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The Missouri Review published Aizhan Yesbolatova's essay "The Yellow Suitcase".
Central Avenue Poetry/Simon & Schuster published Lenna Jawdat's poetry collection 70,000.
soulpoetry.com published Janessa Graham's poem "Accomplished".
Reckoning published Verdell Walker's story "To Stand, You Must Be Rooted".
Dorothy Parker's Ashes published Annmarie Antenucci's essay "Lucy in the Sky."
LOL Comedy published Ayoung Kim's humorous essay "How a Summer Girl's Trip Showed Me True Friends Stick Together".
Mara Blazic's novella-in-flash, Bojana's Cake, made the Bath Flash Fiction Award's Novella-in-Flash Shortlist 2026.
Lauren Khan has signed with Jessica Mileo at Inkwell Management.
Potomac Review published Dan Schiff's short story "Dance, Dance Revolution".
Chicago Story Press published Jennifer Kelly's essay "The Poinsettia."
Broadleaf Books published Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez's memoir Conversion Therapy Dropout: A Queer Story of Faith and Belonging.
August Drift and Dribble published Jennifer Kelly's essay "Into the Fire" begun in a Gotham class.
Peatsmoke Journal published Jen Sepso's poem "Fruitless".
The Goodlife Review published Ayoung Kim's flash essay "Speaking in Tongues." Ayoung also had two poems, "In My House We Pray" and "Nighttime Performer" published by The Writing Disorder.
Doubleday, a division of Penguin/Random House, published Hannah Thurman's novel Mercy Hill.
Tint Journal published Aizhan Yesbolatova's essay "The Bitter Smell of Sagebrush".
Next Chapter published Lisa Reifsnider's debut novel Three Sided Heart.
Fish Publishing awarded Cindy Dale Second Prize in its 2025/26 Short Story Competition for her short story "Visitation Rights".
Book and Film Globe published Jonathan Hart's article "Love Is Blind Shouldn't Mean Open Season on People's Looks".
Erin Gottwald's essay "The Name We Carry," originally published in Yankee Magazine, is a finalist for the 2026 National City and Regional Magazine Awards.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency published Caitlin McLean's humor piece "The Party of Small Government Demands Twenty-Four-Hour Video Footage of Your Children".
The Crystal Labyrinth: Echoes of Frost and Heart published "Snowman", a poem by Sheldon Siporin writing as J. Cronos.
Feels Blind Literary published Ayoung Kim's essay "The Order of Events". And Defenestration Magazine published her humor piece "Spinach Around the Cyst: You're Going to Want My Badass Invention".
Watchtower Press published Amelia Franz's short story collection The Longest Man-Made Beach in the World: Biloxi Stories.
The Spark Theatre Festival NYC will feature Ruth Cashman's short play The Museum of Claire.
The Manifest Station published Ayoung Kim's essay "On The Edge".
Counterpoint Press will publish Hafeez Lakhani's debut novel Abundance on May 5th.
Brightflash Literary Review published Sophie Berghouse's piece "Dumped, Duplicated". Another piece, "She-E-O", was published in Too Much Love: Stories of Mothering.
Essay Daily published Cathy de la Cruz's new essay, "A Mess, A Museum".
Joseph Cusi Tian-Delamerced's short story "Calamansi" won First Place in the CRAFT Literary 2025 Short Fiction Prize. Judge Halle Hill said Joseph's story (workshopped in a Gotham Fiction I class), "eloquently captures the many-roomed longings that family and desire bring."
Peter Flom's memoir Twice as Weird: A Memoir About Twice-Exceptionality is a semi-finalist for the Chanticleer Journey Book Award in Overcoming Adversity in Nonfiction.
The Ocala Gazette published Nick Wineriter's article on the passing of a beloved thrift shop.
Triple Shot Press published Dave Bartell's archeological thriller Signal Code, the ninth in a series he's been publishing since 2018.
Knopf Books for Young Readers (an imprint of Penguin Random House) will publish Wendy Lu's middle-grade novel Casting April in June 2026.
Vine Leaves Press published D.S.G. Burke's debut novel Mean Higher High Water.
Shady Grove Literary Magazine published Robert Feder's story "No Angels Involved".
Black Rose Writing published Fran Hawthorne's third novel Her Daughter.
The Louisville Review published Sua Im's short story, "Miniatures", in the Fall 2025 issue.
LitHub published Atash Yaghmaian's essay "A Different Side of the Self: On Finding Freedom by Telling My Story in English."
Miaoyin Guan won the 2025 Page Turner Award in creative nonfiction for her piece "Things I Never Told My Mother".
Intima published Nathan Rockey's short story "Passing the Touch."
Brevity Blog published Michele Cantos Garcia's essay "My Writer's Statement, Then and Now."
Simon and Schuster published Brian Schaefer's debut novel Town & Country.
Khora published Ayoung Kim's flash nonfiction piece "Breaking Rank".
To Hull and Back Short Story Collection 2025 published Betsey Milord's short story "Backgammon for Blood".
Pen to Print published Ayoung Kim's essay "American Role Model".
Beacon Press will release Atash Yaghmaian's memoir My Name Means Fire on October 14th.
Duke University Press announced it will publish Gil Z. Hochberg's memoir My Father, the Messiah in February.
The How I Learned series published Ebonya Lia's essay "The Lingering Scent of Black Butter"
The Big Issue published Julia Richardson's story "Turn, Turn, Turn" in its Fiction Edition for 2025.
Lit Mag News interviewed Vonetta Young, now the editor-in-chief of The Offing, about starting out as a volunteer reader, what the magazine looks for in submissions, and how writers can "find authority and self-assertion in one’s own writing, as well as not hide on the page."
Momoko Uno's memoir, Bringing Sunshine Back Into My Mind, received a gold medal from Readers' Favorite Book Awards.
Falcon Guides published Mimi Zieman's memoir Tap Dancing on Everest.
The Hollywood Reporter published "The 13 Commandments of Being a Background Actor", excerpted from Jon Hart's book Unfortunately, I Was Available.
Serpent's Tail will publish Uttama Kirit Patel's novel Shape of an Apostrophe in October.
Mnemosyne Books published Jennifer Boulanger's memoir A Song for Olaf.
The Italian Tribune published Annmarie Antenucci's essay "My Cousin Gigi."
James Marshall independently published his second novel, Stone and Water.
Atria Books published Nick Fuller-Googins' novel The Frequency of Living Things.
The New York Times published Olga Grudinina's micro-essay "From Five to Forever" in its Tiny Love Stories.
The Broken Teacup published Dan Schiff's short story "Untitled (for Brigid)"
Reburn Media published Judith Lipson's essay "Celebration of Sisters" in The Loss of a Lifetime: Grieving Siblings Share Stories of Love, Loss, and Hope by Alyson Shelton and Lynn Shattuck.
The Huffington Post published Katarina Wong's article "I Caught Someone Defacing My Tesla. I Couldn't Believe What Happened After I Confronted Them".
Joan Slatoff has had several pieces published lately. "The Waiting Room" in Literary Yard, "Cupcakes" in Does It Have Pockets?, and "First Move" in Bookends Review.
Candlewick Press published Elizabeth Tracy's picture book Mystery Driver: The Story of Alice Johnson and the First Soap Box Derby.
FuoriAsse Editions published Licia Martella's novel Dark Yellow (Giallo Buio), which also a finalist in the 36th Edition of the Italo Calvino Prize.
The New York Times published Madeline Gray's micro-essay "Diamonds in the Dirt" in its Tiny Love Stories column.
The Jewish Women's Archive published Slavena Salve Nissan's story "The Jewish Girl's Guide to Genealogy".
