Shann Ray’s debut story collection has already won the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference Bakeless Prize. “The sentences in this book,” writes contest judge Robert Boswell, “have such grace and muscularity that they seem more... Read More

Memories consist of momentary flashes, glimpses of the profound and mundane events that became more than mere moments in time; they defined us. "Merit Badges", an unconventional read by Kevin Fenton, feels like rummaging through... Read More

Melanie Rae Thon, award-winning author and professor at the University of Utah, writes about the desolate, the despairing, and the lost in her new collection, In This Light. Some previously published and others new, these stories are... Read More

Transition into another phase of life is a common theme in fiction that explores the inner motivations of a dissatisfied, sometimes disillusioned protagonist. "Here, Home, Hope" is the story of Kelly Mills Johnson, a thirty-nine-year-old... Read More

A relationship changes over time. There is love, lust, heartbreak, confusion, and much more linked to romance. Ramona Saunders’s poetry collection, "Messages from the Heart", focuses on chronicling the many twists and turns of a... Read More

It is as alien as one might suppose, Life On Mars, and yet there are familiarities—David Bowie, head cocked; Universal Studios, prolific as ever. In her third collection of poetry, Tracy K. Smith, takes us on a cinematic journey to the... Read More

This is lawless country. The terrain of these stories is the West, the prairies and fields of small-town America, where working the gravel pits or freight yards is as high as one can expect to go, and where policing the community is a... Read More

Creating a history and legacy that can be passed on to successive generations is a function of community, and most social groups, including minorities within the larger society, do this openly and freely. The gay community, however,... Read More