Claire Cronin‘s debut chapbook, called THERESE, is being released online by H_NGM_N Books in late August.

Jennifer Alise Drew’s essay “Argo” will be published in the upcoming SKIN issue of The Chattahoochee Review.

Terrance Flynn is the winner of the 2014 Thomas A. Wilhelmus Editors’ Award from the Southern Indiana Review for his essay “Having Something.” He will also be reading in the Rant & Rave series at Rogue Machine Theatre on August 25.

Debbie Graber‘s short story “New Directions” was published in Harper’s Magazine.

DeLon Howell will be reading his essay “Third Rail” on August 23 and 24 for Speakeasy Los Angeles as part of “Connection: An Evening of Storytelling and Music.”

Lauren Kent‘s short story will be published in online L.A.-based magazine Forth.

Anthony Mohr published an essay called “High School Justice: Lingering Questions” for the LA Daily Journal, an outgrowth of an exercise at the Kenyon Review workshop.

Julia Ruchman will be writing for new NBC series “Odyssey.”

Graham Shafer‘s story “I Didn’t Get the Memo” was published in Specter.

Merna Skinner published four poems in June and July: prose poem “A Brief History of Two Aprons” and Catch and Release in Mojave River Review, How to Talk Your Way Out of a Traffic Ticket in a Foreign Country in MiPOesias, and Before Gravity in Star 82.

Zan Romanoff signed with agent Logan Garrison at The Gernert Co. to represent her currently untitled young adult novel. Zan wrote the novel based on an idea she had in Margaret Wappler’s Fiction class and she wrote the full first draft while enrolled in Adam Cushman’s workshop.

Lauren Westerfield was named Assistant Essays Editor at The Rumpus.