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Autumn House Press

87 ½ Westwood Street

Pittsburgh, PA 15211

Phone: 412-381-4261

E-mail: msimms@autumnhouse.org

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: year-round Response time: 2 months Payment: Royalties, cash, copies Contests: yes (see website) Year Founded: 1998 Distributors: Baker & Taylor, Midwest Library Service, Bookhouse Number of titles per year: 8 Number of titles in print: 35

Publisher’s description: Autumn House Press publishes full-length volumes of poetry and fiction in beautifully designed and well-made editions. On our website, you'll find a catalog of the books we publish, our philosophy of publishing, guidelines for submitting manuscripts, bios of the people who run Autumn House, and a link to Coal Hill Review, our online poetry journal.

Recent Titles:

My Life as A Doll
by Elizabeth Kirschner
2008, $14.95
“These poems are dark, iridescent beads strung along a narrative of embattled childhood that supports but never overrides the lyrical force of Kirschner's voice and vision. The narrative begins with a mother's violence and follows its effects upon the daughter's inner landscape -- the visions, the bouts of madness, the circling smoke of memory -- as she grows older. It's the landscape that generates the force behind these poems, rendered as it is with stunning imagery at every turn, and with urgent rhythms that push towards a kind of exorcism. These poems confront hard things head-on, but far from being sensationalistic or depressing, they are lush, fierce, and lovely.”
-Leslie Ullman

New World Order
by Derek Green
2008, $17.95
“Delve into any of these eleven highly entertaining tales and you'll know what it is to be grabbed by the lapels and told a story. Derek Green's characters are not men and women with quiet lives and vague careers. Rather, they are vividly portrayed operating in the deep recesses of the global economy--a journalist seeking a story in the Australian outback, a guy trying to sell Harleys in Baghdad--with surprising and harrowing results. New World Order is the real news, the kind you can't find in the paper. Don't miss it.”
--Scott Lasser