Literary Arts announces the 2025 Oregon Book Award finalists, including Survival Tips for The Ken Kesey Award for Fiction.

Judge, the_lit_dog reviews (and licks) Survival Tips

Brown Bag Lit in conversation with Stephanie Austin: “Writing toward complication: tangled relationships in fiction and nonfiction”

UO Today: interview from the Oregon Humanities Center at University of Oregon

rob mclennan’s blog: 12 or 20 questions with Miriam Gershow

Bookmonger: Short Stories Reflect a Troubled World

Jonesy on KBOO radio: “On today's episode, we welcome Miriam Gershow, author of the new story collection Survival Tips, from Portland’s Propeller Books.”

Coffee, Grief, and Gratitude podcast: “Showing Up with Miriam Gershow. Miriam shares two griefs close to her heart: her dad’s death and the death of a dear friend. She talks about how she experienced grief differently with the two of them, how she decided to show up in big ways, and how grief changed her.”

Writers Not Writing podcast: “On this episode, Benjamin Gorman gabs with Miriam Gershow, author of Survival Tips: Stories, The Local News, and (forthcoming 2025) Closer, about Love Is Blind, book tours, and coffee addiction.” Watch the conversation on YouTube.