by BlogEditor | Jun 21, 2022 | Creative Nonfiction
Fat by Sarah Levine FollowFollowFollow Ten. The package of Oreos makes its way around the classroom, as do squeals from your classmates as they thank Jacob for convincing his mom to stop at Wawa to bring a snack for the class. You follow the bright blue package with...
by BlogEditor | May 27, 2022 | Book Reviews
A Burning by Megha Majumdar FollowFollowFollow A Burningby Megha Majumdar Vintage BooksJune 2021Paperback, 304 pagesISBN-13: 978-0593081259 Book Review by Ankita Rathour Megha Majumdar’s debut novel A Burning reads like a fictional tale and feels otherwise. Set in the...
by BlogEditor | May 19, 2022 | Book Reviews
Hurricane Girl by Marcy Dermansky FollowFollowFollow Hurricane GirlMarcy Dermansky Alfred A. KnopfJune 2022Hardcover, 240 pagesISBN-13: 978-0593320884 Book Review by Colleen Lutz Clemens It has been a long time since I have flown through a book as quickly as I flew...
by BlogEditor | May 13, 2022 | Book Reviews
Grand: Becoming My Mother’s Daughter by Noelle McCarthy FollowFollowFollow Grand: Becoming My Mother’s Daughterby Noelle McCarthy Penguin Books – NZMarch 2022Paperback, 272 pagesISBN-10: 014377610XISBN-13: 978-0143776109 Book Review by Rebecca Beardsall “This is...
by BlogEditor | May 10, 2022 | Creative Nonfiction
Lost Time by Nancy Jorgensen FollowFollowFollow Two brides in my family never had sex. I wasn’t told their birth names. I knew them only as Sister Christine and Sister Hilarion. Born in the 1890s, they wore flowing black tunics, cinched by a coarse rope that dangled...
by BlogEditor | Apr 28, 2022 | Minerva's Dispatch, News & Events
MINERVA’S DISPATCH: April News FollowFollowFollow Chapbook Contest Winner Congratulations to Hannah Yerington on winning the 2022 Dare to Be Chapbook Contest! Her chapbook, Sheologies, begins with a folktale of a world where lagoons speak, flowers pray, and...
by BlogEditor | Apr 28, 2022 | Book Reviews
Kids in America by Liz Prato FollowFollowFollow Kids in America: Essays on Gen Xby Liz Prato Santa Fe Writers Project (June 2022Paperback, 210 pagesISBN-10: 1951631250ISBN-13: 978-1951631253 Book Review by Rebecca Beardsall Opening with a quote from the Class of 1984...
by BlogEditor | Apr 25, 2022 | Creative Nonfiction
Losing Art An excerpt from LOSING ART, a memoir by Patricia Feinman FollowFollowFollow I got as close to Art as I could, resting one arm on either side of him, without letting any of my weight lean on his emaciated body. I looked into his face. It’s okay, my love, I...
by BlogEditor | Apr 22, 2022 | Fiction
Fat Girl In Crowded Room by Erica W. Jamieson FollowFollowFollow I should stand, right? And just start talking? Okay, then. I’m Emily. I should tell you it’s not my first time in group. I mean I’ve been before, a long time ago, in a group, like this. And, well, now...
by BlogEditor | Apr 5, 2022 | Book Reviews
Stargazing in Solitude by Suzanne Samples FollowFollowFollow Stargazing in Solitude by Suzanne Samples, Ph.D. Running Wild PressDecember, 2021Paperback, 337 pagesISBN-10: 1947041924 Book Review by Amanda Morris A book that begins with the preface “Spoiler alert: I’m...
