“The whole process, sitting at your desk, focusing your mind like a laser beam, imagining something out of a blank horizon, creating a story, selecting the right words, one by one, keeping the whole f...

For those who've been sad and tried not to be, seventeen stories about the absurdity of searching for joy in a dying world. A neighborhood of picturesque content-creation houses perched on too-green l...

WWB staff members share their favorite translated books of the year and the titles they're most looking forward to in 2024.

In this newsletter, we ask CBC host John Freeman about his luminous literary journal, which draws a curtain this autumn with a final issue, which is themed Conclusions.

Exciting new releases from independent publishing houses that you should be reading

ISBN: 978-1-7336619-7-3Binding: Trade paperPublication date: September 26, 2023Creative Nonfiction | Alcove Chapbook Outtakes asks the difficult questions but with humor and a deft, lighthearted hand....

Jennifer A Sutherland, author of Bullet Points (River River Books, 2023) Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhere Read: "My Devices, My" at Cagibi and excerpt from Bullet Points at Parhelion R...

Photo by Giulia May on Unsplash Hi friends, UPCOMING WORKSHOPS First a bit of business: I’m soon to announce the upcoming round of workshops. If you’re interested and are not already on my Mailchi...

We recently published Avitus B. Carle's zesty "Salt." Here, we ask her two questions about her story: 1) I love the transmutations of "salt" in this piece -- from "the opposite of sugar" to "real moth...

On Reading Translation, The Difference between Writing Fiction and Criticism, and Who We Need to be Reading Now