Acre Books is reading queries and submissions for #poetry manuscripts during the month of January. To learn more, visit acre-books.com/submissions/. 📚🖊️ #booksky

The Northwest Review is alive and now on Bluesky. We are reviving this historically great magazine in 2026. We are now open for submissions. Send us your best fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. northwestreview.submittable.com/submit

Delighted to see Acre poet C.D. Eskilson's SCREAM / QUEEN on @autostraddle.bsky.social's "Best Queer Poetry of 2025" list! 🎉🎉🎉 www.autostraddle.com/the-best-que...

"M. Cynthia Cheung's #poems resurrect and recount history—both personal and impersonal—by placing the reader into the scene and rendering descriptions which are poignant and unexpected." New review of COMMON DISASTER at Salt Hill! 🎉🎉🎉 salthilljournal.net/reviews-and-...

"Sometimes I feel like I’ve trapped him like something dangerous that must be kept under lock and key, a bodiless entity living inside my device..." @richardscottlarson.com reviews Wes Jamison's MY CORPSE INSIDE in our recent Horror Folio. Link in thread.

Acre Books is reading queries and submissions for #poetry manuscripts during the month of January. To learn more, visit acre-books.com/submissions/. 📚🖊️ #booksky

Happy New Year, reader friends! We have exciting stuff in store for 2026! Stay tuned for news on our debuts and fresh titles from your favorite Acre authors. 🎉🎉🎉

Delighted to see Acre poet C.D. Eskilson's SCREAM / QUEEN on @autostraddle.bsky.social's "Best Queer Poetry of 2025" list! 🎉🎉🎉 www.autostraddle.com/the-best-que...

"In dreams it feels natural to make terrible decisions, evil decisions, careless decisions, or have no decisions to make at all..." @gingerko.bsky.social reviews Daisuke Shen’s VAGUE PREDICTIONS AND PROPHECIES in our recent Horror Folio. Link in thread.

Including RANGE OF MOTION (@btrapperkeeper.bsky.social) and DEFIANT ACTS (@thejs3.bsky.social)! 🎉🎉🎉 #fiction #booksky

"I wake to a bedside note from last night's self: '... like a thorn to a shrike." Our last miCRo of 2025 is a prose poem by @kevingrauke.bsky.social, "Loggerhead Shrike," which captures the lightning-in-a-bottle inspiration that can (sometimes) strike while inebriated. Link in thread.

Our best sale of the year is still on until Dec 17th. Enjoy half off everything in the shop, including subscriptions, swag, and single copies! buff.ly/8puYcLw

Congrats to Acre author @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social! We're excited to see RANGE OF MOTION featured on this best of 2025 list! #novel #amreading #booksky 🎉🎉🎉 clevelandmagazine.com/articles/50-...

We've got gift options galore and our annual end of year sale is still on! Link below for details. 🎁📚🎉 #booksky

"After all, the deepest parts of us retain traces of desert and glacier, volcano and sea; of tiger and ape, zebra and elephant; of spaceman and robot and murderer." Jen Fawkes on the sublime in our recent Horror Folio. Link in thread.

New work from Acre poet @bydanobrien.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉

"Do you find yourself, at the end of the year, feeling quite Janus-like? Simultaneously reviewing the past while looking forward to the future? I certainly do." Associate Editor Kate Jayroe returns with a nostalgic look at the online literary scene of the past! Link in thread.

Flashback Friday! METTLEWORK: a #memoir of @jessejohnson.bsky.social's unusual upbringing during the 1970s and ’80s, interwoven with the story of her transition to parenthood in post-recession Portland, Oregon. Learn more at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo.... 📚🎉

It's the most wonderful time of the year again! Our 50% off sale runs today until Dec 17th. Enjoy half off everything in the shop, including subscriptions, swag, and single copies! buff.ly/8puYcLw

Congrats to Acre author @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social! We're excited to see RANGE OF MOTION featured on this best of 2025 list! #novel #amreading #booksky 🎉🎉🎉 clevelandmagazine.com/articles/50-...

Lots of Acre titles represented across genres! Check out the best new releases from small and university presses! 🎉🎉🎉

We've got gift options galore and our annual end of year sale is still on! Link below for details. 🎁📚🎉 #booksky

Some of my recent books, bendable for placement inside stockings — available in the usual ways, but links are @ www.danobrien.org @acrebooks.bsky.social @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social @cbeditions.bsky.social @poetrylondon.bsky.social @calquepress.bsky.social

Delighted and proud to see Acre Poetry Editor / @cincinnatireview.bsky.social Managing Editor @lisaampleman.bsky.social in the pages of @pw.org! 🎉🎉🎉

"Tonight, the moon is a tangerine. Its juices drip down my chin." This week's miCRo by Whitney Waters redefines what it means to hunger for something slightly out of reach. Link in thread.

"Let the monster speak in your poem—let it run wild in the moonlight and find its target. The monster, when given the chance, will sink its claws into those who have dealt the most harm." CD Eskilson on monsters and queerness in our recent Horror Folio. Link in thread.

