39 rejections, one prize, and a new press for poets who start late — plus your next chapter.

"Child of Earth and Starry Heaven" is a Foreword INDIES winner in Grief/Grieving (Adult Nonfiction). L. Annette Binder’s sensitive, grounded, and hopeful memoir "Child of Earth and Starry Heaven" is a...

The hiccup of a baby bounced on a knee. Generations of women sit on white lawn chairs arranged in a gentle crescent.

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Winner of the 2024 Wandering Aengus Book Award in Poetry In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls  vividly chronicles girlhood, womanhood, personhood, humanhood, the passage of time, the...

A fresh stack of book mail has arrived—featuring buzzworthy new releases across literary fiction, thrillers, romance, fantasy, and memoir—discover the titles I can’t wait to dive into and add to your ...

Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley   Laurie D. Graham, Calling It Back to Me, McClelland & Stewart, March 2026, poetry In these searching, spare, and resonant poems, Laurie D. Graham traces the story of...

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A re-issue of Jessica Gigot's acclaimed poetry debut The poems [in Flood Patterns ] are informed by the determined if contested optimism of someone who knows the ground she walks on and its potential....

Join us for a powerhouse reading from Martha Gies' highly acclaimed memoir in essays,  Broken Open , a CLMP featured title, and Steven Harvey's essay collection, The Beloved Republic , winner of the.....

Join us for a powerhouse reading from Martha Gies' highly acclaimed memoir in essays,  Broken Open , a CLMP featured title, and Steven Harvey's essay collection, The Beloved Republic , winner of the.....

A Review of Barret Baumgart's YUCK

The Harmattan Winds / Sylvain TrudelDonald Winkler, translator / Archipelago Books / Softcover $19.00 (172pp) / 978-1-962770-22-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Sylvian Trudel’s nove...

Winner of the Wandering Aengus Book Award in Poetry In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls  vividly chronicles girlhood, womanhood, personhood, humanhood, the passage of time, the indelibility...

Barret Baumgart's YUCK: The Birth & Death of the Weird & Wondrous Joshua Tree, Yucca brevifolia is winner of the Wandering Aengus Book Award in Nonfiction . Are you headed to Joshua Tree this summer?....

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Personal Essay | The Humble Essayist is devoted to the personal essay and the reflective memoir, forms that use the personal to illuminate a larger truth. Our main feature is the “Paragraph of the Wee...