Here are 24 debut poetry collections you can buy and pre-order right now that will knock your socks off.

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Friends! Tell me what trad pub SFF/H books by/about marginalized identities - adult or YA - you're excited for that are coming up for this year! And if you are the author/editor/publicist for it, reach out to me for potential coverage.
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yep I got one of these recently pretending to be from the Columbus Book Festival - they're getting more sophisticated and less obviously spammy...it's dire

Getting Out: PW Talks with Courtney Maum The author’s latest novel, ‘Alan Opts Out’ (Little, Brown, June), chronicles an advertising executive’s retreat from modern life and his wife’s campaign to join a neighborhood social club.

The author’s latest novel, Alan Opts Out (Little, Brown, June), chronicles an advertising executive’s retreat from modern life and his wife’s campaign to join a neighborhood social club.

Not to be all Nicole Kidman AMC ad "the ineffable magic of cinema" or anything but I saw The Drama the other night and it's so good - sharp, funny, genuinely thought-provoking, and the cinema was the most packed I've ever seen my local...made me feel hopeful about the state of the movies

Enjoy the post? You'll love our short story fiction. (links in bio)

thank you, Lizard 😊

And note that @emmasloley.bsky.social 's book The Island of Last Things is one of the 20% off picks in the Fiction With Environmental Themes section of our Earth Day 20% promotion: theliteratelizard.com/list/fiction...

Ten of the dozens of books featured in our 20% off Earth Day promotion. There are books for all ages, and the discount runs through May 15th.

Come to our 20% off Earth Day promotion, featuring dozens of discounted books on the environment for all ages. Save the Earth, and save some money.
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On April 4, Jennifer Acker (r.) celebrated her new novel, Surrender (Delphinium), with goat farmer Laurie Cuevas (l.) of Thomas Farm in Sunderland, Mass. While writing the book, Acker visited Cuevas’s farm several times as research for the book’s kidding scenes.
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a complex biosphere in vivid color in an illustrative style inside a circle and outside all white with shadow, with suggestion of complex ferns and other vegetation; art by rogan brown

Thrilled that my first new short story in several years, "Constellations," about astronauts crashlanding on a distant planet, has been published by the @technologyreview.com. Acquiring editor Rachel Cortland. Art by Rogan Brown. Free link to avoid the paywall: ter.li/r3tbrsgr

I just finished reading the novel Flesh (this year's Booker Prize Winner), and holy hell. David Szalay, are you OK? Do you need a nice cup of tea or something?? 🥹
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Jo Walton’s Reading List: March 2026 - Reactor Le Guin, Kate Elliott, Michael Chabon and mainstream lit, plus brand-new books!

This month, @bluejo.bsky.social touches on Michael Chabon and mainstream lit, as well as Le Guin, Eco, and the latest from Kate Elliott. She also recommends three brand-new books that are finally out from Cameron Reed, John Chu, and Francis Spufford!

It makes me irrationally mad when I go GR and see all the books everyone loves and the all the ones they hate/ignore, lol

We could not be more proud of our contributors Jennifer Reeser (Winter 2025) and Anne Milano Appel (Summer 2025), whose translations were chosen by the great Emily Wilson for inclusion in BLT 2027!

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Photo of the author Emma Sloley, a brunette woman smiling next to a image of the book cover of The Island of Last Things, bearing an illustration of a black jaguar and a woman's hand against a yellow background

Palm Springs peeps! I'm doing an event on Tuesday April 14 from 10:30am-12:00pm at the Welwood Murray Memorial Library in downtown PS. I'll be sharing some stories, reading from The Island of Last Things, and signing books. Come and say hi! #booksky 💙📚 www.palmspringsca.gov/Home/Compone...

Heaven on Their Minds gives me chills to this day

lately the internet is like that time where I was in a huge bar fight, one group blocking the exit, breaking glass, throwing pints, the other group yelling and throwing chairs at the back of the bar, and me and me in the center, just under the arc of the shit they were throwing, drinking a beer

thank you - I feel very lucky! 🥰

The Island of Last Things: A Novel A Novel

Ahh, thank you Erin (I just responded to a similar post from Darth too :) 💙) My novel The Island of Last Things -- about two women zookeepers at the world's last zoo, set on the island of Alcatraz -- comes out in paperback in August! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

We Lived on the Horizon: A Novel A Novel

Paperback for We Lived on the Horizon hits on 4/21.
It's about revolution, humanity, aging, altruism, and what a moral life is in interesting times.
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thank you!! 🥰

Oh my goodness, I'm so happy to hear this! 🥰🐊

Thank you, this makes me so happy! 😊💙

yay, I so hope you enjoy it, Linda! 🥰

Thank you, I love it too! designed by the genius Keith Hayes 😍

The Island of Last Things: A Novel A Novel

My novel The Island of Last Things -- about two women zookeepers at the world's last zoo, set on the island of Alcatraz -- comes out in paperback in August! Thanks, Darth 💙bookshop.org/p/books/the-island-of-la...

The other way a whole civilization dies is by committing war crimes

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back

Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

ABC news headline Artemis 2 crew faces mental physical strain in deep space

Yeah, well it's not so great down here either, ABC News.