Co-hosting this charity reading on Thursday! Join us! There will be nine readers, hundreds of books from various presses, wine, tote bags, and much more. 100% of the proceeds benefit immigrant & refugee rights. Please amplify if you can ❤️

Including RANGE OF MOTION (@btrapperkeeper.bsky.social) and DEFIANT ACTS (@thejs3.bsky.social)! 🎉🎉🎉 #fiction #booksky

What was that you assured me—when we die, we wake from a dream? Martha Silano @acrebooks.bsky.social

"What is it like to be regarded as an object of horror and fascination? What is it like to feel that way about someone else? Yourself? Eskilson takes on all of these questions..." SCREAM / QUEEN reviewed in @coloradoreview.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉 #poetry coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/scre...

The uncanny. The strange. However you slice it, things are getting spooky in our 22.2 folio featuring writing on HORROR by @gingerko.bsky.social, CD Eskilon, @richardscottlarson.com.bsky.social, Jen Fawkes, and Raul Palma. Link in first comment.

New work from Acre poet @bydanobrien.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉

"Your partner is frustrated with you: You haven’t taken care of your body. You haven’t been responsible with your back or limbs or heart. You haven’t been good to yourself." Today we're featuring an online-only nonfiction exclusive from @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social, "Body Essay." Link in thread.

Flashback Friday! Set against the backdrop of natural or manmade catastrophes, GRACE FOR GRACE brings celebrated cult filmmaker #SteveDeJarnatt’s distinctive voice and cinematic vision to the page. Link for details! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #fiction #booksky #amreading 📚🎉

Lots of Acre titles represented across genres! Check out the best new releases from small and university presses! 🎉🎉🎉

One of my favorite comedians blurbed my book. Zach Anner, actor and writer for ABC's Speechless, gave my novel the kindest endorsement I could ask for. Please watch the hilarious Speechless episode where he gets tased by Minnie Driver. This man deserves his own TV show. @acrebooks.bsky.social

Delighted and proud to see Acre Poetry Editor / @cincinnatireview.bsky.social Managing Editor @lisaampleman.bsky.social in the pages of @pw.org! 🎉🎉🎉

In TERMINAL SURREAL, "Martha Silano turns her terminal ALS diagnosis into a vessel for cooking fear and bitterness into irony and delight...Her energetic, jam-packed lines buzz with the music and beauty of mushrooms and hummingbirds, paddleboards and Xanax." 📚🎉 #poetry lithub.com/100-notable-...

"What is it like to be regarded as an object of horror and fascination? What is it like to feel that way about someone else? Yourself? Eskilson takes on all of these questions..." SCREAM / QUEEN reviewed in @coloradoreview.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉 #poetry coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/scre...

"It was also Mennonite style for children to listen quietly at the supper table while the grown-ups talked." This week's miCRo by Jodi Cressman explores the stratifications of gender and family in a Mennonite and farming household. Link in thread.

"Names matter. What we call one another matters. There is power—and respect—in naming, and in who gets named at all," host Maggie Smith shares in episode 1408 of The Slowdown. Read "Noah's Nameless Wife Takes Inventory" by C.T. Salazar: bit.ly/43X7ESH 📖: @acrebooks.bsky.social

Attention book lovers! It's our end of year holiday sale! Code: ACREHOLIDAYHAUL30 for 30% off all of our print titles, including free shipping. Sale through mid-December. Additional details at acre-books.com/acre-books-h...

A reminder that we did not open for submissions today. We're making some technological changes to how we review submissions. Look for a call in early 2026!

In TERMINAL SURREAL, "Martha Silano turns her terminal ALS diagnosis into a vessel for cooking fear and bitterness into irony and delight...Her energetic, jam-packed lines buzz with the music and beauty of mushrooms and hummingbirds, paddleboards and Xanax." 📚🎉 #poetry lithub.com/100-notable-...

miCRo is now CLOSED for submissions! Keep watching this space for future calls!

"I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little ..." ~ Tom Stoppard

"As a kid trying to navigate a complex relationship with my body & my understanding of gender, I saw kinship in stories of the creature haunting the swamp, the quiet street, the mausoleum." Acre poet #CDEskilson a new essay via @cincinnatireview.bsky.social. www.cincinnatireview.com/articles/mak...

⭐ review for TERMINAL SURREAL! @marthasilano.bsky.social "incorporates science & nature imagery in a mischievous & moving verse account of her final years with ALS: the shock & sorrow of a terminal diagnosis eased by the quotidian pleasures of observing the Pacific Northwest." @shelf-awareness.com

Congrats to Acre poet C.D. Eskilson! SCREAM / QUEEN is a finalist for the 2025 Golden Poppy Book Awards! 🎉🎉🎉 #poetry #booksky #amreading

Congrats to Acre #poet M. Cynthia Cheung on the publication of COMMON DISASTER! 🎉🎉🎉 Order your copy at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo....