First Rule of Fire by Rebecca Gopoian explores how history can never truly be erased, no matter how hard we try to deny or forget. Told in interwoven narratives, the novel explores the lives of three characters as they seek safety, love, and belonging, beginning in Eastern Turkey 1914, at the start of the Armenian Genocide to 1980’s New Jersey.

An afternoon discussion and writing workshop with the authors of YA novel Tell Me Every Lie

Join Alison Kinney and Jennifer Kabat in a discussion about their new books: Alison Kinney’s The United States of Rejection and Jennifer Kabat’s twin memoirs (it’s a triptych, so stay tuned for #3): The Eighth Moon (2025) and Nightshining (2024).

JOIN US for a SPECIAL LITERARY EVENT to celebrate the publication of Hannah Lillith Assadi’s latest novel, to meet the author, and discuss this important new contribution to the conversations of exile, love, loss, and life.