Siavash Saadlou is one of five writers named Writers' Trust of Canada Rising Stars for 2026.
"I actually had a BLAST writing this book. Jane Smiley talks about how every book is built differently, and this one was built inside a wild and fascinating container of curiosity and joy." Emily Rapp Black is interviewed in the Memoir Land Author Questionnaire series about her new book I Would Die If I Were You: Notes on Art and Truth-Telling, released in May by Penguin Random House.
Kashawn Taylor's debut poetry collection subhuman is a finalst for the Next Generation Indie Book Award in the social justice category.
LitHub published Irene Zabytko's essay "Fellow Travelers: On Reimagining Chaucer in Post-Soviet Ukraine," about writing her story collection The Days of Miracle and Wonder, released in May by Galiot Press.
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, will release Kyleigh Leddy's novel Worse Than Strangers on June 23rd.
Alanna Schubach is a finalist for the Donald L. Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence for her book Feral Days.
Jordan Franklin won the Blessing the Boats Selections prize for her poetry collection make it to the end (of the movie). Named after Lucille Clifton's National Book Award-winning collection Blessing the Boats: New and Collected Poems, the prize each year honors a collection written by a woman of color. Chosen by poet Evie Shockley, Jordan's collection will be published by BOA Editions in 2027.
Mara Reinstein wrote "Poet Jessica Ulrichs on How Poetry Can Help Make Sense of Motherhood—and Life" for Reader's Digest.
Publishers Weekly reviewed Kody Keplinger's forthcoming novel Where Lost Girls Go, saying that its "Nuanced storytelling centers themes of found family and healing, resulting in a page-turning novel about losing and finding oneself." The YA novel comes out July 7th from Scholastic.
The Junior Library Guild named George Jreije's middle grade novel Bashir Boutros and the Jewel of the Nile a Gold Standard Selection.
Poetry magazine published Casandra López's poem "Language Studies: 'Ahooyawpe'/From the Air."
PEN America named N. West Moss and her collaborator Lawson Strickland winners of the L’Engle–Rahman Prize for Mentorship. The prize honors four sets of mentor-mentees in PEN America’s Prison Writing Mentorship Program, which connects incarcerated and non-incarcerated writers in a correspondence-based mentorship.
Scott Alexander Hess won the 2026 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction, given by the Publishing Triangle, for his novel Drought.
Emily Rapp Black's forthcoming nonfiction book I Would Die If I Were You is on LitHub's list of Ten Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in May.
The Ilanot Review published Kashawn Taylor's poem "Sir, I Just Work Here."
Laura Yeager's article "Taking My Cancer Self into the Writing Classroom" is up now at Women in Higher Education.
Premium Magazine featured Barbara DeMarco-Barrett's short story collection Pool Fishing in its roundup of notable books by California authors.
Deborah Kalb interviewed Irene Zabytko about the Canterbury Tales, the long history of resilience among the Ukrainian people, and Irene's new story collection The Days of Miracle and Wonder for her series, Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb.
David Berner is a finalist for the Society of Midland Authors Award in Poetry, for his collection Garden Tools.
Maudlin House published Quinn Adikes's flash story "Beating Each Other to Death With Shovels."
Rachel Simon wrote "Raleigh City Farm — Celebrating 15 Years," the cover story for the May issue of Walter Magazine.
Matthew Lippman's poetry collection King of the Jews (Ben Yehuda Press) is a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry.
Jacobin magazine published Alanna Schubach's essay "How Adults Took Over YA."
Literary Matters published Carmen Bugan's poem "And Now, the Words."
Lara Ewen wrote "Hotel Demand Slow Ahead of World Cup 2026" for Hotel Dive.
Mara Reinstein curated a list of the "Fifteen Millennial TV Shows Every Gen-Zer Should Binge Watch" for Reader's Digest.
"There's a ferris wheel on the boardwalk where people go to spit." Dreamboy Book Club published Quinn Adikes's flash story "Loogies."
Galiot Press will release Irene Zabytko's book The Days of Miracle and Wonder—a Canterbury Tales-like collection of interconnected stories, all set in Ukraine—on April 17th.
David Berner's latest novel American Moon will be released by Regal House Publishing in September.
