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Congratulations to poet and activist Faylita Hicks, author of HoodWitch, on having her poem “Girl 1994: Gawd” featured in Sundress Publication’s Best of the Net poetry awards for 2019! Originally published by The Cincinnati Review, “Girl 1994: Gawd” is also included...
“A quiet, thoughtful story about coming-of-age at middle age.” Kirkus released a starred review of Big Familia by Tomas Moniz, coming November 2019 from Acre Books. This is a story of making family and making mistakes, of rending and of mending. As a Latinx queer...
Bitch Media listed Faylita Hicks’ upcoming poetry collection HoodWitch today in a list of “7 Books by Queer Black Writers to Read in Honor of James Baldwin’s Birthday.” They write that: HoodWitch examines what power looks like when reclaimed by Black women and...
Excerpt from the starred Kirkus reviewCongratulations to Nancy Au and her upcoming short story collection, Spider Love Song and Other Stories, for receiving a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. You can read the full review here and preorder the book on our website....
Did you know that Hannah Dow’s poetry collection Rosarium was a The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed pick from Sundress Publications this spring? The Wardrobe highlights a collection through the lens of a single poem, picking their favorite spotlights for “Best Dressed.” In...
Many thanks to Foreword Reviews for their starred review of Nancy Au’s upcoming short fiction collection Spider Love Song and Other Stories, which will appear in their September/October issue. Spider Love Song and Other Stories includes seventeen stories that tread...
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.
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...
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...
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...