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The Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition series represents an attempt to foster a nationwide conversation—beginning with journal editors, but expanding to teachers, scholars and workers across the discipline of Rhetoric and Composition—to select essays that showcase the innovative and transformative work now being published in the field's journals.

Announced Monday, June 8, 2026 by the Governor-General of Australia, Graeme Harper, whose latest work of fiction (writing as Brooke Biaz) is Robots and Other People (Parlor, 2026), has been awarded the Order of Australia (AM).

The journal Survive and Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine will devote a special section to a forthcoming issue to Steven B. Katz's Plato's Nightmare and invites submissions no later than July 1, 2026. The journal invites diverse voices (scholars, poets, artists) celebrating, interrogating, expanding, and transforming Katz's work in this complex and remarkable book. Read more >>

Congratulations to Liane Malinowski, whose book City Housekeeping: Women’s Labor Rhetorics and Spaces for Solidarity, 1886-1911 has earned Honorable Mention for the CFSHRC Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award. The book appears in Parlor Press's Studies in Rhetorics and Femisms series now edited by Jessica Enoch and Sharon Yam. Cheryl Glenn and Shirley Wilson Logan, the founding editors of the series, were the editors when City Housekeeping was published.

This story about Judith Chernaik's forty-year "Poems on the Underground" program in London ran in the New York Times this morning: How a New Yorker Put Poetry on the London Underground  [Free Article]. Sara Chernaik contacted Parlor Press last year to ask permission to display Jeongyre Choi's "Forest" from her collection Instances (2011). We said yes, of course. It's a beautiful poem. The ingredients of perfection are there from the start, waiting for the right moment, a light, or a shadow.