Girls! Girls! Girls! (Creative Nonfiction), West Haven, CT In Girls! Girls! Girls!, a recent college graduate struggles to make it as an artist while working as a stripper in 1990s New York and ... [Read More]

The Missing (Novel), Newark, NJ Situated in Newark, NJ, The Missing follows a young, Black woman who is trying to escape the world of forced prostitution and make a better life for herself and ... [Read More]

membery (Poetry), Minneapolis, MN In membery, Rajpal uses the tool of memory to write about Historic India’s Partition woven with the experience of Sikhs in America in the post-9/11 era. "I ... [Read More]

The Seven Daughters of Dupree (Historical Fiction), Jacksonville, FL The Seven Daughters of Dupree is a historical fiction novel about the secrets kept between mothers and daughters over the ... [Read More]

The Shapeshifters (Fiction), Chicago, IL The Shapeshifters is a novel about railways and billionaires and transgender people and love and ghosts and the Midwest United States. "I want people ... [Read More]

You Must Take Part in Revolution (Graphic Novel), Co-author: Badiucao, Berlin, GERMANY You Must Take Part in Revolution, by Melissa Chan and Badiucao, is a speculative fiction set in a ... [Read More]

Wear a Clean Second Face (Poetry), New Haven, CT Wear a Clean Second Face is a project focused on the paradoxes of American football: owners, profit, and spectacle; brutality, cognition, & ... [Read More]

Men in Love: Stories (Short Fiction), Cornelius, NC Men in Love: Stories is linked by the theme of “men in love.” And not only romantic love between a man and woman, but also a man's love for his ... [Read More]

Jericho (Historical Fiction), Brooklyn, NY In Jericho, During the dawn of African independence, Franklin Williams, a great champion of the race, will also participate in one of its greatest ... [Read More]

Blood Music (Poetry), Queens, NY Blood Music braids together pregnancy and childbirth, a father’s diagnosis and death from ALS, and a loved one’s addiction crisis. "I aim to reach readers ... [Read More]

Syrup (Poetry), Marietta, GA Syrup explores the myriad ways in which Black women have embraced radical self-definition in the face of the flatness of stereotype and dehumanizing ... [Read More]

Failing to Thrive: A Story about Race and Gender Bias in Medicine (Nonfiction Memoir), New York, NY As a mother of a medically-fragile child, Chiu’s Failing to Thrive: A Story about Race and ... [Read More]

Escapes (Fiction), Athens, GA Escapes follows four female characters on the brink of enormous life change as symptoms of climate change begin to manifest in their own town. “My hope is ... [Read More]

Wise Fool (Memoir/Creative Nonfiction), Hoboken, NJ Wise Fool is a coming of age memoir set in the 1980s-2000s amid family dysfunctions, literary jealousy, and dirty politics -- and finding ... [Read More]

In the Boundary Waters (Novel), Minneapolis, MN One night in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Wilderness, drunken locals threaten a family of campers in an incident that reveals the fault lines ... [Read More]

My Plural Is People (Young Adult Novel), PA In My Plural is People, teenagers Zach and Khady, best friends since pre-school, embark on an impulsive winter-break quest to learn the truth about ... [Read More]

Intercalifornias: A Memoir of an Asian American Farming Family and the Land (Nonfiction Memoir), San Mateo, CA Intercalifornias: A Memoir of an Asian American Farming Family and the Land explores ... [Read More]

No One is Home (Essays), Sumy, UKRAINE No One is Home is about loss of home and looking for a new one, memory as a mental disorder, identity in the ancestral, cosmic, and physical aspects. “I ... [Read More]

Yield to No Country (Poetry), Lockhart, TX Yield to No Country is a collection of poems that chronicles the intersecting histories of increased militarization on the U.S/Mexico border alongside ... [Read More]