▶️ NOW PLAYING - #1000 (!!) 🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts. #otherppl1000

I genuinely think every writer today should listen to this new episode of @bradlisti.bsky.social's Otherppl—a frank conversation with Jeff Alessandrelli about the often sobering realities of making art today, and why we do it anyway podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

How about a memoir to close ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY? Contributor Erin Slaughter’s memoir THE DEAD DAD DIARIES is out now from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social 💗 Get your copy now: buff.ly/gIYuqsL

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Last book of '25 is by @lindzmcleod.bsky.social + a cast of collaborators incl The Handmaid's Tale screenwriter Lynn Renee Maxcy, Sunday Times bestseller Thomas D. Lee & Nebula/WFA finalist Eugenia Triantafyllou. Pre-order now with UK Saver Shipping to save £! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Got a little woo woo for the fine folks at @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social. farewelltransmission.net/2025/10/woo-...

The @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference is coming back to DC on April 18, 2026, and we're open for registration! It's $95, and that includes the one-day conference, 1 book, 1 meeting w an editor, and your choice of literary stuff from our partner presses. www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

'How to Write Autobiographical Fiction' with Hannah Pittard — a new 8-hour intensive course from DeepDive, available now. Feat. Michael Wheaton, founder of @autofocusbooks.bsky.social. Hosted by @bradlisti.bsky.social. Launch sale: 25% off. Limited time. 👉🏼 courses.deepdive.audio/autofiction

🎉 Launch Day! Our new DeepDive course, 'How to Write Autobiographical Fiction,' is live! Learn from novelist Hannah Pittard + publisher Michael Wheaton. 👉 Launch Special: $147 (25% off) 🔗 courses.deepdive.audio/autofiction

XNESS ESSAYS IN A BOOK???????

Since we're all talking about how book review culture is dying - I'd love to get a couple of younger/newer reviewers on at Zona Motel. Are you looking for a place to develop your review chops and engage with small press lit in front of an enthusiastic readership? Reach out. zonamotel.substack.com

Good mail day. @autofocusbooks.bsky.social

Tomorrow on the Otherppl show, a special sneak preview of 'How to Write Autobiographical Fiction,' the new course from @deepdive.audio, avail 10/1 & taught by author Hannah Pittard, whose most recent novel is called 'If You Love It, Let It Kill You.' 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Hello, are you a Literary Person in Philadelphia? Perhaps a Music Person? Come see me and @olgamikolaivna.bsky.social yap about both at @alinapleskova.bsky.social's reading series ✨️💿 Track Changes 💿 ✨️ on Oct 7. www.eventbrite.com/e/track-chan...

Always appreciate it when people connect with my work. This particular essay was written in a time of intense parenting and intense self-interrogation. It’s maybe the most straight forward and no BS essay in the whole book. The Body Is A Temporary Gathering Place @autofocusbooks.bsky.social

Taking a train to NYC to read from my essay, On Trains, about various trains of thought.

🚨 Coming soon from DeepDive 🚨 'How to Write Autobiographical Fiction' — an intensive new course taught by acclaimed author Hannah Pittard ('If You Love It, Let It Kill You'). 📱 Streaming soon on the DeepDive app + online. Stay tuned.

5 novels, 3 books of poetry, 1 book of essays, & 1 hybrid assemblage 📚📚📚 #books #recommendations #novels

From our new book review: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/navigating... Organic Matter paints a luminous portrait of the rural ecosystem that feeds the city and explores one perceptive young woman’s relationship with faith, labor, love, family, the body, and the ground. @autofocusbooks.bsky.social

Read our new book review: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/navigating... Organic Matter paints a luminous portrait of the rural ecosystem that feeds the city and explores one perceptive young woman’s relationship with faith, labor, love, family, the body, and the ground. @autofocusbooks.bsky.social

By the way, some news! I have a book coming out with the wonderful @autofocusbooks.bsky.social. I'm incredibly excited to join the list -- I so admire the work they've been putting out.

Contributor @ilanaslightly.bsky.social interviewed @ferrifrigida.bsky.social about her new book OUT THERE IN THE DARK for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social! And you can read it all right here: buff.ly/8aebBZq

This book is fantastic! I'm not much of a film buff even & I still loved this. So sharp, well crafted, absolutely fascinating. I want to shove it into everyone's hands & shout "Read this! Read this!" So yeah, read this. @autofocusbooks.bsky.social @ferrifrigida.bsky.social #smallpressseptember

📚📚 ANNOUNCING: POOL PARTY BOOKS!!! 📚📚 Pool Party is open for book submissions!!! We will have two reading periods and publish two books/year. The first reading period runs from now until December 15th, 2025. Visit our website for details 🔥

Naomi Washer crafted a whole book out of her personal marginalia (out next week from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social), and I had a blast talking to her about it! writeordiemag.com/author-inter...

