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By Eylie Sasajima To celebrate the upcoming release of Junk Shop Window: Essays on Myth, Life, and Literature, on June 6, ASP’s James J. Patterson was interviewed on E. Ethelbert Miller’s WPFW radio show, On the Margin. The conversation included personal reading and writing practices, science fiction, and the origin of ASP itself, along with discussion of the work in Patterson’s upcoming essay collection, which he described as “memoir meets The Twilight Zone.” Miller, evoking a writing exercise he uses in workshops, asked Patterson to name inspirational figures whom he considered his … [Read more...]

It was chilly, cloudy, and lovely in Seattle when I arrived half an hour early for the first of several panels I’d picked all the way back in December: “Grief in the Asian Diaspora” featuring panelists Chris Santiago, Victoria Chang, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Sejal Shah. Reading from an essay in Dear Memory (which I was lucky enough to have signed the next day), Victoria Chang quoted a fellow poet on the topic of their parents not talking about their pasts: “maybe it’s us, the next generation, who will write in response to that history.” Coming from a Japanese American family, that thought is at … [Read more...]

An interview with the late, great Linda Pastan        "Along the indifferent corridors / of space, angels could be hiding," Linda Pastan wrote in her poem "Muse." ASP honors the legacy of Linda Pastan (1932-2023), a former Poet Laureate of Maryland, who passed away last week. Pastan was the author of the 2018 poetry book A Dog Runs Through It, which won the Towson University Literary Award. She was the 2003 winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement. She taught at American University and served on the staff of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Pastan lived in Potomac, … [Read more...]

Here's to 2022! And Here's a Sale... 2022 was a big year for ASP and our writers. In March, we had a booth at the annual AWP Conference, and our offsite reading, featuring authors Saida Agostini, Dave Housley, Elizabeth Hazen, and Richard Peabody, along with special guests Teri Ellen Cross Davis and Leslie Pietrzyk, had a standing-room-only audience packed with literary stars.  In April, ASP sponsored the American Authors Weekend at the Oxford Literary Festival in Oxford, England. Saida Agostini, David Downie, Elizabeth Hazen and Dave Housley each gave fabulous presentations on their … [Read more...]

ASP Bulletin Announces Nominations for Best of the Net 2022 ASP's in-house literary journal nominates nine authors for the Best of the Net 2022 The Best of the Net is an awards-based anthology started in 2006. Online publications can submit pieces in four categories: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and art. For this year, the Bulletin submitted a total of nine authors in three different categories. They are as follows: Leslie Pietrzyk: Keep Your Dead Close (NF) James J. Patterson: Hermes at the Kakistocracy Hotel (NF) dave ring: Non-Volatile Memory (Fic) Ellen White Rook: … [Read more...]