EastOver Press

03/09/2026

"It is my belief that rooting your voice in the lived-in and the local is the surest path to originality."

Ian Hall recently interviewed with Two Sylvias Press for their "Weekly Muse" newsletter! They discuss Hall's advice to poets on finding your unique voice, the epigraph to his debut poetry collection, Creekwater Mansions, and more. Read the full interview, "Finding Your Voice," on their Substack here: https://bit.ly/3SqtifH

Unsparing and spun of daily life in the coal-country of Eastern Kentucky where Hall's from, the poetry of Creekwater Mansions documents the intimacy of duress. Order your copy here: https://bit.ly/459Adgr

02/09/2026

"Part of becoming an adult means thinking back over what stories we’ve been given then and reinterpreting them according to our own light."⠀
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz recently sat down with Tess Callahan for her "Writers at the Well" interview series! They discuss the structure of Lynne's newest novel A Stranger Comes to Town, characters' unknown truths, identity through the lens of stories, and more. Read the full interview, "On Meeting Yourself as a Stranger" on Tess's Substack here: https://bit.ly/4x3x0de

A Stranger Comes to Town is a masterful novel of self-discovery, revealing the multitude of histories and lives we each inhabit, as well as the many ways we seek to reinvent ourselves and reshape our pasts. Order your copy here: https://bit.ly/4013jMj

*Promotional graphic by Tess Callahan.

31/08/2026

Congratulations to ANOTHER WOMAN author Hannah Bonner on the forthcoming release of her hybrid collection, BREE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY!

The book will come out on September 8, 2026, from Sticking Place Books. Check it out here: https://bit.ly/4hXE9Yu
And order ANOTHER WOMAN here: https://bit.ly/4by07LL

29/08/2026

Congratulations to HIDDEN CARGOES and WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE ALIVE? author Chris Arthur on the recent release of his new collection, THE SLAP AND THE SALAMANDER!⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Out now from Serving House Books, the essays of THE SLAP AND THE SALAMANDER "recognize the extraordinary dimensions of the ordinary."
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Order your copy here: https://bit.ly/4igCw8y
And check out HIDDEN CARGOES and WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE ALIVE? FOURTEEN ATTEMPTS AT AN ANSWER here: https://bit.ly/3zWEgQG

28/08/2026

Cutleaf Issue 6.16 is out now! This issue features poetry by John Popielaski, fiction by Cynthia Zhang, and nonfiction by Susan Moldaw. Read it all here:

Susan Moldaw thinks through who and what we leave behind in "Closing Shop." In four poems including “Taking Care of Business,” John Popielaski muses on life and the mysteries at the intersection of the human and natural world. In Cynthia Zhang's "a mother's love (never dies)" a mother-daughter e...

27/08/2026

"STARTING FROM PATERSON is a pleasure from beginning to end, full of fresh insights and revealing observations of everyone from a Vermont grocery store clerk with a Las Vegas past to Doctor Johnson and Smokey Robinson.

Keizer has the Chekhovian capacity to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, as well as to tease out unexpected complexity in figures we thought we knew well. His authorial voice is relaxed, unpretentious, and personal without ever sliding into self-absorption.

The old Rutgers slogan applies to him: ‘Jersey Roots, Global Reach.’ The sort of man you'd like to have on the barstool next to yours."

—Jackson Lears, author of "Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street" and Editor Emeritus of Raritan

STARTING FROM PATERSON is the newest book from Garret Keizer, who has been called “the finest essayist writing today” by Jeff Sharlet.

This collection of essays covers an adult’s supermarket perplexity, a child’s religious formation, the search for the Northwest Passage, meeting Colonel Sanders and Paul Farmer, his love for his father-in-law, and the labor struggles that led to an eight-hour day, all connected to the author’s roots in Paterson, NJ, and the woman he came to love there.

Learn more and order STARTING FROM PATERSON here: https://bit.ly/48Lzt33

25/08/2026

Congratulations to DON'T TAKE THIS THE WRONG WAY co-author Michelle Ross on her recent honor of becoming the new series editor for The Best Small Fictions Anthology!

She and the annual anthology's new publisher, Black Lawrence Press, start this year and submissions are open now. Check out all the news on their Facebook The Best Small Fictions.

23/08/2026

Final call to register for our next EastOver Workshop led by Jessica Danger on its new date! Get all the details below, then enroll through our link in bio.⠀
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📓ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER?
🗓️Saturday, August 29th @ 1-2:30pm Eastern
🏷️Registration fee: $25 USD

Absence is not empty; it is an active, echoing space. It implies something that was once there, defined by the shape left behind—the lingering dent in a favorite armchair, the lilt of a voice that still persists, the wet gravity of the unsaid or the missing.

In this virtual class, we’ll examine and discuss writing that illuminates absence on the page. Through generative exercises and sharing, we’ll explore ways to add, remove, and illuminate absence on the pages of our work – prose or poetry – to create curiosity and capture the attention of our readers.
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Learn more and register now on https://bit.ly/3TcB4cX 🥰

21/08/2026

Ian Hall recently joined host Ray Bassett on the "Scenic Roots" radio show from WUTC!

They discussed Hall's home county in Appalachia, his journey into literature, his debut poetry collection, CREEKWATER MANSIONS, and more. Listen to the full interview on Spotify, Apple, or their website here: https://bit.ly/3U4r8CO

Unsparing and spun of daily life in the coal-country of Eastern Kentucky where Hall's from, the poetry of CREEKWATER MANSIONS documents the intimacy of duress. Order your copy here: https://bit.ly/459Adgr

19/08/2026

"If you pick up a copy of STARTING FROM PATERSON, you won’t be lonely at least for the duration of the book."

Join Garret Keizer at The Norwich Bookstore on August 26 in Norwich, Vermont, for a reading from his new collection, STARTING FROM PATERSON! Get the event details here: https://bit.ly/4gDf2cp

You can check out the wonderful write-up gearing up for the event by Susan B. Apel that we quoted above here: https://bit.ly/468brgr

And you can order STARTING FROM PATERSON from The Norwich Bookstore here: https://bit.ly/4g6Z0rk