Dive into Hollywood 'without the frills' with Gigi Bella's exploration of the rising TV and film industry in her home state of New Mexico. Bella invites the reader into her world as a chicana woman and emerging actress. With an earnest and urgent voice, Bella dissects the experiences and treatment of Hispanic people societally and in TV and film-juxtaposed with the eagerness with which the industry moves in on Hispanic communities in New Mexico. without the frills is a beautiful and poignant look at the real people who make entertainment possible-the sorrows, joys, and messy complexities of real lives. So grab your popcorn and prepare to laugh, cry, and rage with Gigi Bella's dynamic, moving collection.

good luck in the real world is a journey through mental health recovery. After a near-suicide attempt, Adrienne Novy was partially hospitalised. Over a year later, her mother suffers a brain bleed. Exploring suicidal ideation, hospitalisation, the burnout from working hospitality and food service, and Novy's fascination with music and pop culture, good luck in the real world explores what we cling to when we learn how to heal and what it means to fall in love with life again.

2024 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest Runner-Up and Winner of The Northern Writers' Debut Poetry Award, Carson Wolfe's Coin Laundry at Midnight is an unfolding highway through gendered violence and queer becoming. Seasoned with fresh and intricate language, Wolfe's work roams the open road in search of the self-uncovering identity in the aftermath of teen parenthood and urban poverty. A British voice wanderlust in America, this gripping chapbook challenges the male road trip narrative, going so far as to resurrect Jack Kerouac, who appears within these pages to minimise the dangers of sex work and speculate about lesbians. A painting of truck headlights and motel parking lots, Coin Laundry at Midnight questions what it means to move through a world that is continuously reinforced as unsafe for women and girls.

Set in Southeast Louisiana-one of the last regions in the contemporary United States to resist full Americanization-Tooth Gaps in the Archives traces how place-based cultural memory persists beyond its disappearing geography and amid a cycle of forced migration, an emerging domestic climate diaspora, and the slow violence enacted against a people whose power has been systematically withheld through regulatory capture. In Tooth Gaps, Louisiana is not rendered as the unlucky exception or a site of tragedy, but as a resource extraction colony, its people asked to disappear quietly to facilitate the commodification and consumption of their land, labor, and culture. Moving between lyric poems and documentary prose, Tooth Gaps drops the reader directly into the speaker's interior and exterior worlds without mediation, creating an immersive, embodied experience that refuses abstraction and distance. From the very first to the very last page, it insists on the body as archive and frames the very existence of the people of Louisiana as an act of resistance.

Tim Raymond's debut novel, Flee, details the life of autistic, grieving Jensen Fisher, who hasn't left his apartment in South Korea in five years. But with a novel pandemic on the rise that's turning humans into beluga whales, he is forced to embark, with his student and cat in tow, on a quest to return to America and his hometown in Wyoming one final time. There's a wonder to the story, even among the devastation.

Phil SaintDenisSanchez's debut collection self-portrait before & after my body tackles complex familial history and struggles, emerging in the rich backdrop of New Orleans, Louisiana. Through multilayered language and immersive imagery, SaintDenisSanchez interweaves political and social issues - from the lasting impacts of colonialism to environmental disaster - with intensely personal narratives of love, learning, and loss. The long, lyrical form and enrapturing poetic voice draw you in and refuse to let you go. self-portrait before & after my body maps a stunningly poignant family tree and gets at the root of the social forces that shaped its growth.

(On Un-)Becoming is a collection of stories, reflections, forgivenesses and offerings rooted in conversations and conflicts with FreeQuency's mother, chosen family & other selves. The anti disciplinary project liberates the concept of 'transitioning' from the realm of Westernised notions of gender and expands explores explodes the concept of (un)becoming in relationship to international Blackness, migration movement, geographic and corporeal displacement, spiritual mental health and the ties between personal and communal transformation.

Dive into Hollywood 'without the frills' with Gigi Bella's exploration of the rising TV and film industry in her home state of New Mexico. Bella invites the reader into her world as a chicana woman and emerging actress. With an earnest and urgent voice, Bella dissects the experiences and treatment of Hispanic people societally and in TV and film-juxtaposed with the eagerness with which the industry moves in on Hispanic communities in New Mexico. without the frills is a beautiful and poignant look at the real people who make entertainment possible-the sorrows, joys, and messy complexities of real lives. So grab your popcorn and prepare to laugh, cry, and rage with Gigi Bella's dynamic, moving collection.

good luck in the real world is a journey through mental health recovery. After a near-suicide attempt, Adrienne Novy was partially hospitalised. Over a year later, her mother suffers a brain bleed. Exploring suicidal ideation, hospitalisation, the burnout from working hospitality and food service, and Novy's fascination with music and pop culture, good luck in the real world explores what we cling to when we learn how to heal and what it means to fall in love with life again.

2024 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest Runner-Up and Winner of The Northern Writers' Debut Poetry Award, Carson Wolfe's Coin Laundry at Midnight is an unfolding highway through gendered violence and queer becoming. Seasoned with fresh and intricate language, Wolfe's work roams the open road in search of the self-uncovering identity in the aftermath of teen parenthood and urban poverty. A British voice wanderlust in America, this gripping chapbook challenges the male road trip narrative, going so far as to resurrect Jack Kerouac, who appears within these pages to minimise the dangers of sex work and speculate about lesbians. A painting of truck headlights and motel parking lots, Coin Laundry at Midnight questions what it means to move through a world that is continuously reinforced as unsafe for women and girls.

Set in Southeast Louisiana-one of the last regions in the contemporary United States to resist full Americanization-Tooth Gaps in the Archives traces how place-based cultural memory persists beyond its disappearing geography and amid a cycle of forced migration, an emerging domestic climate diaspora, and the slow violence enacted against a people whose power has been systematically withheld through regulatory capture. In Tooth Gaps, Louisiana is not rendered as the unlucky exception or a site of tragedy, but as a resource extraction colony, its people asked to disappear quietly to facilitate the commodification and consumption of their land, labor, and culture. Moving between lyric poems and documentary prose, Tooth Gaps drops the reader directly into the speaker's interior and exterior worlds without mediation, creating an immersive, embodied experience that refuses abstraction and distance. From the very first to the very last page, it insists on the body as archive and frames the very existence of the people of Louisiana as an act of resistance.

Tim Raymond's debut novel, Flee, details the life of autistic, grieving Jensen Fisher, who hasn't left his apartment in South Korea in five years. But with a novel pandemic on the rise that's turning humans into beluga whales, he is forced to embark, with his student and cat in tow, on a quest to return to America and his hometown in Wyoming one final time. There's a wonder to the story, even among the devastation.

Phil SaintDenisSanchez's debut collection self-portrait before & after my body tackles complex familial history and struggles, emerging in the rich backdrop of New Orleans, Louisiana. Through multilayered language and immersive imagery, SaintDenisSanchez interweaves political and social issues - from the lasting impacts of colonialism to environmental disaster - with intensely personal narratives of love, learning, and loss. The long, lyrical form and enrapturing poetic voice draw you in and refuse to let you go. self-portrait before & after my body maps a stunningly poignant family tree and gets at the root of the social forces that shaped its growth.

(On Un-)Becoming is a collection of stories, reflections, forgivenesses and offerings rooted in conversations and conflicts with FreeQuency's mother, chosen family & other selves. The anti disciplinary project liberates the concept of 'transitioning' from the realm of Westernised notions of gender and expands explores explodes the concept of (un)becoming in relationship to international Blackness, migration movement, geographic and corporeal displacement, spiritual mental health and the ties between personal and communal transformation.