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This replace is lengthy overdue and, due to that, this installment consists of virtually a yr’s value of great accomplishments that occurred between our final replace (in December 2024) and now.

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Chris Arthur’s most up-to-date essay assortment, What’s it Prefer to be Alive? Fourteen Makes an attempt at an Answer, has been named as one of many “10 Finest Books of 2024” by the California Evaluate of Books.

Dayna Bateman acquired the 2025 American Literary Evaluate Award in Essays (judged by Jaquira Díaz) for “Deracination, Or How To Disappear,” which interrogates the choice of her Indigenous Sámi ancestors to cross for White within the racial local weather of Eighteen Eighties America

Janée J. Baugher’s third full-length poetry assortment was chosen by Shane McCrae for the Tupelo Press Dorset Prize; The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles will probably be launched in February 2026.

jodi sh doff joined Substack with new essays in each Oldster Magazin , Saying No, Fifty Years Later; and Open Secrets and techniques, The Ties that Bind: Rape as a Job Hazard.She has additionally been publishing two weekly publication columns: The Lengthy Goodbye: Dementia Caregiving & Different Life Tales and Dirtygirl Diaries — What I Did for Love

In the summertime of 2024, Cory Fosco’s chapbook, Empty Streets was printed by Alien Buddha Press. On this assortment of essays, poems, and quick fiction, Fosco included “The Home That Constructed Me” which was initially printed in Hippopcampus Journal in 2011. He was additionally nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his quick story, “Die Forelle,” which is included within the chapbook.

Sue Granzella’s e book Pushed to the Edge: Academics’ Tales From the Tradition Wars will probably be printed by The New Press in early April, 2026.

Ona Gritz gained the 2025 Clara Johnson Award in Girls’s Literature for her memoir, All over the place I Look.

Kim Hayes had a narrative lately printed in Adelaid Journal. Whereas it was submitted as fiction (names have been modified), it’s a real story about Kim and her husband and shifting right into a hoarder home (set off warning for individuals who have handled excessive hoarding). They lasted 36 hours.

Yolande Home wrote concerning the hybrid memoir, Each Cripple a Superhero in The Fiddlehead’s Cease! Look! Hear! Weblog. In November 2024, her essay “The Anxious GERD Weight loss plan” was printed in Plenitude, marking her first printed piece about persistent sickness. This essay is from her manuscript on invisible disabilities known as Muscle Reminiscence.

Belinda J. Kein was nominated for the 2025 Pushcart Prize by Yellow Arrow Publishing for her nonfiction flash, “Elegy in Silver” and by Vestal Evaluate for her nonfiction flash, “For All His Guarantees.”

Evelyn Krieger gained 2nd place within the Exposition Evaluate Flash Fiction 2025 Contest.

Andrea Lius’s microessay, “Bistik Ayam,” was nominated by Glassworks for the 2025 Better of the Web anthology.

Sue Repko printed an essay, “What To Do With The Our bodies,” in January 2025  at The Manifest Station. Sue additionally taught a digital three-session workshop, “Prepared, Set, Revise,” via Mission Write Now final spring.

Marian Rogers’s micro-essay “Moorings” appeared in Lovely Issues, River Enamel’s on-line journal, on April 8, 2024.

Marsh Rose printed “Dinosaur Rock” within the Spring/Summer season 2025 problem of Tulip Tree’s Wild Girls contest. And her memoir, “A Model Of the Reality,” was accepted by Sunbury Press (launch date TBA).

Diane Simmons’ award-winning novel, Goals Like Thunder, was re-issued by Crimson Hen Pres in March 2025.  A brand new model of her nonfiction e book, Courtship of Eva Eldridge is now out there.

Kirsten Voris’ essay “Landscapes on Cardboard” was nominated for Better of the Web by Zoetic Press.

Casey Mulligan Walsh printed a reprint of “The Lovely Sport,” first printed in The Below Evaluate, in Sugar Sugar Salt on February 19, 2025. Her memoir, The Full Disaster: All I Ever Wished, Every part I Feared, launched from Motina Books in February 2025. She additionally printed a brand new flash essay, “Retaining Rating: An Abecedarium” on December 17, 2025, at Quick Reads.

A barely up to date model of Elizabeth Zaleski’s essay, “The Hassle with Loving Poets,” first printed in February 2017, is now the title essay of her forthcoming assortment with Belt, The Hassle with Loving Poets and Different Essays on Failure, out there in February 2026. She additionally launched a database geared toward cataloging the perfect literary farts of the ages, which you’ll be able to view (and contribute to) right here.

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