Cover reveal! Mixing Yoruba, Nigerian Pidgin, and English, Acre author KÁNYIN Olorunnisola's "Ará’lúèbó" blends linguistic influences, showcasing the expansiveness of the immigrant experience. Preorder your copy at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... 🎉🎉🎉 #poetry #booksky

Happy to receive this wonderful endorsement from the great @elizabethmck.bsky.social, author of one of my favorite novels, The Portable Veblen. When I meet someone who also loves that book, it’s like a delightful secret we share. Please read it! @acrebooks.bsky.social

Applications for the #AWP26 HBCU Fellowship Program close in ONE WEEK! Creative writers from HBCUs are encouraged to apply to this mentorship opportunity and expand their networks at our annual conference. Apply now on our submission portal!

#Fiction enthusiasts and #BrockClarke fans! Check out these upcoming events in celebration of SPECIAL ELECTION! Starting in #Cambridge (Earfull Reading Series) 9/24 followed by #Amherst (Amherst Books) 10/1, #Cincinnati (Merchantile Books) 10/16, and #LittleRock (WordsWorth Books) 10/31. #booksky 📚🎉

Read Jessica Limardo's review of "Defiant Acts" (@acrebooks.bsky.social) James Stewart III’s debut novel, written as a series of slice-of-life vignettes. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/09/19/i...

Make that THREE Acre poets! @marthasilano.bsky.social, @amitmajmudar.bsky.social, and @josehernandezdz.bsky.social! What a way to finish the Best American Poetry Series! 🎉🎉🎉

One month until Range of Motion officially drops from @acrebooks.bsky.social. Happy to share this fantastic blurb from Jonathan Evison. I love his novel The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, which was made into a @netflix.com film starring Paul Rudd.

"The audience is anyone whom language has othered and who are reclaiming and revising the stories that are leveled against them." Acre author @cdeskilson.bsky.social (SCREAM / QUEEN) in an interview with @electricliterature.com. 📚🎉 electricliterature.com/what-if-him-...

"From the first pages of this posthumous collection, #MarthaSilano lets us know that this is not a sober finale, not a familiar self-elegy: these #poems assert and sting with a voice that is very alive..." TERMINAL SURREAL celebrated at @literaryhub.bsky.social. 🎉🎉🎉 lithub.com/mystics-mart...

"Clear. Nuclear. Like the Visible Woman in her plexiglass-clear skin once lied to me I wouldn’t grow to be. One button for her heart to light up red. One for the nervy, branching rivers in her head." Alexandra Teague floods nervy, hot branches of language in this week's miCRo.

Friends in Portland, Maine! Celebrate the release of Acre author Brock Clarke's newest #shortstory collection, SPECIAL ELECTION, on Sept. 18 at 6pm! Back Cove Books. Link for details. 🎉📚🖊️ backcovebooks.com?q=h.calevents

Many thanks to those of you who helped launch @marthasilano.bsky.social's TERMINAL SURREAL! Here's her book trailer courtesy of @shelf-awareness.com! 📚💜🎉 #poetry www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

@carolynroliver.bsky.social's "#poetry is a wunderkammer, a packed cabinet of natural treasures & intricate puzzlements...[In THE ALCESTIS MACHINE], closeness is not the only connection. Form contains emptiness. Love encloses absence." New review at On the Seawall! 🎉 www.ronslate.com/on-the-alces...

#Brooklyn! Join the Rally Reading Series at Pete's Candy Store on Thursday, Oct. 2nd, 2025, for an evening of art and activism with Irvin Weathersby Jr., Leila Taylor, and Acre author @thrj32.bsky.social (DEFIANT ACTS). Link for details! 📚🎉🖊️ www.rallyreadingseries.com/schedule

A very special congratulations today to two friends of the magazine: former Assistant Editor @hollicarrell.bsky.social 's debut, APOSTASIES, releases today from @perugiapress.bsky.social , alongside contributor (& former UC faculty member) Brock Clarke's SPECIAL ELECTION from @acrebooks.bsky.social

Here’s my poem, “Barcelona, 1933,”published in The Westchester Review, from my forthcoming book, “The Lighthouse Tattoo,” (Acre Books, fall 2026). www.westchesterreview.com/jose-hernand...

Another book birthday — Survivor’s Notebook is two today. Thank you to @acrebooks.bsky.social & to readers 🙏🏻 “[A] deeply compelling portrait of life as a cancer survivor . . . [O’Brien] understands how our human songs are ‘made melodic with pain.’” ― Plume Poetry press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Counting down to the publication of @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social's stunning #novel, RANGE OF MOTION! 🎉🎉🎉

"She did not try to make each pot unique, did not sign them. This was not that kind of art." This week's miCRo is an ekphrastic prose poem by Matthew Thorburn. Read more at our site; link in thread.

We're a little late to @clmporg.bsky.social's Great Lakes spotlight, but delighted to see Acre author @thejs3.bsky.social's DEFIANT ACTS featured on the list! 🎉🎉🎉 www.clmp.org/news/great-l...

@carolynroliver.bsky.social's "#poetry is a wunderkammer, a packed cabinet of natural treasures & intricate puzzlements...[In THE ALCESTIS MACHINE], closeness is not the only connection. Form contains emptiness. Love encloses absence." New review at On the Seawall! 🎉 www.ronslate.com/on-the-alces...

Want to get a behind-the-scenes peek into how we edit? Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman appears on today's episode of the Page Count podcast, courtesy of Cleveland Public Library's Ohio Center for the Book!

