Writers Studio student Jay Kidd’s All the Beauty explores and illuminates the life of a poet writing in midlife, reflecting on how he has lived and what he has lived through. His poems portray the emotional impact of an unsettled childhood, a young adulthood overtaken by an epidemic and the impact of having survived it, the satisfaction…
“I had never taken a fiction writing class before. For one of our first class assignments, I wrote a short piece about an older Indian man, recently divorced, who was experimenting with Internet dating, and navigating a complicated relationship with his adult daughter and ex-wife. I have returned many times to that fictional character and his family. In fact, I wrote a…
“The Northway,” a full length collection of poetry and prose poems by Lisa Bellamy, is now available from Terrapin Books. Four poems from this collection have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Read a review in Compulsive Reader here. Purchase the book here. Lisa teaches NYC Level 2. Details here. Read more Writers Studio success stories…
Congratulations, Christopher Shade “The Good Mother of Marseille,” the debut novel by Christopher X. Shade, will be published by Paloma Press in early 2019. In the book, it is Marseille’s summer of 2013, and an ensemble of Americans wander and sightsee this dangerous, impoverished yet seductive city in the year of its designation as the…
