Acre Books

M. Cynthia Cheung signing copies of COMMON DISASTER at the #AWP26 book fair! Stack of books at bottom of photo. Overhead shot of author with orange pen in hand.

Acre authors in action! #MCynthiaCheung signing copies of COMMON DISASTER at the #AWP26 book fair! Skipped the conference? Order your copy at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo.... 🎉🎉🎉

#AWP26 is exciting, sure, but we have cover reveals coming next week! Stay tuned. 📚⚡

#AWP26 Today is the day! Come say hello / goodbye to team Acre! We are grateful for your support, readership, and care! 📚🎉📚🎉📚🎉

Acre books display at AWP 2026 conference.

Word magnets on table at AWP Conference.

Stop by Booth 1191! Signings, specials, and books, oh my! Team Acre can't wait to meet you. #AWP26 📚🖊️🎉

Thanks!

Delighted to be a part of this fantastic book haul! Did you pick up one of our titles at #AWP26? Please tag us! 📚🎉

A white woman with short brown hair and glasses smiles and shows off her newly applied CR tattoo at the AWP bookfair.

A freshly applied temporary tattoo on the inside of a wrist.

Kate, Cincinnati Review editor, stands in the booth talking to a visitor.

We can’t believe it’s already the last day of the #awp2026 bookfair! Drop by booth 1065 for 25% off our swag and a last chance to try the Manifestation Machine!

Tonight, tonight! Join our Acre authors at The Patterson Theater in #Baltimore! 6:30 to 9:00 pm for a Books and Bevvies Bonanza! #fiction #poetry #AWP26 🎉🎉🎉

Acre authors in action at #AWP26! Science, accessibility, poetry, medicine, community building. Our writers have you covered! Check out these events featuring #CdEskilson (SCREAM / QUEEN), #MCynthiaCheung (COMMON DISASTER), and @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social (RANGE OF MOTION). 📚🎉

Editors in action! Acre Publisher #NicolaMason with Poetry Editor / @cincinnatireview.bsky.social Managing Editor @lisaampleman.bsky.social! #AWP26 🎉🎉🎉

Acre books display at AWP 2026 conference.

Word magnets on table at AWP Conference.

Stop by Booth 1191! Signings, specials, and books, oh my! Team Acre can't wait to meet you. #AWP26 📚🖊️🎉

#AWP26! Celebrate with us Friday March 6 at The Patterson Theater @ Creative Alliance. Acre Books, @cavankerrypress.bsky.social, Lily Poetry Review, and Nixes Mate. 6:30 to 9:00 pm. #Baltimore. 📚🎉

#AWP26! Don't miss your chance to meet many of our Acre authors, who will be signing books throughout the conference. Booth 1191. 🖊️🎉📚

Can't stress this enough.

For Missouri Review, Acre author #MichaelDowns reflects on his time in Kraków, Poland. His latest #essay, “Report,” considers how war and sieges affect people, especially children. 🖊️📚
missourireview.com/report-by-mi...

A white person with long black fingernails wearing a silver necklace, black fisherman's sweater, jeans, and sneakers, models the CR tote by hanging it from their arm. The tote is sturdy canvas with black handles and bottom.

We're in the midst of setting up our booth at the AWP bookfair today, and we're hyped about our new swag featuring our mascots on a sturdy mini-tote! Grab 'em while they're hot!

What an event! Excited to see two of our poets in the mix: @ctsalazar.bsky.social and @josehernandezdz.bsky.social! Have a great #AWP26! 🎉🎉🎉

Creative Writing Program hosts M. Cynthia Cheung for cross-discipline conversation around arts in medicine Students and staff joined the Creative Writing Program in the Jay S. and Jeanne Benet Alumni Lounge on Thursday for a conversation and reading with...

Terrific coverage of Acre #poet #MCynthiaCheung (COMMON DISASTER) at Binghamton University! Health care, humanity, Chinese poetic forms, erasure, the pandemic, and permutations of violence. Link for more! 🎉🎉🎉
www.bupipedream.com/ac/creative-...

