Thank you @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for this chat with christopher oscar peña about my ‘True Story: A Trilogy’ @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social and chris‘s ‘Three Plays’ @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social — & thank you @markarmstrong4.bsky.social @scavengerjunta.bsky.social @lisaampleman.bsky.social 🙏🏻

"I dare you to read this book and not fall a little in love with all these husbands, generic, specific, optimistic, self-taught, and otherwise.”—Nancy Reddy Happy #pubday to Rebecca Hazelton's witty new collection,"Generic Husband." https://bit.ly/generichusband

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.

Keep those August #prose submissions coming! 📚🖊️

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.

Delighted to see Acre #poet @cdeskilson.bsky.social's SCREAM QUEEN among the recommended reads for this year's @sealeychallenge.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #booksky

I have work in the latest issue of @kenyonreview.bsky.social! It's an amazing issue--check it out on their site (behind a sign-in): kenyonreview.org/piece/from-s...

New title, same great editor! To better reflect all she does for CR, Assistant Managing Editor @bess-winter.bsky.social is now our Web and Media Editor!

The next installment of our series on copyediting from @lisaampleman.bsky.social, this time on our practices and how we make choices as we edit: the Five C's, campfires, and more. Link in first comment.

Congrats to @thejs3.bsky.social on the publication of DEFIANT ACTS! “Chicago is a forge for literary realism. Just for starters, Dreiser, Farrell, Brooks, Algren, Wright—a fierce tradition that James Stewart III extends with his debut #novel.” (Stuart Dybek) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... 🎉🎉🎉

Thanks to @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for saying YES to my work again. Thanks to my friend @mfitejohnson.bsky.social whose own abcedarians inspired me. Thanks to @lisaampleman.bsky.social + to @ericadawsonpoet.bsky.social for their support of this poem. It's in my mms ORDINARY SPLENDOR #grateful

I was happy to review a great novel in this folio. Thanks @lisaampleman.bsky.social for the opportunity. I am loving @jscheng.bsky.social ‘s craft essay here and looking forward to reading the others.

I'm no longer letting fear, shame, or power holders police my writing. Thanks @lisaampleman.bsky.social at @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for the invitation to say something about creative #nonfiction & disclosure. Craft #essay includes models & reading list. 💜 tinyurl.com/5f5dhs7x

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SNEAK PREVIEW! We're excited to unveil parts of the new look you'll be seeing very soon as part of our website redesign! Assistant Managing Editor Bess Winter walks us through those choices in another installment of NOTES FROM THE (RE)DESIGN STUDIO. Link in comments.

The debut of our new web series on copyediting! Our managing editor @lisaampleman.bsky.social explains the philosophy behind our choices as copyeditors. Spoiler: We strive to keep all changes in the writer’s style and to have an ethos of collaboration rather than criticism. Link in thread.

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

Going to offer another session on describing your poetry work-in-progress soon! Visit here to find out more and express interest: lisaampleman.com/course-on-de...

When the news gets depressing, there's only one cure. #pets #cute #guineapigcore #guineapig

So bad about posting here.

Thank you so much @cincinnatireview.bsky.social and @lisaampleman.bsky.social for sharing this with your readers. We need art as much as ever--this is about the littlest artist I know 💕

It's that time once again, shoppers! We're OPEN for your miCRo submissions. Send us your best work of 500 words or fewer.

always a good day to buy your next read from an independent bookstore or borrow it from the library

For the past 18 months or so, my sister Anna & I have been looking into the life of our great-uncle Mark Phillips, who was estranged from the family starting in the 1990s but was dearly loved by our mother. We wanted to share what we've learned with everyone: lisaampleman.com/remembering-...

Laughing hysterically:

Because of the really nice buzz around my little apocalyptic novel Sleepaway, Amazon has sold out. But copies available directly through the distributor, linked below. And if you use this discount code, you'll get 15% off: HOHOACRE15. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Suggestions for overcoming inertia?

Library purchases are purchases. They pay the press. The press counts them towards advances and royalties. And (gasp) the book is in a library!! It’s wonderful and no one should ever feel bad about getting a book through a library instead of buying it.

Rewatching Baking It on Peacock and wondering why it didn't get more attention. Baking? Hilarious grannies? Fantastic

Two more days to save! From now until Dec 19, take 50% off everything we sell, including print and digital subscriptions, single issues, and our stylish swag. Find all the deals in our shop, and use code BLEAK at checkout: https://buff.ly/48filiX

You have to listen to this BONKERS story from The Moth podcast. Been thinking about it since I heard it: themoth.org/storytellers...

20° this morning, and my joints have noticed. 🥶🦴

Y’all we have a recommendation and it is that you buy at least ONE book directly from a small press today—not bookshop, not Amazon. Help keep small presses open. @juneroadpress.bsky.social @sundresspub.bsky.social @bellepointpress.bsky.social @lightscatterpress.bsky.social @bullcitypress.com

Today’s Featured Poet: “My Faith Unfolds Itself” by Alafia Nicole Sessions, from Issue 21.1 of @cincinnatireview.bsky.social. Read here: poems.com/poem/my-fait...

Two guinea pigs in this photo. One is named Midnight, in case that helps. 😆🧐

We have exciting things planned for 2025! Check out cover reveals for our forthcoming #books of #poetry and #fiction! Learn more about these upcoming titles at www.acre-books.com. 🎉🎉🎉

What are your benign bad habits? I tend to scatter several sweaters over shared living space. I had three in one room today. 🤭

Tuesday morning thoughts about why it isn't Friday yet

Have been absent from here. Checking in to see how the water is.

The beginning of my essay "Acquiring the Fire," the last piece from *Mom in Space* to be published, with South Dakota Review! (Also, despite knowing some things about photo taking, I rarely get good pics of book pages??)

Brown Bag Lit Friends Recommend... Literary Magazines!   @lisaampleman.bsky.social, author of Mom in Space (LSU Press), recommends The Southern Review.   Read and submit, friends!

"We’re writers too, and we know what it’s like to send work off into the digital ether, wondering who might pick it up at the other end." In today's dispatch from the editors, @lisaampleman.bsky.social pulls back the curtain on the miCRo editorial process.

A few sections of "Calamity Days," a final piece from *Mom in Space* in a lit mag, with Georgia Review.

Urban decay and old brick buildings abound in this audio-photo essay in which contributor Jim Palmarini reads his mesmerizing piece from issue 20.2, WELCOME TO THE READING. Direction and editing by Assistant Editor Holli Carrell.

20 years of @cincinnatireview.bsky.social

In which I express a possibly unpopular opinion:

My first copy of Mom in Space arrived today ahead of its publication date (Jan. 31), thanks to Alisa Plant of LSU Press. It's a real book!!