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ALT South to South Edited by Khem K. Aryal These stories and narrative essays by authors of South Asian heritage in the U.S. compose a mosaic of South Asian lived experiences in the American South.

ALT Advancing Creative Writing Across the Curriculum Edited by Justin Nicholes Chapters in this edited book feature cutting-edge scholarship from an international team of authors that fills a timely need in the area of creative writing across the curriculum.

ALT HAPPY PUB DAY! By bringing together twenty writers with immigrant roots, this anthology offers a window into diverse creative practices and a reimagining of craft itself—craft as something continually shaped by movement, history, and the porous boundaries between cultures and languages.

ALT About the Author Khem K. Aryal is the author of the short story collection The In-Betweeners and the fiction chapbook His Grandma Blues. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in such journals as The Pinch, Reed, South Carolina Review, New Writing, and Pangyrus. He is also the editor of South to South: Writing South Asia in the American South (TRP, 2023) and the series editor for TRP’s Creative Writing Studies series. An associate professor of creative writing at Arkansas State University, he is a 2025 recipient of the Catalyze Fellowship from Mid-America Arts Alliance.

ALT Creative Writing Curiosity Edited by Graeme Harper Curiosity is core, driving the creativity that generates and shapes and gives meaning to creative writing. These essays explore not only what creative writing is, but the many ways it comes about and is shared.

ALT Migrating Craft Edited by Khem K. Aryal By bringing together twenty writers with immigrant roots, this anthology offers a window into diverse creative practices and a reimagining of craft itself—craft as something continually shaped by movement, history, and the porous boundaries between cultures and languages.

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ALT Happy Pub Day Graphic for Suspirium and book description "Suspirium is narrated by Kairos, the depth dimension of Time. It is the story of a man named Fields, described on the opening page as a man whose soul has been “criminally mislaid." Shortly after Fields’ death at sixty-two, Kairos accompanies him to a meridian between this life and the next, a kind of purgatory where he has one last chance to complete the individuation he shied away from in waking life. This story is the first of two in a duology."

ALT About the Author Graphic for Elizabeth Genovise "Elizabeth Genovise is the author of five short story collections, most recently Palindrome and Lighthouse Dreams, and a novelette, The Numismatist. Her first novel, Third Class Relics, was published by TRP in 2024. She is a devotee of the work of the depth psychologist Carl Jung and has completed the Jungian Studies Program at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago where she will continue her studies through 2027."

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ALT Sallowsfield By Cliff Hudder East Texas college professor Wyatt Sallow travels to a down-at-its-heels market town in the north of England to trace an ancestry it turns out he does not have.

ALT Third Class Relics By Elizabeth Genovise After her father's wake, a woman is compelled to revisit her family's painful history, realizing that she cannot move forward until she confronts the tragedy that defined them all.

ALT Going to see the Elephant By George Garrett "Going to See the Elephant is a safari into the wilds of the mind of George Garrett, and a more interesting place to explore is hard to imagine. ..." —R.H.W. Dillard, author of Understanding George Garrett

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ALT Palindrome By Elizabeth Genovise The characters in Palindrome find themselves boomeranged into situations for which they aren’t prepared, and must confront challenges both emotional and spiritual in order to move forward with their lives.

ALT ARS Poetica By Clay Reynolds Reynolds’s Ars Poetica explores the life of a modern-day Don Juan, a hedonistically ambitious poetaster of our own times, a self-styled Lothario, but, as the tragicomedy ultimately reveals, a man who ultimately discovers that he has more in common with Coleridge’s mariner than with any swashbuckling versifier of old.

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ALT Catastrophe By Deirdre Danklin Two childhood friends whose lives have diverged navigate catastrophe by talking to each other with their minds.

ALT Mon Dieu, Love By Jane V. Blunschi A novella about a pair of queer sisters stuck in a non-stop loop of relationship mistakes, attempts at sobriety from drugs, alcohol, and general lesbian drama, and accidental, unwelcome emotional growth.

ALT HAPPY PUB DAY! A warning and a prayer against future storms, do not destroy this stands as testament to the indomitable spirit of survivors confronted by the inexhaustible forces of nature. In this debut collection, Taylor Clement celebrates the joy and grit of living in the deep south during compound disasters brought on by climate change. These poems explore what happens when ancestral lands and family homes are gutted for years and sacred spaces become empty and unusable. The poems lay bare the threads that hold us together when everything else is gone. Part love song and part elegy, do not destroy this explores why people keep returning to places like Lake Charles.

ALT About the Author A native of Lake Charles, Louisiana, Taylor Clement is a writer, poet, and researcher. She earned her Ph.D. at Florida State University where she studied Renaissance poetry and visual culture. Her work has been featured in Renaissance Studies and Word & Image. She teaches professional writing and editing courses at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

ALT HAPPY PUB DAY! Crying My Best is a powerful poetry debut that brims with emotional urgency and that delves into the complex, often hidden histories of the poet’s Midwestern Mexican American family. With unflinching honesty and clarity, these poems confront intergenerational addiction, cultural estrangement, and personal and collective grief. Here, language makes survival possible and becomes a turning point for transformation and a hard-won sense of wonder.

ALT About the Author Angelica Esquivel is a Xicana poet and artist from Fostoria, Ohio. Her work has appeared in Poet Lore, Barrelhouse, and A Public Space. Her first chapbook, A Casual Apocalypse in Acapulco, received the Prima Materia Award from First Matter Press. She is the recipient of the 2021 Zocalo Poetry Prize and currently serves as the inaugural 2025-2026 YpsiWrites Writer in Residence of Ypsilanti, Michigan.

ALT The Mary Years By Julie Marie Wade The Mary Years is a nonfiction novella that chronicles one young woman’s quarter-century love affair with The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Part bildungsroman and part televisual ekphrasis, this is the story of Mary Richards re-seen through the eyes of Julie Marie Wade.