What a beaut! Issue 57 has arrived! We won't be at AWP this year, but this gorgeous issue will be waiting for you in your mailbox when you get home. Check out some of the work from the issue online and buy an issue or a PDF at salamandermag.org.

Looking for an original (free) gift to give your lover today? How about sending them a link to this made up story about a middle schooler navigating romance, nocturnal emissions, and the failures of the American education system! salamandermag.org/americanos

You can now listen to audio recordings by select NER 44.4 contributors—including Dāshaun Washington, Angie Romines, A.J. Rodriguez, & Sean Cho A.—on our site. Experience NER 44.4 in a new way: nereview.com/audio/

New literary star just dropped. Very proud of this MFA homie ✊🏼

Walid Daqqa, Palestinian poet and political prisoner, died yesterday in an Israeli prison. Last year at one of our events in Ramallah the director of the Sakakini Center, Hossam Ghosheh, read one of Daqqa's poems. Mohammed El-Kurd then read Dalia Taha’s English translation.

We stand with the campus protesters. We're now offering free ebooks on Palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions.

Elated to have a story in the latest issue of The Common, one that went through many changes yet always kept its basic elements: a quinceañera, a Selena soundtrack, and teenagers screaming Worldstar. Now it’s free to read. Mil gracias to everyone who helped these words arrive

“Right before her twenty-fifth birthday, Chacha shaved her head, shearing the long black hair I’d known my entire life down to tiny-ass stumps.” Today’s queer story is “Papel Picado” by A.J. Rodriguez ! thecommononline.org/papel-picado/

Ninth Letter proudly announces the results for our 2024 Literary Awards! Thank you to everyone who submitted and to our incredible judges.

First ever podcast appearance is live! Had a wonderful time chatting with The Common about “Papel Picado” and craft from a Burqueño perspective. Available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts ✊🏼

“I will not purge my tongue of words that scare you because you don’t understand them.” In Literary Hub today, Huda Fakhreddine | هدى فخر الدين on being an Arabic Literature professor at an American university in a time of genocide and McCarthyism. lithub.com/intifada-on-be…

Story Day! “We the People” is my apocalyptic fantasy story about being chased around the world in order to save the ones we love. Who truly benefits from sacrifice? I think this one is really special. Read it here: lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-the…

KEEP SHARING, KEEP PRESSURING! here is a poem marcellus wrote about the genocide in gaza. our struggles are entwined!

Deepest gratitude to the folks at Granum for their continued support of my work and the work of this awe inspiring longlist. Felicades compas!

What company, what an honor, what else is there to say? Gracias y gracias y gracias.

Congrats to A.J. Rodriguez (A.J. Rodriguez), who has been named the winner of the 2024 Granum Prize for his novel in progress, tentatively titled LUCHADORES! Rodriguez is a Chicano writer born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Read more: granumfoundation.org.

Don't miss a new recording of A.J. Rodriguez (A.J. Rodriguez) reading his Issue 27 story "Papel Picado." thecommononline.org/papel-picado/

🚨cover reveal🚨feeling lucky to have this gorgeous face for my book from vivian lopez rowe Ecco, to my editor Rachel Sargent for her belief in these stories, & my agent Amy Bishop-Wycisk for championing me from the start!! book is ready for preorder ❤️ bookshop.org/p/books/extinc…