How Writing Helped Me Heal After a Trauma On June 4, 2015, I was sexually assaulted and nearly murdered. I went to bed in the evening, the way I always did. I read. I turned out my lamp. In the dark, I listened to the train in the distance…

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CW: Sexual assault, Attempted murder

Screenshot of article title "How Writing Helped Me Heal After a Trauma: Grace Spulak on her journey to understanding her own recovery."

Thank you to Literary Hub for publishing this incredible essay, "How Writing Helped Me Heal After a Trauma" by Grace Spulak, reflecting on writing through and after trauma.

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Beautifully Strange Stories: A Review of The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe The 28 stories in The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe are beyond imaginative in their use of extended metaphors, personification of objects and animals, and storylines that are a mash-up of the re...

"Most women, especially mothers—working moms, stay-at-home moms, beleaguered moms, single moms, and married moms—will recognize themselves in one or more of these tales."

Dorothy Rowena Rice reviews @ladiwoods.bsky.social's story collection, published by @autumnhouse.org:

Incredible honor for this former (forever) Texan now in DC to receive the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction from the TX Institute of Letters. Thx to my publisher @autumnhouse.org and to Sergio, for writing his own books & helping other authors making their way.

Writers: Just two weeks left to submit!

#essays #memoirs #creativenonfiction #nonfiction #indiepress

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Happy Book Birthday to I Have Not Considered Consequences! - Autumn House Press In celebration of the one-year anniversary of Sherrie Flick's I Have Not Considered Consequences, we are offering a limited sale on all three of her AHP collections! Until the end of April, order Whis...

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Sherrie Flick holding a copy of I Have Not Considered Consequences

Sherrie Flick holding all three AHP books

Happy anniversary to I Have Not Considered Consequences by Sherrie Flick!

We’re celebrating this milestone and an incredible publishing history with a special sale on all three of Sherrie’s Autumn House books: all 3books for $30 total ($10 each), plus $6 for shipping, through the end of April.

Jake Grefenstette: People move to Pittsburgh for poetry This past October, four writers and university administrators from Manchester, England, made a trip across the Atlantic to learn about Pittsburgh’s...

"Pittsburgh’s scale of literary events is supported by an extraordinarily active reading and writing public."

Great piece by Jake Grefenstette of the International Poetry Forum! Autumn House is proud to call Pittsburgh--a most literary city--home.

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Another wonderful interview with P. Scott Cunningham about his newest collection!

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#poetry #florida #miami #indiepress #indiepublishing

Many thanks to Kinsley Stocum for another striking design! Kinsley incorporated Laurie Ann's piece "Anatomy of a Breast" for the cover.

REDWORK - Autumn House Press About the Book Laurie Ann Guerrero’s expansive fifth poetry collection, REDWORK, is a meditation on a woman’s role in work and family, ancestral wisdom,

REDWORK will be published on Oct. 13, 2026, but you can preorder your copy now: www.autumnhouse.org/books/redwork/

Cover image of REDWORK by Laurie Ann Guerrero with Text: Cover Reveal by Laurie Ann Guerrero. Oct. 13, 2026, Preorder Today

Cover Reveal 🪡🚨

We’re thrilled to share the cover of REDWORK by Laurie Ann Guerrero, Winner of the 2025 Poetry Prize, selected by Matthew Olzmann!

#poetry #coverreveal #poetrycollection #indiepress #feministpoetry #fabricart #embroidery

The ‘i’ in Florida: O, Miami founder writes about South Florida's complexity through poetry In his latest poetry book, O, Miami founder P. Scott Cunningham details his experiences in South Florida, showing readers what it looks like through the eyes of a former resident.

Thanks to WLRN Public Media & Natu Tweh for this interview with @cunningpscott.bsky.social:

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Self-Portrait as the "i" in Florida - Autumn House Press About the Book A love letter to Miami and a meditation on fatherhood, Self-Portrait as the “i” in Florida paints a vivid picture of contemporary South

Order your copy here: www.autumnhouse.org/books/self-p...

Copy of Self-Portrait as the i in Florida with Miami skyline in the back

Image of Scott's poem "Yachts on the Way to My Daughter's School"

Self-Portrait as the “i” in Florida, winner of the 2025 Donald Justice Poetry Prize (selected by Major Jackson), is a love letter to Miami and a meditation on fatherhood, alive with contradiction and heat.

Happy Pub Day, Scott.

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Christine Stroud's headshot with the quote; AHP books are grounded in the personal--whether that be a literal personal experience in our nonfiction or well-developed characters in our fiction--but consistently engage with and looking outward at larger issues"

Thanks to Amie Whittemore for interviewing AHP's editor in chief, Christine Stroud, for Women on Writing!

@amiewhittemore.bsky.social

#womenonwriting #indiepress #smallpress #editors

Beautifully Strange Stories: A Review of The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe The 28 stories in The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe are beyond imaginative in their use of extended metaphors, personification of objects and animals, and storylines that are a mash-up of the re...

Read the full review here: literarymama.com/articles/dep...

"I found myself compelled to read story after story, in part to discover what story-telling twist the author had in store for me next."

Many thanks to Dorothy Rice and @literarymama.bsky.social for this thoughtful review of this award-winning collection by @ladiwoods.bsky.social!

Beautifully Strange Stories: A Review of The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe The 28 stories in The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe are beyond imaginative in their use of extended metaphors, personification of objects and animals, and storylines that are a mash-up of the re...

Read the full review here: literarymama.com/articles/dep...

Ren Cedar Fuller signing a book for a workshop participant

image of crowd at Ren's Pittsburgh reading

Ren reading from her collection Bigger at White Whale Bookstore

We had such a wonderful weekend hosting Ren Cedar Fuller in Pittsburgh to celebrate her debut essay collection, BIGGER!

From her workshop to her reading alongside contributors from Short Reads, Ren brought both a deep enthusiasm for the craft and a remarkable empathy for the lives she writes about.

Looking forward to hearing AHP Board Member Robert Yune read with AHP author Ren Cedar Fuller!

Nonstop Party Wagon by Hallie Pritts | Say yes to the mess.

I have a new piece up @short-reads.org today about wassail choirs, strip clubs, New Zealand and a questionable life plan called the nonstop party wagon.

Short Reads 3 Year Anniversary & PGH Launch! Bigger by Ren Cedar Fuller We are ecstatic to celebrate the 3 year anniversary of Short Reads with reading in collaboration with Autumn House Press!

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We're thrilled to be joined by Short Reads contributors: @robertyune.bsky.social, @halliepritts.bsky.social, & M.S. Reagan. It’s going to be a wonderful night of writing and community, and we hope to see you there!

Tonight!

We’re thrilled to cohost this special evening with Short Reads as we celebrate the Pittsburgh launch of Ren Cedar Fuller’s essay collection, BIGGER, welcoming Ren all the way from Seattle.

We’re also delighted to be part of SR’s 3-year anniversary celebration. 🧡🫏🏠

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Nonfiction Writers: The 2026 AHP Nonfiction Prize is now open!

This prize is awarded for a full-length book of nonfiction (memoirs and personal essay collections).

This year's judge is Ira Sukrungruang, and the winner receives publication of their book and $2,500.

#indiepublishing #nonfiction

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PGH Folks: Join us this afternoon for a writing workshop led by Ren Cedar Fuller, "The Lyric Essay: Using Nonlinear Forms to Tell the Story."

In person @ the Pitt Writing Center (3rd floor, O’Hara Student Center, 4024 O’Hara St.); NB: You don't need to be affiliated with Pitt to attend!

Makalani Bandele

@autumnhouse.org