"Fuller ... draws upon her deep love for her family to craft delicate stories that simultaneously reveal and protect their subjects." Thank you to Hippocampus Magazine for this thoughtful review of Ren Cedar Fuller's BIGGER! We loved reading about how this reviewer connected with Ren's essays.

"Fuller is whimsical and self-deprecating . . . This openhearted memoir models how to explore and integrate with one's family history." Thank you to Shelf Awareness (@shelf-awareness.com) for the starred review of Ren Cedar Fuller's BIGGER!

The 2026 CAAPP Book Prize is now open! The submission deadline is December 15th, 2025, and the winning manuscript will be published by AHP & receive a $3,000 prize. As always, submissions are free. This year's final judge is Ladan Osman.

I’m heading to Texas in November! At Bookwoman 11/14, Austin and The Twig Book Shop 11/15, San Antonio - in conversation with Ramona Reeves and reading with Andrew Porter 🐻 Would love to see you there! 📕 @autumnhousepress.bsky.social

Interested in learning more about indie publishing in the South? Check out CLMP's fabulous list of books, publishers, fairs, awards, and more in the American South, including AHP poet Jennifer Conlon's TAKING TO WATER! Thank you to CLMP for featuring Jennifer's debut collection!

"When we love someone, we want their world to be bigger. And by loving people who are different from us, it really expands our world." Ren Cedar Fuller, author of the essay collection BIGGER, was just on Parley Lit's "Totally Biased Reviews" with Asha Dore. Thanks to Parley Lit!

Our charity for November in the Studio is the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank; and because of the urgent need with SNAP expiring, I kicked things off with a $500 donation yesterday. Please join me in donating!

Happy pub day to self-driving by Betsy Fagin! (@betsyfagin.bsky.social) Winner of the 2024 AHP Poetry Prize, selected by Kazim Ali: “Feminist and humanist . . . passionate and compassionate.” Through incisive, playful verse, Fagin reclaims the road trip for Black, queer, feminist futures. 💙

"Bear of loss. Bear of reckoning. I turned to face it, offering a hunger that required no mouth." Thank you to Poetry Daily (poetrydaily.bsky.social) for featuring AHP author Amie Whittemore's (amiewhittemore.bsky.social) "The Bear" from her collection NEST OF MATCHES!

Today's Featured Poem: "The Bear" by @amiewhittemore.bsky.social from Nest of Matches published by @autumnhousepress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/the-bear/

As the holiday season approaches, we have just the gift for your book-loving someone! Our book subscriptions are a fantastic way to support our independent press, and we love sending books to our subscribers each month. Find more information on the ‘Subscriptions’ tab of our website!

Happy happiest of pub days to @ladiwoods.bsky.social and this absolutely wonderful book!

Pub day for The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe by Lauren D. Woods (@ladiwoods.bsky.social)! So proud to share this stunning debut collection with the world. 💖 #shortstory #fiction #indiepress

Thank you to Necessary Fiction (@necessaryfiction.com) and reviewer Emily Hall for the wonderful review of Lauren D. Woods's (@ladiwoods.bsky.social) THE GREAT GROWN-UP GAME OF MAKE-BELIEVE!

Loved these questions from The Nerd Daily; and now I need to do a reread of Little, Big thenerddaily.com/amber-sparks...

"The collection’s freshness stems from its remarkable playfulness." Thanks to Necessary Fiction and Emily Hall for this lovely review of Lauren D. Woods' (@ladiwoods.bsky.social) debut short story collection!

Need a snack for the mind? AHP author Lauren Woods launched a book vending machine for local authors in D.C., and it's helping people find independent books from the city's own creatives. https://loom.ly/G65M978

"How do we care for each other when we live in institutions of violence?'" BITTERING THE WOUND by Jacqui Germain is at the top of Electric Lit's list "7 Poetry Books Written From Activism’s Front Lines!" Read the full list here: https://loom.ly/yl1LsOU

We hope to see you tonight at 7.p.m. for the book launch of Jasmine Reid's INTERLOCUTOR GODDESS! RSVP here: https://loom.ly/15WY32w Jasmine will also lead a Writers’ Café on writing radical futures at the Pitt Writing Center TODAY from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

"The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe" and "Bigger" made The Millions' 2025 Great Fall Book Preview, just in time for peak leaf season! We couldn't be prouder of Lauren D. Woods and Ren Cedar Fuller! Read the full list here: https://loom.ly/X65v-SY

Autumn House is excited to announce the winner of our 2025 Poetry Prize: REDWORK by Laurie Ann Guerrero, selected by Matthew Olzmann! We're honored to share this book with the world in October 2026. #poetry #publishing #prize #winner

Reminder that AHP poet Jasmine Reid, winner of the 2024 CAAPP Book Prize, is launching her book INTERLOCUTOR GODDESS this Friday, Oct. 17, at 7 p.m. at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater in East Liberty! RSVP here: https://loom.ly/15WY32w

Listen now to writer and host of Wild Precious Things Annmarie Kelly's (annmariekelly.bsky.social) interview with AHP author Ren Cedar Fuller! Join Annmarie and Ren as they talk neurodivergent parenting, sibling memories, and how to be loving advocates for gender nonconforming children.

Please join AHP poet Jasmine Reid, winner of the 2024 CAAPP Book Prize, for the launch of her book INTERLOCUTOR GODDESS on Oct. 17 at 7 p.m.! Jasmine and poet Douglas Kearney will read and converse at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, then host a Q&A and book signing. RSVP here! https://loom.ly/15WY32w

Join AHP author @sherrieflick.bsky.social for a reading from her story collection "I Have Not Considered Consequences" in Squirrel Hill this week! Q&A to follow 🐻🧡 Where: Carnegie Library in Squirrel Hill When: Thursday, Oct. 16, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. www.carnegielibrary.org/event/an-eve...

