Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—publishing reports, literary dispatches, academic announcements, and more—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today’s stories.
The first-ever Ogwehoweh Storytelling Festival, a two-day festival dedicated to Haudenosaunee storytelling, begins tomorrow. Hosted in the Six Nations of the Grand River, Canada, the festival offers a unique opportunity for the Haudenosaunee community, which includes the Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, Mohawk, and Tuscarora Nations, to share writing and publishing expertise. (CBC)
Multiverse, a new book series at Milkweed Editions, will center neurodivergent voices and writers that explore “different ways of languaging.” Edited by Chris Martin, the series will launch with The Kissing of Kissing, the debut collection of non-speaking autistic poet Hannah Emerson. (Publishers Weekly)
The next poet laureate of Alabama will be Ashley M. Jones, whose latest collection, Reparations Now!, is due out next month. She is the first Black poet and the youngest writer to earn the distinction. “I’m so excited to spend the next four years helping to make Alabama poets and poetry radiate here at home and beyond,” said Jones. (AL.com)
“I start with something monstrously long, and over many years the work gets shorter, tighter, more stripped down.” Joshua Henkin recalls drafting three thousand pages for his latest novel, Morningside Heights. (Rumpus)
Oprah Winfrey has selected Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s first novel, The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois, as the next read for Oprah’s Book Club. “I was enraptured by the story of this modern Black family,” said Winfrey. (Oprah Daily)
“I think the majority of writers write about childhood and we are all obsessed about childhood because we are all in a kind of exile of childhood.” Leïla Slimani discusses channeling the memories and curiosity of her child self in order to write her latest book, In the Country of Others. (Cut)
The Los Angeles Times spotlights thirty notable books forthcoming this fall, including new novels from Jonathan Franzen, Sally Rooney, and Miriam Toews.
Entertainment Weekly explores the locations across Ireland that make up the Sally “Rooneyverse” on the page and the screen.
