John Staughton, Senior Reviewer

A lyrical playground of emotive recollections, Copper Child: Poems by Emma Mnaya-Buzy is an homage to innocence, self-confidence, love, and growth. Interspersed with vivid images that are both stunning and simple, mirroring the delicate and lilting language of the verse, readers are gently guided through meditations on mortality, rebirth, nature’s beauty, femininity, and the power of speech – a wide-ranging series of topics that manages to be thematically consistent. Wielding symbolic stories and universal metaphors with grace and creativity, Mnaya-Buzy imbues each poem with a visceral sense of magic and history, for a stunning and well-curated collection.

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A frightening novel about America’s potential future, The Serpent Underneath by Julie A. Fragoules is a grim prophecy of societal collapse, and a rough-cut vision of what chaos might follow. Driven by a three-dimensional cast of familiar characters – selfless social warriors, manipulative power-mongers, incompetent politicians, and bedfellows of desperation – the post-apocalyptic narrative borders on allegorical, for a powerfully written literary warning. Further strengthening the prose is Fragoules’ masterful ear for dialogue, as well as her clear fluency in social, political, ecological, and philosophical issues, both current and imminent, resulting in a prescient and engrossing work of speculative fiction.[…]