Released this month from Chapters/Indigo, The Great Black North is a new collection of contemporary poetry, edited by Valerie Mason-John and Kevan Anthony Cameron. Over 90 poets are represented in this collection. As the site details, the collection “presents some missing pieces of the jigsaw puzzle that help fit together a poetic picture of the Black Canadian experience.”
Lauren Alwan’s fiction has appeared in the O. Henry Prize Stories, the Southern Review, the Alaska Quarterly Review, StoryQuarterly, in the Bellevue Literary Review as the recipient of the 2016 Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, and elsewhere. Her essays have appeared in ZYZZYVA, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Northwest Review of Books, Writer’s Digest, among others, and listed as notable in Best American Essays 2016. She is a prose editor at the museum of americana, an online literary review. Follow her on Twitter at @lauren_alwan and learn more at www.laurenalwan.com