NEWS & EVENTS

Jason’s interview with the Writing the Past Newsletter, December 2024.

Praise for War Boys:

“War Boys is a riveting and moving tale of survival, trauma, and overcoming the challenges of the past. With cinematic prose, Jason Prokowiew not only deftly conjures his father's childhood orphaned in Nazi-occupied Belarus, he also, with sensitivity and grace, traces the consequences of these early hardships to his own upbringing in America forty years later. By braiding oral history and memoir with meticulous research, War Boys had me in its grip from page one.”

-Edan Lepucki, NYT best-selling author of California and Time’s Mouth

"War Boys is immense in its scope yet surgical in its intimacy. Across this memoir's twin, aching narratives, Jason Prokowiew pulls off something expansive and delicate: an unbelievable story of both one man's survival, and what it meant, later, to come of age in the darkest shadows of it."

-Mike Scalise, author of The Brand New Catastrophe

“In War Boys, Jason Prokowiew excavates his father’s extraordinary wartime childhood and interrogates the ways trauma, grief, and resilience can echo through a family. Tender, open-hearted, and fiercely honest, this beautiful memoir reminds us how the stories we inherit can wound us—and how, in telling them, we begin to heal.”

-Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, NYT best-selling author of The Nest and Good Company

EVENTS

AWP 2026, Baltimore:

March 5, 2026

6-7:30 pm, Renaissance Marriot, Homeland Room, 5th Floor

Meet the Trio House Press Authors

March 6, 2026

2-3 pm, Baltimore Convention Center, Booth 1248

Jason will sign advanced copies of War Boys at the AWP Conference and Book Fair.

7-9 pm, Kimptom Hotel Monaco, Athens Ballroom

Northern Exposure Salon, Jason will read from War Boys alongside other authors from Trio House, EastOver, and Poryphyry presses.