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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

Willow Springs magazine will be having a virtual release party this Saturday, March 4th at 6pm PST! Join us for exclusive readings from issue 91 authors, including: Heikki Huotari, Emma Aylor, Jenny Irish, Jeffrey J. Higa, Kerry James Evans, Henrietta Goodman, Madison Jozefiak, Marc Vincenz, Gary Fincke, Paul Farwell, David Keplinger, and Bruce Bond. The … Read more

Willow Springs magazine virtual release party Friday, Oct 14th at 6:00 pm PST Join us for readings from issue 90 authors Joan Murray, Denver Butson, Jason Graff, Greg Byrd, nicole v basta, Aran Donovan, Melissa Studdard, and Elizabeth Tannen. The readings will be followed by a live Q & A session, during which our authors will talk about craft, publishing, … Read more

Exciting news! Willow Springs contributor John Sibley Williams has two new books of poems coming very soon! Winner of the 2020 Cider Press Review Book Award Scale Model of a Country at Dawn, and winner of the 2020 Elixir Press Poetry Award The Drowning House. Go check them out! You can also check out his … Read more

This December (2021), Darren C. Demaree’s sixth book of poetry A Child Walks in the Dark will be published by Harbor Editions! For those who have not had the pleasure of reading one of his poems, or those who just love to read his works, “If There Is a River, #40 & #41” published in … Read more

Willow Springs Magazine will host a live virtual reading featuring past contributors Kevin McIlvoy, Melissa Kwasny, and Rebecca Brown on Saturday, May 8th at 6 p.m. PST. The reading will be held over Zoom and YouTube. Attendees can join us via Zoom here, or via YouTube here. There will be a live Q & A … Read more

Born and bred in New York City, ALEXIS TRICE has had an obsession with drawing and painting from a very young age, and flora and fauna have always been her subject of choice. After graduating from The School of Visual Arts with a BFA in Illustration, she started focusing on painting in oils. She creates … Read more