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
read more
Acre Books Blog
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...
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...
Kirkus Reviews Kirkpatrick
Great KIRKUS review of Acre’s first 2019 title—Matthew Kirkpatrick’s innovative and affecting novel due out next month!
Sneak Peak at Joanna Pearson’s Story Collection
A sample of Joanna Pearson’s stellar writing has just appeared in Ecotone. “Ouro Preto” is among the terrific stories in her collection Every Human Love, due out from Acre this May!
Acre’s Holiday Sampler, Part 5
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...
Acre’s Holiday Sampler, Part 4
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...
Acre’s Holiday Sampler, Part 3
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...