Sandra Staas has had a poem published at Bella Online and a short story has been accepted at Weeders Digest.

FIRST Magazine has chosen Ilie Ruby's debut novel The Language of Trees for its Editor's Picks page. The issue will go on sale December 20.

Leigh K. Cunningham's two children's books, The Glass Table and Shards, have just been awarded silver medals at the Mom's Choice Awards.

Margo Berdeshevsky's Letter from Paris in September has been published on Poetry International's Weblog.

A story Jennifer Lang wrote a few years ago about teaching yoga at Gilda’s Club was selected to appear in an anthology called Saying Goodbye.

Amy Lyles Wilson will be debuting her new cookbook Bless Your Heart: Saving the World One Covered Dish at Time, from Thomas Nelson at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, Tennessee on October 10, 2010 with her co-author Patsy Caldwell.

Beth Mann's piece on the thinning of Glee's Lea Michele made it to Salon.com.

Joyce Norman of Chalet Publishers announced that Ramey Channell's novella Sweet Music on Moonlight Ridge was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize last week.