ICYMI! New #novel forthcoming: Jerry Gabriel's DESERTERS! Details below. 🎉🎉🎉

Counting down to the publication of @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social's stunning #novel, RANGE OF MOTION! 🎉🎉🎉

"I’m drawn back to these places, these ruins, because they form the imagistic, psychological core of me, but I also don’t want them to become anyone else’s porn. Take your camera elsewhere, part of me whispers" Now on our site, a craft essay by Maya Jewell Zeller; link in thread

Happy book anniversary to Acre #poet @bydanobrien.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉

We're a little late to @clmporg.bsky.social's Great Lakes spotlight, but delighted to see Acre author @thejs3.bsky.social's DEFIANT ACTS featured on the list! 🎉🎉🎉 www.clmp.org/news/great-l...

That was fast! Submissions to the print journal are now CLOSED. miCRo submissions (of pieces 500 words or fewer) remain open. Visit our submissions page for more details.

Flashback Friday! Why not finish the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social with @jessejohnson.bsky.social's METABOLICS, a 2024 Oregon Book Award Finalist and California Review of Books Outstanding #Poetry Book? For more on this innovative debut, visit press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo.... 🎉🎉🎉

I'm beyond thrilled to finally share some amazing news. My second full-length collection, Alchemy of Nests, will be published by @acrebooks.bsky.social in 2027. Thank you to Lisa Ampleman and Nicola Mason for selecting this manuscript and for already being wonderful editors / collaborators.

"By the end of class half the goldfish were dead, / and Mr. K had to collect their bodies into a / white plastic bucket used for dirty mop water." This week's miCRo by Ting Lin captures both that back-to-school feeling and the violence of coming-of-age. buff.ly/KZDCJ3j

"From the first pages of this posthumous collection, #MarthaSilano lets us know that this is not a sober finale, not a familiar self-elegy: these #poems assert and sting with a voice that is very alive..." TERMINAL SURREAL celebrated at @literaryhub.bsky.social. 🎉🎉🎉 lithub.com/mystics-mart...

Please join us as we celebrate the publication of @marthasilano.bsky.social's posthumous collection. Friends and admirers will read via Zoom from TERMINAL SURREAL Tues, Sept 2, at 8 p.m. Register at tinyurl.com/b4vvc6ju. Hosted by Acre's #Poetry Editor @lisaampleman.bsky.social. 📚🎉💜

Preorder your copy of @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social's funny and fearless #novel, RANGE OF MOTION, at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...! 🎉📚

Happy Pub Day to TERMINAL SURREAL and the beautiful soul that will always be Martha Silano 🩷💜 @marthasilano.bsky.social @acrebooks.bsky.social

ICYMI! New #novel forthcoming: Jerry Gabriel's DESERTERS! Details below. 🎉🎉🎉

Please join us as we celebrate the publication of @marthasilano.bsky.social's posthumous collection. Friends and admirers will read via Zoom from TERMINAL SURREAL Tues, Sept 2, at 8 p.m. Register at tinyurl.com/b4vvc6ju. Hosted by Acre's #Poetry Editor @lisaampleman.bsky.social. 📚🎉💜

We are once again OPEN for submissions to both our print journal and miCRo! We strongly encourage you to submit to the print journal within the next day or so, as we tend to reach our cap just days after opening up.

Flashback Friday! Why not finish the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social with @jessejohnson.bsky.social's METABOLICS, a 2024 Oregon Book Award Finalist and California Review of Books Outstanding #Poetry Book? For more on this innovative debut, visit press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo.... 🎉🎉🎉

Attention #Nashville! Mark your calendars for this exciting event on October 3 with Acre author @thejs3.bsky.social (DEFIANT ACTS) at The Porch! Link for details! 🎉🎉🎉 www.porchtn.org/happenings/t...

Drumroll please: Acre Books is pleased to welcome #fiction writer and winner of the Towson / Mary McCarthy prizes #JerryGabriel (DROWNED BOY, THE LET GO) into the fold! Gabriel's #novel, DESERTERS, is forthcoming in May 2026! 📚🎉📚🎉📚🎉

"It's what we do with the empty that defines us. It's what we fill those spaces with that either rebuilds us or destroys us. " ~ @athenadixon.bsky.social

Sept. 6, 2025, at the Brown Foundation Theater #Houston, Asia Society Texas presents "When the World Fractures: Voices from Isolation," including Acre author @amitmajmudar.bsky.social (BLACK AVATAR and THE GREAT GAME). Link for details! 🎉🎉🎉 #poetry jlflitfest.org/houston/about

"the thin blank beach is survival, & so we run around the edges playing, building sandcastles, erasing thoughts of what could destroy us..." This week's miCRo is "Fascism," by Mark Strohschein, an ekphrastic prose poem about Kazimir Malevich’s 1915 painting, Black Square. Link in thread:

Preorder your copy of @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social's funny and fearless #novel, RANGE OF MOTION, at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...! 🎉📚

it’s Friday after Night Light — you know what that means! the recording of last night’s beautiful reading is now online — check out the link in the thread to listen; it was such an honor to host & hear these poets!! cc: @cdeskilson.bsky.social, @unionherald.bsky.social, & @quasireader.bsky.social

A little secret is that you can’t know who buys (and doesn’t buy) your book because of your online presence. But being kind probably helps.

Thanks, everyone, for your tremendous response and kind notes about Martha! The window for voice submissions is now closed. We look forward to sharing the results. You can still preorder TERMINAL SURREAL (coming Sept.) at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo.... 💜

Congrats to Acre author @josehernandezdz.bsky.social on his inclusion in Best American Poetry 2025! 🎉🎉🎉