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Review by Emily Webber If you’ve ever worked an office job or wondered how people endure toiling away in a cubicle farm, you’ll tear through Wendy J. Fox’s linked story collection, What If We Were Somewhere Else. Each story…
Review by Mindy Kronenberg Poets are often drawn to the fragile expanses of a landscape—internal or external—and Kelly R. Samuels’ poems seek to capture the ephemeral beauty of existence and place that is in peril as we go about…
Review by Lara Lillibridge At age thirty-five, Cassandra Lane found herself pregnant after a lifetime of saying she never wanted children. She wrote, “my pregnancy boomeranged me back to my family and our past,” (25) and reawakened a need…
Review by Carla Panciera If you’ve ever compared your family to the perfect families captured in Facebook posts and felt, despite your awareness of social media’s tricks, that everyone else has their you-know-what together, then the families in Michelle…
Review by Lisa C. Taylor This new resource book on the novella form opens with examples of familiar novellas like Ethan Frome and The House on Mango Street. Divided into sections that will be helpful for any fiction writer,…
Review by Lisa C. Taylor Night Collage is both a love story and a slow dance, opening with the foreboding, In Flew Chaos, a poem that juxtaposes wind that “rearranged the strand” with a knock on the door in…
Review by Emily Webber When I was a kid, I loved when we drove somewhere at night so that I could look at other people’s houses, lights glowing in the night, and wonder what was going on inside. Something…
Review by Sherre Vernon Jen Karetnick is a widely published, award-winning poet, essayist, and journalist. She earned her MFA in poetry from University of California, Irvine, and an MFA in fiction from University of Miami. She is a co-founder/co-editor…
Best Microfiction 2021 edited by Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, guest edited by Amber Sparks A Micro Review by Celia Jeffries Don’t judge a book by its size. This anthology, in keeping with its content, is the size of a…
Review by Sara Epstein Karren LaLonde Alenier, author of How We Hold On, has written seven previous collections of poetry, including The Anima of Paul Bowles, chosen by the Grolier Bookstore of Boston, MA as a 2016 staff pick.…