Autumn House Press

The press publishes books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by authors such as Ada Limón, Ed Ochester, Gerald Stern, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Sheryl St. Germain, Cameron Barnett, and Michael X. Wang. The press also publishes comprehensive anthologies including New America: Contemporary Literature for a Changing Society and When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women. Autumn House Press titles have been reviewed in Publishers Weekly, Booklist, The Georgia Review, The Hollins Critic, The Times Literary Supplement, and the Washington Independent Review of Books. Poems and excerpts have been featured in The New York Times Magazine, The Slowdown, American Life in Poetry, Literary Hub, The Millions, and Cleveland Review of Books. The press was featured in Ploughshares as part of their "Indie Spotlight" interview series.

Autumn House holds annual contests in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction; the winners of which receive publication of a full-length manuscript, a $1,000 advance against royalties, and a $1,500 travel/publicity grant to promote their book. Previous fiction winners include Michael X. Wang's Further News of Defeat: Stories in 2019 and Sharma Shields's Favorite Monster in 2011. Melissa Wiley won the nonfiction prize in 2019 for Skull Cathedral: A Vestigial Anatomy. Poetry winners include lucky wreck by Ada Limón in 2005, The Moons of August by Danusha Laméris in 2013, and makalani bandele's under the aegis of a winged mind in 2019. The press also awards the Rising Writer Prize in poetry and, beginning in 2021, in fiction. The prizes are awarded for first full-length books by authors who are 36 or younger. Winners receive publication and a cash prize. Previous winners include Dennis James Sweeney's In the Antarctic Circle, Eric Tran's The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer, and Cameron Barnett's The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water.