Lori D'Angelo, MENTEE, Season 19

Lori D'Angelo's first book, a collection of short stories, THE MONSTERS ARE HERE, will be coming out later this year from ELJ Editions.

https://elj-editions.com/the-monsters-are-here/

Karen Rigby, MENTOR, Spring 2023

Karen Rigby's second poetry collection, Fabulosa, is forthcoming from JackLeg Press in June 2024. Editor Simone Muench writes, "Deliciously inventive in its linguistic unfurlings, Fabulosa [...] is exquisitely hewn."

https://bookshop.org/p/books/fabulosa-karen-rigby/20727786?ean=9781956907094

Shi Naseer, MENTEE, Fall 2020

My debut novel, THE CRY OF THE SILKWORM, is about a girl’s coming of age in rural China and her quest for vengeance in Shanghai, set during China’s one-child policy. It's forthcoming with Atlantic Books/Allen&Unwin on June 6, 2024. I couldn’t have done it without my amazing mentor, Bill Beverly!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1838959661

Dara T. Mathis, MENTEE, Fall 2020

Dara T. Mathis was recently awarded the American Mosaic Journalism Prize honoring her 2023 essay in the Atlantic, "A Blueprint for Black Liberation." As the largest U.S. prize for journalism, the award consists of an unrestricted cash prize of $100,000 per recipient.

https://www.hsfoundation.org/news-stories/american-mosaic-journalism-prize-awarded-to-dara-t-mathis-and-tamir-kalifa/

Amanda Churchill, MENTEE, Fall 2020

Happy to announce that my debut novel, THE TURTLE HOUSE, will be published by Harper Books on February 20, 2024. This novel was lovingly inspired by the life of my grandmother, a Japanese war bride, who settled on a sprawling Texas ranch in the late 1950s.

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-turtle-house-amanda-churchill?variant=41063300136994&utm_source=aps&utm_medium=advt&utm_campaign=aps

Jennifer Poteet, MENTEE, Fall 2021

My 2nd chapbook, Emily Dickinson's Selfie, was just published by Bottlecap Press. I worked on this chapbook closely with Matthew Thorburn who gave me invaluable advice on poem placement as well as offered incisive line edits.

https://bottlecap.press/products/selfie?fbclid=IwAR3htitS3DbVVWfUCEKcivazJFheog6FKecYfbTxCU9CbzQg47PqO0lg0kY

Sunny Rosen, MENTEE, Season 18

When Current Magazine invited me to review Alba de Céspedes’s novel, "Forbidden Notebook," I was excited but nervous, as this would be my first review. My mentor, Jennifer Steil, proved to be immensely helpful.

https://currentpub.com/2023/07/25/review-the-secret-lives-of-mothers-and-daughters/

Mona Alvarado Frazier, MENTEE, Fall 2014

In 2014, Mona Alvarado Frazier's mentor, Fred Arroyo, helped her draft her first manuscript. Seven years later her manuscript is a Young Adult novel. The Garden of Second Chances debuts in June of 2023 by SparkPress & her second novel is under contract.

https://alvaradofrazier.com/

Lucas Jacob, MENTEE, Fall 2017

My second full-length poetry collection, _Sympathetic Beasts_, was published by Next Page Press in March 2023. Many thanks for Laura Van Prooyen and the team at NPP!

https://nextpage-press.com/store/p5/Sympathetic_Beasts_by_Lucas_Jacob.html

Doug Ramspeck, MENTOR, Multiple Seasons

Doug Ramspeck's ninth poetry book, BLUR, received the Tenth Gate Prize and has been published by The Word Works.

https://dougramspeck.com/books/blur/

Meg Eden Kuyatt, MENTOR, Multiple Seasons

Meg Eden Kuyatt’s debut middle grade novel-in-verse GOOD DIFFERENT is coming out with Scholastic in March 2023, and is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.

https://linktr.ee/medenauthor

Jennifer Savran Kelly, MENTEE, Fall 2014

Jennifer Savran Kelly's debut novel, Endpapers, was published in February 2023 by Algonquin Books. It was a winter/spring 2023 Indies Introduce pick.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/endpapers-jennifer-savran-kelly/18417488

