Two years ago, the phone rang, the number unlisted.
Slip ‘n Slide by Jane Ann Valentine
We tried to make the most of our time by doing nothing at all.
Slip ‘n Slide by Jane Ann Valentine
My Guys by Andrew Miller
Lightkeeping by Joy V.
Daisies by Ofrit Peres
Between the Sink and the Door by Eric Goldfarb
My Guys by Andrew Miller
In prisons, Toastmasters Clubs are called gavel clubs.
Lightkeeping by Joy V.
Two years ago, the phone rang, the number unlisted.
Daisies by Ofrit Peres
Jen’s lips are sticky from glittery gloss when we kiss.
Between the Sink and the Door by Eric Goldfarb
At sixty, I bought hearing aids.
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Lightkeeping by Joy V.
My Guys by Andrew Miller
In prisons, Toastmasters Clubs are called gavel clubs.
Daisies by Ofrit Peres
Jen’s lips are sticky from glittery gloss when we kiss.
Fantasy Drafts by Jim Parisi
In the first draft of your wildest fantasy, the stick flies past your ear….
The Bedsheet by Victoria Windsor
The stretcher wouldn’t make the turns up our narrow Tudor stairs…
Slip ‘n Slide by Jane Ann Valentine
We tried to make the most of our time by doing nothing at all.
Punctuated. by Julie Rackliffe Lucey
Punctuate: verb (T) to regularly interrupt something that is happening.
Between the Sink and the Door by Eric Goldfarb
At sixty, I bought hearing aids.
The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV) in Heartbroken Young Adult Populations: A Selected Review by Jessica Kinuyo Bakar
If the fifteenth floor of the McGill psychology building were a person, she’d be really into direct communication.
REVIEWS
REVIEW: Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity and the Meaning of Kinship, Edited by B.K. Jackson
Reading Relative Strangers can, at times, feel like reading someone’s diary.
REVIEW: Bitter, Sweet: How to Heal Yourself When Your Family Is Broken by Stephanie Weaver
Bitter, Sweet explores the devastating impact of child sexual abuse on its survivors.
REVIEW: Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change by Ben Austen
Ben Austen incorporates stunning statistics and thoughtful analysis to tell the story of America’s long, sordid infatuation with incarceration.
REVIEW: United States of Rejection: A Story of Love, Hate, and Hope by Alison Kinney
United States of Rejection pushes your thinking about how much of American life centers on the idea of rejecting others.
REVIEW: Take This For the Pain: Essays on Writing and Life by Alex Boyd
Boyd’s selections showcase a writing life that is also intimately shaped by reading.
REVIEW: Rough House by Alison Lyn Miller
Rough House raises some troubling questions even as it artfully and diligently provides answers to many others.
REVIEW: Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America by Lauren Hough
Monster of a Land …. is a book about looking, really looking, at a country and its people.
INTERVIEWS
INTERVIEW: Timothy J. Hillegonds, Author of And You Will Call It Fate
Penny Guisinger chats with Timothy J. Hillegonds about And You Will Call It Fate, which examines toxic masculinity in this current political and social context.
INTERVIEW: Jason Prokowiew, Author of War Boys: A Father and Son Memoir
The world of War Boys is a creation of my father’s descriptions, my creativity, and a lot of research.
INTERVIEW: Rose McLarney, Author of Rubble Masonry
I suppose there’s a hopelessness to wanting the past, since we can’t go back, yet we must progress forward…
INTERVIEW: A Conversation with Brenda Miller, Author of Love You, Bye: A Daughter’s Journey in Essays and Poems
We need very specific and personal stories more than ever, and we need new forms to keep developing and evolving.
INTERVIEW: Jayne Anne Phillips, Author of Small Town Girls: A Writer’s Memoir
As for the question of small-town girls, they are underestimated.
INTERVIEW: Mandi Fugate Sheffel, Author of The Nature of Pain: Roots, Recovery & Redemption Amid the Opioid Crisis
Talking about my name gave me an entry point to describe my parents and my crippling shyness.
INTERVIEW: Emily Rapp Black, Author of I Would Die If I Were You: Notes on Art and Truth-Telling
If you didn’t love, you wouldn’t grieve.
INTERVIEW: Sarah Hoover, Author of The Motherload: Episodes from the Brink of Motherhood
Postpartum depression (PPD) is so stark — I thought my story would be more compelling if there were some entertainment value to it as well.
INTERVIEW: Benjamin Hale, Author of Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks
Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks by Benjamin Hale blends true-crime, memoir, and cultural history.
INTERVIEW: Karen Palmer, Author of She’s Under Here: A Memoir
I spent five years on the book before that essay was published… I’d largely given up.
