The Pursuit of Elena Bradford (Revell, 2025) by Ann H. Gabhart is set in the 1840s, a time when societal expectations often stifled women’s talents and ambitions. But Elena Bradford’s mother has a plan—one that could save their family from financial ruin. After her father’s poor financial decisions left them on the brink of losing […]
BettyJoyce Nash interviews Valerie Nieman, author of the novel, “Upon the Corner of the Moon”
July 13, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Introduction: BettyJoyce Nash interviewed Valerie Nieman, author of Upon the Corner of the Moon. She and Nieman share a background in news reporting at the Greensboro News and Record, and both earned MFAs from Queens University of Charlotte. A prolific novelist, Valerie Nieman’s latest book re-imagines Shakespeare’s Macbeth. She weaves literary legend and history into […]
“Deep Water, Dark Horizons and Other Stories, plus” by Suzanne Hudson
July 2, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Deep Water, Dark Horizons and Other Stories, plus, a sampler of Suzanne Hudson’s literary career, is in honor of her receiving the 2025 Truman Capote Prize. The collection of specially-chosen morsels, published by Joe Taylor (Livingston Press of University of West Alabama) introduced by Sonny Brewer, and dedicated to Joe Formichella, notable pillars of her […]
John Williams
July 2, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Dr. John Williams is currently a mentor in the Reinhardt University MFA Creative Writing program. His novel, End Times (Sartoris Literary Group, 2023) was named a finalist for the 2025 Townsend Prize for Fiction and Williams was the Georgia Author of the Year for First Novel in 2002 for Lake Moon (Mercer UP). He has written and […]
“Museum of the Soon to Depart” Poetry by Andy Young
July 1, 2025 by Leave a Comment
The eighty-eight pages in Museum of the Soon to Depart (Carnegie Mellon University Press 2024) by Andy Young flow with exquisitely phrased words of grief and loss. Yet, no matter how beautifully written, the poems are nonetheless quite somber. The dying and death of the narrator’s mother from brain cancer, coupled with poems about plagues, […]