to Dana Robbins! Her poem “The Butterfly Dress” won Third Prize in the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for Jewish Poetry, 2018.


Congratulations to Cecile Barlier! She won the Grace Paley Award for Short Fiction and her manuscript, “A Gypsy’s Book Of Revelation,” will be published by Red Hen Press.


Congratulations to Mark Belair! His poem “the mail slot” has been nominated for the 2019 Sundress Best of the Net award!


Congratulations to Rosalia Scalia! Her short story collection Stubling Toward Grace is a finalist for the Hawk Mountain Award for a Short Story Collection!


Congratulations to Kathleen McCormick! Her book, Dodging Satan, received the 2019 Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Award. Presented by The Sons and Daughters of Italy’s New York State Grand Lodge Foundation, this award is named for the first woman in history to receive a PhD and recognizes outstanding Italian-American scholars for significant contributions to their professions and communities. McCormick received the award for her creative work; her exceptional commitment to her students; and her outstanding contributions to scholarship in Joyce studies, pedagogy, and Italian-American studies. In addition, Dodging Satan also won Topshelf Magazine’s Best Cover Award in Small Press Fiction in May, 2019.


Congratulations to Dick Bentley! His short story “Health Care” was included in the “Best Microfiction of 2019″ collection!


Congratulations to Valerie Griggs! Her poem “Vigil” won first place in the Nassau County Poet Laureate 2019 poetry contest.


Congratulations to Laurie Reiche! Her poem “Four Months, One Week” has received the Editors’ Choice Award for the best poetry in Inscape 2019!


Congratulations to Donna Emerson! Her poetry collection The Place of Our Meeting has been reviewed by Paterson Literary Review. Click here to read more.


Congratulations to Marlene Saile, whose novel Bye Bye Blackbird was recently published with the help of Self-Publishing Relief! Get your copy at Amazon!


We’re happy to announce Laura Schulkind’s book the The Long Arc of Grief is available for preorder at Finishing Line Press. Click here to preorder a copy before August 9th.


Lenny Levine recently read at Bethel Library. Check out his performance here:


Congratulations to Suzanne O’ Connell on the release of her new book, What Luck!


Congratulations to Cyndy Muscatel, whose short story collection Radio Days was recently published with the help of Self-Publishing Relief! Get your copy at Amazon or Barnes & Noble and find out more about Muscatel and her work by visiting her website.


Congratulations to Janna Cohen! Her short story “Cat and Rose” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The MacGuffin!


Congratulations to Irene O’ Garden! Her memoir, Risking The Rapids: How My Wilderness Adventure Healed My Childhood, will be released on January 31, 2019, from Mango Publishing!


Congratulations to Suzanne O’Connell! Her poem “Crying is Expected in a Therapy Office” has earned Honorable Mention in the 2018 Steve Kowit Poetry Prize and will be published in the 2019 San Diego Poetry Annual.


Congratulations to Pamela Davis! Her short story “Paris Nocturne” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize!


Congratulations to Rachel Tramonte! Her poem “Dead Letter Mail” has been nominated for the 2018 Sundress Best of the Net award.


Congratulations to Lynn Hoggard! Her poem “In The Garden” has been nominated for the 2018 Sundress Best of the Net award.


Congratulations to Patricia Meek! Her video poem “Dialogue with Georgia O’ Keeffe: Chimney Rock” will be screened at this year’s Rabbit Heart poetry Film Festival. https://doublebunnypress.com/2018-shortlists/


Congratulations to Ann Harper Reed! Her short story “Brooch” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize!


Congratulations to John Ballantine! His essay “Half of Something” is a finalist in The Adelaide Literary Award Contest for The Best Essay 2018.


Congratulations to Kathleen Glassburn, whose short story collection Where Do Stories Come From? was recently published with the help of Self-Publishing Relief! Get your copy at Amazon or Barnes & Noble and find out more about Glassburn and her work by visiting her website.


Congratulations to Abby Caplin! Her poem “My Daughter Spoke of the Resistance” has been nominated for the 2018 Sundress Best of the Net award.


Congratulations to Susan Flynn! Her poem “Ode to My Mistakes” has been nominated for the 2018 Sundress Best of the Net award.


Congratulations to Mercedes Lawry, winner of our second annual WaterSedge contest, on the publication of her chapbook! In the Early Garden With Reason was published with the help of Self-Publishing Relief and is available at Amazon.


