Dirt Songs provides a uniquely intimate look at landscape and family generated from within Appalachia, recognizing that one story cannot accurately represent a region or its people.
Skies of Blur by Elijah Burrell
Burrell’s third collection of poems navigates the depths of human connection and disconnection, love and loss, and the spaces between.
Green for Luck by Margaret Yapp
Green for Luck speaks through Scrabble, through text messages, through gossip and snippets of conversation and well-worn idioms that crack open in Yapp’s steady hands.
What Is It Like to be Alive? Fourteen Attempts at an Answer by Chris Arthur
Each of the book’s fourteen essays is an exercise in seeing beyond the obvious, and finding hidden depth in the places and things we might otherwise take for granted.
The Cutleaf Reader: Vol. Three
A print anthology of the third year of Cutleaf, our literary journal of short stories, nonfiction, and poetry.
We Could’ve Been Happy Here by Keith Pilapil Lesmeister
In the second edition of his 2017 short story collection, Keith Pilapil Lesmeister plows out a distinctive vision of the contemporary Midwest.
Asides by George Singleton
“George Singleton is a very funny man…He could write about a tootsie roll and keep me reading. He can enter a room, breathe in the air, breathe out a story.”
No Last Words by Tara Kelly
“The story begins in glamour, soars through disappointment, and ends in love. No Last Words will enchant you.”
And Dogs to Chase Them by Ray Trotter
“These are everyday, mostly blue-collar, characters, putting up good fights, skeptical of their situations, and true to their beliefs.”