Teresa Wong's graphic memoir All Our Ordinary Stories is one of three finalists for the W.O. Mitchell Book Prize.
The New York Times published Lyndsey Ellis's Tiny Love Story "Strangers in a Movie Theater."
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, announced it will publish Caela Carter's middle-grade novel Ruth at the Edge.
Kirkus reviewed Michael Backus's memoir The Heart Is Meat, (forthcoming this month from Oil On Water Press), calling it "A fond remembrance of the author's gritty history."
The Dodge published Arliana Tibensky's short story "The Lanternflies."
Laura Yeager's article "Writer's Block? Try Using a Writing Prop" is a Friday Speak Out feature on The Muffin at WOW! Women on Writing.
Dorothy Parker's Ashes published Fran McNulty's essay "The Writing Life."
David Berner won the World Poetry Collective's Publishing Prize Contest with his poem "Break My Heart."
Christine Meade is a finalist for the Boston Business Women's Award for Best Editor.
Expat Press published Quinn Adikes's short story "You Know That You Can Trust Me."
Erin Entrada Kelly's first nonfiction book — the middle-grade biography At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom — will be released by Greenwillow Books on May 6th.
Carmen Bugan's poem "Leaving" was a Poem of the Week in the Irish Times.
Beacon Press announced it will publish Amy Scheiner's debut book Who I Once Was, a memoir, in spring 2027.
The Palisades Review published Quinn Adikes's flash story "Beer Cans."
Gargoyle magazine published five of Michael Montlack's poems, including "Night of a Thousand Stevies" and "Spoiler Alert."
Pinch Journal published Casandra López's poem "Broken Earth: Teroorpé Óoxor."
Kirkus reviewed George Jreije's middle-grade novel Bashir Boutros and the Jewel of the Nile — forthcoming from HarperCollins on May 25th — calling it "An effective blend of excitement and strong characterization, with a message of remaining true to one’s values."
Mike Dunphy, a native Vermonter, explores one of the state's chief sources of pride in his article "The Full Maple: Tapping Vermont's Best Maple Syrup Experiences" for National Geographic.
Kelp Books announced it will publish Barbara DeMarco-Barrett's short story collection Pool Fishing this September.
Lara Ewen eschews best/worst dressed lists, so after this year's Oscars, she spotted Five Fashion Trends at the Academy Awards instead, for Fashion Dive.
Amulet Books will release On Again, Awkward Again — a YA rom-com Erin Entrada Kelly cowrote with Kwame Mbalia — on April 15th.
Mara Reinstein admits to being a bit obsessed with the annual Oscars ceremony In Memoriam roundup, so this year she explored how it's created, in her article "Death Match" for the Hollywood Reporter.
Three Rooms Press will release the anthology The Colors of April: Fiction on the Vietnam War's Legacy 50 Years Later, co-edited by Cab Tran, on March 25th.
Carmen Bugan spoke to Words Without Borders about her childhood hometown of Tecuci, Romania, and its role in her work.
The New York Times published Rachel Simon's article "A Wedding Where Cold Feet Were to Be Expected."
Saint Julian Press published Elizabeth Cohen's poetry collection Mermaids of Albuquerque.
Erin Entrada Kelly's middle-grade novel The First State of Being made the New York Times Best Sellers list, debuting at No. 5.
Rebel Satori Press will publish Scott Alexander Hess's novel Drought this June.
Susan Breen's short story "One Woman Watch" is included in the anthology New York State of Crime, a Sisters In Crime title out now from Down & Out Books.
Wordrunner Press published John Oliver Hodges's memoir chapbook Eating My Name.
The American Library Association awarded Erin Entrada Kelly and her middle-grade novel The First State of Being its John Newbery Medal for "the most outstanding contribution to children's literature in 2024." Erin previously won the Newbery for her novel Hello Universe, making her the seventh author in 123 years to win the award (one of the most prestigious in children's literature) twice.
Shearsman Books released Carmen Bugan's latest poetry collection Tristia.
People magazine interviewed Stuart Pennebaker about her novel Ghost Fish, forthcoming this summer from Hachette Books.
Laura Yeager is blogging for Cure Today. Recent posts include "My Mammogram Prayers After Breast Cancer."
Mara Reinstein wondered "Does the Length of a Festival Standing Ovation Really Matter" when it comes to film-award nominations like the Oscars? So she compared applause lengths and Oscar nominations of 25 recent popular films, and published her findings in the Hollywood Reporter. (The answer: It's complicated.)
LitHub named Rax King's forthcoming essay collection Sloppy: Or Doing It All Wrong to its list of Most Anticipated Books of 2025.
