✨ Acre is open for #poetry submissions September 1 to 30! We’ve moved to Submittable—and we’ve also updated our submission guidelines and editorial statement at acre-books.com/submissions. We look forward to reading your work! 🧡
Acre Books
@acrebooks.bsky.social
Acre Books, the small press offshoot of The Cincinnati Review, brings you volumes of beautifully crafted, award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. www.acre-books.com
"Outside, the moon hangs like a wax seal above the mountain line, gibbous and brimming, threatening to drip onto the ridges." In today's miCRo, @skoeplin.bsky.social explores faith and belief. Link in thread.
Manuscript delivered. ‘Ash: Catastrophe, Performance, & the Craft’ (essays) publishing in May with @acrebooks.bsky.social ✨
Calling #Chicago! The 2026 Printers Row #Lit Fest is set for Saturday, September 12 & Sunday, September 13, 10AM – 6PM. This FREE event features several Acre authors including @thejs3.bsky.social and @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social. Link for details! 📚🎉🖊️ printersrowlitfest.org
Printers Row Lit Fest
The 41st Annual Printers Row Lit Fest, the largest free outdoor literary event in the Midwest, returns to Printers Row on September 12-13, 2026.
printersrowlitfest.org
Wow. We reached our submissions cap--for both the journal and miCRo--within a record 24-ish hours. We appreciate everyone who eagerly submitted this time. If you didn't get a chance to send to us, we open again in December. And keep an eye on our social accounts for special calls for submissions!
Flashback Friday! "Whether monks discussing the ban on femininity at their sanctuary or a teenage clerk writing about the plastic problem to a famous conservationist, the voices Buck collects here create a striking chorus of humanity.” @ala-booklist.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Dalai Lama’s Smile
In eight short stories, travelers and locals become entangled in situations that send their moral compasses spinning. A grieving American father visits Dharamsala to investigate the murder of the son ...
press.uchicago.edu
✨ Acre is open for #poetry submissions September 1 to 30! We’ve moved to Submittable—and we’ve also updated our submission guidelines and editorial statement at acre-books.com/submissions. We look forward to reading your work! 🧡
"Schizophasia is my natural language; every time I speak cogent English, it is because I have medicated away a natural state in favor of participating in an inaccessible society." Today on our site, volunteer Rose Zinnia interviews contributor Rob Macaisa Colgate. Link in thread.
Registration is open for Literary #Cleveland's Inkubator Writing Conference, the largest free #writing conference in the country. Our very own @lisaampleman.bsky.social will be there to answer questions about all things Acre! Sept 11-12 #booksky 📚🎉🖊️ inkubator.litcleveland.org
"In hopes of making a living, my eleven-year-old sister takes up the trumpet and stops caring about anything else." In today's miCRo, Theodore Heil sets a snapshot of familial isolation and longing to the tune of B-flat. Link in thread.
Calling #Chicago! The 2026 Printers Row #Lit Fest is set for Saturday, September 12 & Sunday, September 13, 10AM – 6PM. This FREE event features several Acre authors including @thejs3.bsky.social and @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social. Link for details! 📚🎉🖊️ printersrowlitfest.org
Printers Row Lit Fest
The 41st Annual Printers Row Lit Fest, the largest free outdoor literary event in the Midwest, returns to Printers Row on September 12-13, 2026.
printersrowlitfest.org
Preorder BUTTER ROAD, Jaclyn Gilbert's “gripping, superb #novel [that] belongs in the canon of contemporary American realism about small communities riven by tragedy, alongside The Sweet Hereafter and The House of Sand and Fog.” —Cara Blue Adams press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... 📚🎉 10/26 #booksky
Butter Road
A searing novel about a community irrevocably transformed by gun violence.In 2006, a gunman entered a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, taking the students hostage and shoo...
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"I like to think of poetry as good at complicated feelings, and nonfiction as good at complicated situations." @arahko.bsky.social interviews Lisa Low about her debut full-length poetry collection, *Replica* (@uwiscpress.bsky.social ), the ethics of writing about family, and more. Link in thread.
