Here it is: the cover of my debut novel, ANY KIND OF KNOWN TOMORROW, coming from @bettybooks.bsky.social on 9/15. Head here to learn more about the book and about Betty: www.wtawpress.org/betty. For media and review inquiries, contact Lauren Cerand Public Relations (@laurencerand.com)

We're looking forward to a banner year with fascinating new titles, a new company logo, and a move to a different distributor: our old colleagues @ipgbook.bsky.social, who will be taking up sales of our list as of March 1st. Read more: mailchi.mp/9de6277fe603...

If this list speaks to you, you will definitely want to add GENERATOR to your reading stack (DM me for a review copy): electricliterature.com/10-graphic-n...

If this list speaks to you, you will definitely want to add GENERATOR to your reading stack (DM me for a review copy): electricliterature.com/10-graphic-n...

Contact me for ARCs / event requests!

Contact me for ARCs / event requests!

And BRAHMS COMES TO DINNER by Boman Desai, coming in June: bookshop.org/p/books/brah... #booksky

And HOSTAGES: A COUNTER-HISTORY OF COLONIAL PLUNDER by Paris-based journalist Taina Tervonen, translated by Sara Hanaburgh (published this month): schaffnerpress.com/books/hostag...

Ask me about GENERATOR, a debut novel by Korean-Swiss writer Rinny Gremaud, translated by Holly James, and available now (published in January): schaffnerpress.com/books/genera...

This article gives a wonderful overview, with many intriguing facts, including that the press is based in the American West, in Arizona (decentralize publishing!) and my personal favorite, which is that publisher Tim Schaffner is the grandson of iconic modernist poet, H.D. tucson.com/life-enterta...

Happy 25th anniversary to @schaffnerpress.bsky.social, which celebrates with a new colophon and more! I’m thrilled to have three titles from them on my list for the first half of this year! mailchi.mp/9de6277fe603...

Coming soon to a book spine near you: our new logo, designed by Victoria Brenman. It has a living quality to it like a starfish or anemone. It's also comprised of the letter S.

Friends, acquaintances, writers headed to #AWP26: Anyone last-minute looking for a place to stay & want to share a room? DM me if yes. I have a double at the Lord Baltimore Hotel, & would love to split the cost / share (plus it's haunted, & I'm scared, lol). It's very close to the Convention Center.

Happy 25th anniversary to @schaffnerpress.bsky.social, which celebrates with a new colophon and more! I’m thrilled to have three titles from them on my list for the first half of this year! mailchi.mp/9de6277fe603...

“The older man is bald, wears a grey suit and tie, is a bit shorter than the others. They have identical noses. Not one of them wears underwear. And their hairy scrotums brush the insides of their hairy legs.” Read three new poems by Michael Earl Craig: www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...

Without vital conversations about serious writing—without interviews, reviews, essays that treat literature as the living art it is—we diminish ourselves. 6/

When in an interview long ago I mentioned Michael as a polestar, an inspiration for me, he called me out of the blue (I still have his message saved) & for hours shared stories, wisdom & advice with me. May your memory be a blessing Michael Silverblatt. It already is www.latimes.com/california/s...

Saturday night, I’ve signed on as a sponsor of a big party closing out the festivities at 2640space and spotlighting local Baltimore literary organizations. Free and open to the public. Come join us! I will not be at any other events.

Friday night, I’ll be at Creative Alliance for the opening reception of Time’s Breath, with a talk featuring #DeborahBrownEnglish, @margarethutton.bsky.social and @leahdeforest.bsky.social. Expect an engaging and honest discussion on creating art, debuting after 40, and more. Free & open to all.

Getting daily messages about #AWP26 next month in Baltimore, so putting my official goings-on in one place 📌 By day @awpwriter.org, you can find me at the conference at the Relegation Books booth. Per their website, you can buy a pass for Saturday only for $25.

Join us as we celebrate the 2025 US Republic of Consciousness Prize Longlist! Authors, translators, & translators will speak about each of these incredible selections. This party - free & open to the public - will take place on Wed. Feb. 18 at 6pm CT. See you there! 🔗👇

Getting daily messages about #AWP26 next month in Baltimore, so putting my official goings-on in one place 📌 By day @awpwriter.org, you can find me at the conference at the Relegation Books booth. Per their website, you can buy a pass for Saturday only for $25.

“two legs converged in a hazel wood and I
I let myself be swallowed by
coniference.” Read three new poems Sophia Dahlin on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...

OUT NOW: "Hostages: A Counter-History of Colonial Plunder" by Taina Tervonen, translated by Sara Hanaburgh. Tervonen, a Finnish journalist and filmmaker, investigates stolen artifacts and unravels a historic mystery.

A fantastic piece by @karenattiah.bsky.social to read before or after you read Hostages: A Counter-History of Colonial Plunder by Taina Tervonen, translated by Sara Hanaburgh and out this month from @schaffnerpress.bsky.social: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-return...

A fantastic piece by @karenattiah.bsky.social to read before or after you read Hostages: A Counter-History of Colonial Plunder by Taina Tervonen, translated by Sara Hanaburgh and out this month from @schaffnerpress.bsky.social: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-return...

I would conservatively estimate that 90% of literary discourse online is driven by people who literally do not read what they're pontificating about. They complain about contemporary fiction, literary fiction, genre fiction, postmodernism, YA books, whatever that they just do not read.

