We’re so happy to announce that a winner has been selected for the 2026 Novella Prize! Congratulations to Chris Dodds and his manuscript NECESSARY CUTS! Chris Dodds lives in Oklahoma City with his wife and two feral goblins. Necessary Cuts is his first book.

"Randolph Healy deserves to get noticed. The Ireland-raised poet and math teacher—who will turn 70 next year—has been assembling thoughtful, counterintuitive poems, short and long, into small press volumes since the 1980s." Stephanie Burt on Randolph Healy clereviewofbooks.com/stephanie-bu...

Happy to see THE ELECTRON-GHOST CASINO in the mix here! sites.miamioh.edu/miami-univer...

It was such a delight to meet novella author @andreaavery.bsky.social this week! Thanks to everyone who came out to her reading! Andrea visited @miamiohenglish.bsky.social on Monday to share excerpts from her novella, VISITING COMPOSER, sign copies, and answer questions about craft and research. ✨🌞✨

Excited to hear @andreaavery.bsky.social read at our home base of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, TONIGHT – 9/8 - 6:30PM! Join us!

"The Electron-Ghost Casino conducts sensorial/semantic/surprising pleasures in poems w/ quickness, an alert ear, & sometimes tenderness, up to the snuff of a good conversation—digressive, propulsive, slapstick." –Sean Pierson reviews Randolph Healy www.poetryinreview.com/reviews/elec...

"Writing and music are all bound up for me" –– VISITING COMPOSER author @andreaavery.bsky.social was featured on her local NPR station in Phoenix. Andrea reads in our home base of Oxford Ohio next week. Listen in: www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...

Hope to see you in (round on the ends and high in the middle) O-hi-O

We're thrilled to host @andreaavery.bsky.social for a reading next week - September 8 @ 6:30PM in Miami University's Harris Hall (500 Harris Dr, Oxford OH)! #novella #novellas #fiction

Good news! We've extended our 2026 Novella Prize deadline by a day! You have more time to polish up your manuscripts and send them our way before the end of Monday, Sept 1 at midnight EDT. mupress.submittable.com/submit #novella #BookContest #bookprize #fiction #fictionbooks #smallpresspublishing

"A deeply moving book, one that will live long in the reader’s mind" Thanks, Billy Mills, for including our editor's newest book in this review –– Studies in the Unnatural World by Keith Tuma (Wild Honey Press)

SAVE THE DATE: November 15th in South Euclid, Ohio! attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/13881294

I had the very cool opportunity to create a playlist for my novella, Visiting Composer. It’s up now at Largehearted Boy: largeheartedboy.com/2025/07/10/a...

Calling all Phoenix friends –– @andreaavery.bsky.social is reading from VISITING COMPOSER at @changinghands.bsky.social on Thursday, August 21: www.changinghands.com/event/august...

"I am obsessed with this book" –– @kelceyervick.bsky.social on @andreaavery.bsky.social's VISITING COMPOSER bookshop.org/p/books/visi...

"fast, spooky, quietly devastating" –– @bonnienadzam.bsky.social on VISITING COMPOSER bookshop.org/.../visiting...

Musician Gregory Spatz re @andreaavery.bsky.social's VISITING COMPOSER: "Gorgeous, layered, and full of feeling, this brief trip out of time and into the hearts and minds of two psychically connected young composers is a delight." bookshop.org/p/books/visi...

Something small and beautiful in the ongoing storm: a book of prose poems by Keith Tuma. This volume is electric with love, pain, clarity, and, most unexpectedly, a kind of hope. Check it out. From Wild Honey Press: www.wildhoneypress.com/BOOKS/Studie... @miamioh-press.bsky.social

Working on something about the thoughtful, often lovely poetry of Randolph Healy @miamioh-press.bsky.social for @clereviewbooks.bsky.social & TIL Healy has archived most or all of his poems online for free! sites.google.com/view/randolp...

🎶 Happy Publication Day to VISITING COMPOSER by @andreaavery.bsky.social!! 🎶 “Gorgeous, layered, and full of feeling, this brief trip out of time and into the hearts and minds of two psychically connected young composers is a delight.” –Gregory Spatz sites.miamioh.edu/miami-univer...

