May/June 2022

When the pandemic affected booksellers’ job security, several bookstores transitioned to employee-ownership models to create more equitable workplace environments.

The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books including The Candy House by Jennifer Egan and Ante body by Marwa Helal.

Established in 2018, the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize awards an African writer an advance and publication by Graywolf. The prize aims to offer African writers a platform without them having to leave the continent.

The Matwaala collective was launched in 2015 to create visibility for South Asian poets. Today, Matwaala programs such as the Poets of Color festival foster solidarity between different identity groups through literature. 

Two University of Baltimore MFA students founded the small press that publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid work, and as well as a podcast and literary magazine.

The author spotlights five journals that published lyric and narrative poems from her debut poetry collection, The Body Family.

Writer and visual artist Ben Shattuck turned his journals from walks through New England’s wild spaces into a book of drawings and text titled Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau. 

The new editor in chief of the Rumpus, Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn, discusses what sets the magazine apart and what she looks forward to in her new role.

Write a poem in which each sentence opens with an imperative, a fiction piece about a protagonist who finds a new direction for living, or an essay that uses a metaphor to evoke the process of learning a skill or language. 

For two weeks in June, more than 15,000 writers from around the world commit to writing a thousand words a day as part of the annual 1000 Words of Summer project.

The author and bookseller explores the changes in her relationship to writing and publication, and the expectations she puts on herself to produce more.

The author returns to the Anderson Center at Tower View in Minnesota and reflects on his past two residencies, what has changed, and the fellow artists he’s lost since his first time there in 2006.