“It was funny when you heard a random siren. Didn’t bother you at all. But when you knew the siren was calling your name, it cut through your chest, and swirled around inside you like a bullet.” Read new fiction by Robert Ward on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/traf...

Will I see you in Brooklyn Heights at Books Are Magic for Joanna Margaret’s launch on 3/19 (also online)? She’ll be discussing THE DAUGHTERS (Mysterious Press, 3/17) with internationally bestselling author Clémence Michallon. DM me for one of the last few ARCs! www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-j...

Then join us at Deborah Brown English’s Time’s Breath exhibition opening at Creative Alliance, where we’ll have a special #AWP26 offsite talk on visual art & fiction practices, focusing on debut novelists, featuring English and @margarethutton.bsky.social in conversation with @ldeforest.bsky.social.

Planning on being in Baltimore for #AWP26? I’ll be at the Relegation Books booth with copies of The Relegation Reader, international contemporary literary fiction (Roundabout, The Trees), @rnrmagazine.bsky.social tees with a poem by Baltimore poet Donald Berger on them and more! Stop by & say hello.

Will I see you in Brooklyn Heights at Books Are Magic for Joanna Margaret’s launch on 3/19 (also online)? She’ll be discussing THE DAUGHTERS (Mysterious Press, 3/17) with internationally bestselling author Clémence Michallon. DM me for one of the last few ARCs! www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-j...

Planning on being in Baltimore for #AWP26? I’ll be at the Relegation Books booth with copies of The Relegation Reader, international contemporary literary fiction (Roundabout, The Trees), @rnrmagazine.bsky.social tees with a poem by Baltimore poet Donald Berger on them and more! Stop by & say hello.

I’ve been looking forward to this for weeks.

Encouraging all of the writers and serious readers I know to take this as a brilliant next step for so many I talk to, especially those looking for a way to break through and build a relationship with readers, editors and publishers www.patreon.com/posts/new-cl...

From the archives, for black history month, a black woman author you should read: @bethanycmorrow.com! Here is my review of Cherish Farrah, which I recommend and love! hookofabook.wordpress.com/2023/12/11/b...

Perhaps that’s how I came by that radiant patience. So it’s incredibly gratifying to see an evening documented as an aspect of the anthology itself brought to life. If you read one thing today, let it be this: zonamotel.substack.com/p/dispatch-t...

One of the most extraordinary aspects of my career has been that what I do is so often completely ephemeral— a brief social experience or encounter in community to draw readers in to the real work of reading the book, which can only ever be a private and intimate encounter (more)

Thank you to J.M. Ó Faoláin for covering The Relegation Reader U.S. launch hosted by the Coffee House at the Salmagundi Club , and to Zona Motel for publishing it, and for everyone in the room and in the world who gets what Relegation Books is about...

Thank you to J.M. Ó Faoláin for covering The Relegation Reader U.S. launch hosted by the Coffee House at the Salmagundi Club , and to Zona Motel for publishing it, and for everyone in the room and in the world who gets what Relegation Books is about...

With Ron Charles and Becca Rothfeld laid off from WaPo, there are now only 5 full-time book critics working in the United States. That's down from 7 when this pubbed last year, though you may find my definition of a "full-time book critic" arbitrary. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

“And then it all made sense on the afternoon of Pearl Harbor Day, as I watched her sitting in the bay window eating a cluster of green grapes.” Read three new stories by Stephen Mortland (@stephenmortland.bsky.social) on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...

…those following art crime and provenance discussions in the museum world and art market, and fans of narrative nonfiction. DM me for a review or bookseller’s copy. The author is available for interviews in English. #booksky Author photo: Chloé Vollmer-Lo

Tervonen returns to her roots in Senegal to investigate the mystery behind a group of culturally sensitive artifacts that had been captured by the French army in the late 19th century. This important new book will be of interest to historians…

(You can read an excerpt @crimereads.bsky.social, or DM me for a review copy.) Tervonen’s voice as an independent journalist is singular, and we’re working to amplify it here. In her new book, Hostages, out today…

and @shelf-awareness.com called, “a powerful choice…Brief but unsparing of emotional details, The Bone Whisperers demands slow and thoughtful attention. It will cause readers to reflect on how their own lives have been touched by—or spared from—the effects of war.”

Happy publication day to Hostages: A Counter-History of Colonial Plunder by #TainaTervonen, translated by Sara Hanaburgh for @schaffnerpress.bsky.social! Tervonen continues her work of excavating silent histories, after The Bone Whisperers (2024), which garnered her the Jan Michalski Prize…

“The piece I love may repel you, and someone else may treasure something that leaves us both cold, and that’s part of the beauty of the exercise: simply reaffirming our disparate reactions, asserting the reasons my taste differs from yours, activates parts of our brain that otherwise lie dormant…“

“One of our core values as a store is that prioritizing the social and creative exchange of ideas, curiosities, and experiences over the most immediate commercial considerations will still—somehow—get us what we need to be sustainable as a business and as a good place to work.“

“One of our core values as a store is that prioritizing the social and creative exchange of ideas, curiosities, and experiences over the most immediate commercial considerations will still—somehow—get us what we need to be sustainable as a business and as a good place to work.“