Congratulations to Lynn Hoggard! Her poetry collection Bushwhacking Home, won third place in the National Federation of Press Women’s 2018 National Communications Contest!


Congratulations to Steve Laracy on the publication of his novel Traces of the Past, recently published with the help of Self-Publishing Relief and available at Amazon!


Congratulations to Lynn Hoggard! Her poetry collection, Bushwhacking Home, won first place in the 2018 Press Women of Texas poetry competition.


Congratulations to Matthue Roth! He’ll be reading at AWP this weekend, on 3/8!


Congratulations to Ann Harper Reed! Her short story “Bhishma” is published in Tayo.

Please click on this link to read Ann’s story: http://www.tayoliterarymag.com/ann-harper-reed


Congratulations to Anne Denmark on the release of her novel Truth or Dare, recently published with the help of Self-Publishing Relief and available at Amazon!


Congratulations to Lynn Hoggard! Her poem “Love in the Desert”, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize!


Congratulations to Alex Frankel! His essay, “Limitless”, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize!


Congratulations to Delphine Hirsh! Her short story, “The Webbing,” has been nominated for a 2017 Pushcart Prize!


Congratulations to Richard Key! His essay, “The Last Hundred Days” has been nominated for a 2017 Pushcart Prize!


Abby Caplin will be reading her poetry on Friday, November 10th, 2017 at Catamaran’s Fall Issue Launch and on Friday, November 17th at “At the Inkwell Poetry Night” at Alley Cat Books in San Francisco, sponsored by SF Creative Writing Institute.


Congratulations to Lucinda Watson! Her poems “In Rome with My Dad on Business” and “Letter Yet Unsent” have been nominated for a 2017 Pushcart Prize!


Congratulations to Cathy Allman! Her poem. “Not in the Wonder Box,” has been nominated for a 2017 Pushcart Prize!


Congratulations to Trish Meek! Her collaborative film submission, Ghost Ranch, has been short listed as a selection in the Showcase Matinee of the Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival this year.


Congratulations to Jhon Sanchez! His short story “Weekly Talk” was selected as finalist in Midway Journal’s -1000 Below: Flash Prose and Poetry Contest.


Congratulations to Jim Pratley on the recent publication of his novel A Not Too Gay Life, which is available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble.


Congratulations to Christopher Kuhl, whose poetry collection Night Travels was recently published with the help of Self-Publishing Relief. Christopher’s book is available on Amazon.


Congratulations to King Grossman, whose novel Letters To Alice recently received the Gold Medal for Inspirational/Visionary Fiction in the 2017 Global Ebook Awards! Letters To Alice was also named the Visionary Fiction Distinguished Favorite in the Independent Press Awards, and was a Finalist for Literary Fiction in the National Indie Excellence Awards. For more information about King and his work, please visit his website.


Congratulations to Kathryn Ramsperger! Her novel, The Shores of Our Souls, will be released on August 1, 2017.

Please click on this link: Shoresofoursouls.com for more details on Kathryn’s book and to order a copy!


Congratulations to Kathryn Ramsperger! Her novel, The Shores of Our Souls, will be released on August 1, 2017.


Congratulations to Kendra Tanacea! Her manuscript, Garbage Heart, is a semi-finalist in the annual Washington Prize contest from The Word Works.


Congratulations to Saramanda Swigart! Her short story, “Contranym”, was recently accepted by Grief Diaries. Please click on this link to read “Contranym”: http://www.thegriefdiaries.org/#/fiction-by-saramanda-swigart


Congratulations to Kerry Campbell! Her manuscript, Dreaming of France, just won the 2017 Blue Light Press Poetry Award. Kerry trusted Writer’s Relief with the proofing of her manuscript, which will be released in September.


Looking for an intriguing summer read? Serenity Books is pleased to announce the release of “Jewels of San Fedele,” a collection of short fiction, memoir, art and photography that our client, D Ferrara is featured in. After a near magical week in Tuscany, a group of writers shared their experiences in this paperback, now available on Amazon. Please click on this link: https://www.amazon.com/Jewels-San-Fedele-D-Ferrara/dp/0996699236/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493940544&sr=8-1&keywords=d+ferrara+jewels to learn more about this collaboration and order a copy!


