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Joseph Chiba (with Sally Kigasawa) self-published his novel Ghava's Island: The Beginning of the End.
Hedgebrook has selected Christola Phoenix to be one of its 2019 Writers in Residence. The residency program for women writers selected 40 residents from more than 800 applications.
"Standing in the middle of the street, I inhaled, my lungs filling with a sharp gust of wind that I could not stop from making its way out of my mouth," writes Vonetta Young in her essay "The Right of Way" published by Lunch Ticket.
New World Library published Margaret Winslow's most recent memoir Smart Ass: How a Donkey Challenged Me to Accept His True Nature and Rediscover My Own.
Tablet Magazine published Marya Zilberberg's essay "Recipes for Survival".
Linda Collins’ flash fiction piece, Lavender, has scored an Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train's July/Aug Very Short Story Contest.
NPR's Code Switch published Nabil Ayers' essay "A Family Tree With Roots Deep In Slavery."
Verso Books published Joshua Sperling's book A Writer for Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger.
Linda Collins’ poem “Is it Safe to Cross?” has been published In the Transqueer edition of The Cordite Poetry Review, Australia. She started the poem as an exercise in a Gotham Poetry Writing Workshop.
Ellery Queen Magazine published Jehane Sharah's story "The Screening" in its November/December issue. She is currently in her second year at the University of Maryland's MFA program.
Entropy Magazine published Maryann DeTrizio's piece "Patient Belongings".
Cagibi published Anne Botsford's short story "Flyaways."
Cosmonauts Avenue published Vonetta Young's short story "I Help You."
Indomita Press included Seth Pilevsky's story "Wyatt's Tonic" in its YA anthology What Doesn't Kill You.
Ravishly published Christine Corrigan's piece "10 Things I Wish I'd Known When I Was Diagnosed With Breast Cancer".
Living Springs Publishers awarded Dennis Winkleblack first prize in the Stories Through the Ages Baby Boomers Plus 2018 contest for his story "Never Work for Someone Who's Not as Smart as You".
Longreads published Vanessa Golenia's essay "The Next Level of Commitment: Revealing Our Money Secrets," which she began in a Gotham class.
Karina Yan Glaser's middle grade novel The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden was released in September by HMH Books for Young Readers. It is the sequel to her first novel The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street, which was a New York Times Notable Children's Book of 2017.
Pilcrow & Dagger included Richard Affleck's short story "Caught in the Gyre" in their August/September Choices issue.
Richard Jerome served as editor of Time magazine's special issue The Science of Creativity.
Amazon Digital published Julie Helms' novel Gods They Had Never Known.
Fathom magazine published Vonetta Young's essay "Who Is Deserving of My Spare Change?"
The Piker Press published Ken Dubuque's short story "Armed and Dangerous".
Jaclyn Powell's video for MOJO Desserts won the Columbia-Harlem SBDC Brand Story Video Competition, given by the Columbia University Business School.
Author House published Pat Smith's novel Thaddeus Lamb or Taking America Back.
Ruth Ward published three books this year. The Puppeteer’s Daughter a novel, The Feldmans a novella, and “Happy Birthday, Sally” and Other Stories a collection of eleven narratives.
The Best Shorts Competition awarded Michael Witkes' web series "Interested In" the Best in Merit award in its LGBT short-film category.
The New York Times published Nabil Ayers' essay "Coming of Age in the Loft Jazz Scene."
The Washington Post published Ariella Cook-Shonkoff's article "We owe it to one another to be honest about the crazy mess that is motherhood".
The Daily Kos published Dawn Wolfe's article "Yes, Flint, you can drink the (filtered) water but the emergency isn't over yet".
Canadian actress and online filmmaker Sonja O’Hara has signed with top talent agency William Morris Endeavor (WME).
Catrine Kyster has won the Danish romantic short story competition “Kær-Litt”. As part of the award, her short story “Too late for love” was published in the popular Danish weekly magazine “Familie Journal.”
Mascot Books published Jackie Prince's adult picture book Chloe Has Chlamydia. 10% book profits will go toward STI screenings at Planned Parenthood.
Glimmer Train awarded Madiha Sattar second place in its Very Short Story Contest for her short story "Mulberry Street".
Hanover Square Press published Linda Dahl's memoir Tooth and Nail: The Making of a Female Fight Doctor.
The New York Times published Corvette Hunt's essay "38 Days That Made Us Dads" in its Opinion section.
Billboard magazine interviewed Lenny Zenith about his new album and his memoir in the article "Lenny Zenith Talks Transphobia in the Music Industry."
Dreamers published Christine Corrigan's essay "A Reconstructed Life: Life After Breast Cancer".
Lenny published Starina Catchatoorian's essay "Learning to Accept My Body Hair," as part of its "Imperfectly Perfect" series.