The Rumpus published Teresa Wong's comic "Imposter."
HR Dive published Lara Ewen's article "Workers Who Are Receptive to 'Corporate BS' May Struggle With Analytic Thinking."
Carmen Bugan's poem "Also In The News" was selected as the Irish Times Poem of the Week.
Scott Alexander Hess's novella Drought is a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ+ Fiction.
Travel & Leisure published Melissa Petro's article "I Took My 5- and 7-Year-Olds to a Michelin-Starred Restaurant on Vacaton — And It Changed the Way I Think About Family Travel."
The New York Public Library named Kesi Augustine's picture book Faith Takes the Train one of its Best Books for Kids.
"On the other hand, that one paragraph, the one you don’t even remember writing, the one where you rattled off a weird and vivid description of some random parked car, barely even thinking about it, might be the very thing that gets you into the New Yorker." Arlaina Tibensky's craft article "You Do You" is up now over at the Center for Fiction.
Business Insider published Rachel Simon's article "I Moved from New York City to Raleigh Five Years Ago. These Five Things Surprised Me the Most."
Kesi Augustine received an Ezra Jack Keats Honors Award — which recognizes exceptional early-career children's book authors and illustrators — for her picture book Faith Takes the Train.
The Saturday Evening Post published N. West Moss's article "Why Kids Should Journal."
LitHub named Emily Rapp Black's forthcoming nonfiction book I Would Die If I Were You one of its most anticipated books of 2026.
Toastmaster Magazine published Laura Yeager's article "How to Write and Deliver Your Wedding Vows."
With Bite published Arlaina Tibensky's essay "Thin Blood, Thick Water."
Columbia Journal published Amy Scheiner's essay "Stress Response."
Mara Reinstein interviewed actor Patrick Dempsey about acting, living in Maine, and his new show Memory of a Killer in a cover story for Parade magazine.
Hell World published Rax King's essay "You Don't Need to Get Married Like a Rich Person."
The Dad Lit Podcast interviewed Alanna Schubach about growing up in the '90s, trying to define "women's fiction" and "dad lit," and Alanna's novel The Nobodies.
Rachel Simon wrote about the five things she wished she knew before she moved from New York City to Raleigh, North Carolina, for Business Insider.
Vlad Magazine published Quinn Adikes's short story "The Swing Room."
Mara Reinstein interviewed James Burrows—producer and director of television shows including the Mary Tyler Moore Show, Will & Grace, and Mid-Century Modern—for her article "You Have to Make Them Laugh" for the Television Academy magazine.
"When my father died suddenly in 2023, the biggest surprise was the response of Buddy, my dad’s 14-year-old, slate-gray tubby tabby. Day after day, month after month, he waddled to my father’s now-empty bedroom and launched into a ghostly, guttural yowl, as if keening at an Irish wake," wrote Mike Dunphy in his article "Recognizing Pet Grief: Signs and Strategies for Healing" for Humane World for Animals.
The American Library Association named Erin Entrada Kelly's nonfiction middle-grade book At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom a Robert F. Silbert Honor Book.
Lara Ewen wrote "Stark Divide Emerging in Pay for In-Demand Roles Versus Stagnating Jobs" for HR Dive.
Rachel Simon ranked the "Most Meaningful Moments for Queer Women on Grey's Anatomy" for Shondaland.
InsideHook published Mike Dunphy's article "Barhopping Across Eight of Prague's Coolest Neighborhoods."
Olivia Rockeman interviewed Stuart Pennebaker about publicizing her debut novel Ghost Fish, which came out last summer, and learning to accept her own writing practice, for Hustle Culture.
Notch Magazine published Quinn Adikes's short story "The Bunker."
Booklist gave N. West Moss's forthcoming middle-grade novel Birdy a starred review, saying, "This resonant story celebrates the healing power of connection and the hope found in chosen family." Christy Ottaviano Books (an imprint of Little, Brown) will release Birdy on February 17th.
Laura Yeager's essay "Advice from a Hugely Successful Literary Agent on How to Find Your Own Success" is up now at Writers Weekly.
Brevity Blog published Melissa Petro's craft essay "Resolve to Publish a Book? Here's How to Make That Resolution Come True."
