Disclaimer: Bridge Eight published Catherine Gammon’s previous novel China Blue, winner of the Bridge Eight Fiction Prize in 2021. Fiction. 316 pgs. 55 Fathoms. March 2023. 9781942797333. When you read a…
Nonfiction. 288 pgs. Simon & Shuster. January 2023. 9781476764948. “When a sitting U.S. president can defend the virtue of Nazis and Arbeit macht frei becomes a rallying cry in the…
Poetry. 120 pgs. Clash Books. September 2022. 9781955904216. Text-speak closer to truth, sex so sexy it’s sexless, a lexicon collaged from the remnants of y2k paranoia and its subsequent cultural…
Hybrid. 141 pgs. Kerpunkt Press. February 2022. 9781734306545. Jared Joseph’s A Book About Myself Called Hell is a book about Dante’s Inferno, the first cantica of the 14th-century epic poem…
Novel. 363 pgs. Driftwood Press. February 2023. 978-1-949065-18-3. Submit, submit, submit to the cadences, the novel told me, to the neologisms that open up new perspectives on character and action,…
Hybrid. 130 pgs. Sundress Publications. November 2022. 9781951979423. From its gorgeous cover to its final author’s note (fittingly circling back to the epigraph from Zora Neale Hurston, “No hour is…
Flash Fiction. 78 pgs. Rose Metal Press. October 2022. 978-1-941628-27-0. In an author’s note at the end of The Anchored World, Jasmine Sawers explains her love of fairy tales—both Western…
Short Fiction. 116 pgs. Astrophil Press. November 2021. 9780998019963. A text is a text and we’d be best to remember that. Words mean something. They are weapons. It’s our responsibility…
Fiction. 400 pgs. Vintage. May 2022. 9780593315224. What if Albert Camus wrote The Stranger in the mid-2000s but wanted the humming engine of it all to be the absurdity of…
Short Fiction. 222 pgs. McSweeney’s. October 2021. 9781952119293. As international news coverage paints its own picture of Pakistan filled with political unrest, author Farah Ali honors her homeland by stepping…