Please read Mark Gunther’s heartfelt essay about the strength of love when facing a tragedy, recently published in Still Standing: http://stillstandingmag.com/2017/05/a-lesson-of-love/


Congratulations to Kathleen Glassburn! Her novel, Making It Work is now available. Click on the link below to learn more about Kathleen’s book, read what Kirkus Review published about Making It Work, and order your copy:


Congratulations to Neerja Raman! Her short story, “Once Upon a River” is  published in Verdad.

Please click on this link to read Neerja’s story: http://verdadmagazine.org/vol22/fiction/raman.html


Congratulations to Helen Wickes; her poem “Cattails in Sheep Canyon” was selected to appear in the tenth issue of Chagrin River Review, a special anthology of work featured in the journal over the past five years!


Congratulations to Donna Emerson, whose poem “Shining Brown Hair” was awarded an Editor’s Choice Award from the Paterson Literary Review’s Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award!


Excellent news for Mary Louise Kiernan Hagerdon; her poem Mappa Mundi Echoes was just published in Chronogram.


Congratulations to Kendra Tanacea! Her second book, garbage heart, was chosen as a semifinalist for the Elixir Press 17th Annual Poetry Awards.


Leisha Douglas will be giving a poetry reading at the Desta Gallery in San Anselmo, CA on Feb. 11th.


Congratulations to Marcia B. Loughran, winner of our WaterSedge Poetry Chapbook Contest! Her chapbook, Still Life With Weather (recently published with the help of Self-Publishing Relief), is available at Amazon.


Congratulations to Kerry Campbell, who just won The New Millennium Writer’s 42nd poetry prize! Check out her winning piece here!


Congratulations to Mark Belair, whose poem “chick” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Gemini Magazine!


Alison Hicks will be reading her poetry on Saturday, December 10, 5-7 pm. The event will be held at Jackson Inn, 101 North Dupont Rd, Wilmington, DE. Contact: Bob Davis, rhambling@verizon.net.


Congratulations to Marc Tretin whose debut poetry collection, Pink Mattress, was published by NYQ Books. The collection is available on Amazon.


Congratulations to Debra Hori! Her essay, “A Clothesline Meditation,”  has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.


Congratulations to Tamara Adelman, whose essay “Rustic Canyon”, published in Rubbertop Review, was chosen as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2016!


Congratulations to Mark Conkling whose short story, “Into the Wild Blue Yonder”, will publish in The Penmen Review in late October.


Congratulations to Charles R. Young! His debut novel, Day of Reckoning (recently published with the help of Self-Publishing Relief), is available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Find out more on Charles’s website and Facebook page!

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Congratulations to Lynn Hoggard! Keep an eye out for her new collection of poetry, Bushwhacking Home, which will be published by TCU Press in the spring of 2017!


Congratulations to Kendra Tanacea! Her book, A Filament Burns in Blue Degrees, will be published by Lost Horse Press in early 2017!


Congratulations to Mary Louise Kiernan Hagerdon, whose poem, “The Triangle”, was published in The New York Times Metropolitan Diary! You can read her poem here.


Congratulations to Abby Caplin! Abby is an award recipient of San Francisco’s Poets Eleven Contest 2016.


On August 23rd at 6pm join flutist Stephanie Jutt and poet Mark Belair at the Cornelia Street Cafe in NYC for a Music/Spoken Word Performance. See the details at: http://corneliastreetcafe.com


Congratulations to Loren Stephens! Her book, “Paris Nights: My Year at the Moulin Rouge,” (with Cliff Simon) was published in July by Waldorf Publishing. Loren will be signing copies of her book at The Corner Bookstore on Madison Avenue, New York, NY on October 4, 2016.


Congratulations to Debra Hori! Debra won runner-up in Bacopa Literary Review’s 2016 Creative Nonfiction Prize.


Congratulations to Patricia Meek who was named as a finalist for the 2016 Rita Dove Award in Poetry (International Literary Awards).


Congratulations to Richard Key, who won second place in the Gulf Coast Writers Association 2016 contest! You can check out his winning story here: Do-Gooders Gotta Eat Too

Richard also was accepted into Crack the Spine’s upcoming print anthology! You can read the essay that will appear in the anthology here.


Congratulations to Suzanne O’Connell, who’s featured as Poet of the Week on the Poetry Super Highway.


Congratulations to Lucinda B. Watson, who received two acceptances in one week! Lucinda’s poem, “Barnstorming”, was accepted by Stickman Review and her poem, “Getting Around Town”, was accepted by The Healing Muse.