I have no less than 4 calendars/planners open, indicative at how horrified I am to realize it is the time to put together a reading event sched for Teen Queen Training. It comes out with @autofocusbooks.bsky.social on Feb 17! Where are my fellow early 2026 authors and SHOULD WE BE COLLABORATING?

Wrote for The Metropolitan Review about the pros & cons of working w/ small indie presses vs. big presses, the journey from almost being a big fancy author to being a medium unfancy author, and mid-career re-evaluation of what I want out of the writing life www.metropolitanreview.org/p/to-go-big-...

Great essay by @tmcallister.bsky.social at The Metropolitan Review about his experience with large and small presses, with a clear-eyed, experienced idea of the pluses and minuses. Also a nice confirmation that querying agents is awful for nearly everybody. www.metropolitanreview.org/p/to-go-big-...

some brief morning thots re @ferrifrigida.bsky.social's Out There in the Dark, which I finished last night! Who tryna watch Jeanne Dielman??????????????????????????????

Y'ALL I still can't believe the way everything fell into place for this: I'm going to help @splitlippress.com give out-of-print books a new home!

If your answer is not "Teen Queen Training, Kristine Langley Mahler's erasure essay collection forthcoming with @autofocusbooks.bsky.social on Feb 17" then IT SHOULD BE!

my internet has been out and last night I spent the evening reading @ferrifrigida.bsky.social's Out There in the Dark (out now on @autofocusbooks.bsky.social) with a tiny cat in the crook of my forearm and the window open and (genderless) brother, that's the gd cure

First blurb is in for @lindzmcleod.bsky.social's collaborative craft writing book An Honour & A Privilege, from the great author & publisher Michael Wheaton of @autofocusbooks.bsky.social. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

I don't think Erin Slaughter is on here, but her book about her father that's about to drop from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social is so insanely good. autofocusbooks.com/store/p/dead...

Really enjoyed this collection by @aaronburch.bsky.social from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social The thinking about how you’re going to tell the story while you’re still in the middle of living the story is deeply relatable.

Big news for authors with out-of-print prose books looking for a new home: We're opening up submissions to our Lost/Found imprint on 9/3! We were so happy to rehome Brooke Shaffner's COUNTRY OF UNDER last year + now we're ready to rehome more. Full details forthcoming, but the pertinent ones are:

Friday night plans ✨

Finally, pouring one out for Synaesthesia Mag, apt., Atlas & Alice, The Collagist/The Rupture, cahoodaloodaling, and Gigantic Sequins--gone, but fondly remembered (especially on my Acknowledgments page in TQT--keep your eyes on @autofocusbooks.bsky.social to preorder! February 17, 2026!)

Helluva reading streak I’m currently experiencing… @sandorfpassage.bsky.social @emilylauracosta.bsky.social @autofocusbooks.bsky.social @clairehopple.bsky.social @ferrifrigida.bsky.social

Note from a fellow writer that cheered me today.

Final ep of Book Fight went up today. 13 years ago when @mikeingram.bsky.social asked me to do a podcast with him, I thought it would be a little hobby for a few months but it's been the most fun & fulfilling work of my life. Thanks to everyone who followed along www.bookfightpod.com/episodes/end...

Happy publication day to Issue 19 of Stanchion Magazine and to the 22 talented writers featured within. Thanks to each of you for being a part of this tremendous issue curated by @fbereaud.bsky.social. Buy a copy today in print, from Stanchion or wherever you order books, or as a PDF.

2027 is looking mighty fine already at Autofocus! Thrilled to be working with @lillydancyger.bsky.social on this absolute gem of a book.

Surprise! I'm writing a new nonfiction book!! About dance and chronic pain and the ways the body can both express, and be impacted by, emotion. Forthcoming from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social in 2027!

Hey @autofocusbooks.bsky.social and @tahomareview.bsky.social, guess who's boothed up next to you at AWP26? SEE YA IN BALTIMORE! ❤️

Was just re-reading my interview at @memoirland.bsky.social to prepare for my event on parasocial fandom this afternoon - it's a pretty good overview of my book & the headspace I was at when writing it. memoirland.substack.com/p/the-memoir...

Some of the @rejectionlit.bsky.social fam (including photographer @squeakypig.bsky.social — I’m sorry I doubted your vision for this shot) at the @autofocusbooks.bsky.social reading last night! @dtrobbins.bsky.social & Sean Moeller and me!

Still open for pitches for short NF books!