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ZOOM LINK Willow Springs is hosting a virtual reading to celebrate the release of Issue no. 94! This reading will take place via Zoom, and will start at 5:30 P.M. PST. This event will be open to the public. We hope to see you there! FEATURING . . . Lisa Bass, Annika Holland, Randall Watson, … Read more

Congratulations Alexis Treads on a feature in Colossal! View her featured oil paintings here. Alexis Treads created the cover art for Willow Springs Issues 87, 88, 89, and 90.

Poetry “Mississippi Snow” by Kerry James Evans “The Future of Nostalgia” by Randall Watson “War Poem” by Anzhelina Polonskaya, translated by Andrew Wachtel “Sexy Fish” by Sara Burge Fiction “A Tour of the Mural at the Merari Public Library” by Madison Jozefiak “If You Only Knew” by Bill Gaythwaite

WTAW will be at AWP January has been flying by, and AWP is now only two short weeks away. If you plan to be at AWP in Kansas City from February 7th-10th, you can connect with WTAW in two ways. You can find us every day at the bookfair, at T1422, where copies of our latest titles will be … Read more

Congratulations to Eastern Washington University Alum Jennifer Pullen for receiving tenure at Ohio Northern University! Her textbook Fantasy Fiction: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology is out from Bloomsbury Academic.

Meet Kerry James Evans: Evans is the author of Bangalore (Copper Canyon), a Lannan Literary Selection. He earned a Ph.D. in English from Florida State University, an MFA in creative writing from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and a BA in English from Missouri State University. The recipient of a 2015 NEA Fellowship and a Walter … Read more

Meet Higa: Jeffrey J. Higa is the author of Calabash Stories, which won the Robert C. Jones Prize, and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. His short story, “The Shadow Artist,” was a finalist for the Italo Calvino Prize and received an honorable mention in the Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize … Read more

Meet Emma Aylor, the author of Close Red Water (forthcoming October 2023), selected by Tina Chang as winner of the Barrow Street Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in New England Review, AGNI, Colorado Review, Poetry Daily, the Yale Review Online, North American Review, the Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere, and she received Shenandoah’s Graybeal-Gowen Prize … Read more

Meet Jenny Irish: Originally from Maine, Jenny Irish has graduate degrees in creative writing from The University of Texas at Austin and Arizona State University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at ASU. She is the author of three books including Tooth Box, I Am Faithful and Common Ancestor. Hear Irish read her … Read more