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The Porch in Nashville is accepting submissions through March 10 for its annual prizes in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. This year's judges are Destiny O. Birdsong, Nickole Brown, and Elissa Altman, and they are looking for "fresh voices and excellent writing." The contest is open to published or unpublished writers over 18, and the winners will receive a cash prize and publication in Nashville Review, as well as a gift certificate for classes at The Porch. All the details for entry can be found here.
Today at Chapter 16, Jane Marcellus reviews Reckoning, a collection of prose and poetry by V, the writer formerly known as Eve Ensler. The book, focused on rape and other forms of sexual abuse and marginalization, contains details that "are not easy to read, nor should they be," Marcellus writes, but V's vision of a more just future renders her work "ultimately redemptive."
Last week, we revisited Chapter 16's 2012 interview with historian Timothy Snyder about Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, a book with resonance for our own time. In his review America’s Hardscrabble General: Ulysses S. Grant from Farm Boy to Shiloh by Jack Hurst, Chris Scott writes that the book "provides a fine portrait of a leader who never sought wealth or notoriety, who cared much more for the men he commanded and the nation that had educated him than he did for the headlines he made." Rounding out the week, David Wesley Williams reviewed Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s, in which Marina Bokelman and David Evans recount their journey South to the music's source, and Tina Chambers reviewed Have Mercy on Us, the debut story collection by Lisa Cupolo.
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