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Sabura Rashid

April 12, 2024

The Stone Thrower’s Daughter (Play), New York City, NY In post-Roe America, a woman must choose between her rebellious daughter and her powerful husband, the most conservative governor of a ... [Read More]

Svetlana Satchkova

April 10, 2024

The Way You Want It (Novel), Brooklyn, NY The Way You Want It is a story of Maya, an emerging film director in present-day Russia navigating the intersections of art, politics, and personal ... [Read More]

Sophia Huneycutt

April 10, 2024

The House Built on Alligator Bones (Novel), Columbus, OH In The House Built on Alligator Bones, a woman pursues her inheritance—a Florida alligator farming empire—uncovering family secrets that ... [Read More]

Pepper Auerbach

April 10, 2024

My Brain Itches! (Graphic Novel/Memoir), Brooklyn, NY My Brain Itches! follows a young boy named Pepper, as he navigates living with the sometimes frightening surreality of his psychosis. “I ... [Read More]

Shazna Nessa

April 10, 2024

Beneath the Same Stars (Memoir), New York, NY Beneath the Same Stars is about a girl’s escape from child marriage, which ultimately leads her to a decades-long pursuit of an ever-shifting idea of ... [Read More]

Randy Faustino

April 10, 2024

Kosmotrope (Graphic Novel), Sioux Falls, SD Two heroes will find that their differences and their own supernatural secrets will be needed to save their town from an enraged primordial ... [Read More]

Omer Friedlander

April 10, 2024

The Glass Golem (Novel), New York City, NY The Glass Golem tells the story of three generations of a Jewish family. Moving from Prague to Jerusalem to New York, the novel explores ideas of ... [Read More]

Nishant Batsha

April 10, 2024

A Superfluous Man (Novel), Buffalo, NY A Superfluous Man explores what it means to care for children at this fraught moment, all while seeking out the fissures between our digital and analog ... [Read More]

Natasha Nutkiewicz

April 10, 2024

Crude Conspiracy (Fiction TV Series), Miami, FL  This limited series examines the most powerful American oil company and its 50-year-long conspiracy against climate science, democracy and everyday ... [Read More]

Natasha Driscoll

April 10, 2024

High Yellow (Fiction), Allendale, NJ In High Yellow, Tamera, a biracial girl navigates her life; learning how race, colorism and popularity shapes the way the world sees her. “The aim of this ... [Read More]

Melody Glenn

April 10, 2024

How to Blow Up a Hospital (Novel), Tucson, AZ A literary thriller that follows a young doctor as she stumbles through residency and uncovers the dangers of private equity in the American ... [Read More]

Matthew Modica

April 10, 2024

The Rest of the Story (Novel), Boston, MA A struggling small town in the American Heartland finds itself being used by America's politicians, pop-culture producers, and advertisers in the battle ... [Read More]

Lorraine Avila

April 10, 2024

Dieasperra (Fiction), Bronx, NY Dieasperra is a mystery novel with elements of magical realism and fabulism that follows Solgone and Estela to the Dominican Republic to honor the memory of their ... [Read More]

Liz Breen

April 10, 2024

It's Not So Bad, Really (Memoir), Natick, MA Ungroomed explores the erotic charge often present in pedagogy and how, for many young women, this charge can lead to coercive relationships with ... [Read More]

Kenyatta D. Berry

April 10, 2024

The Price of Freedom (Nonfiction), Santa Monica, CA Embark on a journey, discovering the overlooked African American narratives from the battlefield to Hollywood, igniting an impassioned plea for ... [Read More]

Leo Ríos

April 10, 2024

Carta Blanca (Short Story Collection), Tucson, AZ A Mexican-American teenager journeys from California’s Central Valley to Los Angeles and must recover from old wounds of violence and ... [Read More]

Laura Villareal

April 10, 2024

Almanac in the Year of Naming (Poetry), Lockhart, TX Almanac in the Year of Naming is a poetry collection examining the power of naming and human connections to the natural world. “My hope is ... [Read More]

Karolina Letunova

April 9, 2024

Siberian Summer (Novel), Davis, CA Spanning a century in Western Siberia and two weeks in WA state, Siberian Summer is about immigrant Rita's lifelong bond with a friend she left behind and a ... [Read More]

Karla Cordero

April 9, 2024

Chillona / Crybaby (Poetry), San Diego, CA Chillona/Crybaby is a collection of poems documenting the impact of chronic illness upon the Indigenous/Mexican-American identity, while navigating the ... [Read More]

Julie Kim

April 9, 2024

To Raise Wonderful Hell (Memoir), Brooklyn, NY In To Raise Wonderful Hell, a mother reconciles her ableist upbringing with a commitment to authentically and inclusively parent her own child. "My ... [Read More]

Julia Zarankin

April 9, 2024

The Babushka Beauty Pageant (Novel), Toronto, CANADA Three generations of strong, opinionated women from Ukraine wind up in Canada where they experience love, heartbreak, and a beauty pageant for ... [Read More]

Jay Shifman

April 9, 2024

The Children Of Stockbridge (Novel), Philadelphia, PA The Children of Stockbridge is the narrative of a struggling young man who is sent to a celebrated mental health facility and discovers the ... [Read More]

James McAdams

April 9, 2024

The Florida Shuffle (Fiction), Delray/St. Petersburg, FL The Florida Shuffle explores the sinister epiphenomena of the opioid epidemic, humanizing the scams, trafficking, and exploitation ... [Read More]

J.C. Rodriguez

April 9, 2024

Where On Long Island Will You Bury Me? (Poetry), Syracuse, NY Where on Long Island Will You Bury Me? drives through an expressway of Americana through vignettes of pop cultural critique & ... [Read More]

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