Unlucky Mel by Aggeliki Pelekidis, debut novel, Three Hills – Publishing a debut novel is no small feat, and for Aggeliki Pelekidis it took harnessing inspiration from some literary classics and an openness to make the work the best it could be.
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/
How does one find happiness? Ebenbach’s novel explores
Possible Happiness, David Ebenbach, Fitzroy Books/Regal House – In his tenth book, writer David Ebenbach turns his attention within in a very personal but fictionalized account of Eleventh-grader Jacob Wasserman
What is the nature of love? Monti asks
The Monosexual, Dean Monti, Madville Publishing LLC – Author Dean Monti’s latest novel, The Monosexual, is a comic romp about relationship grief and the nature of love.
How can a writer end self-doubt?
Everyone Has What It Takes, William Kenower, writers Digest Books – There are all kinds of books on writing from detailed manuals of craft to deep dives into what it takes to face the page.
O’Connor Explores Island Life in Whale Fall
Whale Fall, Elizabeth O’Connor, Pantheon – Elizabeth O’Connor’s beautifully stark debut novel Whale Fall is set on a remote Welsh Island in the fall of 1938.
Reunion Explores Life After Pandemic at a College Reunion
Reunion, Elise Juska, Harper – Elise Juska’s latest novel REUNION takes the tension of reentering the world after Covid and adds the unique brand of angst that accompanies a college reunion.
Rohan uses creativity and inspiration to craft SING, I
Sing, I, Ethel Rohan, Triquarterly – In Ethel Rohan’s Sing, I, Ester Prynn, tired by the challenges of money, marriage and motherhood is upended when a masked gunman robs the convenience store where she works.
Kim Offers Modern Take on Jane Austen Tale
Relative Strangers, A. H. Kim, Harper Collins – It’s quite a trick to pull off a modern retelling of a classic tale in a way that holds modern interest, A. H. Kim does just that with Relative Strangers.
Where do stories come from? Jill McCorkle Shares
Old Crimes, Jill McCorkle, – In Old Crimes Jill McCorkle tells stories about the lies we tell ourselves and the secrets we keep that nonetheless echo across our lives.
Rediscovered Novel Finds Posthumous Publication
The Fetishist, Katherine Min, – The writer Katherine Min’s posthumously published book, The Fetishist, explores themes of race, femininity, complicity and visibility of Asian women in a savagely funny and incisive way.
