PORTLAND, OR; May 17, 2022 — Hunting Geese by Sarah Rau Peterson is a short story collection that features characters as multi-layered as Montana herself. The unnamed protagonist in Hunting Geese grapples with life choices and his just out-of-reach family while positioned on the banks of the frigid Yellowstone River…

PORTLAND, OR; March 1, 2022 — First Drafts from the Brewery explores the ends, and beginnings, of relationships, the value of true-blue friends, and the delights of the seasons. Less a how-to guide to divorce, and more a long and lingering porch-chat complete with good beer or a strong whiskey…

Air is the source from which all else comes alive like the yeast foaming and rising and bubbling in the warm water and molasses, that sweet dark syrup — sticky like sex on your skin — when the twin loaves come steaming out of the oven you think of Christ, and…

PORTLAND, OR; March 29, 2022 — Who says a coming-of-age saga can’t extend well into your thirties? In these 12 humor-laced personal essays, Kadzi Mutizwa (a midwestern New Yorker) reflects on her trajectory as a high(ish)-functioning outlier. Themes taken up include mounting self-awareness, facing your foibles and failures, not giving…

BY MARK MACDONALD AND RACHEL ELLIOTT — PORTLAND, OR; March 22, 2022 — When a family secret comes to light, lives are changed forever in this honest, beautiful, and sometimes painful memoir. When Mark, adopted at birth, set out to FIND his genetic family as an adult, he found something he never expected — three full-blood siblings…

PORTLAND, OR; March 17, 2022 — The Land of Ale and Gloom: Discovering the Pacific Northwest spans the summer of 2016, a summer which saw Donald Trump rise to national political prominence, and — perhaps not without coincidence — saw the author awake to the rather gloomy realization that there…

In What Have I Done?, Carrie Close writes, “all these little birds keep picking at me/hard, determined beaks peck through skin, scrape/against bone — they dance and chirp ominous tones…” The connection Close builds between themes of love, motherhood, and relationships hits you in the face like a taut rubber…

​PORTLAND, OR; March 1, 2022 — Let Widows be Widows is a collection of poetry in five sections. This collection is about the dead and the living. It illuminates various states of loss, hope, love and mourning from diverse points of view. It begins with denial. A door closing. Happenstance…

PORTLAND, OR; February 15, 2022 — In this new collection of prose poems, Claudia Serea uses surrealism, irony, and black humor to express her experiences, from growing up behind the Iron Curtain to immigrating to New York City. The first section of the book, “There Were No Magic Beans,” recalls…