by runestone admin | Apr 20, 2026
Milkweed EditionsSeptember 2025232 pp9781639550517 As an aspiring young poet and writer of color myself, reading the work of the 24th poet laureate (who is also the first Latina woman to ever hold that title) left me with a buzz that I can’t quite explain. After a...
by runestone admin | Apr 17, 2026
I have always been fascinated by the Matryoshka doll. A wooden figure of a woman, wrapped in a painted sarafan. Her body is round, and there’s a seam running around her midsection. When you turn her top and bottom half in opposite directions, they separate, revealing...
by runestone admin | Apr 15, 2026
Saad Omar Khan’s debut novel Drinking the Ocean is a breathtaking exploration of what it means to love, to grapple with heartbreak, and to continue to love despite it all. Drinking the Ocean follows Murad, a young man who cannot seem to forget Sofi, the woman he once...
by runestone admin | Apr 13, 2026
Mortar, Christopher Shipman’s upcoming poetry collection, invites us to sit alongside him as he grapples with the trauma that haunts his family after the murder of his grandmother. Mortar is the cement-like mixture that lays between bricks in construction. As...
by runestone admin | Dec 19, 2025
“Six people, but a thousand ways this insane plan could go wrong.” Young Adult, Fantasy, and Science Fiction novels are rising in both readership and authorship, myself included. As an ardent reader, when I have time outside of college, I love to enjoy the increasing...
by runestone admin | Dec 17, 2025
Review: Small Town Horror by Ronald MalfiPage Count: 392Price: $17.99 (paperback), $27.99 (hardcover)ISBN: 9781803365657Publisher: Titan Books Ronald Malfi weaves a brilliant web of guilt, falsehoods, buried (or drowned) truths and, of course, ghosts and witchcraft in...