The CBC named Teresa Wong's graphic memoir All Our Ordinary Stories to its 2025 Canada Reads Longlist.
"In Southeast Pennsylvania, all roads lead to Gettysburg." Mike Dunphy has some advice about the best ways to see the famous Civil War battlefield, for Islands magazine.
Michael Montlack's poem "When A Teacher Dies, for Ms. Ellen First" appears in Poetry South magazine.
Little, Brown & Co. announced it will release Lev AC Rosen's YA romance novel You've Goth My Heart on September 9th.
Lara Ewen ranked the "Top Seven Fashion Collaborations of 2024" for Fashion Dive.
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, announced it will release Erin Entrada Kelly's first nonfiction book At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived and Fought for Freedom, on May 6th.
Silver Birch Press published Fran McNulty's poem "Ice Cold Water."
Mara Reinstein interviewed actors/comics/writers Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone about their upcoming scripted-comedy podcast HIldy Barback and the Lake of Fire, for Parade magazine.
Melissa Petro's nonfiction book Shame On You: How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification is a finalist for the Non-Obvious Book Awards, for books of "importance, originality, readability, usefulness, and shareability."
NPR named Teresa Wong's graphic memoir All Our Ordinary Stories one of its Favorite Books of 2024.
Love, Brooklyn, a feature film written by Paul Zimmerman, is a selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
Sinister Wisdom published Serrana Laure Gay's story "Ogygia."
The Atlanta Review published Michael Montlack's poems "bobby and billy and buddy and ben" and "The Morning Light (after Cavafy)."
Simon & Schuster announced it will publish James Preller's easy-reader Two Ballerinas and a Moose, a follow-up to his book Two Birds and a Moose, published last August.
Laura Yeager's article "The Best Mistake I Ever Made" is included in the anthology Too Amazing for Coincidence (Guideposts).
Writers Weekly published Laura Yeager's article "Four Ways That It's a Wonderful Life Teaches Writers About Storytelling."
Nine Mile magazine published Matthew Lippman's poems "But of Course the Birds Won" and "In Their Sadness and Sometimes."
Rachel Simon found more than 60 discounted shoes, boots, and slippers for a Black Friday article for Travel + Leisure.
Mike Dunphy wrote "An Immersive Art Exhibit In Phoenix Invites an Existential Crisis in an Infinite Space" for Islands.
"There are all these people, myself included, getting wasted and blowing out their lives and doing their jobs a---backwards wrong without anybody noticing," Rax King told People magazine, in an interview about her essay collection Sloppy, forthcoming from Vintage next summer.
The Globe and Mail published Melissa Petro's essay "Why Shaming Is Still One of the Most Useful Tools for Controlling Women."
Impossible Archetype published Michael Montlack's poem "What Exactly Were You Trying to Say?"
Dorothy Parker's Ashes published N. West Moss's essay "Sergeant Hummingbird."
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett talked about improvisation, cultivating creativity, and why she didn't attend clown school, on the podcast Dream Chasers and Eccentrics.
"All seemed good until I had a deadline and realized I had no idea where to begin the story." Susan Breen writes about overcoming her panic and making her deadline over at the Miss Demeanors blog.
Mara Reinstein is a finalist for the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award in the Celebrity Feature category for her article "Tragedy, Tenacity, and Triumph," which originally appeared in Emmy Magazine.
LIT Magazine published Michael Montlack's poem "Ode to Edith Massey."
The Los Angeles Times published Teresa Wong's op-ed comic "My Family Has a Legacy of Absent Fathers. But That Doesn't Define Our Future."
Jessica Ogilvie covered Hunter Biden's federal tax-evasion trial in Los Angeles, for the Washington Post.
Rachel Simon interviewed screenwriter Sandra Hamada about what it was like to write her first-ever episode of Grey's Anatomy—based on one of her own real-life experiences, no less — for Shondaland.
"You will not see a pastel!" Mara Reinstein writes about filmmakers finding and styling the perfect midcentury modern home in which to shoot the new movie Goodrich, for Architectural Digest.
Hell World published Rax King's essay "The Time It Takes to Buy It," about the film Anora.
HarperCollins announced it will release George Jreije's novel Bashir Boutros and the Jewels of the Nile, the first book in a new middle-grade fantasy series, on May 27th.
Fran Schumer's essay "A Good Marriage" is up now at Dorothy Parker's Ashes.
Susan Breen's short story "Eruptions" is included in the anthology Crimes Against Nature: New Stories of Environmental Villainy, out now from Down & Out Books.
Time magazine published Melissa Petro's essay "How My Shame Became My Strength."
Tasting Table published Mike Dunphy's article "The Origins of Frozen Food Go Back Further Than We Thought."
