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Robert Thomas’ new fiction collection Bridge gets high praise from Kirkus review for its “tight and vivid prose,” “innovative structure,” and “emotional resonance.” Balancing “black humor and memorable one-liners” with the solipsism of the book's narrator, Alice, Thomas "brings readers deep into the eccentric and neurotic mind of its protagonist." According to the review, even a narrator given to “digression and extreme interiority” such as Alice “narrates the minutiae of her life with insight and wit.” Forming an overarching narrative from the 56 short vignettes, these pieces chart the decline of narrator Alice—"a lonely, at times suicidal woman." "With emotional...

In an interview with Late Night Library's Melanie Figueroa, Geffrey Davis describes his new book Revising the Storm as "a search for language to survive and reclaim difficult loves." Featured on LNL's The Rookie Report as a new writer in the spotlight, Davis explains the "recipe" of his writing style: "1½ oz Image, ¼ oz Questions, ¼ oz Time. (Add more parts Time and/or Questions and/or Image to taste.) Shake well inside a form. Add 2-3 gazillion dashes of revision. Strain with title, garnish with good ear, and serve. (Retreat rethink reread remeasure retry.)" The result in Revising the Storm, Davis...

We are so pleased to announce that Dinah Cox is winner of the fourth annual BOA Editions Short Fiction Prize for her collection Remarkable! The collection was selected from more than 200 manuscript submissions by BOA Publisher Peter Conners. Dinah Cox will receive a $1,000 honorarium, and book publication by BOA Editions, Ltd. in spring 2016. Of the collection, Peter Conners says: “‘The Telephone Museum is always empty.’ This single sentence, the first in Dinah Cox’s masterful story ‘Adolescence in B Flat,’ told me that this was a writer who demands close attention. It also speaks volumes about Cox’s debut...

Poet Michael Dennis likens Sean Thomas Dougherty's new and selected, All You Ask for Is Longing, to "a very eloquent Charles Bukowski with some top notch Raymond Carver type editing." In his poetry blog, Dennis highlights the eclectic mix of Dougherty's collection: "These poems are Andrew Wyeth precise and Richard Pryor sharp. There is so much to admire in this collection. Dougherty mixes it up with prose poems, list poems, it doesn't matter—at this level of excellence it is all first rate." Showcasing such poems as "At Mike's Pub and Grub," "Dear L, The Moon is White and Blue as...

  Great news! Of the 1,300 event proposals submitted for the 2015 AWP conference, BOA's panel "The Poetry of Translation" has been accepted for #AWP15 in Minneapolis! BOA Editions' award-winning Lannan Translations Selection Series presents four translators from four different countries discussing the challenges, revelations, and importance of translating contemporary poetry for U.S. readers. Panelists will discuss their recent translations from Macedonia, Vietnam, Poland, and Spain. Topics will include: selecting poets to translate; autonomy versus collaboration; bridging cultural differences while honoring the original language; and translation as an art form. Along with moderator Peter Conners, panelists will include Bruce Weigl,...