Belle Point Bulletin #11

Pub day for THIS NEW DARK + more author updates

True Grit meets Twin Peaks

It’s here! This New Dark is officially out in the world today. We are pretty thrilled about this book and hope you’ll check it out. We’ve heard Arkansas’s favorite son, Eli Cranor, is into it:

Be sure to also read Chase’s “author-in-residence” posts over at the Chicago Review of Books Instagram account to learn more about his writing process and influences, including some pretty wild eastern Oklahoma legends.

AND Chase also wrote an excellent reading list for Electric Literature: 7 Horror Novels Where the Setting Is a Monster

We’ll have more updates about Chase and the book soon!

Other Author News

• Excited to see In the Morning, the City Is the Prairie on this year’s longlist for the Reading the West Book Awards

• The U.N.O St. Claude Gallery just opened a posthumous photography exhibition of Christy Lorio’s work: Choose Joy. If you aren’t familiar with Christy or her chapbook Cold Comfort, you can learn more about her in this 2022 Gambit feature; we’re eternally grateful to have helped with this project. We also interviewed Christy that fall here.

• If you’re local to New Orleans, don’t forget to join Teresa Tumminello Brader at Windowsill Pies tomorrow night:

  

• Amy Barnes has a new column at

  Little Engines
  ! It starts soon, but you can see the announcement here.

• Anna Laura Reeve will be giving a poetry master class at the James Agee Conference on March 2 and then reading at Malaprop’s on March 3 in their Poet Quartet series alongside Lola Haskin, Courtney LeBlanc, and Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.! Be sure to register for either in-person or virtual attendance and support a fantastic North Carolina bookstore.

We currently have two listings for various remainder books from other publishers on our website that highlight Black voices—one for fiction + one for poetry. Check ‘em out!

Later this week we plan to share a debrief of our time at AWP. Meanwhile, don’t forget to check out our latest bookseller interview if you missed it last week!

Thanks for sticking around.