"You know, I think it’s kind of write what you know." Another thoughtful interview with Grace Spulak, author of Magdalena Is Brighter Than You Think. Thanks to Sam Schieren at @blackbirdjournal.bsky.social!

Check out AHP's #PGHBookFest line-up! It's going to be an incredible day for writers and readers. Come for the books and conversation, stay for the community!

Win a galley copy of Adam O'Fallon Price's OBJECTS OF DESIRE! @adamoprice.bsky.social

"The delightful sophomore outing from Cunningham celebrates South Florida in all its glory and contradictions." Thanks to @publisherswkly.bsky.social for the lovely review of P. Scott Cunningham's Self-Portrait as the "i" in Florida! @cunningpscott.bsky.social

Congrats to Ren Cedar Fuller! Her debut essay collection BIGGER has been shortlisted for the 2026 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. library.stanford.edu/news/shortli...

Chicago, mark your calendars! Meredith Nnoka's book launch for her debut LES PORTES is this Saturday (May 16), 6 p.m. at Walls Turned Sideways (2717 W Madison). This event is free and open to the public! Drinks and snacks will be served.

Poets! It’s time to submit your manuscripts to the 2026 AHP Poetry Prize. Check out the guidelines here: www.autumnhouse.org/submissions/... We can't wait to read your work! #poetry #bookprize #indiepublishing #poems #writing

It's the final day to submit to the AHP Nonfiction Prize! Send us your personal essay collections and memoirs today for the opportunity to publish with Autumn House! #essays #memoirs #creativenonfiction #bookprize

Join AHP in celebrating the Pub Day of Meredith Nnoka's Les Portes--winner of the 2025 CAAPP Book Prize, selected by Cameron Awkward-Rich, and named a "Best Poetry of 2025 and 2026” by Ms. Magazine We are honored to have helped to bring this book into the world!

Thanks to @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social and Jenna Goldsmith for the review of Les Portes by Meredith Nnoka!

"Collective, foremothers, release." We love to see Meredith Nnoka's debut, Les Portes, featured in Ms. Magazine's "Reads for the Rest of Us: The Best Poetry of 2025 and 2026"! A nice way to celebrate #NationalPoetryMonth msmagazine.com/2026/04/24/b... #poetry #feministpoetry #debut

Just got this beauty! Go Meredith Nnoka and Autumn House Press @autumnhouse.org

Autumn House is over the moon to share the cover for Frank X. Gaspar's New and Selected poetry collection, POEM FIRE. Many thanks to Joel W. Coggins for a cover that captures the sheer scale of this book! #poetry #coverreveal #poetrycollection #indiepress

One week left to submit your nonfiction MS! www.autumnhouse.org/submissions/... #nonfiction #essays #memoir #bookprize #creativenonfiction

"This book excels both in content and in form." Thanks for the lovely review of Les Portes by Meredith Nnoka! #poetry #poets #nationalpoetrymonth

Happy Pub Day to Magdalena Is Brighter Than You Think! 💙 Set in rural New Mexico—a place of isolation, strange beauty, and potential transformation—this inventive and emotionally nuanced collection explores the complexities of gender, queerness, trauma, and resilience. @gspulak.bsky.social

Thank you to Literary Hub for publishing this incredible essay, "How Writing Helped Me Heal After a Trauma" by Grace Spulak, reflecting on writing through and after trauma. @literaryhub.bsky.social @gspulak.bsky.social

"Most women, especially mothers—working moms, stay-at-home moms, beleaguered moms, single moms, and married moms—will recognize themselves in one or more of these tales." Dorothy Rowena Rice reviews @ladiwoods.bsky.social's story collection, published by @autumnhouse.org:

Incredible honor for this former (forever) Texan now in DC to receive the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction from the TX Institute of Letters. Thx to my publisher @autumnhouse.org and to Sergio, for writing his own books & helping other authors making their way.

Writers: Just two weeks left to submit! #essays #memoirs #creativenonfiction #nonfiction #indiepress

Happy anniversary to I Have Not Considered Consequences by Sherrie Flick! We’re celebrating this milestone and an incredible publishing history with a special sale on all three of Sherrie’s Autumn House books: all 3books for $30 total ($10 each), plus $6 for shipping, through the end of April.

"Pittsburgh’s scale of literary events is supported by an extraordinarily active reading and writing public." Great piece by Jake Grefenstette of the International Poetry Forum! Autumn House is proud to call Pittsburgh--a most literary city--home. @poetryforum.bsky.social

Another wonderful interview with P. Scott Cunningham about his newest collection! @cunningpscott.bsky.social #poetry #florida #miami #indiepress #indiepublishing

Cover Reveal 🪡🚨 We’re thrilled to share the cover of REDWORK by Laurie Ann Guerrero, Winner of the 2025 Poetry Prize, selected by Matthew Olzmann! #poetry #coverreveal #poetrycollection #indiepress #feministpoetry #fabricart #embroidery

Thanks to WLRN Public Media & Natu Tweh for this interview with @cunningpscott.bsky.social: The ‘i’ in Florida: O, Miami founder writes about South Florida's complexity through poetry www.wlrn.org/arts-culture...

