Lauren Kate, author of the richly envisioned, best-selling YA fantasy Fallen series, has applied her talent for world-building to What’s in a Kiss, a literary romance for adults. As in Fallen, Kate’s fast-paced plot manages tension and expectations as it…
A Review of Zack Rogow’s Hugging My Father’s Ghost by Wendy Mannis Scher
Inside a curtained photo booth, a father and his 3-year-old son—a camera flash-captures their smiles and laughter: a mini-eight portrait-souvenir of a joyful moment spent in New York’s Time Square. It’s 1955, the same year this father, 36-year-old Lee Rogow,…
2024 Pushcart Nominations
Another year, another round of Pushcart nominations! As always, narrowing this list down to six is incredibly difficult. We wish we could nominate all of our contributors. Alas, we cannot. We are proud of each and every one of you…
2024 Autumn Writing Prompts (Part 2)
We’re continuing to help banish your writer’s block this fall with a second batch of our autumn prompts! If you’ve been waiting for part two, here it is! We hope to keep posting prompts, so be on the lookout for…
2024 Autumn Writing Prompts (Part 1)
We’re helping you banish writer’s block this fall with a fresh batch of our prompts! This is part one! We’ll post another batch of autumn prompts to inspire you later in the season. If you do end up using one…
Five Mysteries of Publishing by Lev Raphael
Despite two and a half years in a top-ranked MFA program, nobody told me anything about what the writing life was like—especially outside the shelter of academia. In our writing workshops we analyzed the short stories everyone was writing in…