“When I set out to do this book I didn’t know I’d have to draw everything that had ever existed: from mountains on the South China Sea to storefronts in a 1980s mall to steamer ships from the 1900s.” Memoir Land interviewed Teresa Wong about writing, drawing, and her latest graphic memoir All Our Ordinary Stories.
The W(hole) published Emily Rapp Black's essay "How to Make a Gingerbread Man Baby."
Rawhead Lit published Cleve Lamison's short story "Blood Sisters."
Mara Reinstein wrote "From the Missouri Method to the Super Bowl: One of the World’s Largest Advertising Agencies Is Powered by Generations of Mizzou-Trained Storytellers," the cover story for the winter issue of Mizzou Magazine.
Between the Lines, a newsletter of Iowa State University, profiled Laura Yeager in a feature story "The Best Mistake I Ever Made."
InsideHook published Mike Dunphy's article "Eight Pet Peeves of a Hotel Writer: The Tiny Annoyances That Make or Break a Five-Star Stay."
In People magazine, best-selling novelist Fiona Davis named Susan Breen's novel Merry as one of her favorite reads of the year, calling it "laugh-out-loud funny and genuinely moving."
"It’s not just that he made so many great films; it’s that, in multiple genres, he made the film, the standard of its type against which others will forever be compared." Rax King remembers director Rob Reiner in her essay "Love Story/Green Day" for Flaming Hydra.
The St. Louis Reperatory Theater performed Lyndsey Ellis's essay "Royalty" in the St. Louis 46th Annual Storytelling Festival.
Tal McThenia collaborated with actor and comedian Dick Van Dyke on his new memoir 100 Rules for Living to 100: An Optimist's Guide to Life. Grand Central Publishing released the book in November, and it has spent at least two weeks on the New York Times Bestsellers list.
Laura Yeager's article "The Quilt, A Dog and Grace That Brought Her Back to Church" was published at Religion Unplugged.
Broken Tribe Press published John Oliver Hodges's short story collection Luv Slaps.
The National Council of Teachers of English named Erin Entrada Kelly's middle-grade biography At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerro Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom one of its Orbus Pictus Honor Books.
Cleve Lamison's short story "The Gospel of Malachi Slim" is out now in Stygian Lepus magazine.
SheReads named Susan Breen's novel Merry to its list of "Must Read Holiday Books of 2025."
Another Jane Pratt Thing published Amy Scheiner's essay "I Was Body Shamed by a Shaman I Went to for Healing From My Mother's Death."
Jon Gingerich wrote "Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?" for O'Dwyers.
Open Secrets published Angela Lam's essay "How Art Saved Me When My Brain Was Broken."
Finishing Line Press published David Berner's debut poetry collection Garden Tools.
Story South published John Oliver Hodges's essay "The Pig Lady of Bunnell."
Teresa Wong's graphic memoir All Our Ordinary Stories is a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award in Nonfiction, given by the Canada Counci for the Arts.
Neon & Smoke published Cleve Lamison's short story "Gospel of the Preacher's Son."
Five Minutes published Angela Lam's flash essay "Encouragement."
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced it will publish Kyleigh Leddy's debut novel Worse Than Strangers next summer.
Mike Dunphy's article "Seven Prague Hotels That Will Take You on a Journey Through Time" appears now in National Geographic.
Busted Halo published Laura Yeager's article "The Who What When Where Why and How of Deep Prayer."
People magazine interviewed Kody Keplinger and revealed the cover for her novel Where the Lost Girls Go, forthcoming next year from Scholastic.
Erin Entrada Kelly's spooky middle-grade novel The Last Resort made both the New York Times Best Seller's list (debuting at No. 6), and the Indie Bestsellers List.
Flower of the Dawn, an animated short musical, with music by Jody Gray and songs by Jody Gray and Allan Neuwirth, will premiere at the SoHo Film Festival in New York City, October 7th through 13th.
The Offing published Justine Teu's short story "Fruition."
Business Insider published Melissa Petro's essay "My Kids Swear and Don't Say 'Please' or 'Thank You.' I Don't Care."
Casandra López won a 2025-26 Hellman Fellowship, awarded to early-career artists and researchers to "advance their research, explore new ideas, or take their work in bold new directions."