Self-Portrait as the “i” in Florida, winner of the 2025 Donald Justice Poetry Prize (selected by Major Jackson), is a love letter to Miami and a meditation on fatherhood, alive with contradiction and heat. Happy Pub Day, Scott.

Thanks to Amie Whittemore for interviewing AHP's editor in chief, Christine Stroud, for Women on Writing! @amiewhittemore.bsky.social #womenonwriting #indiepress #smallpress #editors

"I found myself compelled to read story after story, in part to discover what story-telling twist the author had in store for me next." Many thanks to Dorothy Rice and @literarymama.bsky.social for this thoughtful review of this award-winning collection by @ladiwoods.bsky.social!

We had such a wonderful weekend hosting Ren Cedar Fuller in Pittsburgh to celebrate her debut essay collection, BIGGER! From her workshop to her reading alongside contributors from Short Reads, Ren brought both a deep enthusiasm for the craft and a remarkable empathy for the lives she writes about.

Looking forward to hearing AHP Board Member Robert Yune read with AHP author Ren Cedar Fuller!

I have a new piece up @short-reads.org today about wassail choirs, strip clubs, New Zealand and a questionable life plan called the nonstop party wagon.

Tonight! We’re thrilled to cohost this special evening with Short Reads as we celebrate the Pittsburgh launch of Ren Cedar Fuller’s essay collection, BIGGER, welcoming Ren all the way from Seattle. We’re also delighted to be part of SR’s 3-year anniversary celebration. 🧡🫏🏠

Nonfiction Writers: The 2026 AHP Nonfiction Prize is now open! This prize is awarded for a full-length book of nonfiction (memoirs and personal essay collections). This year's judge is Ira Sukrungruang, and the winner receives publication of their book and $2,500. #indiepublishing #nonfiction

PGH Folks: Join us this afternoon for a writing workshop led by Ren Cedar Fuller, "The Lyric Essay: Using Nonlinear Forms to Tell the Story." In person @ the Pitt Writing Center (3rd floor, O’Hara Student Center, 4024 O’Hara St.); NB: You don't need to be affiliated with Pitt to attend!

Makalani Bandele @autumnhouse.org

Ren Cedar Fuller interviewed by Pittsburgh Review of Books on storytelling, empathy, and future endeavors. Read the full interview here: pghrev.com/when-writing...

Join us on March 28, 2026, at White Whale Bookstore for a nonfiction reading to beat them all! We’ll be celebrating the PGH launch of Ren Cedar Fuller’s BIGGER along with the 3-year anniversary reading for Short Reads, featuring SR contributors Hallie Pritts, M.S. Reagan, and Robert Yune.

Thanks to Poetry Daily for featuring this poem from Richard Hamilton's DISCORDANT! @poetrydaily.bsky.social #poems #poetry #politicalpoetry

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Grace Spulak interviewed by Harvard Law Today about the inspiration behind her upcoming collection, Magdalena Is Brighter Than You Think. Read the full interview here: hls.harvard.edu/today/from-h...

Some pre-pub love for Self-Portrait as the "i" in Florida by @cunningpscott.bsky.social!

Lana one of our social media team superstars is interning at @autumnhouse.org and she couldn’t have ended up in a more welcoming and generative space. This is why we need indie publishing in the world! Check them and their fantastic catalogue out! #awp #awp26 #autumnhousepress #writers #intern

“This bringing together of disparate influences, the merging of multiple inspirations to forge a new world is something of a Vollmer signature.” Scott Silsbe reviews Judith Vollmer's new book, THE PAVESE STONE, out now from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social. pghrev.com/judith-vollm...

Congrats to Lauren D. Woods: Her debut collection has been named a finalist for the 2025 Foreword INDIES Finalist for Short Stories! Read all about it: www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books... @ladiwoods.bsky.social #indie #finalist #bookprize #shortstories

Our books are packed, and we're ready to go! See you at #AWP26, Baltimore; we're booth 1165. 😎

Nonfiction Writers: The 2026 AHP Nonfiction Prize is now open! This prize is awarded for a full-length book of nonfiction (memoirs and personal essay collections). This year's judge is Ira Sukrungruang, and the winner receives publication of their book and $2,500. #indiepublishing #nonfiction

@cameronbarnett.bsky.social featured on @radio.wpsu.org.web.brid.gy Poetry Moment with “Emmett Till Haunts the Library in Money, MS.” Through humor and horror, the poem asks us not to look back in nostalgia, but forward into responsibility. Listen here: radio.wpsu.org/2026-02-23/p... #WPSU

Congrats to Grace Spulak for having her stunning story "The Four Winds" in the most recent issue of BLACKBIRD, and big thanks to the BLACKBIRD editors! Read Grace's story here: blackbird.vcu.edu/the-four-win... @blackbirdjournal.bsky.social

🚨Fiction writers: Tomorrow is the final day to submit to the AHP Fiction Prize! Send us your full-length MSs ASAP!

📢 Save the Date & spread the word! Join us Thursday, February 26 at Choolaah (Centre Ave), 10:45 AM–9 PM. Use code PRESS in the Choolaah app or mention our fundraiser in-store. 📚 30% of proceeds support Autumn House Press. More info: Choolaah.com #ChoolaahYum #ChoolaahGives