Autumn House Press

Winner of the Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and Longlisted for PEN America’s Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, Anxious Attachments takes us through the life stages of a woman living in the American Southwest from the...

Winner of the 2015 Autumn House Fiction Prize, this debut collection of short stories by Kathy Anderson is darkly funny and surprisingly tender.These thirteen stories explore gender, sexuality, love, and family dynamics while always maintaining a...

Entry Level, the debut short story collection of Wendy Wimmer, selected by Deesha Philyaw as the winner of the 2021 Autumn House Fiction Prize, focuses on an eclectic cast of characters trying to find, assert, or salvage their identities.These fifteen...

Michael X. Wang’s award-winning debut collection of short stories interrogates personal and political events set against the backdrop of China that are both real and perceived, imagined, and speculative.Wang plunges us into the fictional Chinese...

M. Randal O’Wain’s debut short story collection, Hallelujah Station and Other Stories, introduces readers to a wide and diverse cast of characters struggling with and responding to changes and loss.These gritty and poignant stories follow the tragic...

Emerging from deep in America’s flyover states, Michael Credico’s flash fiction collection portrays an absurdist, exaggerated, and bizarre vision of the Midwest known as the heartland.The stories are clipped views into a land filled with confusion and...

Winner of the 2016 Autumn House Fiction Prize, Andrew Bourelle’s debut novel, Heavy Metal, gives us a glimpse into the life of Danny, a teenager who seeks peace and stability after the death of his mother.Set in 1980s Ohio, Danny is a sensitive teen...

In hybrid narrative prose poems, In the Antarctic Circle follows two characters as they weave a life among the frigid, white landscape of the southern continent. This is not the Antarctic of polar expeditions or scientific discovery. This is the...

Molly by Kevin Honold was selected by Dan Chaon as the winner of the 2020 Autumn House Fiction Prize and is a compelling story of enduring hardships in rural New Mexico.This debut novel tells the story of nine-year-old Raymond, nicknamed “Ray Moon” by...

John Foy’s newest collection is a tour de force of formal poetry, offering a blend of wit, cleverness, and deftness.Working in the lineage of poets like Billy Collins, Robert Frost, Frank O’Hara, W. H. Auden, and Elizabeth Bishop, Foy probes everyday...

Winner of the Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, Hadley Moore's debut Not Dead Yet studies the uncertainties of loss, turning a gaze toward the often-silenced voices of the infirm, elderly, and adolescent.Rich in humor and honesty, Hadley Moore’s debut...

Praise Song for My Children celebrates twenty-one years of poetry by one of the most significant African poets of this century.Patricia Jabbeh Wesley guides us through the complex and intertwined highs and lows of motherhood and all the roles that it...

In Skull Cathedral, Melissa Wiley pulls stories from the vestigial remnants of the creatures we were or could have become.The appendix, pinky toes, tonsils, male nipples, wisdom teeth, and coccyx are starting points through which Wiley explores...

speculation, n. by Shayla Lawz won the 2020 Autumn House Poetry Prize and imagines a world beyond the prevailing public speculation on Black death.Shayla Lawz’s debut collection brings together poetry, sound, and performance to challenge our...

Full of wit and humor, Sherrie Flick's second collection introduces readers to big worlds and major characters in short, sometimes very short, stories.From a woman buying corn who gets more than what she bargained for to a cowboy down on his luck,...

Lori Wilson's second collection is a book about crossing into a new version of your own story—after a marriage ends, the parents die, the children are grown, or the faith is discarded—and finding a place to stand, a new way to take up space in the...

The Gardens of Our Childhoods, the stunning debut by John Belk and winner of the Autumn Houe Press Rising Writer Prize, looks at the world of professional wrestling to excavate the real within the artificial and explore the projections we create, run...

This honest and haunting collection of poems by Sheryl St. Germain follows the loss of the poet’s only son to heroin addiction.St. Germain takes us through the stages of her grief and offers no false promises or simple answers. These narrative-driven...

Voice Message explores through villanelles, sonnets, quatrains, and even free verse the consolation and devastation that art and poetry offer.In her debut collection, Swett engages the art of Vermeer to guide and contextualize the pain of losing a...