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An Interview with Janice Deal
A Q&A with Janice Deal, author of The Blue Door , conducted by Nathaniel Popkin of our Editorial Board, the book's principal editor. This...
4 days ago

Our Appeal
Yo, it's our first-ever fundraiser, to support publication of Janice Deal's new novel, The Blue Door . Click the image to hear Jan talk...
Nov 18, 2024


Opening the Blue Door
That weird door knocker shown in the picture—a hand seeming to emerge from the door itself—acts as a harbinger of what's to come: namely,...
Oct 24, 2024


Announcing the New Deal
In the newsletter that went out yesterday, we announced the New Deal. What, you think FDR beat us to it? No, we're talking about our next...
Aug 7, 2024


Walking Prompts
Responding to continued interest in our book Ways of Walking, editor Ann de Forest has created several sets of prompts for readers (or...
Jul 3, 2024


From Acquaintance to Intimacy
In our latest newsletter, Ann de Forest, the editor of Ways of Walking, describes her adventures during a residency at the Shillim...
Apr 30, 2024


An Edgy Take on Walking
The online series "Walking America - Writers in Conversation" returns on 2/28. This new event features an editor and contributors to a...
Jan 23, 2024

Playlist as Small Town
By Louis Greenstein Author of Mr. Boardwalk and The Song of Life Janice Deal has compiled a playlist to accompany her wonderful volume of...
Jan 2, 2024


Walking America
WALKING AMERICA Online, Wed., Nov. 29, 2023 4 p.m. EST Since the publication of Ways of Walking last year, the anthology's editor, Ann de...
Nov 21, 2023

Walking to the Falls
An upcoming event for WAYS OF WALKING: Wednesday, Oct. 18, 6:30 p.m., at the Falls of Schuylkill Library, 3501 Midvale Ave., in the East...
Oct 5, 2023

No Need to Google
After a whirlwind tour of Philly, with back-to-back-to-back events for Strange Attractors: The Ephrem Stories, Janice Deal has returned...
Sep 25, 2023


Happy Pub Day!
Today is the official publication day for Strange Attractors: The Ephrem Stories by Janice Deal. Congratulations, Janice! This remarkable...
Sep 12, 2023


Big Doings in Small Towns
Please join us for the All But True event on September 21, 2023, 6:30 p.m. (ET), featuring Shannon Bowring and Janice Deal. Both authors...
Sep 6, 2023


Chicago Review: A "Must-Read"
Janice Deal's book of linked stories, STRANGE ATTRACTORS, has been named one of the 12 must-read books of September by the Chicago Review...
Sep 1, 2023


Fall Events
Janice Deal, the author of Strange Attractors, will be making multiple personal appearances this fall, in Chicago, Philadelphia, various...
Aug 29, 2023

Did I know you before?
It seems like, in another life, another place, we knew each other. Is that an illusion? Is it true? Why is that other life, whether real...
Jul 29, 2023

Deep Connection
The Write Now Philly website has just published an interview with our author Nathaniel Popkin, focusing in part on his most recent book,...
Jul 22, 2023

The New Moon
Our author David Sanders has been transforming many of his fiction pieces into screenplays. His novel Busara Road, which we published in...
Jul 19, 2023
Mourning Khalia Robinson
The entire Philadelphia arts community mourns the passing of Khalia Robinson, a multitalented artist and community advocate. Only 44...
Jun 12, 2023


The Real Deal
Janice Deal, the author of our forthcoming linked-story collection STRANGE ATTRACTORS, also has a novel being published this month....
Jun 2, 2023
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