Mary Ann McGuigan’s stories have appeared in The Sun, Massachusetts Review, and many other journals. Her collection PIECES: A Novel in Stories includes fiction named for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. That Very…
When I first read Rumer Godden’s An Episode of Sparrows, it wasn’t considered a novel for children. It was just a novel. My mom was a librarian at the Oakland Public Library,…
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is a novel suffused with symbolism. Indeed, Hawthorne introduces his novel as a symbolic act: an examination and apology of the role his ancestors played in the…
We reach for the same poetry book by a young hotshot poet with an old man’s eye for sorrow. I hand you the thin volume as if I had attempted a theft…
I Who else’s praises could, like Grecian ink, Drip precious on the page in metered form? Whose lofty dreams of indolence fail to sink Beneath the bleak insomnia of the morn? Thou,…
Kris Spencer is a teacher and writer based in London. He has two poetry collections, Life Drawing (2022) and Contact Sheets (2024), published by Kelsay Books. His debut novel, Every Storm is…