Erin Entrada Kelly's middle grade novel The First State of Being is a finalist for the National Book Award in Young People's Literature.
Shearsman Books announced it will publish Carmen Bugan's poetry collection Tristia in early 2025.
The Nation published Melissa Petro's essay "What We Owe Stormy Daniels."
Dorothy Parker's Ashes published Beth Livermore's essay "Highway to Hell" in its Brains issue.
Lara Ewen covered New York Fashion Week for FashionDive and wrote about five top trends she noticed among the collections.
The Walrus named Teresa Wong's new graphic memoir All Our Ordinary Stories one of its Best Books of Fall 2024.
Kirkus reviewed James Preller's new middle-grade novel Shaken, (released by Feiwel & Friends on September 12th) calling it an "introspective and realistic coming-of-age story about rediscovering oneself."
Erin Entrada Kelly is longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature for her novel The First State of Being.
James Preller's new easy reader Two Birds and a Moose has been named a Junior Library Guild selection.
Amazon named Melissa Petro's debut nonfiction book Shame On You: How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification an Editors' Pick, and one of the best nonfiction books of the fall, while Bustle named it one of the Best New Books of Fall 2024.
Mike Dunphy wrote "The Best European City Best Explored After Dark" for Islands magazine.
Laura Yeager is blogging for Cure Today. Recent posts include "Feeling Like Cinderella Again," "Giving Back to Family After Cancer," and "Crossing Paths With My Breast Surgeon in Public."
Lara Ewen's solo acoustic album Lucky As Sin is out now on unstrung music.
"Soon, she was crafting elaborate storylines involving Barbie and her friends, who shop on El Paseo, drink from tiny Starbucks cups, and party at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, sometimes wearing impeccable replications of designer threads — Chanel suits, Tiffany diamonds, Louis Vuitton handbags," writes Jessica Ogilvie about the popular Instagram "Tiny Palm Springs," for Palm Springs Life magazine.
The Common Reader published Lyndsey Ellis's essay "How Black Migration in St. Louis Sparked Generation Nope."
Michael Montlack's poem "Stash" appears in the new issue of 45th Parallel magazine.
Southern Humanities Review published Casandra López's short story "She Calls Me Sara."
Cutleaf published Michael Backus's essay "Lt. Dan Takes a Trip."
The Meadow Literary Arts Journal published David Berner's short story "A Good Sleep."
Superman Doesn't Steal, a short film co-produced by Cleve Lamison, won Best Film at the Diversity in Cannes Short Film Showcase. It also won Best Film at the Tylerman Social Awareness Film Festival, and the A Day in the Sun Film Festival, and the Audience Award at the Pan African Film Festival Vision Fest.
CutBank published Casandra López's essay "Erasure: Meadowbrook."
The New Yorker published Teresa Wong's comic "Capitalism Is Running out of Flavors."
Christine Meade's latest novel The Moon, Her Crown is available now from LitSet Books.
Bookpage interviewed Erin Entrada Kelly about world-building her latest novel Felix Powell, Boy Dog, the importance of representing different family shapes in children's literature, and why "it brings me joy to write about kids who do feel a little different because because it's like writing a letter to my young self."
David Berner's novella American Moon won the Fugere Book Prize from Regal House Publishing, which will publish it in 2026.
Cab Tran is co-editing and translating the fiction anthology The Colors of April, (Three Rooms Press, forthcoming) by and about the Vietnamese diaspora in the wake of the Vietnam War.
Simon & Schuster released James Preller's easy-reader book Two Birds and a Moose on August 27th.
Mara Reinstein interviewed Casey Affleck and Matt Damon about Boston, the Red Sox, and their new Apple+ series The Instigators, for Parade magazine.
Rachel Simon wrote about finding a clothing subscription service for petite women and how it "changed the way I shop" for Refinery29.
Rolling Stone published Mara Reinstein's article Bong Hits, Burgers, and Neil Patrick Harris: An Oral History of Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle."
Mike Dunphy is writing for Tasting Table, and recent articles include "The Traditional Dishes You'll Enjoy for Breakfast in Italy," "Nodi Marini: One of Giada De Laurentiis's Favorite Pasta Shapes," and "Opt for a Smokier Whiskey When Pairing With Steak."
David Berner's novella The Islander won a Pencraft Award for Best Book-Summer 2024 in fiction.
The Raven Review published Adela Brito's short story "Mad Love."
The Baltimore Sun published Robert Repino's op-ed "There's No Excuse for Sitting Out This Election."
"My brain remains a radioactive hub of chaos. It’s just that, when it schemes and sizzles now, it does so unimpaired," writes Rax King in her essay "I Don't Want Nothing Anymore," up now at Welcome to Hell World.
