Today’s the last day of our gift sale if you’re looking for the finishing touches on your holiday shopping—no discount code needed.
2024 Pre-Orders
If you’re finished with gifts and like to plan ahead, we have more books open for pre-order in addition to the cover reveals we shared last week.
The Bones That Map Us by Maggie Rue Hess is the February chapbook in our current series, an ideal poetry companion for the winter months.
This New Dark by Chase Dearinger is our next novel and our first foray into horror: think True Grit meets Twin Peaks. Also coming in February.
Sensitive Creatures is coming in March, the debut full-length essay collection by West Virginia/Louisiana writer Kirsten Reneau. It’s a brutal yet beautiful memoir about sex, trauma, and the homes we rebuild for ourselves.
And a reminder that you can go ahead and pre-order our 2024 Poetry Subscription to be among the first to read our four full poetry books throughout the year.
If you’re interested in reviewing or otherwise covering any of our forthcoming titles, please submit your request through our publicity form. We’re happy to share suggestions for potential outlets as well.
Publicity Updates
Rob Roensch, author of our first novel In the Morning, the City Is the Prairie, gave a great interview on the Okie Bookcast last month.
You can go here to listen or click below. (And by the way, be on the lookout for another familiar guest coming up on this podcast!)
We loved this recent review of Shome Dasgupta’s latest collection, Histories of Memories: “Dasgupta is fearless in his approach to difficult topics, yet he is gentle, thoughtful, and wise….There is much that feels holy in this collection, beside and including Dasgupta’s humor, humility, and song. Histories of Memories is a stunning book.” Next summer we’ll be publishing another stunning collection of Louisiana short stories by Shome—we can’t wait to share it with you. (But you can get a taste in our first Mid/South Anthology)
ICYMI: Our books have now officially been carried in at least fifty independent bookstores! For being our first full year of getting books out in the world, we feel pretty great about that milestone. (Booksellers, keep an eye out on Edelweiss for what’s coming next from us!)
Making Plans
We’re plugging away at preparations for AWP 2024 in Kansas City! KCMO is a great town, and we’re thrilled with how close the conference will be this year. If you’re hoping to attend our Friday-night offsite sonnets reading, reservations are almost full. We’ll be announcing our other offsite event (a regional group of a few kindred organizations) very soon.
In April, we also expect to be at the Scissortail Festival in Oklahoma and hope to make it back to the NOLA Poetry Festival as well.
Later this month we’ll have our paid-subscriber exclusive post and a sneak peek of the other additions to our Substack format coming in 2024…if we can just get our own shopping done.