Category: spotlight
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SPOTLIGHT: CHRISTOPHER RUBIO-GOLDSMITH
Christopher Rubio-Goldsmith, author of THE GO BUTTON, which won our Summer 2025 Poetry Prize, has some news to share! His poem “One Spring Break” received an honorable mention in the 2025 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award and the piece will be published in the journal in late spring of 2026! In addition, Rubio-Goldsmith’s poem “Abuelo” will be…
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SPOTLIGHT: Tom Misuraca
Tom Misuraca, author of “Stage Kiss“, has some theater news to share! Four of his one act plays: FOURTH WALL, ENTITY, TERMS & CONDITION and BUTTON are part of Underground Performance Syndicate’s Parallel Universe of Humanity at Trinity Theatre Company in San Diego, taking place March 13-29. Find out more below! In addition, Misuraca’s newest…
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SPOTLIGHT: John Whittier Treat
John Whittier Treat, author of “WATERLOO”, which was published in the Summer 2025 issue of Eleventh Hour, has his novel, “The Seventh City of Refuge” out this fall from Phylum Press! “The Seventh City of Refuge” is a contemplation of modern risk set among survivalists in rural eastern Washington State. John Whittier Treat has won the…
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SPOTLIGHT: Ari Blatt
Ari Blatt, who wrote “JUST A LITTLE NATURAL TRAGEDY,” for the Winter 2026 issue of Eleventh Hour, is teaching a weekend writing workshop with the Hoffman Center for the Arts in Oregon on March 21 titled “Writing from the Perspectives of the More-than-Human World.” Her short stories have been nominated for the 2026 Best Small…
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SPOTLIGHT: Marie Anne Arreola
Marie Anne Arreola, whose poem, “BETA” was featured in the Winter 2026 issue of Eleventh Hour, has her debut novel, “Sparks of the liberating spirit who trapped us,” releasing within the year from Foreshore Publishing (UK). In addition, her directorial debut short film, Aterrizaje Lunar, is entering its exhibition stage. Arreola is a Rotten Tomatoes…
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SPOTLIGHT: Douglas W. Milliken
Our friend, Douglas W. Milliken, author of “Longing V. Worth“ (published in our most recent issue), has news to share! He was recently featured on a Maine-based radio show called “Random Rules”, which aired an interview regarding his newest book, Any Less You. Some topics covered include: growing up in Aroostook County, memory, grief and, naturally,…
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SPOTLIGHT: Robert Miner
Congratulations to Robert Miner — whose piece “Self-Portrait In A Lacemaker’s Hands” was published in our second issue — and who has just had a recent publication in Burningwood Literary Journal titled “The general’s family selects an earth spirit for his mausoleum”. To read the piece, click the link below! In other big news for…
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SPOTLIGHT: Heather Ostman
Our next contributor spotlight highlights the excellent academic work of Heather Ostman, who published “Water Wheel” with us back in our very first issue! Just last week, Routledge published her new book, Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Religion, and the Search for Grace, exploring selected texts by four major American authors: Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sojourner Truth…
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SPOTLIGHT: Bill Garvey
We are excited to help announce that one of our contributors, Bill Garvey, author of “The Secret”, published in Issue 2.1, will have a full collection of poetry published this April with DarkWinter Press. Titled Leaning in the same direction, the collection is a poetic portrait of the people and places that make Canada a…
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SPOTLIGHT: Jake La Botz
Jake La Botz, who wrote “V-NECKS” for our Winter 2026 issue, has his debut short-story collection “Your Place in This World” coming this April from Cornerstone Press. Congratulations, Jake, and we encourage you all to check out another lovely literary magazine/publisher at the link below! If you’ve been published in Eleventh Hour Literary, we’d love to hear…
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