No black woman writer in this culture can write 'too much.' Indeed, no woman writer can write 'too much.' ...No woman has ever written enough.

Elaina Battista-Parsons will serve as a flash fiction/short story Staff Reader for Split Lip Press during their current submissions period. 

Congrats to Jessica Bell! Her novel, How Icasia Bloom Touched Happiness, recently won first place in the Royal Dragonfly Awards' E-Book Sci-Fi/Fantasy category. 

Scott Gould's memoir, Things That Crash, Things That Fly, was recently named as one of "35 Impressive Indie Press Books of 2021" by Independent Book Review. Things That Crash, Things That Fly also recently received a five-star review from Indies Today. 

VLP will publish Ann S. Epstein's next novel, One Person's Loss. This novel, set in Brooklyn from 1937 to 1951, features Petra and Erich Wedler after their parents send them to America to start a family before the Nazis systematically decimate their community. It will be released in September 2022. And if you missed Ann's recent virtual reading and interview for The Great Stork Derby, you can catch it here. 

VLP will publish Scott Gould's next short story collection, Idiot Men, which is about—wait for it ...idiot men. It will be released in November 2023.

VLP will publish Carolyn R. Russell's next flash fiction collection, Death and Other Survival Strategies. A cross-genre collection of flash explores the far realms of our most basic instinct. It will be released in October 2023.

The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.

"If I close my eyes, I can still navigate The Arrangement’s contents from top to bottom, side to side, the same way I could at eight years old..." Read Elaina Battista-Parsons' "The Arrangement," recently published by Humans of the World.

"His last girlfriend had evaporated into a vapor before vanishing completely. Another girl, soft as a hamster, was blown away by a spring breeze." Read Meg Johnson's "Love Interests In Literary Fiction," recently published by Little Old Lady Comedy.

“While my 'literary coming out' moment might pale in comparison to the pain, struggle and challenge of others who decide to open up and be honest in public about a part of themselves they had formerly kept secret, I do believe there is a resulting commonality of empowerment and forward movement after such an experience.” Check out John McCaffrey's latest Good Men Project post, "Voicing Choices."

Carolyn R. Russell recently had two pieces published: "Rhetoric 101" by Paragraph Planet and "A Visitation" by Blink-ink.

We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.