A&U Magazine recently reviewed Because I Can See Needing a Knife.  You can read the full review here.

Nancy Chen Long, author of Clouds as Inkblots for the War Prone (2013), has been awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts.  

For a complete listing of award winners, click here.

Margaret Hasse, editor and contributor to A Little Book of Abundance, has an interview featured this weekend on The Writer's Almanac.  You can check it out here:

http://writersalmanac.org/bookshelf/margaret-hasse/

Brian Beatty, author of Coyotes I Couldn't See and Brazil, Indiana (forthcoming from Kelsay Books/Aldrich Press), was recently featured in the Midway Como Monitor. You can read more about Brian, his writing and the two collections here:

http://www.monitorsaintpaul.com/como-writer-jokester-bearder-amazed-at-good-fortune/

The launch party and reading to celebrate the release of Field Trips with Exceptional People by Andrew Bode-Lang will be Wednesday, December 7, 2016.  He will be appearing with Camille-Yvette Welsch, who is launching her new poetry chapbook, FULL, from Dancing Girl Press. 

Webster's Bookstore and Cafe 
133 E. Beaver Avenue
State College, PA 16801

Elinor Cramer's 2015 Red Bird chapbook Mayflower has been nominated for The Central New York Book Awards.  The award will be announced during a ceremony to be held on Thursday December 8, 2016 (6-8pm) at the CNY Philanthropy Center, 431 E. Fayette Street, Syracuse, NY.

Paula Cisewski (Misplaced Sinister, 2015) was interviewed on the Speaking of Marvels website.  You can check it out here.

Ron Arias, author of My Life as a Pencil (2015), was recently interviewed on Houston Public Media.  You can take a listen here.

Join Margaret Hasse for the launch reading and party celebrating her newest collection of poems, Between Us (Nodin Press). This event is co-sponsored by The Loft and Nodin Press. Free and open to the public.

Poet Donna Vorreyer (The Imagined Life of the Pioneer Wife, 2013 and Encantado, 2015) was recently featured on Sundress Academy for the Art's CookBook, a video series from SAFTA.  She and host Darren C. Demaree discuss her award-winning cobbler recipe, her new book Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (Sundress Publications, 2016), her current projects, and the importance of community.  You can check it out here.