I’m driven by oh-so-close failure. To get near to your goal—whatever that is—to see it up close: it can make you want it even more, can spur you to take more risks. Art needs risk. Continue reading
Category Archives: Debut Authors
FIVE IN BLOOM: Summer Bloomers 2021
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
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Battle Lines Redrawn: On gender and race in Brenda Sparks Prescott’s debut novel, Home Front Lines
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
Everyone’s Got a Story: Q & A with Maisy Card
“I realized I had to center myself and people like me in my writing because I didn’t know who else would.” Continue reading
Multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-faith southern stories: Q & A with Anjali Enjeti
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
FIVE in BLOOM: Spring Bloomers 2021
by Sam Florsheim and Max LoSaro
A diverse collection of novels, essays, and memoirs published by Bloomers in Spring 2021 Continue reading
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
