PhD in Creative Writing & Literature at USC

04/16/2022

Check out this article in Condé Nast Traveler where Melissa Chadburn talks about how her experience working in an airport influenced her writing of A TINY UPWARD SHOVE!
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/how-working-in-an-airport-helped-shape-melissa-chadburns-novel?fbclid=IwAR3XgAKkZL4XGSFrwawCAwk1aBXmRWBolZK7vHWG9VC1Odx2Hszxs8hCJdI

Melissa Chadburn's new novel “A Tiny Upward Shove” was written while the author worked for a labor union representing airport workers.

04/16/2022

Here’s a full list of submission and freelancing opportunities we’ve shared in 2022, updated at least twice a month. Bookmark this list to stay up to date on new postings!

04/16/2022

Library Journal’s lists Jonathan Escoffery's IF I SURVIVE YOU as one of the Top Debuts of Spring/Summer!
https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/Reviews%2B/Top-Spring-Summer-Debuts-39-Titles-To-Know?fbclid=IwAR28ys668rpc0gnwsEr0Sm2dVhy1xppnl_1OajB6yS8PWxybKVHobnjCCaE

This edition of LJ’s thrice-yearly list of top debut novels covers the spring/summer season, including some key April titles but focusing on especially promising works published from May through August and stretching to include two exciting September titles. Together, they reflect the strengths of...

04/16/2022

"...a hip, intimate, and heartfelt exploration of our multicultural, cosmopolitan world, one full of promise and yet under threat.
He is one of the great advocates and defenders of such a world, so urgently embodied in this very necessary novel.”

- Viet Thanh Nguyen on AMNESIA OF JUNE BUGS

Get your copy of Jackson Bliss's debut novel!

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04/14/2022

Order your copy of Anna Journey's poetry collection, THE JUDAS EAR!
https://lsupress.org/books/detail/judas-ear/

04/14/2022

"I look to the chorus, modeling
wholeness, how to remain intact.
Absorbed in music,
its supplications, they seem purer,
don’t they?"

Read more of Callie Siskel's MOURNER'S LOGIC in 32 Poems Magazine.

Callie Siskel Mourner's Logic When the congregation assembles, I look to the chorus, modeling wholeness, how to remain intact. Absorbed in music, its supplications, they seem purer, don’t they? Those whose voices make meaning, while their bodies dematerialize, or mean to, or should. They sing Avin...

04/14/2022

Neil Aitken reads AFTER, a poem of his recently published in Hyphen magazine, in this episode of The Hermit Poetry Series!

Neil Aitken reads "After" from his current manuscript-in-progress.More about the authorNeil Aitken is the author of two books of poetry, Babbage’s Dream (Sun...

04/14/2022

Arthur Golden, MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA

04/07/2022

Congratulations to Austen Leah Rose!
https://www.umasspress.com/announcing-the-2022-juniper-prize-winners/?fbclid=IwAR3rlzLK6U1D1wtRlFVd1Gi7l5zS5GsIuQxgRdY_CEjLHJDIi_zi1ZYxpgs

04/07/2022

Stay up-to-date with Melissa Chadburn's tour of her debut novel, A TINY UPWARD SHOVE!
https://www.melissachadburn.com/events-and-appearances/

04/07/2022

Dive into the latest issue of the The Kenyon Review featuring poetry by Blas Falconer!
https://kenyonreview.org/journal/marapr-2022/

04/07/2022

Spring into the new month with these new reads!

Including much-anticipated titles from Jennifer Egan, Ocean Vuong, and Emily St. John Mandel