When I first began reading Happy Happy (Livingston Press 2026), I wondered why my friend Corey Mesler didn’t write this book as a memoir, instead of a novel. He explains why it would have been more difficult to write the painful aspects of his struggles as memoir, but his fiction version is so powerful, so […]
AWARD-WINNING NOVEL BOY WITH WINGS BY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING TALLAHASSEE-BASED AUTHOR MARK MUSTIAN EARNS MULTIPLE LITERARY HONORS
October 4, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Tallahassee-based and international bestselling author Mark Mustian is earning widespread recognition for his latest novel, Boy With Wings, published by Köehler Books. Since its release, the book has received numerous prestigious awards and honors, establishing it as one of the most celebrated independent novels of the year. Leading the list of accolades, Boy With Wings […]
“When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women” by Ellen Morris Prewitt
September 22, 2026 by Leave a Comment
One of the aspects I love most about Southern literature is its deep sense of place. This novel is no different. New Orleans was a perfectly chosen setting for this genre-bending tale. Like the city itself, with its legends, ghosts, history, and beliefs, When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women by Ellen Morris Prewitt draws on elements of […]
Jennifer Horne
September 20, 2026 by Leave a Comment
A former Poet Laureate of Alabama (2017-2021), Jennifer Horne is also the author of three collections of poems, Bottle Tree, Little Wanderer, and Borrowed Light, In addition to poetry, she is the author a collection of short stories, Tell the World You’re a Wildflower and a biography of the writer Sara Mayfield, Odyssey of a Wandering Mind: The Strange […]
“How My Father Became a Boat” by John Miller
September 20, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Jennifer Horne Grief can take myriad forms after the loss of a beloved parent: memorials, rituals, foodways, domestic shrines, or just silence. Poets tend to grieve in writing. The collection in How My Father Became a Boat (Fernwood Press 2025), was assembled over many years (some of the poems have original journal publication […]
Dawn Major interviews Nancy J. Allen, author of “A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes and Other Stories”
September 20, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Award-winning author, Nancy J. Allen’s A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes is a collection of twelve stories that explores those pivotal moments in time where everything shifts. Across the collection, her characters’ decisions—sometimes impulsive, sometimes seemingly inconsequential—cause a butterfly effect that alters the trajectory of their lives. Set in the Southwest, Allen’s honors the enduring […]