NEWS & EVENTS
A War Boys Exclusive in People Magazine.
A War Boys Exclusive in Daily Mail.
Jason’s interview with Linda Button for The Rumpus.
Jason spoke to the Oberlin Club of DC about War Boys.
War Boys featured on lovethebook.com.
Jason spoke about War Boys with Susan Ruth on the Hey Human podcast, July 2026.
Jason spoke about War Boys with Tom Barnas on the Stories from the 78 podcast, July 2026.
Cognoscenti published an interview by Alysia Abbott with Jason about War Boys, July 2026.
Memoir Land published an interview with Jason about War Boys, July 2026.
Jason talks about War Boys (Part 2) with K.L. Wells on the Thrive While Loving an Addict podcast, July 2026.
Open Secrets magazine published an excerpt from War Boys for Father’s Day, June 2026.
Jason talks about War Boys with Deanna Powell on the Intrepid Storytelling podcast, June 2026
Jason talks about War Boys with K.L. Wells on the Thrive While Loving an Addict podcast, June 2026.
Jason’s conversation with Emily May about War Boys for Hippocampus Magazine, June 2026.
Jason’s conversation with Mary Elis Therin about War Boys for Lunch Ticket, June 2026.
Jason talks about War Boys with Melvin Edwards on the Stories from Real Life podcast, May 2026.
Jason’s interview with Trinity McFadden for Trio House Press about War Boys, April 2026.
Jason’s interview about War Boys with Stevie Billow for the Straw Dog Writers Guild, March 2026
An original song by Polybanderous, inspired by War Boys, March 2026.
Jason’s interview about War Boys with Kathleen Alcalá for the SoundPages Podcast, February 2026.
Jason’s interviewwith 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
Upcoming:
Jason kicks off his west coast tour for War Boys at Elliot Bay Book Company on September 8, 2026 at 7:00 pm with Bill Hollands.
Jason will be with Becky Ellis at Broadway Books in Portland on September 9 at 7:00 pm.
Join Jason and Bud Gundy at Fabulosa Books in San Franscisco on Sept 14 at 7 p.m.
Jason will be in conversation with Edan Lepucki at Fables & Fancies in LA on Sept 17 at 6:00 pm.
Jason will be in conversation with Ricardo Zegri about War Boys at Alibi Books in Vallejo, CA on Sept. 18 at 7:00 p.m.
More dates coming soon! Check back here for updates.
PAST:
Jason was in conversation with Brian Truong at Unnamable Books in Brooklyn on August 21 as part of the River Reading Series.
Jason joined Stevie Billow for a conversation about War Boys at East City Bookshop in DC on August 20.
Jason joined Lynne Marie Rosenberg at the New York Public Library on August 19 for a discussion about War Boys.
Jason joined Steve Crowley for a talk about War Boys for the Oberlin DC Alum Group (remote) on August 4.
Jason met booksellers at the New Voice New Rooms conference in Baltimore on August 3.
Jason spoke with Sara Faith Alterman at Barnes & Noble in Enfield, CT on July 25, 2026.
Jason read some of his terrible angsty Queer teen poetry at Mortified on July 24, 2026 at WBUR’s CitySpace in Boston.
Jason was in conversation with Alysia Abbott about War Boys at Belmont Books on July 16, 2026.
The War Boys launch event took place on the Writers’ Stage at GrubStreet/Porter Square Books-Boston Edition on July 1, 2026.
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.