The short fiction landscape is crackling with change. Excitement for flash and micro fiction is as strong as ever but as many print magazines shutter, there seems to be an ever-tightening belt about the word counts of longer short stories. Panelists will discuss the challenges of writing and publishing longer short stories in today’s literary marketplace and how magazines’ shifting word count requirements are impacting the stories they tell and read.

Panel Moderator: Maegan Poland

Panel Participants: Yohanca Delgado, Tanya Shirazi Galvez, K.C. Mead-Brewer, and Michael Nye.

I will be reading with Christina Rosso to celebrate the release of her new book Creole Conjure (Maudlin House).

The Book Cellar is hosting a virtual event to celebrate WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU’RE AWAKE? Event is free, but pre-registration is required. Details can be found at the following link: https://www.bookcellarinc.com/event/maegan-poland-what-makes-you-think-youre-awake

I’ll be joining Tom Franklin in discussing my collection WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU’RE AWAKE? This is a virtual event at Square Books. Registration required. RSVP here.

For my official book launch, I will read from my debut collection What Makes You Think You’re Awake? and talk about writing with Nomi Eve, author of Henna House and The Family Orchard, and the Director of the Creative Writing MFA program at Drexel. A question and answer session will follow the reading.

The event is free and open to the public. Please register for the Zoom here.