The Linden Review is hosting a virtual launch party to celebrate the publication of its upcoming sixth issue! The event will be via Zoom on December 10 at 7:00 p.m. CST, and it will feature readings by Edwina Shaw, Jason Thornberry, and Alina Gharabegian. The reading can be accessed using this link: https://unomaha.zoom.us/j/93232921707.

Edwina Shaw is an Australian author and editor of fiction, memoir, and screenplays. She is the author of A Guide Through Grief, Thrill Seekers, In the Dark of Night and over forty short pieces that have appeared in literary journals and anthologies including Best Australian Stories. She is the editor of Bjelke Blue and Hard As, and co-editor of Our Inside Voices. Her screenplay M was awarded Screen Queensland funding. She holds a master’s degree in creative writing and has been teaching creative writing at university and in the community for over eighteen years. She also runs Relax and Write Retreats and is co-director of Transformational Writing Retreats.

Jason M. Thornberry is a disabled writer whose work appears in JMWW, Letters Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. His first novel and a memoir are currently being considered by publishing houses. He teaches creative nonfiction at Seattle Pacific University. Jason lives in Seattle with his wife and dog. Find him @thornberryjm. You can read more of his work on his website.

Alina Gharabegian is an American Armenian, raised in a diasporic community in Los Angeles. Trained as a Victorianist, she lives in New York City and works in New Jersey as an English professor. She is an emerging creative writer whose work has appeared online in publications such as Still Point Arts Quarterly, Vita Poetica, Unleash Creatives, and Subprimal Poetry. Her passions include poetry and the tango.