Blue Lion Days Launch Reading

Blue Lion Days by CB Anderson is the winner of the 2022-2023 Jeanne Leiby Chapbook Award and is published by The Florida Review. Join us for a reading (on Zoom) with the author and a conversation with the writer Louie Cronin on Thursday, August 15th at 7:30PM (EDT).

You can sign up for the event at our eventbrite page here. And you can purchase a copy of the chapbook here.

CB Anderson’s work has appeared in Narrative Magazine, North American Review, Electric Literature, The Iowa Review, and others. The New Yorker included her book Home Now (2019) in “Briefly Noted,” and a fiction collection River Talk was a Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2014. Awards include the 2022 Winning Writers Tom Howard fiction prize, the Crazyhorse Prize, and 2nd place in the Zoetrope: All-Story fiction competition. Anderson leads workshops around the U.S. and has taught at Boston University and the University of Tampa. She loves ocean swimming, scotch, and karaoke— generally in that order. Visit her at cbanderson.net.

Louie Cronin’s first novel, Everyone Loves You Back, published in 2016, made the ‘best of’ lists for Book Riot and Writer’s Bone, was featured in Poets and Writers “5 over 50,” and was a semifinalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her recently finished second novel, The New Dunster Review, is a tragi-comic tale about bullying, plagiarism, crazy mothers, and long-lost love. Louie is a graduate of the Creative Writing Program at Boston University. For ten years, she worked as a writer and producer for Car Talk on NPR, where she was known as Louie Cronin, the Barbarian.