Praise for Junk Shop Window
"We trust him, as his writing lets us know we are in good hands." Diane Gottlieb's review of Junk Shop Window in Hippocampus Magazine sparkles with praise for Patterson's craft. Gottlieb joins Charles Rammelkamp of the Hopkins Review and Patricia Ann McNair of the Washington Independent Review of Books in the glowing conversation around ASP's latest publication. Make sure to order your copy of Junk Shop Window: Essays on Myth, Life, and Literature to see what the critics are raving about!
Launch party for Already Gone: Forty Stories of Running Away
Hannah Grieco hosts this reading and launch party, featuring contributors Matt Cantor, Lilly Dancyger, Aubrey Hirsch, Emily James, K.C. Mead-Brewer, and Kathleen McKitty Harris. Cocktails, book sales, and signings.
Read MoreLaunch party for Already Gone: Forty Stories of Running Away
Hannah Grieco hosts this reading and launch party, featuring contributors Matt Barret, Demisty Bellinger, Deesha Philyaw, Zach Powers, Amber Sparks, and Michael B. Tager. Wine, snacks, book sales, and signings.
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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.
Read More2022 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.
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