Congratulations to Nancy Au, first place winner of Redivider Magazine’s Blurred Genre Contest. You can read her winning piece, “Walks Like a Lion,” on their website.
Nancy Au Wins First Place in Redivider Contest
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Acre Author Matthew Kirkpatrick Reading at Literati Bookstore
Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, MI, hosts authors Matthew Kirkpatrick and Joe Sacksteder in support of their latest work, The Ambrose J. and Vivian T. Seagrave Museum of 20th Century American Art and Make/Shift: Stories, respectively. The event is free and open to...
Museum Exhibit Labels as Fiction: “Pulp” Interviews Matthew Kirkpatrick
Check out a new interview in Pulp with Matthew Kirkpatrick, author of The Ambrose J. and Vivian T. Seagrave Museum of 20th Century American Art (released in 2019 by Acre). In the novel, the secrets and dramas of a museum unfold through exhibit labels alongside the...
New Poems in The Rumpus from Faylita Hicks
While you wait for Faylita Hicks’ powerful poetry collection, HoodWitch, check out her poems published today in The Rumpus: “All It Took to Get to You,” “For The White Girl in the Poetry Workshop Who Says I Don’t Belong Here,” and “Lil’ Mama Gets High.” The chances...
Poetry Collections by LGBTQIA+ Writers: Faylita Hicks’ HoodWitch
Image from BustleDon’t miss Acre’s mention in a new list from Bustle: 26 New Poetry Collections By LGBTQIA+ Writers to Look Out For in 2019. HoodWitch by Faylita Hicks will be released on October 15 from Acre and is available to buy now on our website. Bustle writes a...
Making a Splash: Acre’s Feature in Cincinnati Magazine
This week we’re thanking Cincinnati Magazine for Alyssa Konermann’s feature on Acre Books, including a conversation with Acre editor Nicola Mason. “We are interested in innovation, combining genres, hybrid forms,” Mason says in the interview, “and the idea that we can...
Curious About Our Covers? Joanna Pearson’s EVERY HUMAN LOVE
CORPUS—by Boston-based artist Daniel Alexander SmithCurious about our covers? Joanna Pearson’s EVERY HUMAN LOVE features a work—titled CORPUS—by Boston-based artist Daniel Alexander Smith. About the intriguing project, Smith says: “‘Corpus’ means ‘body,’ but also...
Acre’s Coming Attractions
Six titles coming at you in 2019! To learn more, view our Coming Attractions trailer. . . .
Three Foreword INDIES finalists for Acre!
Three of Acre’s titles made the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year finalist lists—Ethan Chatagnier’s Warnings from the Future (short stories), Michael Downs’s The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist (historical), Sara Kersting’s Duty to Warn...
Kirkus and Foreword Review EVERY HUMAN LOVE
We’re excited by the two terrific prepub reviews of Joanna Pearson’s Every Human Love, which will appear this May. Kirkus calls the collection “Intriguing and satisfying.” And Foreword’s review (due out in their May/June issue) reads: Imaginative and haunting, Every...