Acre authors in action at #AWP26! Science, accessibility, poetry, medicine, community building. Our writers have you covered! Check out these events featuring #CdEskilson (SCREAM / QUEEN), #MCynthiaCheung (COMMON DISASTER), and @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social (RANGE OF MOTION). 📚🎉

Everything Cincinnati Review at AWP Baltimore  - The Cincinnati Review After the tremendous buzz caused by the presence of Nick Lachey at last year’s CR booth, the Imagineers at The Cincinnati Review have been busy thinking

Ever heard of a Manifestation Machine? Find it, and many other delights, in booth 1065 at the AWP bookfair. Our official guide to The Cincinnati Review at AWP Baltimore is live! buff.ly/mouGKWK

#AWP26! Check out this virtual reading, "Myths & the Motherland: Multiplicity in the Chinese Diaspora," (Wed., March 4) featuring a terrific lineup of writers, including Acre #poet #MCynthiaCheung! 🖊️📚🎉 Register at www.awpwriter.org.

#AWP26! Don't miss your chance to meet many of our Acre authors, who will be signing books throughout the conference. Booth 1191. 🖊️🎉📚

"Every book is, at first, an unproven thing, an improbable fit, an act of heroics set against historical odds. Every book is nothing at all. Until we come along and write (or draw)." ~ Beth Kephart / @bethkephart.bsky.social

Acre authors in action! @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social will be signing books on Friday at 11 to 11:30 am at Booth 1191. 📚🎉🖊️ (Panel on Writing about Disability and Chronic Illness Thurs. 12:00 pm).

"You pointed: pink cumulus on the horizon like an omen of apocalypse. Sheep like fallen clouds on the hills."

In this week's miCRo by Ariel Katz, a search for a petrified log leads to an unexpected, other discovery.

Link in thread.

#AWP26! Celebrate with us Friday March 6 at The Patterson Theater @ Creative Alliance. Acre Books, @cavankerrypress.bsky.social, Lily Poetry Review, and Nixes Mate. 6:30 to 9:00 pm. #Baltimore. 📚🎉

A beekeeper tending to some bee boxes. Text reads, "An Evening of Flash Lit: A Cincinnati Review miCRo Reading, Max's Taphouse, 737 S. Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21231, March 4, 7pm." Readers are listed: Prince Bush, Beth Ann Fennelly, Kat Lewis, David James Poissant, Edward Sambrano III, Jess Smith, Stella Wong, Addison Zeller

Please join us for our miCRo-themed AWP offsite event, An Evening of Flash Lit!

When: Wednesday, March 4, 7:00-8:30 pm
Where: Max's Taphouse, 737 S Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21231 (30-minute walk from the convention center or a 13-minute drive)
Drinks and mingling to follow!

#AWP26! Check out this virtual reading, "Myths & the Motherland: Multiplicity in the Chinese Diaspora," (Wed., March 4) featuring a terrific lineup of writers, including Acre #poet #MCynthiaCheung! 🖊️📚🎉 Register at www.awpwriter.org.

A white quote shape on a red background with the words "Featured Interview," a large red quotation mark, and this quoted phrase: "There was a real chance this book never would have made it into print at all. Small publishers made it happen..." Below is the CR logo in white and the name Christian Moody, next to a circular headshot of a white man with dark hair in a dark-gray collared shirt

"There was a real chance this book never would have made it into print at all. Small publishers made it happen..." PEN-nominated short-story writer (and former CR editor!) Christian Moody discusses his book *Lost in the Forest of Mechanical Birds* (Dzanc Books) and more. Link in thread.

Neon Night Mic AWP Offsite Reading Hosted by [neonpajamas] Alina Stefanescu Jose Hernandez Diaz Michael Martone Annelyse Gelman Nicky Beer Chen Chen Johannes Goransson Alina Pleskova Katie Jean Shinkle C.T. Salazar David Simmons David Wojciechowski Kenyatta Rogers Henry Goldkamp Matt Bell Grant Wamack Jon Woodward @ Old Major 900 S. Carey St. Batimore Wednesday, March 4 Doors: 6:00pm Readings: 7:00pm-10:00pm

AWP 💥 BALTIMORE 🚨 Mark your calendars‼️

It’s all happening on March 4. See you there?