Congratulations to Pamela Davis, who is a semi-finalist in The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry! Her poem, “Still//Life” will be published in Nimrod‘s Awards 38 issue due out in October 2016.


Congratulations to Saramanda Swigart, whose short story, “The Earth Falls to the Apple,” will be showcased as the featured story in the next issue of Border Crossing!


Congratulations to Linda Swanberg! Her poem, “Heron Island, 1966”, won the Willow Review Award.


Congratulations to Sarah Odishoo, whose essay “Virtual Reality Is The Real…” was recently published by Michigan Quarterly Review!

You can read Sarah’s essay here.


Congratulations to Yvonne Leach, whose poem “A Letter to Charlotte” will be featured in the anthology All We Can Hold! Her poem “For the Greater Good” will also appear in the anthology Marry a Monster. 


Congratulations to King Grossman, who recently read his poem “One Way To Enlist For Duty In WWIII” at the Ignatian Literary Magazine Release Party! You can watch a video of his reading here:

Visit King Grossman’s Author Website


Congratulations to Suzanne O’Connell, whose first poetry collection, A Prayer For Torn Stockings, is now available on Amazon!

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Congratulations to John McCord who will be signing his newest novel The Sun in the Eastern Sky, as well as his first book in this series, Sneak Attack, at Barnes & Noble on Saturday, April 16. If you love thrillers and espionage, this is an event you can’t miss!

Where: Barnes & Noble at the Arboretum in Charlotte, NC

When: Saturday, April 16, 2:00 p.m.

For more info about the event, click here!

Visit John McCord’s Author Website

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Congrats to Kathy Ramsperger who has just signed with LLA’s Johnnie Bernhard to represent her novel The Shores of Our Souls.

Read the full press release here.

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Congratulations to Jon Pearson for being featured on Superstition Review’s Authors Talk podcast series! You can listen to Jon’s interview on their iTunes channel.


Congratulations to Jhon Sanchez, whose essay “Album for a Poem” was featured in Letting Go: An Anthology of Attempts. You can read Jhon’s interview about the essay here.

Letting Go: An Anthology of Attempts was also featured on BuzzFeed as one of the 6 most compelling spring 2016 anthologies! You can view the complete list here.

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Congratulations to Alison Hicks, whose poem, “Detail, Olive Orchard, Saint-Rémy,” will be included in the Crack the Spine Fall 2015 anthology, and her poem “The Mother as Persephone,” in 50 Over 50: Celebrating Experiencing and Emerging Women Writers, to be launched at the AWP conference in LA at the end of March.

Alison’s second book of poems, You Who Took the Boat Out, has been offered publication by Unsolicited Press.

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Congratulations to Gippy Adams Henry! Her debut novel, Web of Destruction (recently published with the help of Self-Publishing Relief), is available on Amazon.

Find out more on Gippy’s Author Central page!

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Congratulations to Naomi Lowinsky, whose poem “Mother’s Severed Head” was chosen to be featured in the Crack the Spine print anthology! Her poem “At the Red Sea” will also appear in Jewish Women’s Literary Annual.

Visit Naomi Lowinsky’s website.


Congratulations to Hananah Zaheer for receiving a 2016 Pushcart nomination for her short story “A Video Store Called Desire,” published in Moon City Review!

Visit Hananah Zaheer’s website.


Congratulations to Jed Myers, whose poem “After Parking at Starbucks” won fifth place in the Writer’s Digest Poetry Contest. Jed also received an honorable mention for his poem “One Small Scratch” from the Ruben Rose Poetry Competition.


Congratulations to Christopher Kuhl, whose short story, “Wade,” was named the Annual Editor’s Choice of Best Work in Fiction for 2016 by Inscape Magazine.


Congratulations to Dolly Reynolds for receiving a 2016 Pushcart nomination for her essay “Pray For Us Sinners,” published in Gemini Magazine!

Read “Pray For Us Sinners” here.


Congratulations to Mark Belair for receiving a 2016 Pushcart nomination for his poem “Bedtime”, published in Forge!

Visit Mark Belair’s website.


Jhon Sanchez received a 2016 Pushcart Prize nomination from New Lit Saloon Press for his short Story, “The Japanese Rice Cooker,” which has been published in the anthology Startling Sci-Fi, Tales from the Beyond.


