Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #16
Featuring Steven Mayoff, Jerrod Edson, Cait Gordon, and Melia McClure
Featuring Steven Mayoff, Jerrod Edson, Cait Gordon, and Melia McClure
This is the first anthology of translated multilingual Jewish fiction in 25 years: a collection of 18 splendid stories, each translated into English from a different language.
Fifteen Thousand Pieces explores one man’s journey to accept his true nature and find his place in the world.
At the outbreak of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, Canadian author Marina Sonkina flew to the Ukrainian-Polish border to be one of the first respondents at the border for Ukrainians fleeing the war.
An excerpt of “Survivors of the Hive” a collection of short stories by Jason Heroux.
An excerpt from the new Ian Colford novel, The Confessions of Joseph Blanchard, published by Guernica Editions.
Collaboration is gaining a bigger focus in the writing world. Entrepreneur notes that multi-author books, anthologies, and other collaborative works are becoming hot trends, with more audiences becoming interested in seeing notable names work together on a single project.
An excerpt from All the World’s a Wonder by Melia McClure.
Two poems excerpted from “Rebellion Box” by Hollay Ghadery.
When young Dory Dickson leaves his home to seek work, his father advises him to avoid the border towns, where Patriots meet to plan rebellion.
Hell is due for an inspection by the Big Guy and Satan has to scramble to de-beautify his underworld Capital City of “the Boulevard”.
Appealing to the Good is Us, Chad Norman writes poignantly and lyrically about the human journey, punctuated by border crossings, walls and barb-wire fences, racism, and intolerance based on one’s physical looks, religion, gender, language, and geographic dis/location.