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Iris (Yi Youn) Kim

April 9, 2024

Before and After (Memoir), Los Angeles, CA Before and After follows my coming-of-age MeToo story as I fall in love while struggling with PTSD, mend wounds with family, and navigate the deeply ... [Read More]

Fanély Gouguet

April 9, 2024

A Baby, No Strings Attached (Romantic Comedy), Luxembourg, LUXEMBOURG Craving to give what she never received, maternal love, Charlotte decides to get pregnant on her own by sending a tweet, ... [Read More]

Erin Weller

April 9, 2024

Star Farm (Middle-grade Novel), Spokane, WA Someone is stealing stars. Twelve-year-old Mattie must find the thief, reunite her family, and defend the village’s buried secret, before the whole sky ... [Read More]

Erica Blumfield

April 9, 2024

Starring Erica Blumfield (Memoir), Los Angeles, CA Bipolar convinces Erica her life is a reality TV show, a memoir weaving NYC’s music scene, a tumultuous love story, psychiatric institutions, ... [Read More]

Emmy Her Many Horses

April 9, 2024

The Remembering (Climate Fiction), Oceti Sakowiƞ Territory, South Dakota In The Remembering, Čuŋksi suddenly hears a voice in her head telling of the future to come, and the ancestral knowledge ... [Read More]

Elizabeth Wood

April 9, 2024

Don’t Listen to Starr Bright (Novel), Cincinnati, OH Don’t Listen to Starr Bright follows a small-town pariah’s journey to decipher the scandalous truths of her mother’s cryptic suicide note. ... [Read More]

Elise Atchison

April 9, 2024

Untamed: Living on the Edge of Wildness (Nonfiction), Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, MT Untamed is a memoir about living off-grid in the Montana wilderness, using observations of the natural ... [Read More]

David Philip Mullins

April 9, 2024

The Houndsman (Novel), Omaha, NE The Houndsman follows big-game hunter Jesse Tindol on her quest to locate a missing child in the backwoods of northern Nevada. "The Houndsman will explore ... [Read More]

Cora Currier

April 9, 2024

Some Types of Intelligence (Novel), Molokai, Hawai'i Some Types of Intelligence is a novel about the war on terror — about Afghanistan, surveillance, art, and complicity with U.S. ... [Read More]

Catherine Julia Carberry

April 9, 2024

Bitter Tropic (Novel), Woodstock, NY Bitter Tropic travels between New York and Puerto Rico, following three characters whose lives are profoundly impacted by the 1950s Puerto Rican independence ... [Read More]

Ben Kim

April 9, 2024

Unified (TV Pilot), Hacienda Heights, CA In the 1980s, a clandestine Korean-American operative infiltrates a religious cult led by a millionaire Korean pastor infamous for mass marriages and ... [Read More]

Beata Grablevska

April 9, 2024

Where the Pines Cry (Memoir), The Hague, THE NETHERLANDS Where the Pines Cry recounts my upbringing in Soviet Lithuania, shaped by scarcity and communist indoctrination until discovering my ... [Read More]

Anthony Aycock

April 9, 2024

To Ban Or Not to Ban: Censorship and Island Trees v. Pico (Nonfiction), Cary, NC The first book-length history of Island Trees v. Pico, the only book ban case ever to make it to the U.S. Supreme ... [Read More]

Andrew Altschul

April 9, 2024

The Greatest Story Ever Told (Novel), Fort Collins, CO A novel about grief, faith, art, technology, and late capitalism in which Felix Frankl’s grief over his sister’s disappearance leads him ... [Read More]

Amy Kennedy

April 9, 2024

Vanishing Points: Words for Disappearing (Nonfiction), New Orleans, LA This glossary is a collection of micro-essays and photographs that explores the intersection of industry and nature, and the ... [Read More]

Alex Cain

April 9, 2024

The Body in the Greenhouse (Historical Fiction), Jamestown, RI The Body in the Greenhouse, a mystery set at Harvard in 1948, explores closed societies and the social codes required to succeed ... [Read More]

Aimee Seiff Christian

April 9, 2024

Nobody’s Daughter: An Adoptee's Memoir of Lost and Found (Memoir), Concord, MA Nobody’s Daughter takes a critical look at the transactional nature of closed adoptions through one adoptee’s ... [Read More]

Emma Barrow

April 9, 2024

Other Plans (Screenplay), Portland, OR A Cherokee woman fights to protect her niece from an unlawful adoption by her white grandparents while reckoning with feeling distant from her own ... [Read More]

simóne j banks

April 9, 2024

continuum (Poetry), Lancaster, PA continuum is a poetry + photography project that seeks to restage, reimagine and restore the seen and unseen relationship between the Black body and ... [Read More]

Sassy Mohen

April 9, 2024

On the Hook (Screenplay), Los Angeles, CA A Texas college student discovers her friend's life-threatening pregnancy and has 24-hours to get her across state lines before it’s too late. "I aim ... [Read More]

Christopher Shipman

April 9, 2024

Brick by Brick (Poetry), Greensboro, NC Brick by Brick uses various styles of poetry to explore the tragic murder of my paternal grandmother and the generational grief left in its wake. "As an ... [Read More]

May Lee-Yang

April 9, 2024

The Happy Life (Short Story Collection), St. Paul, MN The Happy Life is a collection of short stories that center Hmong women protagonists who are outsiders within their own community across the ... [Read More]

Conor Bracken

April 9, 2024

Our Children and the War Grow Big Enough to Learn Each Other's Names (Poetry), Cleveland Heights, OH Our Children and the War Grow Big Enough to Learn Each Other's Names is a collection of poems ... [Read More]

Lisa DeAngelis

April 9, 2024

Granny Panties (Historical Fiction), New Hope, PA Three 70-year-old women save a drowning man and live to regret it. "I hope this historical novel will give voice to an underrepresented ... [Read More]

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