December 2022
Andrea Caswell’s essay, “Sailor Wife,” appeared in The Coachella Review and “The Perfect Age” appeared in Hags on Fire.
Gail Hosking’s poems “The Art of a Would-Be-Anniversary: When Glue Won’t Stick” and “Wife Writes Husband a Final Letter” appeared in The 2River Review.
Margaret Luongo’s essay, “Communing with My Mother at Home Alone” is MicroLit Almanac’s Best American Essays nomination.
Erika Nichols-Frazer’s book, Feed Me, launched in December.
Cheryl Pappas received a MacDowell residency. In addition, she was featured on the Short Story Toda podcast!
Jane Cynewski Elkin’s essay appears in the Snatches of an Aria anthology.
Kelly Watt’s poem “I Am Sun in Taurus” appears in Last Stanza Poetry Journal.
Gail Hosking’s essay “I Follow Her Between War and Not War” appears in Collateral.
M.C. Armstrong’s novel American Delphi was featured in Monkeybicycle’s If My Book.
Tom Keating’s updated story "Vietnam Memorial, Past and Present" was published in a Hometown Weekly.
Miriam Camitta’s essay “Necessary for Life” was published in the Fall issue of Fourth Genre.
Leigh Rastivo’s review of Ann Bookman’s Blood Lines appeared in The Arts Fuse.
November 2022
M.C. Armstrong’s novel American Delphi from Family of Light Books published October 1st.
Erica Plouffe Lazure’s collection of short stories, Proof of Me, received a shoutout in the Washington Post.
Anatoly Molotkov received the Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award ($250) for his poem “The Melting Star” published in Prairie Schooner Fall 2020.
Elizabeth Reed’s nonfiction essay, “A Map of Marriage on Monhegan Island,” appeared in Persimmon Tree.
Rina Terry is off to the Hawthornden Literary Retreat this month!
Several Birch Bark friends have essays in Beyond Their Limits of Longing published October 18th from MilSpeak Books: Donald Anderson, M.C. Armstrong, Ruth Edgett, Teresa Fazio, Brian Turner, and Andria Williams.
October 2022
Linda Dittmar’s memoir Tracing Homelands has been accepted for publication by Interlink and will hit the stands in June/July of 2023.
Black Lawrence Press awarded The Hudson Prize to Highwire Act & Other Tales of Survival by JoeAnn Hart. Look for it in 2023!
Gail Hosking read her essay “OneSmall Step” (West Trade Review). Other work by Gail that’s been recently published includes "Kibbutz Machanaim, 1972" ( Main Street Rag) and "The Zen of My Refrigerator" (Healing Muse).
Erika Nichols-Frazer’s essay “Trying to Save the Honeybees” appeared in Gone Lawn.
September 2022
Kudos to Leigh Rastivo Nolan on her acceptance at Under the Volcano, a residency program for writers.
August 2022
Congratulations to JoeAnn Hart, a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press Hudson Prize for Highwire Act & Other Tales of Survival.
Kelly Watt signed with agent Olga Filina at Five Otter Literary. Great news, Kelly!
Cheryl Pappas signed with Alicia Brooks of Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency. Huzzah, Cheryl!
InConversation poet Joy Ladin received an MCC $5000 grant. Divine news, Joy!
Amy Butcher’s Mothertrucker: Finding Joy on the Loneliest Road in America is a 7th annual Readers' Choice Book Award favorite. A hard yes, Amy!
And, one of our InConversation poets, April Tierney, participated in a reading to raise money for the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony's efforts to bring young tribal members to the site of a controversial proposed open pit lithium mine at Peehee mu'huh (Thacker Pass, NV). You can watch the reading on YouTube. Thank you, April!
July 2022
Linda Dittmar received a $5,000 fellowship award from the Mass Cultural Council as a finalist in nonfiction.
Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair by June Gervais is out in the world! Way to go, June!
Congratulations to Cheryl Pappas whose flash fiction “Spent” made the Wigleaf Top 50 for 2022.
This month’s in conversation guest, David Orr, has a solo exhibit, Radiance + Reflection: Mandalas and Moon, at Tibet House US in New York city.
A huge hurrah to Ray Nayler, in conversation with us in October, for his novel The Mountain in the Sea, which made the Publisher’s Weekly Top Ten upcoming novels list.
And a milestone in literary magazine history has been reached as AGNI celebrates 50 years of publishing.
June 2022
Congratulations Shawna Kay Rodenberg for her Saroyan Prize Shortlist honor!
A magical high-five to Erica Plouffe Lazure on the review of her book in the New York Times.
And the greenest honor goes to Cheryl Pappas who received a $5,000 fellowship award from the Mass Cultural Council as a finalist in fiction.