Another great interview with Ren! Thank you to interviewer Amy Roost and The Washington Independent Review of Books for their wonderful interview with AHP author Ren Cedar Fuller!

Check out Ren Cedar Fuller's poignant new essay on motherhood, publishing, and what it means to write as a form of resistance. Thanks to Brevity for publishing this powerful essay! #essay #publishing #nonfiction

"If I’m writing creative nonfiction, I owe the reader my best attempt to discover the truth." Check out this wonderful interview with Ren!

It’s pub day for BIGGER: ESSAYS by Ren Cedar Fuller, winner of the 2024 AHP Nonfiction Prize (selected by Clifford Thompson)! This large-hearted debut collection is so generous and thoughtful! https://loom.ly/JlgXrf4 #essays #nonfiction

Thank you so much to chef Martin Draluck for featuring AHP author Cherene Sherrard's poems from her collection GRIMOIRE during his Black Pot Supper Club! We love his unique use of her work to inspire his own creation. Many thanks to the Black Pot Supper Club team and Edible LA for the write-up!

For the month of October, we’ll be donating 10% of all our sales to Pittsburgh Against Against Rape. This ties in with a donation that started last year during our VHS Pop-Up; a friend donated a bunch of old movie magazines to the studio and we decided to sell them and donate the proceeds to PAAR /

Congratulations to AHP poet Erica Reid! Her poem, "Pelt," from her debut GHOST MAN ON SECOND, won a 2026 Pushcart Prize!

Happy Pub Day to INTERLOCUTOR GODDESS by Jasmine Reid, winner of the 2024 CAAPP Book Prize, selected by aracelis girmay! Join us in celebrating Jasmine and pick up your copy today: https://loom.ly/moLihEk

I’m reading next Tuesday, September 23, at Upper St. Clair Township Library! Free, fun. 🐻 🏠 6:30 #essays #flashfiction #booksky Registration: twpusc.libcal.com/event/153306... @autumnhousepress.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social

"drawing breath, eating darkness. each morning, rising, eyes straining through a new light, turning to dust." Check out this beautiful poem by Darius Atefat-Peckham today on @poetrydaily.bsky.social!

Thank you to Poetry Daily for featuring AHP author Darius Atefat-Peckham's "Book of Sleep" from his collection BOOK OF KIN!

Autumn House had a great time hanging out with @alternatehistories.bsky.social for National Read a Book Day! Thanks to Matt for hosting us and naming AHP as the nonprofit for the September "Give Back" program--this means they'll be donating 10% of their in-person sales to the press. 🧡

Thank you to literary magazine Under the Sun and Cindy Bradley for their recent interview of AHP author and winner of the 2024 Autumn House Nonfiction Prize Ren Cedar Fuller on her upcoming AHP essay collection BIGGER!

"The collection offers a unique vision into the ways we learn to live with our past, present, and future selves." Congrats to @ladiwoods.bsky.social on a lovely review in KIRKUS! AHP is pleased to be publishing Lauren's debut THE GREAT GROWN-UP GAME OF MAKE-BELIEVE next month!

Honored to have Kirkus review my book! "An inventive and heartfelt short story collection." I'll be at Kramers in DC with @laurascalzo.bsky.social on Oct 22 at 7 pm and Barnes & Noble Potomac Yard on Oct 26 from 1-3 with @stephliberatore.bsky.social. @autumnhousepress.bsky.social

Check out my conversation with @autumnhousepress.bsky.social Nonfiction Prize winner Ren Cedar Fuller!

"A Swedish proverb says, “Every behavior happens for a reason.” I hope Bigger reminds readers that, despite the hurts and difficulties, they can choose to approach their loving-but-complex relationships with open-hearted curiosity." Check out this lovely interview with AHP author Ren Cedar Fuller!

"Wilkinson has an adroit eye for descriptive detail that ... makes simple ... ideas new." Thank you to Colorado Review (@coloradoreview.bsky.social) and Lisa Higgs for the review of Sunni Brown Wilkinson's RODEO! Read the rest here: coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/rodeo/

"I love reading, first and foremost, and then writing is, maybe, something that is a response to that love." AHP author Darius Atefat-Peckham, whose BOOK OF KIN won the 2023 AHP Poetry Prize, was just on the "Musings of the Artist" podcast! Listen to the lovely interview: https://loom.ly/zWMQH-s

Congratulations to AHP Author Michael Walsh on being featured this week on Poem of the Week! Check out some of Michael's poetry from his AHP collection Creep Love here: www.poemoftheweek.com/michaelwalsh #poetrysky

Check the WPLS IG or FB accounts for a recording of Sunni Brown Wilkinson reading “Teapot Lake on the Head of a Pin.” The poem was first published in @terrainorg.bsky.social, & it is in her book RODEO. Order RODEO from @autumnhousepress.bsky.social: www.autumnhouse.org/books/rodeo/. #poetrysky

...The body and the spirit are a bicycle you ride carefully and uphill Thanks to @poetrydaily.bsky.social for featuring Sunni Brown Wilkinson's poem on Saturday!

Please join us for a celebration of the life and work of writer, editor, and educator Ed Ochester on 09/12 at 7:30 at the University of Pittsburgh. AHP is so honored to be a part of this event and will be selling copies of "Sugar Run Road" and "Unreconstructed" at the event.

We're thrilled for the Pittsburgh Review of Books, started by AHP board member Ed Simon!