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Call for books with an April 2021 release date

Hi, all! Last chance to tell me if you have a book dropping in April for my Most Anticipated list at The Coil! Link your April book below, or tag authors or books coming out in April!

My debut novel was longlisted for the Chaucer Book Award

My debut novel, OUT FRONT THE FOLLOWING SEA (forthcoming from Regal House in spring 2022), has made the longlist for the Chaucer Book Award (for pre-1750s historical fiction).

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My debut novel slated for spring 2022 publication

I am thrilled to announce that my debut novel, Out Front the Following Sea, has been picked up for publication in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook for a spring 2022 release from Regal House Publishing. Out Front the Following Sea is a literary historical of 1689 Connecticut Colony during King William’s War between French and English settlers, from the viewpoint of a young couple—one French and one English—torn apart by warring sides, adultery, and treason, and thrown in with an unruly cast of Quakers, Pequot Indians, soldiers, witch hunters, and highwaymen. To find out more, stay tuned to https://www.leahangstman.com/2020/05/....

Pushcart Nomination for “The many deaths of the wives”

I'm proud to say that my poem, “The many deaths of the wives,” about the 1800s actor M. B. Curtis and his wife Marie, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editor of Likely Red, where the piece was first published. For the uninitiated, the Pushcart Prize is an annual anthology compiled by veteran editors who read and review thousands of pieces submitted from editors of other presses. Every press in the world is invited to submit their best pieces from the calendar year for consideration for the award, and Likely Red chose to nominate my poem. You can see the nomination announcement HERE, and read the poem for free online HERE.

Finalist in the Cowles Poetry Book Prize

I’m thrilled to say that my poetry collection, Reverse Migration: not coming home, about my Midwestern farm and childhood and the region in general, was a placed Finalist in the Cowles Poetry Book Prize, awarded from Southeast Missouri State University Press. The announcement of the winner and finalists can be read HERE.

“An examination of one endangered Scarlet Loosestrife” in Fall Lines Vol IV

My poem, “An examination of one endangered Scarlet Loosestrife,” about the endangered wildflowers of Wisconsin, was published in Volume IV of Fall Lines. The issue is available in and around Columbia, South Carolina, and can be found at Tapp’s Arts Center or purchased online through the Jasper Project here. The poem was a Finalist in the Saluda River Prize for Poetry, chosen by poet Ray McManus, and selected for the issue by Columbia Poet Laureate, Dr. Ed Madden. Fall Lines is a literary project of Jasper Magazine, Richland Library, One Columbia, and University of South Carolina Press.

"The haunting of the Oatman Hotel" in New Mexico Review

I'm excited to say that my poem, "The haunting of the Oatman Hotel," which is part of my poetry collection of women who died to soon, The sighs of women becoming, has been published in issue #1 of The New Mexico Review. It is a poem about the ghosts of Irish miners, chambermaids, and honeymooners Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, who haunt an out-of-the-way hotel in a rundown mining town, once a thriving Route 66 attraction. You can read my poem, alongside the other fantastic pieces, here.