 Thank you to visual artist AVA ROCKAFIELD for the delightful cover to WAKE IN THE NIGHT! This 6-story collection is expected to be available October 15.
Six stories span a century of rural American women. Marriages occur in the 1930s for lack of other opportunities; a young girl dances to Thriller for her friend’s older brother; a pastor remembers her childhood spent fantasizing that she is the prophet John the Baptist. In the small towns of the Midwest, girls and women dream of finding voice and forcing the world to listen. Laura Krughoff’s debut novel, My Brother’s Name, was a finalist for a 2014 Lambda Literary Foundation Award. Her current novel project, based on her Pushcart Prize winning short story, “Halley’s Comet,” follows the personal and political lives of two women as they navigate the decade between Massachusetts legalizing same-sex marriage and the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the Defense of Marriage Act. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in publications ranging from literary journals such as The Threepenny Review to the Gay Voices section of The Huffington Post to the podcast of the Chicago-based story-telling performance collective Second Story. She teaches in the English Department and in the Gender and Queer Studies Program at the University of Puget Sound. Copies ship September 17. You can now pre-order your copy of MOUTH TRAP here.
“I don’t know what to call these, and neither will you—protest poems or tiny prose laments? But as a speaker in one of them says, it’s not actions that are taboo, but the breaking of silences that surround them. And so, poet Rebbecca Brown sets out to smash them to pieces, all the dark unsaids rising up from soil and field, root and vine, barn and cell, blood and booze and loveless boys and girls to haunt our reading and contaminate our dreams. In equal measure, anguish and outrage, unsilenced, refuse to be anything but mouthy and here now in this strange and all-too familiar world where women give birth to bees, earth swells, and heat is heat. Downhome Americana has never sounded off as lyrical—or as brutal or tormented—as in the countless beating wings and throats of Brown’s ecstatic testaments to our sad humanity.” -- Katharine Haake, author of Assumptions We Might Make About the Postworld and The Time of Quarantine “With its rich, evocative music, this book presents us with a decidedly democratic buffet completely devoid of snobbery, where no tasty word is too far off on the amuse-bouche spectrum to be excluded. To read this book is to feast!” -- Shane Book, author of Congotronic and Ceiling of Sticks. “Mouth Trap drops the reader into a world that is at once elemental and evocative. Steinbeck would feel right at home in these gorgeously dust-filled landscapes, replete with chicken claws and cabbages, at least until the center falls away and we meet ‘a lady who aged into a tumbleweed’ or a character who offers ‘fleeting moments and a sack of teeth.’ In this artful blend of the sensuous and surreal, Rebbecca Brown delights us with her word play before she duct tapes us back to the reality that ‘This is not a tome to grow old in.’ Perhaps not, but Mouth Trap is a collection to savor for a good, long while.” --Melody Mansfield, author of The Life Stone of Singing Bird and A Bug Collection.  First of all, thank you to Christine Mugnolo for the beautiful cover art and design! We can't wait to see it in print.
