Good morning, everyone. I hope your week has gone well. Here's what we've been up to at Necessary Fiction:

On Monday Emily Webber returned to review Child Of Light by Jesi Bender (Whiskey Tit). 

And on Wednesday our featured story was "The Highway Nanny" by Liza Monroy, a new writer in our pages from whom you can read more via her website.

Elsewhere, contributor William Walsh recently saw The Poems: a novella published by Erratum Press. While Catherine Gammon has a new chapbook titled What is your work? from Almost Perfect Press, a very intriguing and inspiring publishing project undertaken by Brent Nakamoto.

And unfortunately it's a bit far for me to travel in a work week but contributor Ben Tufnell has curated the exhibition After Nature in Somerset, England and it looks like a show I would very much enjoy. Perhaps one of our readers lives nearer and will tell me about it?

Finally, contributor Joshua Jones Lofflin came out recently to hear our fiction editor Lacey Dunham read from her novel The Belles and they took this picture together looking very literary indeed. Here's Lacey's tour calendar if you'd like to come out for a reading yourself, or to join me at her Porter Square Books event in November.

Thanks for reading,

Steve Himmer