A book is a ball of light in one's hands.

Poetry

1. Paper Cuts by Simone Eva Alexis

   Writing from the womb, Simone births a lifetime of emotion

   exploding into a small space.

   
   

2. The Language of Returning by Courtney Beardsworth

   
   

   A collection of poetry with recurring themes of ancestry, returning, sense of place, and domesticity.

   
   

3. The Blackbird's Eye At Midnight by Randy Brooks

   A collection of poetry inspired by solitude and disillusionment.

   
   

4. A Thin Light by Tania Cordes

   A collection of very short poems in a very long book.

   
   

5. 8va by Katie Feild

   8va is a collection of poetry inspired by the vibrations poems send between each other and off the page.

    

   
   

6. Mercury Retrograde by Salimah Perkins

   Mercury Retrograde is a collection of poems that explores cosmology, trajectory, and the elegance of transition.

   
   

7. My Body, A Bird by Danielle Sinclitico

   My Body, a Bird is a beautiful and poignant homage to time passing, to the tiny mortalities and resurrections in the changing of seasons.

8. Challenging the Moon by Tracey Vaccarella

   
   

   Challenging the Moon is about finding the writing voice after tragedy through location of the source.
   

9. A Disposable Man by Jonas Kyle-Sidell

   Bring on your wrecking ball.

   
   

Non-Fiction

1. Some Other Distant Shore by Andrea Phillips

   

   A hopeful and heartbreaking memoir examining the complexity of the enduring love between a mother and a daughter.

    

   
   

2. The Sea Like the Sky by Christine Dickler

   A retrospective on a childhood and the exploration of how this determines the people we become, the people we love, and the way we love them.

   
   

    

Fiction

1. Street Magic: Stories and Tales by Mary Banks

   Street Magic is a collection of nine unusual, gritty stories that explore the afterlife, spirits, spells, and more.
   

    

   
   

2. The Shape of Clay by Casey Cooke

   

   A collection of fiction.
   

3. The Book of Broken Hymns by Raphael Posey

   The stories in The Book of Broken Hymns are raw, compassionate, and muscular, exploring the lives of people who are struggling to find their way to connection and identity.

   
   

4. A Thousand Hills by Christine Lincoln

   A work of fiction by Christine Lincoln.
   

5. Population Crazytown by Courtney Robinson

   In Crazytown, love has an ever-changing face and isolation is a way of life, mercy is granted and forgiveness is withheld.

   
   

6. Six by Beth Ruxton

   A collection of short stories that have very little in common with one another.   

   
   

7. To the Listening Heaven by Sylvia Vadakara

   
   

   A collection of short stories which focuses on the struggles of simple people who live in a world unique from anything we have previously experienced.