The Girl with the Black Lipstick hath dropped! Full details about my new novella-in-flash below. blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-girl…

Tonight! Featuring NEOMFA poet El Bentivegna. eventbrite.com/e/ekphrastacy-…

An ecstatic & ekphrastic evening with Poetry candidate El Bentivegna & friends from Heights Arts for “Ekphrastacy: Visions in Monochrome” We 💜 our literary scene; thanks to everyone who helped put yesterday’s event together.

Read the latest from Program Director Mary Biddinger — new prose poetry at Unbroken Journal 📝💜 theunjournals.com/unbroken46bdra…

This week! See you there.

Congratulations to alum Joseph Lewis on the publication of his debut horror novel, ‘The Girl Who Walked on Ice,’ out from Banyam Books. Such a pleasure to see a student’s thesis enter the world in print ✍️📚🍾 amazon.com/dp/B0FHQPGRML?…

Our Program Director Mary Biddinger’s recent novella-in-flash, ‘The Girl with the Black Lipstick,’ featured in CLMP’s July roundup: clmp.org/news/books-lau…

So many NEOMFA contributors in this issue 😍

TONIGHT!

Congratulations to '21 alum Zach Peckham on his appointment as the Jennifer Jahrling Forese Writer-in-Residence at Colby College ✨ He’ll he missed here in NEO, but we wish him all the best in his northward journey and look forward to seeing what he does at Colby.

New prose poem — ‘Everyone Bowed Their Head And Prayed For God’s Blessing’ — from our inimitable Program Director Mary Biddinger in the latest issue of Pithead Chapel 🙏⭐️ pitheadchapel.com/everyone-bowed…

One week since Riff’s… See you at the next one 🗣️🎵🎤

New work from UA poetry candidate Scott Kenimond 🗡️🗡️🗡️ villaineralit.com/2025/08/01/all…

Feeling very extra (extra, read all about it?) for our very own Tyisha Blade, non-fic candidate from CSU & EOC of the The East Clevelander Magazine, who attended & pitched at the 50th anniversary convention of the #NABJ Headquarters ✊🏾🖊️🎙️💻 📷 🎥 📝 🔈, hosted this past weekend right here in Destination Cleveland 🎙️🤩🌟

Congratulations to '23 Poetry alum Ali Black, who was just named winner of the Emerging Artist Award from the Cleveland Arts Prize 🏆💫 This juried award honors excellence in the arts & artistic community of Northeast Ohio, and comes with a prize of $10,000.

Fiction candidate Mish Gajewski-Zambataro's Flash Flood-winning piece (from April '25) featured today on American Literary Review 🌟 americanliteraryreview.com/2025/04/02/fla…

🚨Pub Alert!🚨 Be terrified by the latest from Kent-based fiction candidate Cheyenne Shaffer (Dr. Cheyenne Shaffer), "I Never Saw the Knife," out in the August issue of Cosmic Horror Monthly 🦑🗡️ cosmichorrormonthly.com/store/issue-62/

Congratulations to Cleveland State University fiction candidate Mish Gajewski-Zambataro on her 2026 Best of the Net nomination from Weird Lit Magazine 🪶💫 weirdlitmag.com/fiction/yellow…

Current & incoming students: Plan on coming to this! Check your email/slack for more details.

We'll see you there? 🎙️📗 ira sukrungruang Elizabeth's Bookshop & Writing Centre eventbrite.com/e/reclaiming-t…