Norma Alarcón has been included in the 150 Years of Women at UC Berkeley Mural! A noted Chicana theorist and scholar, her essays have shaped Chicana Studies and paved the way for contemporary theories of Chicana subjectivity. Visit auntlute.com to buy her books including Forced by Circumstance.

The Divining Season by Gwendolyn Paradice is coming soon from Aunt Lute Books on March 31st! Visit auntlute.com to preorder a copy! Going to AWP? Stop by booth #1288 to buy an early copy! Get it signed by Gwendolyn herself on Thurs., March 5, 2026, at 1 pm at our booth with Purple Ink Press.

The Bay is coming to Baltimore! Aunt Lute will be at #AWP26! Are you going to AWP this year? Visit us at booth #1288 with Purple Ink Press and join us on Thursday, March 5th, 2026 @ 1 pm at our booth for an author signing with Gwendolyn Paradice, author of The Divining Season!

Need to buy a gift for a sweetheart in your life? Pre-order a copy of the upcoming release from Aunt Lute Books, The Divining Season by @gwendolynparadice! 🧡 Visit auntlute.com to preorder and browse many other titles from our published collection! 🩷

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New year, new book! Pre-order The Divining Season by Gwendolyn Paradice. www.auntlute.com/the-divining... The town of Larissa, Texas, has secrets. Native girls are going missing, decades-old conflicts are hiding just below the surface, and Emily Howard is speaking to her ancestors.

💐 Introducing The Divining Season by Gwendolyn Paradice. “Girls appear and disappear, but so do women. We know this because blood talks to blood.” 🗓 Debuting March 31, 2026! Pre-order today: www.auntlute.com/the-divining...

🥰 We're so grateful to the volunteers who help the authors and stories of Aunt Book shine. We'll be giving folks shout-outs over the coming months. First up: Thank you, Josie, for ALL your HARD WORK amplifying Caramelle & Carmilla and Forced By Circumstance this season! We appreciate you!

My Book #forcedbycircumstance is available for order @auntlute.bsky.social Fresh, shiny, new! #asmr #newbooks buy it here: www.amazon.com/Forced-Circu...

Preorder Gwendolyn Paradice’s THE DIVINING SEASON (@auntlute.bsky.social)! In this novel, Emily’s arrival in Larissa, Texas, “changes the search for the missing children and the way the women of Larissa relate to each other.” #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth bookshop.org/a/500/978195...

Aunt Lute Books has been awarded a grant from the California Arts Council! These grants are vital in developing and supporting California's arts and cultural landscape. Read more: https://arts.ca.gov/press-release/introducing-californias-2025-state-arts-grantees/ Thank you, CAC! #ArtsCA

In SHELL SHAKER, LeAnne Howe has “written a gripping and magical tale of ancient Choctaw blood lust and unbreakable family love in modern-day Oklahoma.” —Adrian C. Louis This @auntlute.bsky.social novel is on our reading list for #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth: www.auntlute.com/shell-shaker

Read @auntlute.bsky.social’s THROUGH THE EYE OF THE DEER anthology! This collection of fiction and poetry is “retelling and reshaping traditional narratives, by recalling their ancient wisdom and renewing their spirit in new contexts.” #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth www.auntlute.com/through-the-...

🧛🏾‍♀️🩸 Dragons, Cults, and Vampires–sign us up! To read about them, of course. Thank you, Emily C. Hughes, for giving Caramelle & Carmilla by Jewelle Gomez and J. Sheridan Le Fanu a shoutout in your "Horror Highlights" article for Reactor Mag: https://reactormag.com/horror-highlights-for-october-2025/

Thank you to Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) for including 🌀The Divining Season (Aunt Lute, 2026) in your reading list for #nativeamericanheritagemonth. Read more here: https://www.clmp.org/news/a-reading-list-for-native-american-heritage-month-2025/

❤️‍🔥 Introducing Forced by Circumstance: Chicana Feminist Essays (1981-2024) by Norma Alarcón. A landmark collection of the work of pioneering Chicana scholar Norma Alarcón. 🗓 Debuting November 7, 2025! Pre-order today: https://bookshop.org/a/99607/9781951874100

Meet the Authors of our recently released book, Caramelle & Carmilla by Jewelle Gomez and J. Sheridan Le Fanu! 🩸🩸🩸 Buy your copy and get spooked: bookshop.org/p/books/cara...

CARAMELLE & CARMILLA by Jewelle Gomez and J. Sheridan Le Fanu has been circling the world this last week. We love seeing Aunt Lute books "in the wild." ⁠ Snag your copy today at: https://bookshop.org/a/104270/9781951874094

We love seeing Aunt Lute authors out and about, reading and sharing their bold books in the world. Kathya Alexander, author of Keep A'Livin' (Aunt Lute, 2024), had a lot of exciting events this past year. Her debut historical fiction is available at: https://ow.ly/6bfc50Xc5bP

❤️‍🔥🩸CARAMELLE & CARMILLA by Jewelle Gomez and J. Sheridan Le Fanu is out TODAY - just in time for spooky season! Available here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/caramelle-carmilla-jewelle-gomez/5a0321eeca90286a?ean=9781951874094&next=t

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! One way to honor Indigenous Peoples Day is to read books by queer indigenous authors. Four we recommend are: The Divining Season by Gwendolyn Paradice Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq The Way We Make Sense by Dawn Karima Pettigrew Buffalo is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day ✨

The latest from Jewelle Gomez is out in 4 days! 🩸❤️‍🔥 Two vampire stories. Two authors. Two striking meditations on dependency and desire. Pre-order Caramelle & Carmilla from Bookshop.org: https://ow.ly/EyL650X9X5c

Thank you to Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) for including Babaylan in your 2025 reading list! 📚Happy #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth, everyone. Find your next read: https://www.clmp.org/news/a-reading-list-for-filipino-american-history-month-2025/#FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth

📚 It’s Banned Books Week. Book bans don’t protect kids — they censor them. Stand with libraries, stand with readers, stand for the #FreedomToRead. ✊ #BannedBooksWeek #StopBookBans Sign the pledge today! via @everylibrary.bsky.social action.everylibrary.org/bookbanpledge

Whether you're reading Caramelle & Carmilla by Jewelle Gomez and J. Sheridan La Fanu, or Doll Seed by Michele T. Berger, come get spooky with us! Explore the latest Aunt Lute book and preorder here: bookshop.org/p/books/cara...

❤️‍🔥 Introducing Caramelle & Carmilla by Jewelle Gomez and J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Two #vampire stories, two authors, two striking meditations on dependency and desire. 🗓 Debuting October 14, 2025. Link in bio to pre-order! #speclit

September 15 to October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month. ✨ Celebrate with one of these Lammys winners or finalists by Hispanic authors.

October is #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth! Celebrate with us by picking reads from our 2025 reading list featuring indie presses and lit mags: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...