Page Getz: A Town with Half the Lights On
A Town with Half the Lights On is a tender testament to the notions that home isn’t just the place you live, family isn’t just your relatives, and it’s almost never easy to find the courage to do what’s right.
Logan Garner: The Sin of Feeding Wild Birds
The Sin of Feeding Wild Birds is filled with huckleberries, bats, barn swallows, flowers, fish, frogs. The “I” of the poem speaker finds itself through observation of what is all around: the living and the dying, and the things that live through soil.
Scotty Olsen: My Grandmother, My Kookum
Scotty Olsen’s essay My Grandmother, My Kookum was published in the International Human Rights Art Movement Literary Magazine Fourth Quarterly Edition 2024.
Meredith Hambrock: She’s a Lamb!
She’s a Lamb! is an edgy and incisive novel that marches toward showtime with a growing unease about the dangers of magical thinking and the depths of delusion.
Shane Goth: Hannah and the Wrong Note
A young pianist realizes that mistakes can sometimes lead to joyful discoveries in this melodic picture book.
Lauren Grant: Body Rubble
Lauren Grant’s essay “Body Rubble” was recently published in GRIFFEL’s March 2025 issue.
Kate Black: Big Mall
A phenomenology of the mall: If the mall makes us feel bad, why do we keep going back? In a world poisoned by capitalism, is shopping what makes life worth living?
Suzanne Kamata: River of Dolls and Other Stories
These stories, many of which riff on traditional Japanese folk tales and lore, explore the lives of individuals caught between desire and duty, as well as the conflicting expectations of different cultures.
Léa Taranto: A Drop in the Ocean
An engaging YA novel about a girl in treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder that combats the dehumanizing stigma around mental illness.
Thommy Hutson: Never Sleep Again The Elm Street Legacy
Including rare and never-before-seen material, this extensively researched, comprehensive look back is the definitive account of the film that began what many have called the best, most frightening, and imaginative horror franchise in motion picture history.