“There are always architects for exploitation and subjugation . . . There is no exploitation unless there are people who are quietly complicit. That is the nature of human subjugation. Complicity is a ghost haunting this story.” Continue reading
Tag Archives: Fiction
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
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
An Excerpt from Deborah K. Shepherd’s debut novel, So Happy Together
“Peter never stuttered when he was on stage.” Continue reading
An Excerpt from Avner Landes’s debut novel, Meiselman: The Lean Years
Both Kirkus Reviews and blurbers have compared Avner Landes’s debut novel, Meiselman: The Lean Years, to the writing of some literary greats, like Isaac Singer and Saul Bellow. Continue reading
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
At Bloom, we believe it is never too late to take a risk and try something new. In that spirit, we are excited to announce that we are now accepting poetry and fiction submissions from blooming authors who first publish or publish in a new genre (for example, a novelist who publishes a poem, an academic … Continue reading
Captivated by Prague: the Writing of Jeffrey Condran
by Evelyn Somers
“We leave home and shed the identity we’re compelled to inhabit in our daily lives. At the same time, we’re not able to fully inhabit the place we’ve journeyed to. The result is an emotional and intellectual space we have unprecedented control over, but one with more room for self-invention.” Continue reading
