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Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · 4h

Check out the full announcement on our website: www.autumnhouse.org/winner-of-th...

Winner of the 2025 Autumn House Poetry Prize - Autumn House Press

Autumn House is excited to announce the winner of our 2025 Poetry Prize: REDWORK by Laurie Ann Guerrero, selected by Matthew Olzmann! This book will be

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Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · 4h

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

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Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · 6h

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

Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · 4d

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

Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · 5d

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...

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Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · 5d

Read the full interview here: www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-...

An Interview with Ren Cedar Fuller | Washington Independent Review of Books

The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.

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Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · 5d

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!

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Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · 5d

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

Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · 6d

"If I’m writing creative nonfiction, I owe the reader my best attempt to discover the truth."

Check out this wonderful interview with Ren!

Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · 8d

An Interview with Ren Cedar Fuller. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-... @autumnhousepress.bsky.social #booksky

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Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · 8d

We’re so proud to share this debut with the world. Please join us in celebrating Ren!

Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · 8d

Prize judge Clifford Thompson said:

“Bigger offers the deep pleasure of experiences thoughtfully considered, emotions examined, and ideas explored, yet still left to us to ponder. This collection is a gem.”

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Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · 8d

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

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Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · 9d

Read the full article here: www.ediblela.com/black-pot-su...

Black Pot Supper Club Magic

Black Pot Supper Club adds to our culinary history with the point of view of enslaved chefs.

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Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · 9d

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!

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Alternate Histories @alternatehistories.bsky.social · 9d

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 /

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Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · 9d

Read the poem here: poems.com/poem/pelt/

Pelt

Menace in its drape, its feeble sag, my drowsy cape. Sleeves uneven, buttons like loose teeth. And me with nothing underneath.

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Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · 9d

Read more about Erica's book here: www.autumnhouse.org/books/ghost-...

Ghost Man on Second - Autumn House Press

About the Book Erica Reid’s debut collection, Ghost Man on Second, traces a daughter’s search for her place in the world after estrangement from her

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Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · 9d

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

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Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · 22d

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

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Sherrie Flick @sherrieflick.bsky.social · 25d

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...

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Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · 26d

AHP was honored to publish Darius's debut collection, BOOK OF KIN, in Oct. 2024: www.autumnhouse.org/books/book-o...

Book of Kin - Autumn House Press

About the Book Darius Atefat-Peckham’s debut poetry collection follows a boy’s coming of age in the aftermath of a car accident that took the lives of

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Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · 26d

"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!

Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 26d

Today's Featured Poem:

"Book of Sleep" by Darius Atefat-Peckham from Book of Kin published by @autumnhousepress.bsky.social
Read here:
spare.poems.com/poem/book-of...

Book of Sleep

The Boy-Seeking will never understand how His father reads

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Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · 26d

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

Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 26d

Today's Featured Poem:

"Book of Sleep" by Darius Atefat-Peckham from Book of Kin published by @autumnhousepress.bsky.social
Read here:
spare.poems.com/poem/book-of...

Book of Sleep

The Boy-Seeking will never understand how His father reads

spare.poems.com

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Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · 27d

Be sure to visit their Greenfield studio this month and check out some incredible local art!

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