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WTAW is excited to introduce two new members to the team, publishing assistants @Ottelia and @sasco2010. We're thrilled to have Katherine and Shirley on board as we expand our book publishing programs. Find them on social media and say hello! Learn more at mailchi.mp/wtawpress.org/…
ICYMI, WTAW is on the blue site 💙 bsky.app/profile/wtawpr…
WTAW welcomes Jenny Li to the team as our new social media assistant! Her role is a critical one for the press, and we’re thrilled she's taken it on. Thanks to The Litt Family Foundation for generously funding this position. mailchi.mp/wtawpress.org/… #writingcommunity #indiepress
Exciting news! Betty—an imprint of WTAW dedicated to publishing books by women for everyone—opens the door for submissions of full-length books of prose tomorrow December 1. Find the guidelines and all the details at wtawpress.org/betty #writingcommunity #newbooks
Our latest newsletter is all about BETTY—an imprint of WTAW—publishing books by women for everyone. Betty is now open for submissions—now thru 12/31! Learn about Betty's mission, our inaugural authors, and how to submit work: mailchi.mp/wtawpress.org/… #WritingCommunity #newbooks
I am over the moon THRILLED that @WTAWPress is giving my historical fiction mini-novella a home. Thanks to @peg_a_pursell and her crew of committed readers/editors/literary lovers. How did I get so lucky?
I am over the moon THRILLED that @WTAWPress is giving my historical fiction mini-novella a home. Thanks to @peg_a_pursell and her crew of committed readers/editors/literary lovers. How did I get so lucky?
Congratulations to Liz Green, winner of our 2024 Alcove Chapbook Series for her lyric essay, THE HAUNT, Runners-up Azaria Brown, Michelle Cruz Gonzales, @AliceKaltman, Mark L. Keats, and our 2024 Alcove Finalists! More at wtawpress.org/alcove-chapboo… #writingcommunity @i_am_shoshanna
Congratulations to Liz Green, winner of our 2024 Alcove Chapbook Series for her lyric essay, THE HAUNT, and to Alcove finalists Azaria Brown, @XicanaBrava, @AliceKaltman, and Mark L. Keats. Books will be published in 2024—learn more at wtawpress.org/alcove-chapboo… #newbooks
"Through hard work and dogged persistence this community offers a platform for the diverse perspectives that need to be heard in today’s world." Get to know board member @HaldaneAtMo—and if you are able, please lend your support this #GivingTuesday 🧡 mailchi.mp/wtawpress.org/…
On #GivingTuesday, writes board member @HaldaneAtMo, your support "will directly help us create more space for the voices that change this world for the better." Read Hal's 2023 wrap-up—and learn how you can help us bring important books into the world. mailchi.mp/wtawpress.org/…
Check out our new subscription program! Don't miss the many new WTAW books to come in the 2024-2026 seasons—partner with us to reach our goals to publish and support more books that matter. Call it an investment in great mail days to come! wtawpress.org/support-us #newbooks
Tomorrow! Thurs Nov. 9, 5:30pm PT, WTAW presents a Fall Reading Salon with writers Joanna Acevedo, Christine Hale, @EnnuiPerkins, @NLudmerer, Julian Mithra, and @sommerschafer. ✨And your host, Michael Dubon. Free with registration—join us! bitly.ws/Z6gq #newbooks
Out today, Is It So? Glimpses, Glyphs, & Found Novels, the last work of fiction from Kevin McIlvoy. Of Is It So? Richard Russo says, “Here are wildly innovative stories that reward a second, even a third, reading." Learn more: mailchi.mp/wtawpress.org/… #newbook
"Beyond judges, judgments, limits: your old body hovers above itself rhythmically aware and ready as a bell rung by a breeze" Coming Tues. Nov. 7, Is It So? Glimpses, Glyphs, & Found Novels, the final work of fiction by @KevinMcilvoy wtawpress.org/product-page/i… #SundaySentence
About to start this gem of a novella by @NLudmerer Thanks @WTAWPress for the speedy preordered delivery. 🙏🥰📕
I can't wait to read this book!!!!
“McIlvoy mourns his losses and fills the pages with his constant wonder and awe, the joy of being attentive to this strange world.” @dale_neal’s thoughtful review of Is It So? Glimpses, Glyphs, & Found Novels (11/7) by @KevinMcilvoy, in @still_journal stilljournal.net
“In the quiet he fell quiet, in the way that a sentence can fall quiet behind a preposition.” Coming Nov. 7, Is It So? Glimpses, Glyphs, & Found Novels, the final work of fiction by @KevinMcilvoy #SundaySentence wtawpress.org/shop
How amazing to finally arrive at publication day. Thank you @WTAWPress and @peg_a_pursell for bringing the book to life with such care, Chrystie Sherman for the beautiful cover photo, @dowonjung01 for the gorgeous cover design. Too many others to list in this tweet. TY.
How amazing to finally arrive at publication day. Thank you @WTAWPress and @peg_a_pursell for bringing the book to life with such care, Chrystie Sherman for the beautiful cover photo, @dowonjung01 for the gorgeous cover design. Too many others to list in this tweet. TY.
Happy Pub Day! @NLudmerer's SARRA COPIA: A LOCKED-IN LIFE is out today—a wholly original, glorious novella about containment and transformation, "about the power of language...and one woman’s fierce, probing mind"—@Karen_E_Bender. Learn more at: mailchi.mp/wtawpress.org/… #newbook
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116 Followers 270 Following Writer & translator. Author of There’s Something They’re Not Telling Us & Ordinary Chaos (CMU Press), Highland Subtropic (CBA) and translation (Impronta).
