News and Events

This upcoming Saturday, March 6th at 5pm PST, Willow Springs Magazine will host an online release party in celebration of the official release of our latest addition, Issue 87. The party will be hosted via Zoom and YouTube live, and will feature live readings from contributors including Lisa Norris, Hannah Pass, Heikki Huotari, Lauren Moseley, … Read more

According to a press release from AWST, “SEMIOTIC LOVE [STORIES] draws upon symbols and objects to explore the loss of relationships. In these pages, Brian Phillip Whalen reaches deep into the throat of anxiety with a graceful hand and understated humor as he confronts mothers and best friends dying slow or sudden deaths, disappointing vacations, … Read more

Bovey’s goal is to cherish and capture the heart of Spokane. To glorify the beauty that makes a town feel like home. His work gravitates to the old and new iconic places and landmarks of the area and its signs. Every piece is handmade, signed, and numbered. Each one is made with care, and you … Read more

Willow Springs Magazine editor and renowned Eastern Washington University Creative Writing professor Polly Buckingham has announced that she will be reading from her new book of poems titled The River People at a live virtual reading this Wednesday, October 28th. The reading will be hosted by Lost Horse Press in celebration of their autumn 2020 book … Read more

Today, Willow Springs magazine is proud to announce their new virtual live reading series in collaboration with Eastern Washington University, a continuation of the first live stream reading event that occurred in June via Facebook Live with Robert Long Foreman, who read from his book I Am Here to Make Friends (2020). That stream was recorded … Read more

On next Tuesday, October 20th, multiple-time Willow Springs Magazine contributor and Montana Poet Laureate Melissa Kwasny will be giving a live reading online with previous Willow Springs Magazine Editor-in-Chief Christopher Howell. The reading will begin at 6pm PDT, and can be accessed live via YouTube through the link here. Both authors will be reading from … Read more

Issue 81 Contributor and 2013 Willow Springs Fiction Prize winner Robert Long Foreman has announced Weird Pig, a new fiction book coming out on October 1st. According to the Southeast Missouri State University Press site, “Weird Pig is about Weird Pig, a pig who wants to do right. But doing right isn’t always easy. He … Read more

New from Bruce Bond and Etruscan Press, Scar comes out in October of this year. As Bruce Bond described it in a recent announcement, “This trilogy of sonnet sequences explores trauma, self-alienation, and the power of imaginative life to heal-to reawaken with the past a better understanding of its influence, both conscious and unconscious, to … Read more

Recently, Issue 85 contributor and award-winning Floridian poet Michael Hettich gave a reading on Facebook Live with the Carolina Poets to promote his most recent book of poems: To Start an Orchard (Press 53, 2019). Quoted from the Press 53 website, author Lola Haskins (How Small, Confronting Mourning), writes, “Michael Hettich has written, with extraordinary empathy, a book … Read more

Next Friday, January 29th at 5pm PST, Willow Springs Magazine and the Gettysburg Review will host a joint online reading featuring contributors from their upcoming issues. The reading will be a Zoom webinar and is free and open to the public. Anyone with the link can attend. It will also be livestreamed through the EWU MFA Visiting Writers Series … Read more