Idaho Falls (novel) Camarillo, CA IDAHO FALLS – A novel based on the life of Wilson Rawls, author of Where the Red Fern Grows A man with a secret desire to become an author reveals his dream to ... [Read More]
Jason Gordon
Death Metal Yoga (poetry) Catonsville, MD The poems in the collection, Death Metal Yoga, explore an anxious mind as it tries to manage the domestic responsibilities of marriage and parenting during ... [Read More]
Helene Epstein
Catch Me When I Stumble (Narrative Non-fiction) Brooklyn, NY Catch Me When I Stumble (narrative nonfiction) is a 15-year-long medical thriller filled with tales of hope and despair, of love and ... [Read More]
Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz
Something Like Happiness (novel) Las Cruces, NM Something Like Happiness is a novel dealing with how a young woman navigates and survives in a girl's reform school. It touches on forced ... [Read More]
Genevieve Gorback
Kindergarten Court (children’s book) Orinda, CA A humorous picture book that introduces the American judicial system and the concept of bias in a developmentally appropriate way. Genevieve ... [Read More]
Emily Hockaday
Naming the Ghost (poetry) Glendale, NY A woman has recently become a mother and lost her father, and a ghost has begun haunting this new family. These poems chart a course toward healing in the face ... [Read More]
Ella Baron
Interface (novel) London, UK My debut graphic novel, Interface, will be published by Virago. Drawn from the topical themes that I've pitched over years working as a political cartoonist, it's a ... [Read More]
Branden Boyer-White
(memoir) Los Angeles, CA Mine is an as-yet-untitled memoir using themes from the Tarot as a framework to explore the mystery of my father—both in how he was obscured by his addiction during life, ... [Read More]
April Lim
Joss Paper (poetry) Stillwater, OK JOSS PAPER is a poetry collection that revolves around diaspora and my process in reclaiming the fallen cultural pieces of my family's history as survivors of the ... [Read More]
Andrée Lockwood
The Calcoon Emerald (historical novel) NY, NY Set in New York City at the dawn of the Gilded Age, THE CALCOON EMERALD follows the inhabitants of three immigrant households whose lives are ... [Read More]
Rodney Gomez
Disarticulated Map (essays & poetry) McAllen, TX Disarticulated Map is a poetry collection that draws on La Matanza, the widespread murder of Mexicans and Mexican Americans during the early ... [Read More]
Masha Shukovich
The Taste of Names (novel) Salt Lake City, UT THE TASTE OF NAMES blends together magical realism, historical fiction, myth, folktale, family saga, and magical recipes (that double as incantations) to ... [Read More]
Linda Musita
Immaculate Pandemic (novella) Nairobi, Kenya In light of the recent overturning of Roe v Wade we (including artists and writers) need to do all we can to create global awareness on women's ... [Read More]
Kate Tillery-Danzer
Tilli Thompson and the Case of the Bog Bones (mid-grade novel) Superior, CO Eleven-year-old Tilli Thompson dreams of joining the International Nature Detectives Association and working as a ... [Read More]
J.R. Patterson
Truth: A Novel Manitoba, Canada What connects the Battle of the Boyne, the French sculptor Gardet, the buffalo hunt, a pot of sour milk, and the Great Chicago Fire? Part storytelling, part travel ... [Read More]
John McLaughlin
Sancocho Surprise (bilingual children’s book series) Seattle, WA A series of bilingual children’s books which reimagine classic European folk tales in fresh contemporary contexts in Latin America, ... [Read More]
Joanne Szilagyi
The Guest People (novel) Oxford, UK The Guest People is a multi-generational immigrant novel about the Chinese community in Jamaica. The story is a fictionalized account of the life of Leslie Kong, ... [Read More]
Janine Kovac
Proposition (novel) Oakland, CA PROPOSITION: A Novel follows the sex-trafficking epidemic in Oakland, California from the dual perspective of survivors striving to create a better world for ... [Read More]
Christian Elder
#NWORD (stage play) Toluca Lake, CA #NWORD is a two act stage play about relationships under the spectre of racism. It begins when a video of an eight-year-old white girl calling an eight-year-old ... [Read More]
Zahir Janmohamed
The Permitted Hours (memoir) Portland, ME The Permitted Hours is a memoir by an Indian American Muslim journalist about witnessing one of the most violent episodes in Indian history, the 2002 ... [Read More]
Monique Hayes
Sally Forth (historical novel) Fort Washington, MD Sally Forth, a historical fiction novel, follows two enslaved brothers who choose two very different paths to earn their freedom during the ... [Read More]
Michaeljulius Y. Idani
Buxton (novel) Atlanta, GA Buxton chronicles the stories of residents within a fully-integrated coal-mining town founded amidst the rise of segregation and racist violence, fighting both their own ... [Read More]
Leah Whitcomb
Mississippi Girls (memoir) Port Charlotte, FL Mississippi Girls is a coming-of-age memoir that explores race, gender, and religion in the Bible Belt. The book aims to break down purity culture as ... [Read More]
Joy Lanzendorfer
The Bath School Disaster (novel) Petaluma, CA In 1927, Andrew Kehoe blew up the only school in Bath, Michigan, killing 45 people. It remains the biggest school bombing in US history. This novel is a ... [Read More]