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5K Followers 5K Following Columnist at @metronewspaper for 19 years. Author at @HistoryPress. More words at: @atlasobscura @ieeecga @SF_ARTS @AAWW @LAReviewofBooks @AltaJournalWTAW is excited to introduce two new members to the team, publishing assistants @Ottelia and @sasco2010. We're thrilled to have Katherine and Shirley on board as we expand our book publishing programs. Find them on social media and say hello! Learn more at mailchi.mp/wtawpress.org/…
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"I see so many astonishments, I keep notebooks everywhere to capture them in champagne flutes." This year's Americana Stories prose concludes with @TheWakingTulip's essay on wintering and optimism, "Revel." Read—and listen with our new audio feature: themuseumofamericana.net/2023/12/05/ame…
WTAW welcomes Jenny Li to the team as our new social media assistant! Her role is a critical one for the press, and we’re thrilled she's taken it on. Thanks to The Litt Family Foundation for generously funding this position. mailchi.mp/wtawpress.org/… #writingcommunity #indiepress
"The drift is hard to bear. Continental plates wandering oceans. A sack of diamonds embroidered with her name." Linda Cooper's stark and beautiful "Peter Peter" wraps up poetry in 2023 Americana Stories. themuseumofamericana.net/2023/12/05/ame… #poetry Americana Stories returns in January 2024!
Exciting news! Betty—an imprint of WTAW dedicated to publishing books by women for everyone—opens the door for submissions of full-length books of prose tomorrow December 1. Find the guidelines and all the details at wtawpress.org/betty #writingcommunity #newbooks
Our latest newsletter is all about BETTY—an imprint of WTAW—publishing books by women for everyone. Betty is now open for submissions—now thru 12/31! Learn about Betty's mission, our inaugural authors, and how to submit work: mailchi.mp/wtawpress.org/… #WritingCommunity #newbooks
Submit to SWING at @PorchTN by December 10! They seek poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and comics “that could only have been written by you” because “reading is intimate.” Submissions are free! clmp.org/members/open-s…
I am over the moon THRILLED that @WTAWPress is giving my historical fiction mini-novella a home. Thanks to @peg_a_pursell and her crew of committed readers/editors/literary lovers. How did I get so lucky?
Congratulations to Liz Green, winner of our 2024 Alcove Chapbook Series for her lyric essay, THE HAUNT, and to Alcove finalists Azaria Brown, @XicanaBrava, @AliceKaltman, and Mark L. Keats. Books will be published in 2024—learn more at wtawpress.org/alcove-chapboo… #newbooks
Congratulations to Liz Green, winner of our 2024 Alcove Chapbook Series for her lyric essay, THE HAUNT, Runners-up Azaria Brown, Michelle Cruz Gonzales, @AliceKaltman, Mark L. Keats, and our 2024 Alcove Finalists! More at wtawpress.org/alcove-chapboo… #writingcommunity @i_am_shoshanna
Congratulations to Liz Green, winner of our 2024 Alcove Chapbook Series for her lyric essay, THE HAUNT, and to Alcove finalists Azaria Brown, @XicanaBrava, @AliceKaltman, and Mark L. Keats. Books will be published in 2024—learn more at wtawpress.org/alcove-chapboo… #newbooks
"Through hard work and dogged persistence this community offers a platform for the diverse perspectives that need to be heard in today’s world." Get to know board member @HaldaneAtMo—and if you are able, please lend your support this #GivingTuesday 🧡 mailchi.mp/wtawpress.org/…
On #GivingTuesday, writes board member @HaldaneAtMo, your support "will directly help us create more space for the voices that change this world for the better." Read Hal's 2023 wrap-up—and learn how you can help us bring important books into the world. mailchi.mp/wtawpress.org/…
Check out our new subscription program! Don't miss the many new WTAW books to come in the 2024-2026 seasons—partner with us to reach our goals to publish and support more books that matter. Call it an investment in great mail days to come! wtawpress.org/support-us #newbooks
Writers, send in your nonfiction and hybrid manuscripts to @splitlippress by December 1! They’re especially interested in “imaginative essays, autofictions, fictionalized memoirs, lyric essaying, formal and layout-based experimentation.” Learn more: clmp.org/members/open-s…
The open reading period at @BlackLawrence is open through November 30! Submit across ten categories, including prose & poetry collections, biography & cultural studies, translations from the German, and anthology proposals: clmp.org/members/open-s…
“The stories have no boundaries.” A lovely essay on the people and recipes that connect us to home
“Speak of Africa, Australia, Russia, or Iceland: an empty stomach, a connection over food, and we unite with our hungry stomachs.” In a week of family, food, and community don’t miss Tulip Chowdhury’s “A Common Thread” in The Food Court in Issue 31 themuseumofamericana.net/a-common-threa…
Tomorrow! Thurs Nov. 9, 5:30pm PT, WTAW presents a Fall Reading Salon with writers Joanna Acevedo, Christine Hale, @EnnuiPerkins, @NLudmerer, Julian Mithra, and @sommerschafer. ✨And your host, Michael Dubon. Free with registration—join us! bitly.ws/Z6gq #newbooks
Out today, Is It So? Glimpses, Glyphs, & Found Novels, the last work of fiction from Kevin McIlvoy. Of Is It So? Richard Russo says, “Here are wildly innovative stories that reward a second, even a third, reading." Learn more: mailchi.mp/wtawpress.org/… #newbook
"Beyond judges, judgments, limits: your old body hovers above itself rhythmically aware and ready as a bell rung by a breeze" Coming Tues. Nov. 7, Is It So? Glimpses, Glyphs, & Found Novels, the final work of fiction by @KevinMcilvoy wtawpress.org/product-page/i… #SundaySentence
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