Our weekly round-up of literary news here at Catalyst and beyond, is brought to you by our intern Naomi Valenzuela. Naomi is from Phoenix, Arizona and El Paso, Texas, and is majoring in Creative Writing and minoring in English & American Literature at the University of Texas, El Paso, with plans of working in the publishing business after graduation.
Catalyst’s own David Muirhead (Cat Among the Pigeons) has had a poem read by the AVBOB poetry project, an annual poetry contest open to South African Citizens. Listen to the poem here.
In honor of Women’s History Month, Read it Forward has a list of books written by women journalists, who are still underrepresented in the field.
In Greece’s refugee camps, literature is being used to comfort those in hard times. The Echo mobile library is a minivan filled with books that are lent out to the children and adults at these camps read more about this good deed at The Guardian.
If you’re near the Brooklyn area over the summer and want to learn more about digital publishing, Electric Literature is looking for interns who believe in their mission to make literature more relevant, exciting, and inclusive!
At BBC, there’s an opinion piece about authors writing the stories of those who are different from themselves in fiction and the worries of cultural appropriation.
Related to this topic, NPR has an article and podcast on Grace Halsell’s 1969 book Soul Sister, and the limits of empathy.
Over on LitHub, they have the lists of the finalists for the 2020 Lambda Literary awards, which showcase works that celebrate or explore LGBT+ topics.
Brittle Paper takes a deeper look into the 2020 Lambda awards, acknowledging the representation given to writers from Africa and the Caribbean.
Amidst the chaos around the globe, self-help books about silence and minimalism are becoming more popular among people. Read more about it on the Washington Post.
