by Sam Florsheim and Max LoSaro
A diverse collection of novels, essays, and memoirs published by Bloomers in Spring 2021 Continue reading
Category Archives: Debut Authors
Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Lisa Braxton
With this selection of three poems by Lisa Braxton, we continue our new series of original fiction or poetry by writers who either published their first book at 40 or after, or who have yet to publish a book. Writers interested in submitting work should see our guidelines. The Basement Family Room You skipped down the … Continue reading
Making Funny Things Into Art: Q & A with Sari Rosenblatt
by Martha Anne Toll
“If there’s no humor in a story, I can’t bear to write it.” Continue reading
Authors / Debut Authors / Features / Fiction / Interviews
We All Want to Change the World: Rita Dragonette on the Anti-Vietnam War Movement
by Andy Shi
“Women’s war stories, until recently, were primarily of impact vs combat. Impact affects everyone. We were and have all been impacted by war—and the other big issues in life. I’m very interested in battlefields that aren’t on the front.” Continue reading
Countering the Stereotype of “Caught Between Two Cultures”: Q&A with Eman Quotah
By Alice Stephens
“I’ve been writing all this time, since university. It’s just taken a while to have a book in my hands.” Continue reading
Writing Short Stories Is What I Wanted to Do with My Life: Q & A with Susan Buttenwieser
by Martha Anne Toll
“This feels like it is happening at the right time for me and my writing, and that I have truly landed in the right place.” Continue reading
Bloom Creative Writing: Hungry Ghosts
“It was in this neither-water-nor-air place where Helen could put a shape on her mother’s shift from restless solid to breathless mystery.” Continue reading
