Rebecca Harrison’s Travels with Kimchi released in August 2021. She writes: As soon as I stepped off the airplane, I realized I was not home anymore. “English? English?” I spoke to anyone who passed by me. What have I gotten myself into on this trip? I stared desperately into the blank faces that watched me…
Bill Johnson’s play The Baggage Handler was produced as part of Funny Shorts: LIVE! on Friday, February 11, 2022, at the Moe Auditorium at Center for Performing Arts in Bonita Springs, Florida. The play is about a couple checking in their baggage for their next life together. They come to believe they can leave some…
Author André Lewis Carter celebrated the virtual launch of book Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea on January 4th. The event had a great turnout. View a recording of the release here! The book follows César Alvarez, who enlists in the navy in the early 1970s to escape a life of crime; while…
Beth Bonness is author of Transition Thunderstorms, a collection of poems from inside the mind of someone having a series of unexplained strokes and other life events soaking you to the bone. A finalist in The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2021, Beth read excerpts from her collection on The Poetry Box Live via Zoom on…
Valarie J Anderson’s Pearl Harbor’s Final Warning published on August 29th. On 7 December 1941, Washington sent a message to its Pacific outposts about a potential Japanese attack. All but Pearl Harbor received it in time to prepare. New information from the archives of George Street, District Manager of RCA-Honolulu, exposes the fatal flaws that…
Micah Thorp’s novel Uncle Joe’s Muse is being released in early 2022 by Open Books. The members of Uncle Joe’s Band have spent years playing any venue that will pay for their unintelligible metal band performances while their rock and roll lifestyle has left them with bad livers, multiple divorces, and living in a squalid…
A short story by WW member Tom Larsen appears in the January/February issue of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. This is Tom’s eighth story to appear in the magazine. “Pobre Maria” features the recurring character Capitán Ernesto Guillén of Ecuador’s Policía Nacional.
A new Memoir is available from late WW member, Patricia B. Collins. After 25 years of writing, editing, taking workshops, getting feedback, and many iterations, and finally with the dedication of Patti’s two daughters Michelle Mathews and Jennifer Hennig after Patti passed away May 2020, the memoir of Patricia Bauer Collins, R.N., has been published…
Salty air, low lying clouds, and crooning of seagulls near the towering Astoria Column and the flowing Columbia River set the scene for Humanity’s Grace: A Linked Collection of Short Stories by Dede Montgomery [978-1-949290-72-1, GusGus Press, Bedazzled Ink, January 2022]. Montgomery intertwines the lives of several characters from her previous novel with the lives…
The tragedy of homelessness in America is the heart of Bloody Paws, a detective story featuring veterinarians with dog euthanasia drugs and a pet crematory. Publisher Black Rose Writing released Bloody Paws worldwide on Nov. 24, 2021. A disturbing portrait of the unsheltered, that is both heart-wrenching and horrifying, emerges as Oregon Veterinarians Jim Briggs…
