“Part craft book, part memoir,” Eli Cranor’s new book “Where I’m Writing From” is a collection of columns he wrote for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette over the last four years.

Jared Lemus, an alum of both Parkview High School and UALR and the winner of the 2026 PEN/Bingham Prize, has unveiled the forthcoming publication of “Magic in the Land of Eternal Spring,” his debut no...

The 2026 Booker Worthen Literary Prize, presented annually in honor of the best book of fiction or nonfiction by an author living in Arkansas over a three-year eligibility period, has been awarded to ...

Child psychiatrist, award-winning author, and academic. Born on Oct 12, 1928 in Boston, MA, USA, he died on June 4, 2026 in Lincoln, MA, aged 97 years.

Bibliophile bonanza, baby! Go check out Sammy's Bookshelf, Books By the Pound and Pocket Dimension Books.

In the world of theater, with all of its singing and dancing and outsize emotions, telling a true story, especially a quiet one, can be a bit of a gamble. The Rep pulls it off with "The Remarkable Res...

A new double issue of the Oxford American, the acclaimed quarterly literary magazine of the South based in Conway, is here.

Little Rock fiction writer Jeffrey Condran has been named the 2026 recipient of the Porter Fund Literary Prize, a $5,000 honor bestowed annually upon an “Arkansas writer with a substantial and impress...

Carolyn Guinzio, who lives just outside Fayetteville, is the author of eight poetry collections. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry and The Nation. Last year, she received the Porter Fund...

As a trailer park guy who never knew his biological father and was desperate for a decent male role model, in Skip I saw a rough-hewn blue-collar man’s man who was well-read without being precious, op...

“I was absolutely thrilled to learn that I am this year's Porter Prize recipient,” said Guinzio. “To be welcomed into the literary community in this way is truly an honor, particularly considering how...