The Fountain, Casey Scieszka, Harper – absolutely delicious debut novel, like Tuck Everlasting for grown-ups.
Ellen Birkett Morris
Ellen Birkett Morris is the author of Beware the Tall Grass, winner of the Donald L. Jordan Award for Literary Excellence, judged by Lan Samantha Chang, published by CSU Press. She is also the author of Lost Girls: Short Stories, winner of the Pencraft Award and finalist for the Clara Johnson, IAN and Best Book awards. Her fiction has appeared in Shenandoah, Antioch Review, Notre Dame Review, and South Carolina Review, among other journals. She is a winner of the Bevel Summers Prize for short fiction. Morris is a recipient of an Al Smith Fellowship for her fiction from the Kentucky Arts Council.
Morris is also the author of Abide and Surrender, poetry chapbooks. Her poetry has appeared in The Clackamas Literary Review, Juked, Gastronomica, and Inscape, among other journals, and in eight anthologies. Morris won top prize in the 2008 Binnacle Ultra-Short Edition and was a finalist for the 2019 and 2020 Rita Dove Poetry Prize. Her poem “Abide” was featured on NPR’s A Way with Words. Her essays have appeared in Newsweek, AARP’s The Ethel, Oh Reader magazine, and on National Public Radio.
Morris holds an MFA in creative writing from Queens University-Charlotte.
https://www.ellenbirkettmorris.com/
Evensong Deals With the Many Challenges of Aging
Evensong, Stewart O’Nan, Atlantic Public Press – A tender, funny story of the lives of ordinary people.
Passion for Music Fueled the Creation of The Fire Concerto
The Fire Concerto, Sarah Landenwich, Union Square & Co, a novel hewn from both imagination and a deep knowledge of the subject matter.
Maizes Examines Writing in an Age of Cancel Culture
A COMPLETE FICTION by R. L. Maizes, Ig Publishing – You don’t have to be a writer these days to have experienced the pitfalls of an impulsive social media post.
The Dogs of Venice: Lost Love, Adventure and the Search for Self?
The Dogs of Venice, Steven Rowley, G.P.Putnam’s Sons – Steven Rowley offers up a story of lost love, adventure and the search for self amidst the backdrop of Venice at Christmas.
Author Ann Packer Finds Drama in the Everyday
Some bright Nowhere, Ann Packer . Harper, – Author Ann Packer Finds Drama in the Everyday
Typewriter Beach by Meg Waite Clayton
Set in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Hollywood, Typewriter Beach is the story of the unlikely friendship between an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, Léon Chazan, and a young actress, Isabella Giori, hoping to be Alfred Hitchcock's new star in 1957. The story alternates...
Shapiro Creates a Tapestry of Words in The Lost Masterpiece
The Lost Masterpiece, B. A. Shapiro, Algonquin Books – B.A. Shapiro has painted a truly marvelous novel of passion — passion for art, for creativity, for love and for the truth.
How a Writing Prompt Sparked Dermansky’s Novel
Hot Air, Marcy Dermansky, Knopf – How a Writing Prompt Sparked Dermansky’s Novel
What do you wish for? Perhaps more time to write?
As You Wish, Leesa Cross-Smith, Tiny Reparations Books – What would you wish for if you could wish for anything? Would getting what you think you want have unexpected consequences?