Congratulations to Kate McCorkle on the 2016 Pushcart Prize nomination she received from r.kv.r.y Quarterly Literary Journal!


Congratulations to Suzanne O’Connell on the nomination for 2016 The Pushcart Prize she received from Knot Literary Magazine!

Suzanne O’Connell’s recently published work can be found in Forge, Atlanta Review, Crack The Spine, The Louisville Review, Found Poetry Review, and Burningword Literary Journal among others. She lives in Los Angeles. O’Connell was nominated for The Pushcart Prize and for a Best Of The Net Award.

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Congratulations to Shari Busa Ortiz! Her debut novel, The Forever 39ers (recently published with the help of Self-Publishing Relief), is available on Amazon and at Barnes & Noble. Find out more on Shari’s website and Facebook page!

Join Shari for a book signing at the Starbucks in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey! WHEN: Friday, December 11, at 7 p.m. WHERE: 201 NJ-17, Hasbrouck Heights, NJ 07604.

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Jed Myers’s poem “Now That The Sun Has Set” has been nominated for the 2015 Pushcart Prize by The Briar Cliff Review.

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Sarah Odishoo’s essay “Germane German: A Lesson In Dispelling” has been nominated for the 2015 Pushcart Prize by Under The Sun.


Kelly Watt’s first novel, Mad Dog, is available on Amazon. The second edition of her mini travel memoir, Camino Meditations, was released this year.
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Kelly’s short story “Uncle Sam’s Pool” is forthcoming in Diverse Arts Project.

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Congratulations to C. David Priest! The latest edition of his book The Whippanini Man (recently published with the help of Self-Publishing Relief) is available on Amazon.

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David Morris Parson has been invited to read from his book manuscript, The Divorce Comedy, at The One Page Salon, an event to be held in Austin, Texas, August 2015.
Click here for info about One Page Salon!


“…Belair’s poems make space for collecting and recollecting, sensing and seeking. Like exhibits in an airy but intimate museum, his images accrue: a barn broom shaped by use; a fruit vendor’s collapsed umbrella; sidewalk tables; park lamps…” Jody Bolz of Poet Lore.
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Poet Paul Watsky’s latest poetry manuscript Walk-Up Music was recently featured as a Kirkus Recommended Review.

Click here to read the review of Walk-Up Music
Click here to buy a copy of Walk-Up Music on Amazon.
Click here to buy a copy of Walk-Up Music at Barnes & Noble.

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Short story writer and novelist Robert Kerbeck will be appearing at the Willow Review Spring 2015 issue launch to read an excerpt from his short story “Beta Brothers.”

When: April 23 @ 7:00 PM
Where: College of Lake County
For more informaton about the readng, click here.
Robert Kerbeck’s Author Website

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We all wonder if we would do the right thing if called upon…even if it meant risking our own lives and sense of self. In THE BONE BRIDGE: A Brother’s Story, author Yarrott Benz is forced to deal with extraordinary self-sacrifice. This is the harrowing account of teenage brothers, as different as night and day, trapped together in a dramatic medical dilemma—a modern miracle and a modern nightmare.
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Blotterature recently reviewed Watching the Perseids, the latest book of poems by poet Jed Myers, and interviewed the poet behind the book, himself.

For more information about Jed, his poetry, and his upcoming events, please visit his website.

Read The Interview Here
Buy Watching the Perseids

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Donnelle McGee’s book of poems, “NAKED,” is now available on Amazon!

“Part elegy, part memoir, part early-stage movie script, Naked takes the reader into a specific time and place from Donnelle McGee’s life and connects us to his origins. McGee is a confessional poet for today, unflinching but not distant, self-aware but not self-absorbed. He doesn’t shy away from hard terrain; instead, he forces the reader to see what he’s seen, feel what he’s felt, and mourn what he’s lost. Along the way, we all experience the singular exhilaration that stems from beating the odds. McGee’s voice is distinctive, his poems are engaging, his story is riveting.”

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The Forge Winter 2015 issue features an interview with Mark Belair, in addition to some of his poetry. Congrats, Mark!


Lenny Levine will be appearing at Bethel Public Library on Wednesday, January 28, from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.

Join the Bethel community for Song and Story with Lenny Levine!

This program is for adults and young adults.
Registration is required.
Location: Library’s Maria Parloa Community Room

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