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Photo Credit: Elizabeth CodyWe complete our Holiday Sampler series with a pesky li’l sample from Acre’s first poetry offering—by T. R. Hummer—about which Derek Mong recently noted: “The pleasure of After the Afterlife is in watching a masterful American poet try to...
In Part 5 of Acre’s Holiday Sampler, we check in with Jenn Scott, whose story collection, Her Adult Life, just made the longlist for the PEN America Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. In the passage Jenn selected, two restaurant staffers and antagonists—the...
We continue our review of Acre’s 2018 titles with The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist—a novel that the Los Angeles Review of Books aptly described as “not so much a character study or psychological novel as a meditation on the power of pain—the...
We continue to look back at our premiere year’s titles. This time out we’re featuring Sara Kersting, another debut Acre author, whose taut mystery/psychological thriller DUTY TO WARN, released this October, garnered a starred review from FOREWORD, which called it...
We continue our year-in-review offering with a look at another of Acre’s four debut titles from 2018—Ethan Chatagnier’s Warnings from the Future, a story collection that Kirkus called out as having “real emotional intelligence.” For the sampler, Chatagnier chose a...
It’s been quite an inaugural year for Acre. We’ve put into the world six terrific books—two poetry volumes, two story collections, and two novels—three of them debut titles from brilliant new voices. For your holiday reading pleasure, we’ve asked our 2018 authors to...
Two pieces from Ethan Chatagnier’s Warnings from the Future are thoughtfully examined in Craft‘s A Closer Look feature. Of “Coyote,” Laura Spence-Ash writes: “When there are multiple POVs in a story (or a novel), it is often difficult to know on whose POV the story...
XXXXT. R. Hummer’s “Glass Ceiling,” from his new volume After the Afterlife, nabs a feature spot on Poetry Daily. The collection, just released, is available through SPD, Amazon, and oh so many other places. E-books can be purchased on Acre’s website.
Nicola Mason: Decades ago I went into publishing, not just because I love literature, but because I love copyediting. There’s a special pleasure in immersing myself in a writer’s style and syntax, the world of their story, essay, poem, or novel. My enjoyment is...