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As part of our 2020 titles’ relaunching campaign in response to canceled events and divided attention due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, this reading ALSO features the authors of all our 2019 books, making this lineup a force to be reckoned with. The reading will...
It seems like every other week we’re posting about a new recognition for Faylita Hicks’s revolutionary debut poetry collection HoodWitch. This time the book is a finalist for the Balcones Poetry Prize! Check out the list of other finalists (for the poetry as well as...
We at Acre are absolutely thrilled that Faylita Hicks’s HoodWitch has been named one of nine finalists for the Julie Suk Award for the best book of poetry published by a literary press in 2019. Cue mad applause for the amazing Faylita Hicks and her brilliant debut...
The third event in the Further Notice Virtual Reading Series will take place on Tuesday, March 31 at 8PM CST / 9PM EST and will feature two Acre authors: Faylita Hicks, author of HoodWitch, and Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, author of the newly released The Tilt Torn Away...
To all of our fans at the AWP conference this week and weekend: we would love for you to make it to as many Acre-related events as possible. Here’s a schedule for your convenience. We hope to see you! Thursday, March 5 11–11:30AM, Elizabeth Lindsey...
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...
Acre’s Assistant Poetry Editor Shara Lessley launched the #SeptWomenPoets hashtag (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook) as a way to create an online book club where readers share selections and covers from books by women poets. The challenge has encouraged readers to...
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...
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...