Islands published Mike Dunphy's travel story "The Oldest Italian Coffeeshop in Boston Is a Vibrant Massachusetts Gem With Vintage Charm and a Little Museum."
"In trying to heal myself, I tell myself things I didn’t know I knew, and some of those insights feel book-ready, and others feel like things I really should have learned sometime in the anonymous LiveJournal years." Electric Literature interviewed Rax King about writing, reconciliation, and her new essay collection Sloppy.
Kuros Charney launched his podcast, Right of Resistance, "a weekly interview-based podcast that interrogates how power maintains itself—and how people can resist. Each episode tackles a dominant media narrative, policy myth, or cultural manipulation tactic and exposes the systems behind it."
LitHub featured Kesi Augustine and her picture book Faith Takes the Train in its article about modern children's literature, "Is It Time to Move On From Dr. Seuss?"
Mara Reinstein wrote about the top five revelations in the new documentary Canceled: The Paula Deen Story, for US Weekly.
The Offing published Michael Montlack's poem "In February."
Greenwillow Books released Your Turn Marisol Rainey, both written and illustrated by Erin Entrada Kelly, the fourth in this series of illustrated middle-grade novels.
Women in Higher Education published Laura Yeager's article "A Successful Research Writing Semester: No AI In The Classroom."
Galiot Press announced that next spring it will re-issue Irene Zabytko's story collection The Days of Miracle and Wonder, inspired by the Canterbury Tales and set on a bus trip through Ukraine in 1992, shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Kelp Books will release Barbara DeMarco-Barrett's short story collection Pool Fishing on September 16th.
Sequestrum published Kashawn Taylor's essay "Burned."
Rax King took the Washington Post on "a dirtbag tour of D.C.," to talk about shoplifting, stripping, and her new book Sloppy.
National Geographic published Mike Dunphy's article "Salem Casts a Spell — Even Without the Witchraft."
Laura Yeager is blogging for Cure Today, and her recent posts include "Say No to Shapewear," and "The Miniature Zen Garden: A Useful Tool for Those Dealing with Cancer."
Lev A.C. Rosen's novel Rough Pages is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in the LGBTQ+ Mystery category.
Out In STL magazine reviewed Scott Alexander Hess's new novella Drought, calling it a "poignant, understated gem."
Little, Brown will release Stuart Pennebaker's debut novel Ghost Fish on August 5th.
Tinderbox Poetry Journal published Michael Montlack's poem "My Twin and I Have Our Moon in Virgo."
Angela Lam's science fiction novel, Switched, will be released on October 7th (Gross Productions).
Rachel Simon wrote "The Grey's Anatomy Pilot Showed Me the Adult I Could Become," in honor of the show's 20th anniversary, for Shondaland.
Blood + Honey published Cleve Lamison's short story "Love and Poison."
People magazine interviewed Rax King about her new essay collection Sloppy: Or Doing It All Wrong, saying she hopes the book will "tell someone what they need to hear, when they need to hear it."
Laura Yeager's essay "So You Got Rejected, Now What?" was a Friday Speak Out post at The Muffin.
Mike Dunphy wrote "The 'World's Longest Art Gallery' Hides in the Metro System of a Beautiful European City" for Islands magazine.
Julie Zeilinger wrote "Hundreds of USDA-Licensed Breeding Facilities Are Mistreating Dogs" for Kinship.
Finishing Line Press will publish David Berner's poetry collection Garden Tools in October.
Mara Reinstein rounded up a must-listen group of podcasts for Mizzou Magazine, in her article "Tigers, Amplified."
Susan Breen listed a number of organizations writers should join in her post "Community" for Miss Demeanors.
A Velvet Giant published Z Kennedy-Lopez's story "Lost Things."
Teresa Wong and her graphic memoir All Our Ordinary Stories won two 2025 Writers' Guild of Alberta Literary Awards: The Memoir Award, and The Wilfred Eggleston Award for Nonfiction.
Bristol Noir published Cleve Lamison's short story "Fortunate Sons."
Rax King and her forthcoming essay collection Sloppy: Or Doing It All Wrong have landed on Best Books to Read This Summer from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and LitHub, among others.
Business Insider published Laura Yeager's essay "My Brother Set Me Up with His Coworker."
