Amanda Scott’s creative nonfiction essay “A Room So Ancient I Almost Forgot” appears in the latest issue of Hayden’s Ferry Review. An interview with Amanda was published in the journal’s blog.

Sean Rose’s essay “Baseball, Boys, and Time” was published in the most recent issue of Ninth Letter. Sean also published Issue 1 of the mixed-media chapbook Spidertown, a collaboration between Sean and visual artist Claire Krüeger. Sean serves as editor-in-chief of the project, and more information can be found on Spidertown’s Instagram page, @welcome_to_spidertown.

Rob Tally was interviewed by Scott McLemee about his recent book, J.R.R’s The Hobbit: Realizing History through Fantasy: A Critical Companion, for Inside Higher Ed. Rob recently presented “‘You cannot press the One Ring too hard’: Tolkien and the Ambiguities of Magic in Middle-earth” at the Theoretical Aspects of Fantasy Studies: Representations of Magic Across Media Conference [remote] at the Centre for Fantasy Literature Studies, sponsored by the Taras Shevchanko Institute of Literature and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in Kyiv.

Rebecca Bell-Metereau’s recent and forthcoming  publications include the following: “J.D. Salinger Meets the Wrath of Manic Pixie Dream Girls” in Critical Insights: J.D. Salinger; “Life, Animated: Adapting a Book about a Hero with Autism” in Autism in Film and Television: On the Island; “Lorraine Hansberry’s Raisin in the Sun and Being Progressive, Black, and Probably Gay” in Lorraine Hansberry’s Raisin in the Sun (Grey House Publishing); and “Transgender Cinema” in Oxford Bibliographies.

Over the next few weeks, Steve Wilson will have poems in Blue Unicorn and Shot Glass Journal and in the anthologies Unknotting the Line: The Poetry in Prose (Dos Gatos Press), Little Poems (Everyman’s Library), and Awake in the World, Volume 3 (Riverfeet Press). His new book, Complicity, is due out in late February.

Graeme Wend-Walker presented the keynote for the English for International Communication Program at Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

MFA student Sara Bawany’s spoken word poem Planting Seeds is available on the ACLU of Texas website.

MA Literature student Ali C. Armstrong’s prose piece “pictures: revisited” will be published in the Spring 2023 issue of The Harbour Journal.

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