Fifteen international authors, members of the Unleashing the Next Chapter online writers community, join forces to produce a tantalizing and diverse compilation to satisfy your appetite for the sweet, the salty, the light, the dark, and everything in between. This beachy anthology weaves the changes of life with the faithfulness of canine companions in an assortment of genres.A timid ghost follows a friendly beagle, hoping to find a forever home. Determined women dive into wild oce...

Renowned storyteller Ray Hicks was a certified national treasure. He received many prestigious honors in his lifetime, including the National Heritage Fellowship Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Best known for his traditional storytelling and also for saving the original Beech Mountain Jack tales brought to the Appalachian Mountains by his ancestors as early as 1776, Hicks was conscious of the role he played in the preservation of oral storytelling. Many of those stories are...

The Global History of Black Girlhood boldly claims that Black girls are so important we should know their histories. Yet, how do we find the stories and materials we need to hear Black girls’ voices and understand their lives? Corinne T. Field and LaKisha Michelle Simmons edit a collection of writings that explores the many ways scholars, artists, and activists think and write about Black girls' pasts. The contributors engage in interdisciplinary conversations that consider what i...

The Long Devotion is a collection of poems, essays, and writing prompts that celebrates motherhood and creates a space, as poet Molly Spencer has written, to “tell an unlovely truth about family life and not have to take it back.”The poets in this book represent and describe a wide range of experiences. They write about encountering the world anew through their children; intersections of parenting and race; single parenting; adoptive, foster, and step-parenting; life with ...

Prayers for When God and Cancer Meet: Honest Conversations with God Through Every Stage of the Journey is a book authored by Lynn Prays, designed to offer spiritual companionship to those impacted by cancer. The manuscript features a collection of raw, honest prayers that map to the general arc of a cancer journey, covering the initial shock of diagnosis, the anxiety of waiting for test results, the physical toll of treatments like chemotherapy and surgery, and the emotional compl...

Home of the first settlement in the United States and known as Old Dominion and The Mother of Presidents, the state of Virginia’s artistic output proves among the most fecund in the nation, evidenced in this ninth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology. This collection includes well-known, established, and celebrated poets such as Charles Wright, Claudia Emerson, Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt, R. T. Smith, Forrest Gander, and Rita Dove, and the editors have dedicated equal focu...