Here at #AWP26 booth 973 representing our amazing Mad Creek Books’ authors. Come and browse these beautiful books, and I’d also love to hear about your manuscript if you think it might be a good fit for us!
Kristen Elias Rowley
@kristener.bsky.social
Editorial Director at The Ohio State University Press & Mad Creek Books. Literary trade, race & ethnic and Latinx studies. Opinions my own. She/her.
A few weeks left to submit your story collection to the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction (which comes with $5,500 and publication from us, Mad Creek Books): awpwriter.org/AWP/Contests.... Submit your manuscript by the end of the month! @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
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LAKE SONG (Sept. 1), selected by @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social for the AWP Grace Paley prize, is so so good. Get a taste at @electricliterature.com! electricliterature.com/the-final-gi... @kristener.bsky.social @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
The Strange Lady Will Not Hand Back Her Baby - Electric Literature
“The Final Girl” from LAKE SONG by Lesley Pratt Bannatyne, recommended by Daphne Kalotay
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"Charmingly buoyant" and "vibrant"—great descriptors for FROM COCINAS TO LUCHA LIBRE RINGSIDES, out from @ohiostatepress.bsky.social Aug. 17th! @professorlatinx.bsky.social @angelamsanchez.bsky.social! #Comics #Latinx @crfricke.bsky.social @kristener.bsky.social www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
FROM COCINAS TO LUCHA LIBRE RINGSIDES | Kirkus Reviews
The vibrant cover art depicting a luchador eating a taco is the perfect teaser for what this anthology has in store.
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So many amazing books in our fall season; I love seeing them officially out in the world!
Samara Rafert@rafertess.bsky.social · last yr.Feels weird to announce in the midst of … everything, but Ohio State Press's fall catalog is up—two great story collections, feminist essays about class and labor by a woman truck driver, and suuuper timely scholarly stuff. I have ARCs! Highlights in🧵 bit.ly/s_F25 #essays #fiction #booksky #ReadUP
In case my recommendation wasn’t enough, the Northern California Book Award committee agrees you should read Grace’s book! @ohiostatepress.bsky.social @joy-castro.bsky.social
Grace Loh Prasad@gracelp.bsky.social · 12mo agoEXCITING NEWS: The Translator’s Daughter is nominated for the 2024 Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction! I’m so honored and humbled to be a finalist for this award. Winners will be announced at the ceremony on Saturday, Sept. 6 at the San Francisco Public Library. 🥹🙏🏽
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When the World Explodes: Essays | 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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This is a good occasion to mention THE PARADOX OF BLACKNESS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN VAMPIRE FICTION by Jerry Rafiki Jenkins (Ohio State Press, 2019) ohiostatepress.org/books/titles... @susanamorris.bsky.social @k8dee16.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social @kristener.bsky.social
The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction
Examines the implications of blackness in vampire fiction, a previously predominantly white genre.
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers@citylightsbooks.bsky.social · last yr.Ryan Coogler's new film "Sinners" builds on a rich tradition of Black Vampire narratives, including Jewelle Gomez's THE GILDA STORIES, published by City Lights. bit.ly/3YX2ZgX
Come by #AWP2025 booth 456 and have Agatha Brewer sign a copy of her beautiful book “The Hunger Book: A Memoir of Communist Poland” @rafertess.bsky.social
"Bumatay reframes bandes dessinées … as a tool for resistance and transformation…[providing] important context on the long history of the work of Black comics in contributing to global discussions of representation and power." @brittlepaper.bsky.social brittlepaper.com/2025/02/comb...
Combatting Racial Stereotypes Through Comics: On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power by Michelle Bumatay
On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power by Michelle Bumatay is the first book in English to explore the work of Black francophone artists of bandes desinées and their responses to colonial l...
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Really enjoyed this book. Lots of locations I've been to and desperately want to head back to. @ohiostatepress Wandering Dixie: Dispatches from the Lost Jewish South https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814255810.html#.XxNsj2fFXtg.twitter
Excited to celebrate THROUGH FENCES being named an honor-winner in the Jean Flynn Award for Best Young Adult Book from the Texas Institute of Letters: ohiostatepress.org/books/titles... And thrilled to see a deserving book—on such an important subject—being recognized! @rafertess.bsky.social
Through Fences
Short comics about immigration and life on the US–Mexico border, each bringing a different perspective on the perils of living on the border.
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Don’t miss Grace’s beautiful memoir THE TRANSLATOR’S DAUGHTER, either, about language, living between cultures, caring for loved ones from afar, and more. All three are in our Machete series, edited by Joy Castro, Rachel Cochran, and our own @kristener.bsky.social ohiostatepress.org/books/series...
