“The Telling Room is a nonprofit writing center in Portland, Maine, dedicated to the idea that children and young adults are natural storytellers.” Focusing on writers ages 6 to 18, The Telling Room offers programs at their downtown writing center, engaging local writers, artists, teachers, and community groups in afterschool workshops, writing assistance, fieldtrips, the “Super Famous Writers Series,” and publishing.
Their works serves reluctant writers as well as established writers, children and adults, and a diverse community which includes a growing population of immigrants and refugees. The Telling Room offers internships in multimedia, publications, events, communications, and teaching, and is currently looking to fill a full-time, paid position for Executive Director (review of applications begins August 2017).
In her feature article for the 
Goldenberg Prize for Fiction
Odd Bloom Seen from Space by Timothy Daniel Welch will be published in April 2017. Winner of the 2016 University of Iowa Press’s Iowa Poetry Prize, Odd Bloom Seen from Space, according to the publisher, “looks at the self amid the ashes of fleeting exultation and uncertainty.” The poems in this debut collection offer wisdom and surprising humor, making for a collection that is “gorgeous, original, and baffling.”
Bauhan Publishing LLC hosts the 
Each year, the Cleveland State University Press holds the Open Book Poetry Competition, the Essay Collection Competition, and the First Book Poetry Competition (all three open until March 31, 2017). The three 2016 winners are set to be published at the beginning of April 2017.
In mid-April, Gallic Books will be publishing Hell’s Gate by Laurent Gaudé. Gaudé’s The Scortas’ Sun is the winner of the Prix Gouncourt, the French literary award given to an author of the best imaginative work of prose each year. Hell’s Gate is a thrilling story following a father as he chases redemption for his murdered son. It explores “the effects of bereavement and grief on a family, and the relationship between the living and dead.”
Dear America,
The winner of the 2016 Orison Poetry Prize, Ghost Child of the Atalanta Bloom by Rebecca Aronson, will be published next month on April 4, 2017. Hadara Bar-Nadav, who selected the winner, calls the collection, “[e]xplosive, turbulent, haunting magnetic,” saying that “[m]ortality and death undergrid Aronson’s fantastical visions, where a child becomes a seagull, a woman turns tarantula, and a house threatens to fill with blood.”
Parlor Press’s annual 
Begun in 1989, 
This month’s featured collaboration from 
Each June, Rescue Press accepts submissions for the Black Box Poetry Contest for full-length poetry collections open to poets at any stage in their writing careers. The latest Black Box Poetry winner will be released later this month (March 15): What Was It For by Adrienne Raphel. Judge Cathy Park Hong calls the debut full-length collection “feral and full of feverish delight.” She continues, “Raphel takes Victorian nonsense verse into the twenty-first century and transforms it to her own strange and genius song.”
Diode Editions recently held their very first full-length 
The Fall 2016 issue of 
In February, Black Lawrence Press released Retribution Binary by Ruth Baumann, which advance praise calls “a study in wreckage and palpable absence” that is “Part dreamscape, part gutter-bucket realism” (Marcus Wicker). Retribution Binary is the winner of the 
“Calmly on Fire,” a found photograph and collage on paper by Lorna Simpson, makes it difficult for readers to look away from 
Published in Ireland, this spring 2017 issue of 
Unusual beauty seems to be my theme this week, finishing off with “Red Heart Boat” by Andy Levine on the cover of the online 
The University of Iowa Press brings readers a real treat: the lost novel of Walt Whitman, Life and Adventures of Jack Engle. While we’re familiar with Leaves of Grass, Life and Adventures of Jack Engle was serialized in a newspaper under a pseudonym, read with little fanfare, and then disappeared.
Issue #55 (Spring 2017) of 
Issue 43.2 (Spring/Summer 2017) of 
Editor Wayne Miller has announced several changes to 
“This iteration of the 
“Stress Test” by Eugenia Loli is the eye-catching cover art on 
Winner 
“It bears acknowledging that 
Executive Editor Jim Hicks opens the newest issue of 
I’m pretty sure that’s a cockroach orchestra portrayed on the cover of 
First Place Winner
The 2016 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest as selected by final judge Jaimy Gordon are featured in the January/February 2017 issue of