Barbara G. Tucker is proof that exquisite storytelling can and does happen far from the massive New York City publishing houses with their army of gatekeepers and yes-men and women whose focus is less on craft and more on fickle trends in the market. Her brilliantly-written novel, Lying In, (Colorful Crow Publishing 2024) explores the […]
Marina Brown
October 13, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Marina Brown is an award-winning author, poet, and journalist. Her debut novel, Land Without Mirrors, in 2013 won a Gold Medal from the Florida Authors and Writers Association. Her second novel, Lisbeth in 2015, also won the Gold Medal from the Florida Writers Association. A volume of poetry, The Leaf Does Not Believe It Will […]
“Otherwise I’m Fine: A Memoir” by Barbara Presnell
October 12, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Otherwise I’m Fine: A Memoir is an elegant and alluring story written by Barbara Presnell and published in 2025 by The University of South Carolina Press. In this 252-page memoir, Presnell seamlessly weaves together events, place-based information, historical details, and personal memories to depict a difficult story of three siblings who at a young age […]
“Naked Thoughts” by Marina Brown
October 12, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Well-named and powerful, Naked Thoughts (Gilberte Publishing, 2025) by multi-award-winning writer Marina Brown contains 58 poems that invite readers into beauty and soul-searching along with her poetic syntax. These poems will haunt you long after the final line as Brown’s artistry conjures images both unforgettable and of the deepest beauty. In what is perhaps her […]
Gary Kerley
October 11, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Gary Lee Kerley, retired after 40 years teaching, lives in Bermuda Run, North Carolina. His poetry, reviews, and articles have appeared in numerous publications, including “The Sewanee Review,” “The Georgia Review,” “The South Carolina Review,” and the “James Dickey Review.”
“The Tears of Things” by Catherine Hamrick
October 9, 2025 by Leave a Comment
The Tears of Things (Madville Publishing 2025) by Catherine Hamrick is an exquisite, sensory-rich and sensitive body of poems that vividly capture with what it means to love, lose, fall, get up, and do it all again. Hamrick’s language is consistently vibrant, and often unique—for example, “slick-tripped” in a poem about winter ice entitled “Fat […]