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...
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Sneak Preview: Sara Kersting Interview in Buffalo Spree
Below is a sneak peak of an interview with Sara Kersting, author of Duty to Warn, a multi-perspective novel about mysterious inner lives and the incorrect assumptions we can make about even those closest to us. I never meant to write a novel. I was quite happy...
Nancy Au Wins First Place in Redivider Contest
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.
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...
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...
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!
Hicks: Three Powerful Essays and a Micro
Faylita Hicks, whose debut poetry collection, HoodWitch, is forthcoming from Acre this October, has published three powerful essays of late—one in Slate, one in HuffPost, and one in the Texas Observer. And Cincinnati Review selected her work for its weekly Micro...
Dow in San Francisco Chronicle
XXXXThanks to David Roderick and the San Francisco Chronicle for this thoughtful look at Hannah Dow’s “Postcard from the Salton Sea”!
Interview with Hannah Dow
XXXXAn absorbing exchange between two wonderfully insightful poets, Hannah Dow and Danielle Cadena Deulen. Thanks, Oxford Writers’ House! Read A Piece of Oneself into the World.