Rebbecca Brown's prose poetry collection renders birds, beasts, and surroundings from the lens of an artist who structures form with feeling. Acute observations are captured with music and tangled in emotion. Through the creation of portraits and landscapes, Brown fashions an exhibit of dynamic lyricism and word play. Speakers experience the biological as ephemeral, all the while bewildered by the promise of transformation. MOUTH TRAP will be available on September 17. BLURBS: “I don’t know what to call these, and neither will you—protest poems or tiny prose laments? But as a speaker in one of them says, it’s not actions that are taboo, but the breaking of silences that surround them. And so, poet Rebbecca Brown sets out to smash them to pieces, all the dark unsaids rising up from soil and field, root and vine, barn and cell, blood and booze and loveless boys and girls to haunt our reading and contaminate our dreams. In equal measure, anguish and outrage, unsilenced, refuse to be anything but mouthy and here now in this strange and all-too familiar world where women give birth to bees, earth swells, and heat is heat. Downhome Americana has never sounded off as lyrical—or as brutal or tormented—as in the countless beating wings and throats of Brown’s ecstatic testaments to our sad humanity.” -- Katharine Haake, author of Assumptions We Might Make About the Postworld and The Time of Quarantine “With its rich, evocative music, this book presents us with a decidedly democratic buffet completely devoid of snobbery, where no tasty word is too far off on the amuse-bouche spectrum to be excluded. To read this book is to feast!” -- Shane Book, author of Congotronic and Ceiling of Sticks. “Mouth Trap drops the reader into a world that is at once elemental and evocative. Steinbeck would feel right at home in these gorgeously dust-filled landscapes, replete with chicken claws and cabbages, at least until the center falls away and we meet ‘a lady who aged into a tumbleweed’ or a character who offers ‘fleeting moments and a sack of teeth.’ In this artful blend of the sensuous and surreal, Rebbecca Brown delights us with her word play before she duct tapes us back to the reality that ‘This is not a tome to grow old in.’ Perhaps not, but Mouth Trap is a collection to savor for a good, long while.” --Melody Mansfield, author of The Life Stone of Singing Bird and A Bug Collection. 2019 Story Collection We are so happy J. David Stevens sent his manuscript to us. I and You is a beautiful collection of stories about first- and second-generation immigrant experiences and the difficulties of understanding and knowing those with whom we are most intimate and close.
David's Mexico is Missing won the Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction in 2006. His work has appeared in a variety of national magazines, including Harper's, The Paris Review, Tin House, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, River Styx, and Mid-American Review. In addition, several stories have been anthologized in collections from W.W. Norton and Longman, as well as in The Best American Nonrequired Reading series. He lives in central Virginia with his wife and two children, where he teaches English and creative writing at the University of Richmond. I and You will be available in the early months of 2019. PLEASING TREE by Brooke Larson Our first essay collection, PLEASING TREE by Brooke Larson, will be available in the early months of 2019. It's about Mormons hiking in the desert and the human relationship with the wilderness. It's really good.
Brooke Larson is a writer, collagist, and fungi enthusiast. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, and is currently a PhD student in English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her poems, essays, and art have recently appeared in Foothill Journal, Split Rock Review, Gravel, The Swamp, Timber, Split Lip Magazine, and The Journal of Creative Geography. She calls home Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, where she is a sometimes wilderness guide.  Announcing our final 2018 author:
Laura Krughoff. Laura's six-story collection WAKE IN THE NIGHT will be available this fall through our website. Laura Krughoff’s debut novel, My Brother’s Name, was a finalist for a 2014 Lambda Literary Foundation Award. Her current novel project, based on her Pushcart Prize winning short story, “Halley’s Comet,” follows the personal and political lives of two women as they navigate the decade between Massachusetts legalizing same-sex marriage and the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the Defense of Marriage Act. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in publications ranging from literary journals such as The Threepenny Review to the Gay Voices section of The Huffington Post to the podcast of the Chicago-based story-telling performance collective Second Story. She teaches in the English Department and in the Gender and Queer Studies Program at the University of Puget Sound. Mouth Trap We couldn't be more thrilled to announce our second writer for 2018, Rebbecca Brown. Rebbecca Brown's debut novel They Become Her received an Honorable Mention in the 2009-2010 Starcherone Innovative Fiction Contest and was published in 2014 by What Books Press. In the past, she received an Honorable Mention from the Academy of American Poets, the Timothy Adams award for creative writing, the Rachel Sherwood Prize for Poetry and First Place in the LACC Writing Contest for Creative Nonfiction. Her work has appeared in print and online journals such as American Literary Review, Confrontation, Requited, Masque & Spectacle, Eclipse, Miracle Monocle, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry and Ekleksographia (among others.) Arc Pair Press will be publishing MOUTH TRAP, Rebbecca's collection of experimental prose poems, in fall 2018.
Last week, Patrick Crerand and Heather Momyer had the opportunity to talk with James Scott about The Paper Life They Lead: Stories. Thanks to James and Ryan, the producer, for talking with us and making it happen! Listen to the conversation here.
 Writer's Bone lists THE PAPER LIFE THEY LEAD by Patrick Crerand with 16 other books that you should probably read. See their reviews here.
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