The Ohio State University Press: Series: Machete
Series page for Machete: Showcasing fresh stories, innovative forms, and books that break new aesthetic ground in nonfiction
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Grace Loh Prasad@gracelp.bsky.social · 2y agoCongratulations to my press mate @patriciacoral.bsky.social for making the NBCC longlist for autobiography! And shoutout to @ohiostatepress.bsky.social for consecutive nominations for their innovative memoirs (@thesusanito.bsky.social was nominated in 2023)! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
"Whatever you think you know about Puerto Rico, think again. This gorgeous memoir is intimate, profoundly feminist at heart, and one of the most loving books you’ll read this year." washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7548... @patriciacoral.bsky.social @kristener.bsky.social #PuertoRico #memoir
Spot LIT: A Column About D.C.’s Literary Scene
Literary contributor Hannah Grieco kicks off Spot LIT, our new column with 2024's best local books, lit gifting ideas, and unmissable events.
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Submit Jan. 1–Feb. 28 to the AWP award series! We are excited to partner with the Association of Writers and Writing Programs to publish the winner of the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, and are looking forward to learning what judge Kevin Wilson selects! www.awpwriter.org/AWP/AWP/Cont...
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A little peek at Patricia Coral's WOMEN SURROUNDED BY WATER, out Nov. 1st! www.pw.org/content/page... @patriciacoral.bsky.social @kristener.bsky.social #essays #PuertoRico #memoir
Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Between the Night and Its Music: New and Selected Poems by A. B. Spellman and The Charterhouse of Padma by Padma Viswanathan.
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Woohoo! We admit we haven't really done much to get this account off the ground but this is a great reason for our first post! #fiction #readUP
Tyler McAndrew@tyler-m.bsky.social · 2y agoforgot to post about it here but: my first book, a short story collection titled My Prisoner & Other Stories, won the 2024 non / fiction prize and will be published fall 2025 with @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
Still a few days left to submit your book of essays to our Gournay Prize and be published alongside amazing books like our 2021 winner Christine Imperial’s “Mistaken for an Empire”: ohiostatepress.org/books/series... @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
Here's a chance to read an excerpt from Marlena William's excellent essay collection about The Exorcist www.oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine...
Congratulations, Tom Gannon, on winning the 2024 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize for his witty, wrenching, decolonial memoir ‘Birding While Indian’. @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
Just one week left to submit your first book of essays to our Gournay Prize competition, for a chance to be published alongside our amazing previous years' winners, like @agatabrewer.bsky.social's THE HUNGER BOOK! ohiostatepress.org/books/series... @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
A great roundup of spring book releases, including our own @gracelp.bsky.social's THE TRANSLATOR's DAUGHTER, about "immigration and the making and unmaking of a family." @ohiostatepress.bsky.social www.mochimag.com/arts-culture...
Book Releases to Ring in Spring - Mochi Magazine
This list includes memoirs that distill a country’s recent history, fantasies that call upon battles from long ago, and narratives that center the modern immigrant.
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Congratulations to Tom Gannon on his memoir, BIRDING WHILE INDIAN being selected as one of three finalists for the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize! www.unl.edu/plains/bookp... @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
So cool to see one of ours at the start of this list—and one that made me cry in the airport to boot. @thesusanito.bsky.social @cassmannes.bsky.social lithub.com/30-new-books...
30 New Books Critics Think You Should Read Right Now
Every year, in the weeks leading up to the National Book Critics Circle Awards, the NBCC board members take the time to review and appreciate the thirty finalists, recognized in Autobiography, Biog…
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Being included in Foreword's Book of the Day roundup seems like a great way to celebrate the official pub week of THE TRANSLATOR'S DAUGHTER. Congratulations, @gracelp.bsky.social ! www.forewordreviews.com/articles/art... @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
For the 0.2 of my (<100) followers who might be at #AWP24, please do stop by booth 1407 to say hi to me and @kristener.bsky.social—and if you’re a book critic type, talk to me about review copies!
Congratulations to Mad Creek Books/OSUP author Susan Kiyo Ito on her memoir I WOULD MEET YOU ANYWHERE being named a National Book Critics Award finalist! I don't have the words to express how excited I am for you, @thesusanito.bsky.social! www.bookcritics.org/2024/01/25/n... @rafertess.bsky.social
Samara Rafert@rafertess.bsky.social · 3y agoNBD NBCC! I WOULD MEET YOU ANYWHERE is a finalist in Autobiography! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... @thesusanito.bsky.social @cassmannes.bsky.social @kristener.bsky.social