Toward a Peeping Sunrise, Carole Mertz’s chapbook, wakes in surreal opening, gathers momentum with “Dolly’s Broke,” buzzes forward into a frantic evacuation, then settles into her serene autumn poem. Mertz is “A poet of liminal spaces [who] navigates with lyrical…
Donna J. Gelagotis Lee Reading & Book Launch Intersection on Neptune Winner of the Prize Americana for Poetry 2018 The Poetry Press of Press Americana (2019) Bridgewater Public Library Somerset Poetry Group 1 Vogt Drive Bridgewater, N.J. Wednesday, September 4,…
Barbara Crooker’s eighth book of poetry, The Book of Kells, focuses on the illuminated medieval manuscript with a series of meditations on its various aspects, from the ink and pigments used by the scribes and illustrators to the various plants,…
Carol Levin’s third full volume, just released, “An Undercurrent of Jitters” from MoonPath Press. An odyssey into multiple facets of the subject of marriage. Within: laws, history, culture, rules, religion, commerce, gender, expectations, outcomes and personal dramas.
Carol Smallwood has been awarded the Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award for her lifetime work in writing, librarianship, education. Much of her work has the theme of women in her essays, anthologies, and poetry and she is grateful for Mom Egg…
Introducing My Real Name is Hanna, by Tara Lynn Masih Inspired by real Holocaust events, this poignant debut novel is a powerful coming-of-age story that will resonate with fans of The Book Thief and Between Shades of Gray. Highly recommended by the Jewish Book…
New Play by Rosie Rosenzweig A ghost hovers watching and waiting to embody itself in the most auspicious womb. Its goal is to fulfill what it couldn’t in its last lifetime called “soul work.” Myths & Ms. is an intergenerational play about…
Nimrod International Journal’s 40th annual Literary Awards close this month. Judged this year by Patricia Smith and Rilla Askew, the Awards feature first prizes of $2,000 and second prizes of $1,000 in fiction and poetry categories, as…
CONNECTING, EDUCATING, ADVOCATING, & LEADING SINCE 1917 WNBA Writing Contest 2018 The Women’s National Book Association Writing Contest is now open! Submit Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction/Memoir and Young Adult. Publication for top 4 winners in each category and Cash Prize for…