by Sam Florsheim – Summer 2021 is going to be filled with powerful, challenging, and transportive debuts from a wide collection of diverse writers. Here are five in particular that caught our eye. – Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is a fiction writer, essayist, and 2020 National Book Award-nominated poet who teaches creative writing and literature at … Continue reading
by Andy Shi
“…Home Front Lines was inspired by the uncertain times following 9/11 and the increased threat to ordinary U.S. citizens. I wanted to think about how we might learn how to go forward in our daily lives by looking back at a similar time in our history for which we know the outcomes.” Continue reading
By Susan Sechrist
“Hidden in plain sight was this extraordinary relationship between words and numbers, a wonderful pair of guardians to help a child confront the confounding world, to provide comfort by inspiring curiosity.” Continue reading
“I realized I had to center myself and people like me in my writing because I didn’t know who else would.” Continue reading
There is such joy in happy endings, and we know that making that final climb to publishing can sometimes feel like a fairy-tale ending while slogging away at any work in progress. That is why it feels particularly thrilling to share in the celebration of Anjali Enjeti, who after years of putting in the hard … Continue reading
“Being from the minority group of LGBT+ made me more inclined to diversify my characters in ways beyond sexual orientation. I can get as emotionally involved in stories involving straight characters as the next person. At the same time, I’m aware of often not being included in these stories.”
by Sam Florsheim and Max LoSaro
A diverse collection of novels, essays, and memoirs published by Bloomers in Spring 2021 Continue reading
