In a world where cruelty is an end unto itself, we invite you to dive deep in the shared humanity of over 90 contributors, lovingly curated by a team of 18 volunteers whose privilege it is to present Oyster River Pages’ eighth annual issue.
This debut collection of poetry, Bloodmercy, by Nigerian/American Itiola S. Jones is a reimagining and retelling of the biblical story of Adam and Eve. The poems are set in an evolving remote natural landscape, a realm between the Old Testament and the modern era…
Paula Lehman-Ewing’s work continues to spark critical conversations about abolition, liberation, and the communities we can build when we imagine otherwise. At a time when so many communities are being asked to survive systems that were never built for them, this book feels more necessary than ever.
In this interview, National Geographic Explorer and author Thammika Songkaeo discusses urban life, emotional landscapes, and why environmental writing belongs as much to city dwellers as it does to wilderness storytellers.
What does it mean to make something by hand today? At Green Door Folk School in Michigan, craft becomes a way to reconnect with materials, community, and ourselves.
In 2021, archeologists in Saskatchewan uncovered a 200-person mass grave outside of an Indian boarding school that had been in operation until 1998. It was an unusual discovery in the sense of size, but finding disappeared children at these institutions wasn’t in itself unusual…
Michael Paul Hogan’s newly released short story collection leads the reader on a mesmerizing joyride, offering a variegated gamut of settings, characters, point of views, narrative styles and registers, among which the author seamlessly shifts, like a skilled racing driver or a consummate ballroom dancer.
Katia Hage’s “to a cypress” and J Michael Walker’s Anita Lets Her Feelings Show
The Holocaust didn’t start with mass murder. It started with hatred, discrimination, and a climate of fear.
