Looking forward to reading at the 2026 WANA Lit Fest

 https://writersassociationofnorthernappalachia.org/?page_id=630

The "Telling the Hard Stories: On Family & Disability" program will feature a discussion & reading from four memoirs about writing about family & living with a disability. Featuring Ona Gritz, Jason Irwin, Anne Kaier, and Daniel Simpson.

 

Jen Ashburn's essay on Annie Dillard: Pittsburgh Review of Books

https://pghrev.com/annie-dillards-tranquility-and-trembling/?fbclid=IwY2xjawUdEh9wZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR5DU77MlK0yM82xk2-D7BVjDIxa4-zpXw71gf21azo8Lpt_r_noCW1tyVZ38g_aem_cDDRCulhyt2Mp7-PL5V8vA 

Life Through Poetry, an interview on Mary Elizabeth Jackson's Cover to Cover

https://pod.co/cover-to-cover/jason-irwin-life-through-poetry 

The 20th Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival, Frostburg, MD

Looking forward to being a part of the 20th Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival!

https://www.frostburg.edu/center-for-literary-arts/Festivals/indie-lit-festival.php

A review of These Fragments I Have Shored by Emily Webber in The Cleaver

https://www.cleavermagazine.com/these-fragments-i-have-shored-by-jason-irwin-reviewed-by-emily-webber/?fbclid=IwY2xjawT8VqtwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR6RM2gJjssI6eupFwLezfsrTeOWShHsLnjz0Kl9U9jN0RwULRo-njsezHPDvw_aem_uX5pl18pEixm1o1SRc6dOw 

Interview with Bill O'Driscoll on WESA 90.5

https://www.wesanews.org/arts-culture/2026-08-18/poet-jason-irwin-memoir-disability-caregiving?fbclid=IwY2xjawTxnBlwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR6XzspoaKn7Fh0y-U9YKEadtoFL_AjE9Y26aoqyaewJO5x5WIbTCOwEizsLMg_aem_zdmrjsM7qWQ5dLoa1VJHtQ 

Authors' Hour at Chautauqua

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTwr-q7mYM 

Jen Ashburn: A Long Unraveling, Vox Populi

https://voxpopulisphere.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/jen-ashburn-a-long-unraveling/?fbclid=IwY2xjawTVdzZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEew4jBVuEKey_x21HFDexxRYzpKDhPIC2TEMN9e41_q-at7xoRFLvusV8LtxA_aem_78ccMgTR_ZVVuB49K1LM1A 

Like a Church Organ Played Through an Ambulance, Reading the Poetry of Gerry Crinnin, in The Pittsburgh Review of Books

https://pghrev.com/like-a-church-organ-played-through-an-ambulance/?fbclid=IwY2xjawTUqNNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeX3kd6lldlRQQUjeajEdDJe_OXPlHVWDIUQX5UEKEQAsUro41-jP1twoMNas_aem_F76F8D6Gx8eu1u298aBFAw 

Two photos in Volume 17 of Trailer Park Quarterly

https://trailerparkquarterly.com/volume-17/?fbclid=IwY2xjawTE6KZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeb913QzKXLjapwdUwa1E-BBx0e8zMb2j7cxRB-8mqmz2Jc7fQ7TsYxPcOVWk_aem_EA-scJnHn-dADECNtkQlBQ