GQ published Alisha Acquaye's essay "The Best Sci-Fi Is About Being Black."
Healthline published Heather Osterman-Davis' article "When Your Child Tries to Wish Your Illness Away."
The American Academy of Family Physicians magazine published Lalita Abhyankar's essay "Acknowledging—and Overcoming—My Own Racial Bias."
Entropy Magazine published Candy Shue's essay "Literacy Narrative: The Voices We Carry".
Stephen F. Austin State University Press published Fran Hawthorne's novel The Heirs.
Allure magazine published Ludmila Leiva's article "How This Bimonthly Brunch Is Empowering Women and Non-Binary People of Color in the Trump Era," featuring another Gotham student, Alisha Acquaye.
Next Avenue published Ann Jackowitz's essay "How a Pair of Eyeglasses Changed Everything."
Diana Forbes' debut novel, Mistress Suffragette, won the Garcia Memorial Prize for Best Fiction.
The New York Times published Joanne Spataro's op-ed "Adventures in Transgender Fertility."
Medium published Nabil Ayers' essay "How Devo Saved My Hand."
The United Federation of Teachers will publish Ann Marie Antenucci's essay "Nicknames" in its annual Reflections in Poetry and Prose anthology by retired New York City public school teachers.
Out magazine profiled Lenny Zenith in "Lenny Zenith Has Spent Decades Bringing Trans Visibility to Rock & Roll."
Diana Forbes' novel Mistress Suffragette won three prizes at the Reader Views Literary Awards: Best Romance Novel, the North East Regional Prize, and the Garcia Memorial Prize for Best Fiction Book of the Year.
Black Fox Literary Magazine published Richard McPherson's short story, "The Old Man in the Park."
Terraform published Seamus Sullivan's short story "Dream Job".
Every Day Fiction published Andrew King's short story "A Fan".
Lenny published Starina Catchatoorian's memoir piece "Letting Go".
Prometheus Books published Izzy Ezaqui's memoir Disarmed: Unconventional Lessons from the World's Only One-Armed Special Forces Sharpshooter.
Robot Butt published Candy Shue's humor article, "Beyond Virtual Reality: A Special Offer for the Really, Really Adventurous Astral Traveler".
Lion's Roar: Buddhist Wisdom for Our Time published Debra Flic's article "What Meditation Can't Cure".
The Sonder Review published Christy O'Callaghan-Leue's piece "Sweatshirt" in its Winter 2018 issue.
Deeds Publishing published Townsend Walker's short story collection 3 Women 4 Towns 5 Bodies.
Crab Fat Magazine published Laura Gianino's flash fiction story "Sweet Tooth", another piece she started at our Friday Night Write-In.
Everyday Feminism published Alisha Acquaye's article "Four Self-Care Practices for When Working as a Woman of Color Has Got You Down."
Frank Kehl's essay "Liberated Fayerweather: Agony and Ecstasy While Awaiting the NYPD" is included in the anthology A Time To Stir: Columbia '68, about the weeklog student uprising at Columbia University in 1968.
The Establishment published Becky Hayes' essay "The Critics of #MeToo and the Due Process Fallacy."
The Royal Academy (London) has selected Caroline Miley's debut novel The Competition for the booklist of their 250th anniversary exhibition The Great Spectacle.
Edible Queens published Connie Murray's article "Valentine's Day in Queens the Food and Footprints Way."
The Coil, the magazine of Alternative Current Press, published Christola Phoenix's essays "William" and "The Emergency Room." Christola was a finalist for Alternative Current's 2017 Still I Rise Grant for Black Women Writers.
Epoch Magazine published Blake Stone-Banks' story "Colosseum".
Flash Fiction Magazine published Laura Gianino's story "Out of Whack". The story started as a prompt given at one of Gotham's Friday Night Write-Ins.
The Icarus Anthology published Robert Perron's story "A Joke for Chong". The story was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Teen Vogue published Alisha Acquaye's op-ed "How Beauty Brands Are Profiting Off Racism."
The Atlantic published Emily Voigt's essay "Urban Bird Feeders Are Changing the Course of Evolution."
The Greensboro News and Record interviewed Heather Cumiskey about her new YA novel I Like You Like This, published in December by SheWrites Press.
Storyscape Journal published Candy Shue's story "Someone to Watch Over Me".
Ruth Ward published her novel The Puppeteer's Daughter through Create Space.
Stephanie Loleng was accepted into the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine in Fiction Writing.
OkayAfrica published Alisha Acquaye's article "2017 Was The Year of Black Women Living Dynamic Sex Lives On TV."
The Southampton Review published Martina Clark's essay "Blue Marlin."
Levo published Vonetta Young's essay "Notes on Microaggressions from a Black Woman in Finance."
