Sarah J. Sloat, author of Hotel Almighty (Sarabande Books) wrote an essay for Literary Hub on September 25.
Cristina Rivera Garza, author of The Iliac Crest and Grieving (both translated by Sarah Booker, published by The Feminist Press at CUNY), was named a 2020 MacArthur Foundation Fellow.
Oracle 20-20 Magazine ran an excerpt from Sparrow’s Small Happiness & Other Epiphanies (Monkfish Book Publishing) in their October issue. Chronogram Magazine also ran on Oct. 1, 2020.
Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos (Biblioasis) by Steven Heighton is a Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
The Wolf’s Trail by Thomas D. Peacock (Holy Cow! Press), has been selected as the Best-Indie published Adult Fiction 2020 in Minnesota by the Minnesota Library Foundation.
Mama Amazonica by Pascale Petit (Bloodaxe Books) won the Laurel Prize 2020.
Deanna Pecaski McLennan, PhD, author of Kindercoding Unplugged: Screen-Free Activities for Beginners (Redleaf Press) was awarded the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence in STEM.