PWN Success Stories

We are thrilled to share the recent success stories of our writers and instructors!

A regular in PWN’s Lunchtime Write-In, Allan Ira Bass was the project coordinator for JewishGen Press’s publication of their 158th title: Yad l’Yedinitz; memorial book for the Jewish community of Yedintzi, Bessarabia (Edineţ, Moldova). Click here for more information.

Jeffery Delano Davis, another regular of Lunchtime Write-In, had his piece, “Down Chuska Mountain,” published in The Literary Yard on March 23, 2023.

PWN’s Fiction instructor Alyson Mosquera Dutemple’s flash story “Open the Window, Let in the Cool Air” was selected for Michigan Quarterly Review’s Mixtape‘s new pleasure-themed issue. This spring, Alyson is teaching the six-week virtual class, Exploring Fiction.

Tina Hudak said her third book(!) Poetry from the Porch: Pathway through the Pandemic, a menagerie of writings from poems to flash fiction to folktales, was inspired by the prompts and good company of PWN’s Lunchtime Write-In.

“This book came to be because I joined Lunchtime Write-In, because I attend weekly, because we have a delightful and consistent group of writers, and because Lisa Hartsgrove is our moderator and mentor who listens to each and every word we share.”

Elizabeth Jannuzzi, PWN’s operations & communications manager, had an excerpt from her memoir, a chapter called “Despair and a Desk” published in HerStry‘s monthly themed section. Elizabeth is currently revising her memoir in book inc’s Book Revision Lab program. In addition, her short personal essay “Four Siblings On a Rock” was an Honorable Mention in March’s Off Topic contest and was published on their website. 

Wendy Goodman, a writer in PWN’s Extraordinary Ordinary Stories class, had her story “Cloaked” selected for Vol. X of Grace in Love, coming May 1, 2023. 

book inc director J. Greg Phelan’s interview with Pulitzer-Prize-winning novelist, Paul Harding titled “Paul Harding Wants Precision” was published in The Millions on February 28, 2023.

book inc Peer Artist Leader and outreach instructor, Jennifer Shields, had her nonfiction flash piece “Gratitude” published in The Mocking Owl Roost on February 28, 2023.  

book inc writer and PWN instructor Lou Storey’s artwork was chosen for Rattle‘s Ekphrastic Challenge. Submit to Rattle‘s Ekphrastic Challenge.

Memoir Incubator writer Eileen Toomey wrote a wonderful and insightful article for The Two River Times about Project Write Now’s pivot to virtual classes during the pandemic. Read “Project Write Now: Prompting and Pivoting Writers in a Post-COVID World” (March 28, 2023). Eileen also had her poem “At the Sip and Save, 1978” published in Oyster River Pages.