Poets, tomorrow is the final day to submit to the 2026 AHP Poetry Prize!

Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology @autumnhouse.org #poetry #queerpoetry

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"A love letter to the women who came before, a cry against gendered violence, and an elegy for the ways colonialism warps our lives." Enter to win a copy of Laurie Ann Guerrero's "Redwork" from @autumnhouse.org #💙📚 #Booksky www.librarything.com/ner/detail/5...

Thanks to Foreword Reviews for naming @gspulak.bsky.social's Magdalena Is Brighter Than You Think as their "Book of the Day"! www.forewordreviews.com/articles/art...

Autumn House is pleased to announce that Shelby Kinney-Lang's debut short story collection, Snake & Submarine, has been selected by Amber Sparks as the winner of the 2026 Fiction Prize. Of the book, Amber writes: "It's a clever, but deeply human book, and I loved every story in it."

Join us on June 25 to celebrate the finalists for the Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction! Published by Restless Books, @autumnhouse.org, @rosemetalpress.bsky.social, Feminist Press, and @milkweededitions.bsky.social: www.clmp.org/event/2026-f...

BIGGER: ESSAYS by Ren Cedar Fuller, published by @autumnhouse.org, is a finalist for the Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction. We’ll be celebrating the finalists and announcing the winner on June 25! www.clmp.org/event/2026-f...

Autumn House is thrilled to announce our new publishing partnership with @penamerica.bsky.social on the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers anthology. Submissions are now open for the prize, which recognizes 12 exceptional debut stories! More info: pen.org/literary-awa...

Grab a galley copy of REDWORK today! www.librarything.com/ner/detail/5...

A wonderful Pittsburgh visit from Meredith Nnoka, author of LES PORTES! Meredith was joined by Cameron Awkward-Rich, our 2025 CAAPP Book Prize judge, for a reading and conversation at the University of Pittsburgh. Meredith then conducted a lively poetry workshop at the PGH Book Fest. #PGHBookFest

Join AHP tomorrow at the #PGHBookFest! In addition to the panels and reading, AHP staff will be selling our poetry titles in the main reading room on the second floor of the library!

Tonight / 6 pm / May 28: Join the CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY AND POETICS & AUTUMN HOUSE PRESS in celebrating the PGH book launch of Meredith Nnoka's LES PORTES. Meredith will be joined by renowned poet and 2025 CAAPP Prize judge Cameron Awkward-Rich. 2007 Centre Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15219

Looking forward to having Meredith Nnoka in Pittsburgh this week! #Poetry #Writing #CAAPP #PGHBookFest

Congratulations to BIGGER: ESSAYS by Ren Cedar Fuller, published by @autumnhouse.org, a finalist for the 2026 Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction! www.autumnhouse.org/books/bigger...

Anthony Immergluck’s THE WORRIED WELL is a “tragicomic collection that explores the intersection of anxiety and safety in a chaotic world.” Poetry from @autumnhouse.org for #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth: www.autumnhouse.org/books/the-wo...

GREAT collections: COYOTE GIRL, @sabrinahicks.bsky.social, @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social, ALL DAUGHTERS ARE AWESOME EVERYWHERE, @demisty.bsky.social, @univnebpress.bsky.social , MAGDALENA IS BRIGHTER THAN YOU THINK, Grace Spulak, @autumnhouse.org, BODOCK, Robert Busby, @hubcitypress.bsky.social

Thanks to Noa Rabinow for the lovely review of BIGGER on their site, Gender Defiant!

Print galleys of OBJECTS OF DESIRE by Adam O'Fallon Price are now available! Winner of the Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, Adam’s unflinchingly honest and deliciously existential stories explore the ways our deepest hunger teases us toward both our best selves.

"...how perfectly he calibrates his odes to contain as much heartfelt praise as possible without exuding too much, and how overpowering his sincerity is." Big thanks to the folks at @barrelhouse.bsky.social for the review of Self-Portrait as the "i" in Floriday by @cunningpscott.bsky.social!

Three cheers for Ren! We’re thrilled to announce that Ren Cedar Fuller’s debut essay collection, BIGGER, is a finalist for the 2026 Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction. Huge thanks to the folks at CLMP for their support, now and always. @clmporg.bsky.social #bookprize #creativenonfiction

Thrilled to have BIGGER by Ren Cedar Fuller on this list!

"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!