Unfortunately, #scammers are now using my name to make false promises / offers with Acre Books. As a Consulting Editor, I am NOT reaching out via a private account to contact potential authors. #booksky
Acre Books@acrebooks.bsky.social · last mo.#Scam Alert! We're very disappointed to learn (via dozens of alerts) that someone is impersonating our editors (most especially, Sarah Haak). Please note that Acre Books is open for prose subs via our queue, but NOT soliciting #manuscripts privately. For guidelines, visit acre-books.com/submissions/
They’re here! So excited to receive my copies of “The Lighthouse Tattoo.” I’m overjoyed. Couldn’t be happier with how it came together. Millions of thanks to my publisher and editor and the whole team at Acre Books. 🔥🎉🍾 @acrebooks.bsky.social
Congrats @lisaampleman.bsky.social on a fantastic run at @cincinnatireview.bsky.social! And, too, to the magazine's incoming managing editor, Lily Davenport! 🎉🎉🎉
The Cincinnati Review@cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 3w agoOutgoing Managing Editor @lisaampleman.bsky.social says goodbye in a hermit-crab essay with proofreading marks. Among her thoughts: Her replacement, Lily Davenport, "knows The Chicago Manual of Style like the back of her proverbial hand." Link in thread.
here's the prose poem I referenced yesterday, from "Bad Mexican, Bad American." @yalereview @acrebooks.bsky.social
Flashback Friday! "Whether monks discussing the ban on femininity at their sanctuary or a teenage clerk writing about the plastic problem to a famous conservationist, the voices Buck collects here create a striking chorus of humanity.” @ala-booklist.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Dalai Lama’s Smile
In eight short stories, travelers and locals become entangled in situations that send their moral compasses spinning. A grieving American father visits Dharamsala to investigate the murder of the son ...
press.uchicago.edu
MANUAL FOR HOW TO LIVE MAGNIFICENTLY "feels like a love letter to outsiders, lonely people, & anyone struggling to hold themselves together while the world spins faster around them. It is funny, heartbreaking, awkward, tender, messy, & deeply relatable all at once." 📚🎉 share.google/EOqnXEUyVDzc...
Manual for How to Live Magnificently by Ernie Wang
Manual for How to Live Magnificently by Ernie Wang blends heartbreak, comedy, and loneliness into one unforgettable debut short story collection.
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"a leather trunk and handmade pine box, coffin-sized, for holding rice air-tight." In today's miCRo by Alison Lubar, the speaker reaches for an unnameable loss by glancing at everything around the negative space left by a lost family member. Link in thread.
Preorder BUTTER ROAD, Jaclyn Gilbert's “gripping, superb #novel [that] belongs in the canon of contemporary American realism about small communities riven by tragedy, alongside The Sweet Hereafter and The House of Sand and Fog.” —Cara Blue Adams press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... 📚🎉 10/26 #booksky
Butter Road
A searing novel about a community irrevocably transformed by gun violence.In 2006, a gunman entered a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, taking the students hostage and shoo...
press.uchicago.edu
Registration is open for Literary #Cleveland's Inkubator Writing Conference, the largest free #writing conference in the country. Our very own @lisaampleman.bsky.social will be there to answer questions about all things Acre! Sept 11-12 #booksky 📚🎉🖊️ inkubator.litcleveland.org
“I don't know what it's like inside you and you don't know what it's like inside me. A great book allows me to leap over that wall..." ~ David Foster Wallace
“[For] Cheung, 'Exile' accrues conflicting meanings. Exile is place, body, history. Nothing is one thing. If a person is a crossing of multiple histories, few #poets trace that crossing with such immediacy and tenderness.” — @electricliterature.com 📚🎉 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Common Disaster
A remarkable debut collection that chronicles the experience of anxiety and anguish in the face of COVID-19. As a front-line physician, M. Cynthia Cheung started writing poetry during the worst days o...
press.uchicago.edu
We’ve moved to #Submittable! Are you an #author of #prose? Already sent us work during the August reading period via our previous portal? Don’t worry—we have it! acrebooks.submittable.com/submit
MANUAL FOR HOW TO LIVE MAGNIFICENTLY "feels like a love letter to outsiders, lonely people, & anyone struggling to hold themselves together while the world spins faster around them. It is funny, heartbreaking, awkward, tender, messy, & deeply relatable all at once." 📚🎉 share.google/EOqnXEUyVDzc...
Manual for How to Live Magnificently by Ernie Wang
Manual for How to Live Magnificently by Ernie Wang blends heartbreak, comedy, and loneliness into one unforgettable debut short story collection.
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#Scam Alert! We're very disappointed to learn (via dozens of alerts) that someone is impersonating our editors (most especially, Sarah Haak). Please note that Acre Books is open for prose subs via our queue, but NOT soliciting #manuscripts privately. For guidelines, visit acre-books.com/submissions/