Here at #AWP26 booth 973 representing our amazing Mad Creek Books’ authors. Come and browse these beautiful books, and I’d also love to hear about your manuscript if you think it might be a good fit for us!

A few weeks left to submit your story collection to the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction (which comes with $5,500 and publication from us, Mad Creek Books): awpwriter.org/AWP/Contests.... Submit your manuscript by the end of the month! @ohiostatepress.bsky.social

LAKE SONG (Sept. 1), selected by @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social for the AWP Grace Paley prize, is so so good. Get a taste at @electricliterature.com! electricliterature.com/the-final-gi... @kristener.bsky.social @ohiostatepress.bsky.social

"Charmingly buoyant" and "vibrant"—great descriptors for FROM COCINAS TO LUCHA LIBRE RINGSIDES, out from @ohiostatepress.bsky.social Aug. 17th! @professorlatinx.bsky.social @angelamsanchez.bsky.social! #Comics #Latinx @crfricke.bsky.social @kristener.bsky.social www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

So many amazing books in our fall season; I love seeing them officially out in the world!

In case my recommendation wasn’t enough, the Northern California Book Award committee agrees you should read Grace’s book! @ohiostatepress.bsky.social @joy-castro.bsky.social

www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/w... @kristener.bsky.social

This is a good occasion to mention THE PARADOX OF BLACKNESS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN VAMPIRE FICTION by Jerry Rafiki Jenkins (Ohio State Press, 2019) ohiostatepress.org/books/titles... @susanamorris.bsky.social @k8dee16.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social @kristener.bsky.social

Lunch with @thesusanito-Her memoir “I would Meet You Anywhere” speaks to so many #adoptees #adoption

Come by #AWP2025 booth 456 and have Agatha Brewer sign a copy of her beautiful book “The Hunger Book: A Memoir of Communist Poland” @rafertess.bsky.social

Wish I was there already, but excited to see everyone tomorrow!

Can’t wait to see everyone there!

"Bumatay reframes bandes dessinées … as a tool for resistance and transformation…[providing] important context on the long history of the work of Black comics in contributing to global discussions of representation and power." @brittlepaper.bsky.social brittlepaper.com/2025/02/comb...

Really enjoyed this book. Lots of locations I've been to and desperately want to head back to. @ohiostatepress Wandering Dixie: Dispatches from the Lost Jewish South https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814255810.html#.XxNsj2fFXtg.twitter

Excited to celebrate THROUGH FENCES being named an honor-winner in the Jean Flynn Award for Best Young Adult Book from the Texas Institute of Letters: ohiostatepress.org/books/titles... And thrilled to see a deserving book—on such an important subject—being recognized! @rafertess.bsky.social

Don’t miss Grace’s beautiful memoir THE TRANSLATOR’S DAUGHTER, either, about language, living between cultures, caring for loved ones from afar, and more. All three are in our Machete series, edited by Joy Castro, Rachel Cochran, and our own @kristener.bsky.social ohiostatepress.org/books/series...

"Whatever you think you know about Puerto Rico, think again. This gorgeous memoir is intimate, profoundly feminist at heart, and one of the most loving books you’ll read this year." washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7548... @patriciacoral.bsky.social @kristener.bsky.social #PuertoRico #memoir

Submit Jan. 1–Feb. 28 to the AWP award series! We are excited to partner with the Association of Writers and Writing Programs to publish the winner of the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, and are looking forward to learning what judge Kevin Wilson selects! www.awpwriter.org/AWP/AWP/Cont...

A little peek at Patricia Coral's WOMEN SURROUNDED BY WATER, out Nov. 1st! www.pw.org/content/page... @patriciacoral.bsky.social @kristener.bsky.social #essays #PuertoRico #memoir

Woohoo! We admit we haven't really done much to get this account off the ground but this is a great reason for our first post! #fiction #readUP

Still a few days left to submit your book of essays to our Gournay Prize and be published alongside amazing books like our 2021 winner Christine Imperial’s “Mistaken for an Empire”: ohiostatepress.org/books/series... @ohiostatepress.bsky.social

Here's a chance to read an excerpt from Marlena William's excellent essay collection about The Exorcist www.oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine...

Congratulations, Tom Gannon, on winning the 2024 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize for his witty, wrenching, decolonial memoir ‘Birding While Indian’. @ohiostatepress.bsky.social

Just one week left to submit your first book of essays to our Gournay Prize competition, for a chance to be published alongside our amazing previous years' winners, like @agatabrewer.bsky.social's THE HUNGER BOOK! ohiostatepress.org/books/series... @ohiostatepress.bsky.social

A great roundup of spring book releases, including our own @gracelp.bsky.social's THE TRANSLATOR's DAUGHTER, about "immigration and the making and unmaking of a family." @ohiostatepress.bsky.social www.mochimag.com/arts-culture...

Congratulations to Tom Gannon on his memoir, BIRDING WHILE INDIAN being selected as one of three finalists for the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize! www.unl.edu/plains/bookp... @ohiostatepress.bsky.social

So cool to see one of ours at the start of this list—and one that made me cry in the airport to boot. @thesusanito.bsky.social @cassmannes.bsky.social lithub.com/30-new-books...

Being included in Foreword's Book of the Day roundup seems like a great way to celebrate the official pub week of THE TRANSLATOR'S DAUGHTER. Congratulations, @gracelp.bsky.social ! www.forewordreviews.com/articles/art... @ohiostatepress.bsky.social

For the 0.2 of my (<100) followers who might be at #AWP24, please do stop by booth 1407 to say hi to me and @kristener.bsky.social—and if you’re a book critic type, talk to me about review copies!

Congratulations to Mad Creek Books/OSUP author Susan Kiyo Ito on her memoir I WOULD MEET YOU ANYWHERE being named a National Book Critics Award finalist! I don't have the words to express how excited I am for you, @thesusanito.bsky.social! www.bookcritics.org/2024/01/25/n... @rafertess.bsky.social

A great panel to attend if you’ll be at AWP24, with both a Mad Creek Books/OSU Press author and series editor sharing their wealth of knowledge! @rafertess.bsky.social @gracelp.bsky.social

Little is more satisfying to me professionally than encountering a truly rich, evaluative review of a book I've worked on. Like this one! www.christiancentury.org/review/books... @kristener.bsky.social

Look at all the beautiful, brilliant, amazing books we have the privilege of ushering into the world in 2024!

“It’s about what happens … when we … look plainly at the sexual predation that permeates positions of power, the limitations of cultural frameworks for understanding assault, and the inadequacy of carceral responses to sexual violence.” www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/chri...

Bring on the year end best of lists! Such a thrill to see @thesusanito.bsky.social's beautiful I WOULD MEET YOU ANYWHERE included: www.libraryjournal.com/story/best-m... - Best Memoir & Biography of 2023 @rafertess.bsky.social

Excellent pick for book of the day, NYPL! @rafertess.bsky.social

Excited that my first post here on Bluesky could be about @thesusanito.bsky.social's Romper piece about choice, adoption, and her beautiful memoir I WOULD MEET YOU ANYWHERE: www.romper.com/life/adoptio...