Rumpus
Read this conversation with Elizabeth Acevedo: “I allow space for what isn’t said.”
Center for Fiction
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Jamila Minnicks, Elizabeth Acevedo longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s 2023 First Novel Prize.
Harpers Bazaar
Airea D. Mathews on play: “Barbie reminds me of the imaginative intensity that children take on to push past time and space.”
OnBeing
Pádraig Ó Tuama reads “You wake the dead to life” written by Rumi and translated by Haleh Liza Gafori.
G&L Review
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan on writing black, queer fiction: “‘So, your mother is a Black feminist? No wonder your writing is so queer!’”
Lit Hub
Daphne Palasi Andreades, Bushra Rehman, and Christine Kandic Torres talk about writing their home borough: Queens.
New York Times
Jericho Brown and Torrey Peters featured in this conversation on the state of queer writing to make a list of essential literature.
Ledbury Poetry Festival
Watch Deborah Landau read from her latest collection Skeletons at the Ledbury Poetry Festival last summer.
The American Scholar
Tune in to listen as Carolyn Forché discusses the editing of a wartime anthology of Ukrainian poetry.
Wired
Speculative fiction author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is a builder of worlds dark and twistedly terrifying, but never devoid of hope.