Parade magazine named Erin Entrada Kelly's new middle-grade novel Felix Powell, Boy Dog (released on July 16th) one of the best new books of the summer.
Hunger Mountain published Amy Scheiner's essay "Imagery for Grieving."
The Common Reader published Lyndsey Ellis's essay "The More St. Louis Changes, the More It Stays the Same."
Jim Mendrinos's book Hire Yourself as a Writer: Punch Up Your Stand-Up Like a Professional Comedy Writer is available now.
Hunger Mountain published Casandra López's essay "Needle and Thread."
"Nearly three-quarters of fashion consumers think materials such as viscose and lyocell should come from sustainable forests, and only 13 percent felt brands were providing them with a sufficient amount of information on in-store clothing labels regarding sustainability," writes Lara Ewen for Fashion Dive.
More and more breweries are refusing to sell beer flights, and Mike Dunphy explores why, for Inside Hook magazine.
"When you’re an actor in a show like this, the beauty of it is to shift and to evolve and to grow,” Emmy-winning actor Debbie Allen said to Rachel Simon, in her profile for Shondaland.
Publishers Weekly reviewed Teresa Wong's forthcoming graphic memoir All Our Ordinary Stories, calling it "a resonant journey into the past."
Post45 published Rax King's essay "Lindsay Lohan's Splashy, Sensationalized Journey to Sobriety."
Syzygy, written and directed by Jim Mendrinos, won eight awards at the First Monthly Film Festival, including Best Feature Film, Best Ensemble Film, and Best Director.
Amulet Books announced it would publish On Again, Awkward Again, a YA rom-com novel co-written by Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame Mbalia. The dual-POV novel will be released in spring 2025.
Anni Irish is covering the labor movement in arts institutions for the Art Newspaper, and recent articles include "Staff at the American Folk Art Museum Vote Unanimously to Form a Union," and "Mass Moca Employees End Three-Week Strike Following Dispute Over Wages."
Rachel Simon is ready for Season 2 of Orphan Black, and with her catch-up guide for Vulture, "Welcome to the Clone Club," you can be, too.
For the 30th anniversary of the release of the classic comedy American Pie, Mara Reinstein interviewed actor Alyson Hannigan about screening the film for her friends and her surprise at the film's success, for Parade.
"Against a postcard mountain backdrop, Asheville sprawls casually...alongside the French Broad and Swannanoa Rivers, creating a hodgepodge of distinct neighborhoods that always seem to be in full chillax mode," writes Mike Dunphy in this Inside Hook travel article "You Are Here: Asheville."
Bloomsbury Publishing released Rita Chang-Eppig's novel Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea in paperback.
HerMoney published Anni Irish's article "Why the Cost of Surrogacy Is so Expensive for LGBTQ+ Couples."
Killer Nashville published Angela Lam's flash fiction story "Interrogation."
The Center for Children's Literature named Erin Entrada Kelly's middle-grade novel Only, Only Marisol Rainey one of the Best Children's Books of the Year for 2024.
Anni Irish has been covering the protest encampments against the war in Gaza at colleges of art and design nationwide, and recent articles cover protests at the Rhode Island School of Design, the New School, Parsons School of Design, and the Savannah College of Art and Design, for the Art Newspaper.
Michael Montlack's poem "Honorary Member of the 'Deadbeat Club, (for the B52s)' " is up now at Drunk Monkeys magazine.
Publishers Weekly gave Erin Entrada Kelly's forthcoming novel Felix Powell, Boy Dog a starred review, calling it an "engaging novel [that's] a just-right book for a developing reader."
The Reckon Review published Arlaina Tibensky's essay "When You Sell Mom's Teeth."
Mara Reinstein interviewed comedian Jerry Seinfeld about why he hates birthdays but likes nostalgia, snacks, and the video he watches when he needs a pick-me-up, for Parade magazine.
Susan Breen won the 2024 Margery Allingham Short Mystery Story Award, given by the Crime Writers' Association, for her story "Olga Popova."
Laura Yeager is blogging for CureToday. Her recent posts include "When Your Hero Dies of Lung Cancer" and "The Cancer Community and the Princess of Wales."
For a café to qualify as suitable for remote working, it of course needs wi-fi and power outlets. Mike Dunphy has a more detailed checklist, and he puts several Asheville, North Carolina, cafés through their paces, for InsideHook.
Rachel Simon constructed a crossword puzzle on the theme of TMI for USAToday.
Business Insider published Angie Chatman's article "The U.S. Has Paid Restitution Before, and Juneteenth Reminds Us Black Americans Should Be Next."
