Natalie Tomlin, MENTEE, Fall 2020

Natalie Tomlin's chapbook, The Sound a Car Door Makes, was selected as a winner of Michigan Writers Cooperative Press' 2023 Contest. Judge Jennifer Sperry Steinorth calls the collection “an irascible joy ride through late capitalist fallout.”

https://natalietomlin.com/

Richard Terrill, MENTOR, Multiple Seasons

Richard Terrill has a new book of essays, ESSENTIALLY, released by Holy Cow! Press (holycowpress.org) in October 2022.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/essentially-essays-richard-terrill/17986499?ean=9781737405139

Xu Xi, MENTOR, Multiple Seasons

Xu Xi’s book, Monkey in Residence & Other Speculations, was published on November 1, 2022 with Signal 8 Press. Xu has mentored twice in creative nonfiction.

https://signal8press.com/monkey-in-residence/

Amy Lerman, MENTEE, Fall 2019

Amy Lerman won the Jonathan Holden Chapbook contest in May 2022 for her manuscript, Orbital Debris. Amy’s chapbook was published by Choeofpleirn Press and is available for purchase online.

https://www.choeofpleirnpress.com/bookstore

Michelle Cerulli McAdams, MENTEE, Spring 2017

Michell Cerulli McAdams’ short story, “Safety and Other Impossibilities,” was published in Vol. 33.1 of december magazine (https://decembermag.org/). This is Michelle’s second fiction publication.

http://www.michellecerulli.com/

Ellen Kazimer, MENTEE, Spring 2020

Third place winner in the 2022 Bethlehem Writers Roundtable Contest. I had the notification in June and my story was published online January 2023.

https://bwgwritersroundtable.com/featured-story/

McKenzie Long, MENTEE, Spring 2020

This Contested Land: the storied past and uncertain future of America's national monuments, was published on September 13, 2022, by University of Minnesota Press. McKenzie worked on her manuscript with her mentor, Kathryn Aalto. “W2W gave me the chance to

https://bookshop.org/p/books/this-contested-land-the-storied-past-and-uncertain-future-of-america-s-national-monuments-mckenzie-long/17759250?ean=9781517909826

Lauren Tanabe, MENTEE, Season 16

Lauren Tanabe published an article with Slate Magazine on July 26, 2022. Read Lauren’s article, “Pregnant People with Panic Attacks Deserve Treatment,” on Slate’s website.

https://slate.com/technology/2022/07/benzo-pregnancy-prescription-research.html

Andrea Deeken, MENTEE, Season 16

Andrea Deeken’s debut chapbook, Mother Kingdom, was published in March 2022 by Slapering Hol Press and named a finalist in the International Book Awards in the Poetry: Chapbook category in June 2022.

https://www.writerscenter.org/product/motherkingdom/

Elisa Bernick, MENTEE, Fall 2015

Departure Stories: Betty Crocker Made Matzah Balls (and Other Lies), was published in October 2022. Elisa worked on this manuscript in Fall 2015 with her mentor, Leslie Schwartz. She uses her family’s experiences to explore Minnesota’s legacy of antisemit

https://iupress.org/9780253064073/departure-stories/

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, MENTEE, Fall 2017

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura’s poetry collection, Common Grace: Poems was published on October 4, 2022, by Beacon Press.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/common-grace-poems-aaron-caycedo-kimura/18021935?ean=9780807015889

Benin Lemus, MENTEE, Fall 2016

Benin Lemus’s debut poetry collection, Dreaming in Mourning, was published in November 2022 by World Stage Press.

https://worldstagepress.org/product/dreaming-in-mourning-by-benin-lemus/

Meg Eden Kuyatt, MENTOR, Multiple Seasons

Meg Eden Kuyatt’s debut middle grade novel-in-verse GOOD DIFFERENT is coming out with Scholastic in March 2023, and is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.

https://linktr.ee/medenauthor

Mona Alvarado Frazier, MENTEE, First

In 2014, Mona Alvarado Frazier's mentor, Fred Arroyo, helped her draft her first manuscript. Seven years later her manuscript is a Young Adult novel. The Garden of Second Chances debuts in June of 2023 by SparkPress & her second novel is under contract.

https://alvaradofrazier.com/

Doug Ramspeck, MENTOR, several, including 17

Doug Ramspeck's ninth poetry book, BLUR, received the Tenth Gate Prize and has been published by The Word Works.

https://dougramspeck.com/books/blur/