TREMENDOUS NEWS: Ryan Shoemaker is now an English professor at Southern Utah University, and we couldn't be more delighted!
FANTASTIC NEWS: Ryan Shoemaker's Beyond the Lights is a finalist for the 2018 Association for Mormon Letters Award in the Short Fiction Collection category. Congratulations Ryan!
WONDERFUL NEWS: Canadian storyteller extraordinaire Susan Lloy is coming out with a second collection of her irresistible stories, Vita, to be published on April 15, 2019 by Now or Never Publishing. Chase away the tax day blues by finding out more here.
WELCOME NEWS: Kirkus Review thought Ryan Shoemaker's Beyond the Lights was a "... funny, haunting collection that refuses to ward off the 'shadow hunting us down.'"
FABULOUS NEWS: Dos Madres Press just published Someone is Breathing, a collection of "unrelenting and honest" poems by our alum J. Morris. Find out more, and purchase your copy, here.
EXCELLENT NEWS: Lightening struck twice! We've discovered another collection that cut our finicky muster. NRP is honored to bring you Beyond the Lights, by Ryan Shoemaker (April 28, 2018).
T.C. Boyle, author of Tortilla Curtain - “What impresses me most about this collection is the enormous range of exhibition here. Ryan Shoemaker moves effortlessly from brilliant comedic pieces to stories of deep emotional resonance. He is a talent to reckon with—and enjoy.”
Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - "Ryan Shoemaker's characters are often wrestling with blind spots, and they are not always the most sympathetic because of this, but he is so skillful at allowing each person his humanity. Every story here is its own journey about growth, or lack of growth, in a memorably thoughtful and convincing way."
Purchase it now, or ask for it at your favorite bookstore.
T.C. Boyle, author of Tortilla Curtain - “What impresses me most about this collection is the enormous range of exhibition here. Ryan Shoemaker moves effortlessly from brilliant comedic pieces to stories of deep emotional resonance. He is a talent to reckon with—and enjoy.”
Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - "Ryan Shoemaker's characters are often wrestling with blind spots, and they are not always the most sympathetic because of this, but he is so skillful at allowing each person his humanity. Every story here is its own journey about growth, or lack of growth, in a memorably thoughtful and convincing way."
Purchase it now, or ask for it at your favorite bookstore.
COMING SOON: Susan Lloy, one of our favorite Canadian short story writers, is coming out with her first collection, But When We Look Closer, on April 15, 2017, to be published by Now or Never Publishing. Find out more here.
BREAKING NEWS: J. Morris will be reading from his collection, When I Snap My Fingers You Will Remember Everything, at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland, on Sunday October 30, at 2 PM. Stop by to say hello and pick up a copy, won't you?
AWESOME NEWS: Find J. Morris's When I Snap My Fingers You Will Remember Everything at the Politics & Prose bookstore.
STUNNING NEWS: After more than 10 years of fruitless searching, NRP has finally found a short story collection worthy of its persnickety tastes. We proudly bring you When I Snap My Fingers You Will Remember Everything, by J. Morris (Published September 27, 2016).
"Sharp, funny, and original, these stories are a delight to read..." - Speer Morgan, The Missouri Review
"Morris writes with precision, with wit, with imagination, and with a fierce lucidity that he makes look effortless..." - Michael Griffith, Cincinnati Review
Purchase it now, or ask for it at your favorite bookstore.
EXCITING NEWS: Some exciting new fiction and poetry are in the pipeline. Stay Tuned!
GREAT NEWS: English Kills Review just published an engrossing interview with Frank Cassese, the author of Ocean Beach.
IMPORTANT NEWS: You can now find Frank Cassese's Ocean Beach at the Book Revue and the Strand bookstores.
BREAKING NEWS: NRP is proud to bring you Ocean Beach, by Frank Cassese (Published December 16, 2014)
"A wonderful read and a wild ride...Frank Cassese is the real deal and Ocean Beach is a great commanding warning shot over the bow of the literary world." - Neil LaBute, writer and director of Your Friends and Neighbors
"...Ocean Beach is horrifying and exhilarating in equal measure...the nihilism and despair beneath the surface will keep you awake..." - Michael Nelson, managing editor for Stereogum
"A harrowing character study of a dissolute young man destroyed by obsession..." - Kirkus Reviews
Purchase it now, or ask for it at your favorite bookstore.
COMING SOON: Ocean Beach, by Frank Cassese, is a searing psychological portrait of infatuation and longing. Kirkus Reviews thinks it is "A harrowing character study of dissolute young man destroyed by obsession..."
NEW NEWS: Read NRP's published collection of online anthology stories.
NEWS: Poetry Flyer contributor Will Schutt has won the 2012 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. His first collection has been published by Yale University Press. You can find out more about it here.
NEWER NEWS: Kirkus Reviews thinks Midnight Month by Poem Kim has "Poetry by a vibrant young voice..."
NEWS: Matt Baker's Drag the Darkness Down has been reviewed in the American Book Review, the Oxford American, Newpages, and elsewhere. Matt has gone on to place work with the Cimarron Review, the Southern Humanities Review, the Santa Clara Review, and the Texas Review. Read an excerpt from his book on our "Books" page.
NEWS: Ryan Dilbert has been conducting a self-propelled tour following the release of Time Crumbling Like a Wet Cracker, which included an interview here and a reading here.
NEWS: William Walsh's "question" stories, previously featured on our online story archive, have found a home at Keyhole Press as part of a book-length collection. You can find out more here.
CRITICAL NEWS: DIAGRAM called Ben Segal "... a witty observer of people's awkward foibles" during the course of a thoughtful review of 78 Stories, which can be found here.
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Yuriko Katori