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“A quiet, thoughtful story about coming-of-age at middle age.” Kirkus released a starred review of Big Familia by Tomas Moniz, coming November 2019 from Acre Books. This is a story of making family and making mistakes, of rending and of mending. As a Latinx queer...
Bitch Media listed Faylita Hicks’ upcoming poetry collection HoodWitch today in a list of “7 Books by Queer Black Writers to Read in Honor of James Baldwin’s Birthday.” They write that: HoodWitch examines what power looks like when reclaimed by Black women and...
This week, Acre author Nancy Au is profiled as part of Radar Productions’ GLOW Queer Literature series. She talks about language as agency, writing versus talking about writing, and finding inspiration in hybrid forms. You can check out a selection below and read the...
Excerpt from the starred Kirkus reviewCongratulations to Nancy Au and her upcoming short story collection, Spider Love Song and Other Stories, for receiving a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. You can read the full review here and preorder the book on our website....
Tomas Moniz and Michael Downs at a bookstore in Baltimore.An Acre connection! Tomas Moniz (left) and Michael Downs (right) met up in Baltimore this week. Tomas Moniz is the author of Big Familia, coming from Acre November 2019. Big Familia is a story of making family...
XXXXHere’s a great shot of T.R. Hummer speaking last week about poetry and the writing process at the Hudson Valley Writers Center in Sleepy Hollow, New York. His latest poetry collection, After the Afterlife, is out now through Acre Books. After the Afterlife...
Did you know that Hannah Dow’s poetry collection Rosarium was a The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed pick from Sundress Publications this spring? The Wardrobe highlights a collection through the lens of a single poem, picking their favorite spotlights for “Best Dressed.” In...
Many thanks to Foreword Reviews for their starred review of Nancy Au’s upcoming short fiction collection Spider Love Song and Other Stories, which will appear in their September/October issue. Spider Love Song and Other Stories includes seventeen stories that tread...
Below is a sneak peak of an interview with Sara Kersting, author of Duty to Warn, a multi-perspective novel about mysterious inner lives and the incorrect assumptions we can make about even those closest to us. I never meant to write a novel. I was quite happy...
Here’s a great photo of Acre author Matthew Kirkpatrick reading at the Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, MI, last week! His novel, The Ambrose J. and Vivian T. Seagrave Museum of 20th Century American Art, is now available from Acre Books.