Xu Xi, MENTOR, Multiple Seasons

Xu Xi’s book, Monkey in Residence & Other Speculations, was published on November 1, 2022 with Signal 8 Press. Xu has mentored twice in creative nonfiction.

https://signal8press.com/monkey-in-residence/

Benin Lemus, MENTEE, Fall 2016

Benin Lemus’s debut poetry collection, Dreaming in Mourning, was published in November 2022 by World Stage Press.

https://worldstagepress.org/product/dreaming-in-mourning-by-benin-lemus/

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, MENTEE, Fall 2017

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura’s poetry collection, Common Grace: Poems was published on October 4, 2022, by Beacon Press.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/common-grace-poems-aaron-caycedo-kimura/18021935?ean=9780807015889

Elisa Bernick, MENTEE, Fall 2015

Departure Stories: Betty Crocker Made Matzah Balls (and Other Lies), was published in October 2022. Elisa worked on this manuscript in Fall 2015 with her mentor, Leslie Schwartz. She uses her family’s experiences to explore Minnesota’s legacy of antisemit

https://iupress.org/9780253064073/departure-stories/

Christine, MENTOR, Fall 2015

I edited an anthology of short fiction, LOVE IN THE TIME OF TIME'S UP, which includes stories by Gina Frangello, Cris Mazza, Lynn Freed, May-lee Chai, Karen Bender, Amina Gautier, Jenny Shank, Rachel Swearingen, Joan Frank, & several other writers of note

https://bookshop.org/p/books/love-in-the-time-of-time-s-up-short-fiction-edited-by-christine-sneed-christine-sneed/18101654?ean=9781948954716

Richard Terrill, MENTOR, Multiple Seasons

Richard Terrill has a new book of essays, ESSENTIALLY, released by Holy Cow! Press (holycowpress.org) in October 2022.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/essentially-essays-richard-terrill/17986499?ean=9781737405139

McKenzie Long, MENTEE, Spring 2020

This Contested Land: the storied past and uncertain future of America's national monuments, was published on September 13, 2022, by University of Minnesota Press. McKenzie worked on her manuscript with her mentor, Kathryn Aalto. “W2W gave me the chance to

https://bookshop.org/p/books/this-contested-land-the-storied-past-and-uncertain-future-of-america-s-national-monuments-mckenzie-long/17759250?ean=9781517909826

Lauren Tanabe, MENTEE, Spring 2022

Lauren Tanabe published an article with Slate Magazine on July 26, 2022. Read Lauren’s article, “Pregnant People with Panic Attacks Deserve Treatment,” on Slate’s website.

https://slate.com/technology/2022/07/benzo-pregnancy-prescription-research.html

Michelle Cerulli McAdams, MENTEE, Spring 2017

Michell Cerulli McAdams’ short story, “Safety and Other Impossibilities,” was published in Vol. 33.1 of december magazine (https://decembermag.org/). This is Michelle’s second fiction publication.

http://www.michellecerulli.com/

Andrea Deeken, MENTEE, Spring 2022

Andrea Deeken’s debut chapbook, Mother Kingdom, was published in March 2022 by Slapering Hol Press and named a finalist in the International Book Awards in the Poetry: Chapbook category in June 2022.

https://www.writerscenter.org/product/motherkingdom/

Ellen Kazimer, MENTEE, Spring 2020

Third place winner in the 2022 Bethlehem Writers Roundtable Contest. I had the notification in June and my story was published online January 2023.

https://bwgwritersroundtable.com/featured-story/

Amy Lerman, MENTEE, Fall 2019

Amy Lerman won the Jonathan Holden Chapbook contest in May 2022 for her manuscript, Orbital Debris. Amy’s chapbook was published by Choeofpleirn Press and is available for purchase online.

https://www.choeofpleirnpress.com/bookstore

Natalie Tomlin, MENTEE, Fall 2020

Natalie Tomlin's chapbook, The Sound a Car Door Makes, was selected as a winner of Michigan Writers Cooperative Press' 2023 Contest. Judge Jennifer Sperry Steinorth calls the collection “an irascible joy ride through late capitalist fallout.”

https://natalietomlin.com/