Griffin Poetry Prize recipient and Creative Writing Professor Billy-Ray Belcourt’s THE IDEA OF AN ENTIRE LIFE, a highly anticipated and multilayered poetry collection that combines lyric verse, sonnets, fieldnotes, and fragments to create a poignant examination of twenty-first century anguish, love, queerness, and political possibility…
Read More2023 Bronwen Wallace Award winner, PhD candidate, and U.S. Army veteran Zak Jones’ FANCY GAP, a debut novel set in the eponymous mountain region connecting North Carolina to Virginia, following a troubled family—the less-than-honorably discharged Corporal Dalton Fuquay and his teen brother Messiah, whom Dalton must save from their dangerous grandmother and the self-radicalized, born-again muster of acolytes she commands—being torn apart by mental and physical illness, opioid addiction, and poverty
Read MoreAward-winning playwright and advertising strategist Aurora Stewart de Peña’s JULIUS JULIUS, an eerie, wry, and Lynchian oral biography of the titular advertising agency, offering testimonies that include a young, ambitious maverick tasked with building a campaign for wood, a seasoned copywriter haunted by a boy who went missing during the construction of the agency’s elevator, and a ghost still bitter about her former boss and team, gradually revealing the veneer of creative industries and the crisis of consciousness underneath…
Read MoreAuthor, screenwriter, and musician Rob Benvie's BOOK OF THE FLOCK, a galloping, incendiary tale set in the undeveloped Adirondack Mountains of the early 1950s, following the young Morley sisters as they flee their burning past only to take refuge among a derelict utopian community led by a tempestuous and charismatic leader, exploring the medium of the cult novel and themes of progress and persuasion…
Read MoreGenevieve Scott's THE DAMAGES, set in motion by the disappearance of a student during an ice storm, exploring themes of memory, trauma, friendship, and identity
Read More2021 Writers' Trust of Canada Rising Star Eddy Boudel Tan’s THE TIGER AND THE COSMONAUT, an atmospheric upmarket page-turner about a family processing a mysterious loss from their past, exploring how the insecurities of Asian immigrants are exploited in their isolated town, how the expectations placed on the second generation are chafed against, and how a current of rage simmers beneath the composed veneers of both…
Read MoreBrett Popplewell's OUTSIDER: AN OLD MAN, A MOUNTAIN AND THE SEARCH FOR A HIDDEN PAST…
Read MoreAward-winning and internationally-published author, Laurie Petrou, and award-winning playwright and television writer, Kate Fodor's ("The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel") debut middle grade novel, THE REHEARSAL CLUB, a lighthearted middle-grade mystery inspired by New York City’s historic boarding house for aspiring actresses, as 12-year-old Pal and her newly-formed pack of friends uncover a decades-old mystery that stretches across a dual timeline between present day and the 1950s…
Read MoreAuthor of the collections GREENER PASTURES and THE INCONSOLABLES Michael Wehunt’s THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT, a debut horror novel pitched as SCREAM meets HEREDITARY about a cult film shrouded in urban legend, a fan group’s viral post on the movie that resulted in the gruesome death of a teenager, and a disgraced single mother’s attempts to make amends and rebuild her life a decade later, until a mysterious VHS tape in her mailbox hints at a sequel that threatens everything…
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