Article Archive: News and Trends

The author of The House on Mango Street on the origins and impact of the Macondo Writers Workshop, which has brought together writers who are activists for twenty-five years. 

A round-up of three new anthologies, including River Teeth: Twenty Years of Creative Nonfiction and Poems From the Edge of Extinction: An Anthology of Poetry in Endangered Languages. 

A look inside three new anthologies, including A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home edited by Nicole Chung and Mensah Demary.

An author tells a fantastical story by writing it a word at a time in the snow.

The fiction writer on the twentieth anniversary of Small Beer Press and the opening of Book Moon, a bookstore in Massachusetts that she co-owns with her husband, Gavin J. Grant.

An author recommends five journals that published essays from her debut collection, Dispatches From the End of Ice.

A round-up of four new anthologies, including Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger edited by Lilly Dancyger.

Carl Phillips, the longtime judge of the Yale Younger Poets prize and the editor of the anthology Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets, on how the prize has evolved during the past century.

Unnamed Press, an L.A.–based press, aims to publish story-driven books by underrepresented or marginalized voices.