Send us your gorgeous #novella manuscripts! 🌞 The 2026 Miami University Press Novella Prize is open for submissions: mupress.submittable.com/submit – 18-40k words / deadline August 31 Pic of the novella collection so far! @andreaavery.bsky.social's VISITING COMPOSER (top of stack) is out in July!

Aaaaaahaagahhagahahahahhaha my author copies just arrived and July 1 you can all read the untold story (part of it, anyway) of the world’s greatest imaginary time-traveling female composer Preorder at: sites.miamioh.edu/miami-univer...

✨Preorder✨ VISITING COMPOSER by @andreaavery.bsky.social! "Andrea Avery's Visiting Composer is a fast, spooky, quietly devastating, paradoxically animating read" -– Bonnie Nadzam bookshop.org/p/books/visi...

Q&A Part II between Rashi Rohatgi (SITA IN EXILE) and @ashleyhoneysett.bsky.social (FICTIONS): ashleyhoney.substack.com/p/thoreau-to...

"The kinds of writing that we are taught in schools as being foundationally American–Thoreau, Emerson–are intentionally and extensively engaged with Hindu tradition.”–Rashi Rohatgi (SITA IN EXILE) in conversation with @ashleyhoneysett.bsky.social (FICTIONS) ashleyhoney.substack.com/p/hindu-myth...

SITA IN EXILE has been reviewed by Scroll.IN! You can read the review here: scroll.in/article/1080...

Calling all #novella fans! @ashleyhoneysett.bsky.social and other novella authors will read and discuss the form at the "For the Love of the Novella" #AWP25 panel Saturday, March 29 at 9AM. Don't miss!

We're in Los Angeles this week- Thurs-Sat! Visit us at #AWP25 bookfair – T249 🤩 Stop by on Saturday for a book signing featuring FICTIONS author @ashleyhoneysett.bsky.social at 10:30AM

The Pedagogy of Climate Change, Friday, 10:35 a.m. #AWP25 ... one of only two panels at the AWP conference with Climate Change in the title or description.

"When I’m writing something shorter, I want the reader to feel immersed, and I appreciate that I can experiment with form or explore ideas more than characters or plot without asking for a huge reader commitment." – FICTIONS author @ashleyhoneysett.bsky.social on the #novella form

FICTIONS has been named as a 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist! We are so pleased to announce that FICTIONS by @ashleyhoneysett.bsky.social has been recognized in this way.

Our author @ashleyhoneysett.bsky.social has a Substack where she recommends books she reads! You can check it out here: ashleyhoney.substack.com

I'm really pleased to be in the company of the other writers and publishers who are finalists for the Foreword INDIES prize in literary fiction. #finalist #literary www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books...

Congratulations to @terrilewis1.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 Novella Prize w/ her manuscript, WHEN THEY CAME HOME. Thanks to our final judge, Amina Gautier, our readers, + the incredible writers who submitted to the contest and trusted us w/ their work. We are grateful for all of your support. 🎉🎉

VISITING COMPOSER by @andreaavery.bsky.social has a cover! We are thrilled to share the 2024 Novella Contest winner’s cover with you all, designed by Jeff Clark’s Crisis Studio. For those waiting anxiously to hear about our 2025 novella winner, we’ll have news soon! Stay tuned!

A cover for my forthcoming novella AND an interactive puzzle activity??!? Dreams DO come true …

Andrea Avery’s VISITING COMPOSER has a cover- puzzle out how our 2024 contest winner’s cover looks! puzzel.org/en/jigsaw/pl...

NEW on our website: Lily Ní Dhomhnaill reviews four Irish poetry collections from 2024: 'Vulgar Errors / Feral Subjects' by Fran Lock, 'The Conversation' by Jo Burns & Emily Cooper, 'STORM DRAIN' by Francis Jones, and 'The Electron-Ghost Casino' by Randolph Healy. stingingfly.org/review/irish...

“I would feel so good in my life that is just like mine” A poem by Liz Waldner.

The Write City Magazine is excited to #publish an excerpt by Ashley Honeysett, a winner of the 2024 Book of the Year Awards. You can #read the excerpt at: www.chicagowrites.org/write_city/1... Register for the awards ceremony at: cwa12.wildapricot.org/event-5977283 #fiction #bookoftheyear

Terrific book recs from FICTIONS author Ashley Honeysett! ashleyhoney.substack.com