Jan Rider Newman | Writer ~ Editor

The latest issue of Swamp Lily Review, which I publish and co-edit, is published today. Click through to it HERE and enjoy photographs by Frank DiCesare, poetry by Stella Nesanovich, Michael P. McManus, Gina Ferrara, and Kasandra Larsen, plus an amazing interview with award-winning playwright Tony Kushner. Do not miss, and tell...
The end of all roads is risk . . . The End of All Roads, 70,000 words, is a character-driven paranormal YA novel set in sixteenth century Hungary. Elsebet Nagy is seventeen, a thief with a gift for premonition. She wants a place where she and her family can live together in peace and plenty, but stealing a magic locket, the...
PUBLICATIONS Book reviews on the following websites: The Best Damn Creative Writing Blog, LitStack, and The New Book Review. A Small, Good Magazine, 1/4/2012, short story titled “Bread Alone”; Magnolia Blossoms and Afternoon Tales, 2010, short story titled “The Children of...
I was born and raised in south central Louisiana, in the heart of Cajun country. My family were farmers and oilfield workers, most of whom spoke Cajun French as a first language, English as a second — if at all. I grew up surrounded by rice fields and gravel roads, which I roamed all summer. I earned a Master of Fine Arts...

These are holy places, and to reach them I must travel a narrow road blocked with many obstacles, vanquish the beasts of imagination that jump out into my path. Isabel Allende

Recent Work

I work on something different every day. In the fall of 2011 I finished a fantasy novel set in 16th-century Hungary titled The End of All Roads and started 2012 with the search for an agent. On January 4 I published a flash fiction piece, "Bread Alone," at A Small, Good Magazine.