Lights up on the stage of the Chaddick Theatre in Atlanta, GA. It’s 7PM on August 9, 2024, the opening night of Aaron Levy’s new play, The Student Body. Where do you find yourself?

Jesse Graves’s first collection of poetry Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine was awarded the 2011 Weatherford Award in Poetry from Berea College, the Book of the Year in Poetry Award from the Appalachian Writers’ Association, and the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing. More recently, Tennessee Landscape was celebrated with a tenth Anniversary edition, one that included new poems and an introduction from acclaimed poet Matthew Wimberley.

Now, the Walmart is burned down. Wooden boards block the windows of Wally World, and cardboard fences surround the perimeter.

In this conversation, Mona Susan Power talks about her writing career, the power of fiction, and her latest novel A Council of Dolls with Kennesaw State University Professor Miriam Brown Spiers.

Mountain Madness by Clinton Crockett Peters is a collection of essays detailing the author’s hiking treks in both Japan, during his tenure as a twenty-something English teacher, and in the United States during his time as an outdoor guide. His essays weave together both the physical details of his outdoor adventures and the emotional reflections and meanings of these experiences more than a decade later.

Dr. Andrew Plattner sat with author and The Headlight Review 2021 chapbook prize winner, Lisa Alletson, to discuss her new collection, Good Mother Lizard.

When I first heard of Tony Grooms, I was in an undergrad English class at KSU several years ago. One of the books on the reading list was Bombingham. Being from Birmingham, Alabama, I knew a lot about the Civil Rights Movement and the events that took place, so I was already excited to read it.

The Headlight Review staff conducted this interview with best-selling author and Kennesaw State MAPW professor Garrard Conley concerning the banning of his memoir Boy Erased in the state of Texas.

THR Poetry Editor Tyra Douyon reports on Chioma Urama’s epic collection in this poetic and historical exploration of dispossession and kinship—“because nothing, like the memory of water, is ever lost.”

Kaylee Westra’s take on Anjali Enjeti’s new essay collection.

Crystal Wilkins deep dives into Joanna Rose’s novel.

Our Managing Editor, Laura Metzger, caught up with THR’s Chapbook Prize judge Tina Mozelle Braziel to figure out how, when, and why she writes, and what you can do to find inspiration in the little things.

Visual Artist Virginia Moore has two things in common with Pop Art Icon Andy Warhol. She’s a Pittsburgh, PA native and she has been involved with printmaking for a very long time.