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In each new issue of the magazine, our contributors report on the latest news and trends in the literary world. This July/August, we're featuring... (1/9)

Maggie Milner's article on the #SaveIndieBookstores campaign, which awarded emergency grants to nearly one thousand shops around the country: (2/9) http://at.pw.org/SaveIndies

Save Indie Bookstores

A campaign started by James Patterson has raised more than $1.2 million to help indie bookstores struggling to stay afloat during the pandemic.

http://at.pw.org/SaveIndies

A piece by @AdrienneRaphel on @booktracesuva, an archive project that seeks to document the markings & traces left behind by everyday readers in library books: (3/9) http://at.pw.org/HiddenInTheStacks

Secrets Hidden in the Stacks

The Book Traces project at the University of Virginia documents annotations, marks, and objects found in library books, creating a record of readers’ engagement with the book as a physical object.

http://at.pw.org/HiddenInTheStacks

First lines and exclusive audio recordings from @twinkpiece, @MarciaTrahan, and @fictionalsejal, among others, in our latest installment of #PageOne! (4/9) http://at.pw.org/PageOne2020x4

Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin

The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books including Seeing the Body by Rachel Eliza Griffiths and Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino.

http://at.pw.org/PageOne2020x4

A report by @thea_prieto on how literary organizers are finding imaginative virtual alternatives to in-person festivals: (5/9) http://at.pw.org/GoingVirtual

Literary Festivals Go Virtual

With the spread of COVID-19, organizers of literary events across the United States have devised creative ways to move programming online and build community among writers.

http://at.pw.org/GoingVirtual

Another #SmallPressPoints, this time featuring the A3 Press (of @TheA3Review) which produces six and ten chapbooks each year, in a mix of prose, poetry, and art: (6/9) http://at.pw.org/A3press

Small Press Points: A3 Press

The press publishes immersive, imaginative chapbooks of poetry, prose, and art, which are printed and folded in the style of a map.

http://at.pw.org/A3press

Writers who can cook (writers we would like to be quarantined with during the next pandemic): (7/9) http://at.pw.org/HomeCooking

The Written Image: Home Cooking

Writers have been cooking up a bright array of foods, from strawberry chiffon cake to Sichuan chili fish, while heeding orders to stay at home during the pandemic.

http://at.pw.org/HomeCooking

An interview with poet Keetje Kuipers, the new editor in chief of @poetrynw (thanks to @sarahmariewrote) (8/9) http://at.pw.org/KeetjeKuipers

Q&A: Kuipers Leads Poetry Northwest

Poet Keetje Kuipers, the new editor in chief of Poetry Northwest, shares her plans for bringing a sense of play and risk to the Pacific Northwest’s oldest literary magazine.

http://at.pw.org/KeetjeKuipers

And last but not least our latest #LiteraryMagNet, in which @BillyRayB celebrates @PrairieFireMag, @OSUtheJOURNAL, @BrickMAG, @Hazlitt, and @The_Rumpus! Learn more about the editors and submission dates here: (9/9) http://at.pw.org/BillyRayBelcourt

Literary MagNet: Billy-Ray Belcourt

The author of the essay collection A History of My Brief Body and the poetry collection This Wound Is a World on five journals that have published his poems and essays.

http://at.pw.org/BillyRayBelcourt

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