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2024 Summer Release Schedule

• FISH LOVE: Poems by Bryanna Licciardi (July 30, 2024)

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Recent Posts & Publications

• Dreams Where My Father Kills Me: Fiction by Meghan E. O’Toole
• Just Meat & Blood & Bone: On Colin Winnette’s ‘Haints Stay’: Book Review by Justin Lawrence Daugherty
• Cover Reveal for ‘Fish Love’: Poems by Bryanna Licciardi
• A Novel of Impermanence: On Berit Ellingsen’s ‘Not Dark Yet’: Book Review by Eric Shonkwiler
• Young Misfits: On Rosie Forrest’s ‘Ghost Box Evolution in Cadillac, Michigan’: Book Review by Leah Angstman
• Universal Lessons: On Christina Collins’ ‘Conspiracy of Beauty’: Book Review by Eric Shonkwiler
• Announcement of the 2023 Electric Book Award Winner & Finalists
• Nonlinear Scars: On Ingrid Betancourt’s ‘The Blue Line’: Book Review by Nicole Tone
• Quirky & Eccentric: On Michael Graves’ ‘Parade’: Book Review by Jonathan Harper
• Hunger for Closure: On Julie Babcock’s ‘Autoplay’: Book Review by Julia Hy
• Moving On Up: On Daniel Falatko’s ‘Condominium’: Book Review by Al Kratz
• Exploration of Modern Fatherhood: On ‘Four Fathers’: Book Review by Al Kratz
• Midwest Landscapes: On Katie Schmid’s ‘Forget Me / Hit Me / Let Me Drink Great Quantities of Clear, Evil Liquor’: Book Review by Do Nguyen Mai
• Baby Girl: Fiction by Owen Macleod
• Dreamy Mystery & Fantasy: On William Vandenberg’s ‘Lake of Earth’: Book Review by Margaryta Golovchenko
• The Last Thing I Loved: A Dilapidated Theater: Essay by Elaina Erola
• The Abbey: Fiction by Alan Catlin
• The Spirit of Shackleton: Fiction by Gavin Broom
• Announcement of the 2023 Electric Book Award Longlist
• On Bridges and Ash: Fiction by Ronnie K. Stephens

News & Updates

• APR, OPEN SUBMISSIONS: The following submissions are open for April 2024: Electric Book Award for book-length manuscripts, Charter Oak Award/FOOTNOTE for historical writing, THE COIL categories for nonfiction pieces, MAINTAIN THE NORTH: An Epic Mountie Adventure Anthology for adventure fiction about historical Mounties, Little Pigeon Series for linked-themed chapbooks, individual poems open-reading period, and individual fiction open-reading period. Individual poetry submissions are free this month.
• MAR 22, ACQUISITION: Announcing the acquisition of Afghanistan war veteran Brian Kerg’s FALLING MEN! This stunning collection of short stories portraying the lives of men and women soldiers and military personnel on and off duty will be joining our Alternating Current Press full-length catalog!
• MAR 22, ACQUISITION: We’re so excited to announce the acquisition of Eloise Schultz’s REGULAR REMEMBERING, a hybrid poetry collection about history and excavation based on the author’s experiences as a copyeditor and educational reenactor at a historical society in coastal Maine. This chapbook will be joining our Little Pigeon series soon!
• MAR 18, ACQUISITION: We’re excited to announce the acquisition of Mark Stein’s TABERNACLE, a hybrid nonfiction exploration that seeks to replicate verbally and visually the physical work of outsider artist James Hampton’s infamous Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly art installation. This quirky collection will be joining our Little Pigeon chapbook series!
• MAR 17, ACQUISITION: We’re so excited to announce the acquisition of Stacy Carlson’s THE GYRE, pitched as “THE REVENANT meets Angela Carter among the icebergs,” a novel of the far northern wilds wherein a Russian monk of questionable motives aims to be the northernmost holy man in the world as he travels on foot through a remote world of tundra and ice bears, accompanied by patron saints, pagan figments, and strange stories. Coming soon to the Alternating Current Press full-length catalog.
• MAR 17, ACQUISITION: We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of Jerusalem-based author Shoshana Sarah’s NOT ON THE MAP, a collection of poetry and lyric hybrid essays that evokes the idea of the Tower of Babel and draws on the author’s multicultural experience to explore questions of home, identity, boundaries, multilingualism, and the tensions among them. This collection joins the Alternating Current Press upcoming full-length catalog.
• MAR 16, ACQUISITION: We’re thrilled to announce the acquisition of Barbara Schwartz’s WHAT SURVIVES IS THE FIRE, a hybrid collection of poetry, interview transcriptions, and lyric essays that explores the generational effects of the Holocaust on one family, inspired by the author’s grandparents’ lived experiences. This collection will join our ACP upcoming full-length catalog!
• MAR 15, ACQUISITION: We’re so excited to announce the acquisition of Jason Olsen’s ROBOT ACTION PINBALL, a collection of 11 inventive short stories filled with humor, strangeness, and a touch of the surreal, joining our upcoming ACP full-length catalog!
• MAR 15, ACQUISITION: We’re thrilled to welcome Kathleen Rooney to our ACP family with the acquisition of ROBINSON ALONE, a new reprint edition of her novel-in-poems based on the life, work, and disappearance of mid-20th-century multigenre artist Weldon Kees! We’re so excited to bring this work to a whole new audience as part of our upcoming full-length catalog!
• MAR 5, PREORDER + GIVEAWAY: We are thrilled to announce that Bryanna Licciardi’s FISH LOVE, a collection of poetry about the beauty and tragedy of living life as a modern-day woman, is now available for preorder. Want an extra treat? We’re running a giveaway for a free print ARC and a swag pack!
• DEC 12, NEW RELEASE: Happy Book Birthday to FOOTNOTE #5, our annual literary journal of history! This edition features 46 works of poetry, fiction, essays, articles, and nonfiction by 41 authors about various historical topics, paired with dozens of photographs. The journal is now available.
• DEC 12, NEW RELEASE: Happy Book Birthday to BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2023, the annual compilation of the best microfiction, flash fiction, haibun stories, and prose poetry from around the world! This year’s selections honor 109 pieces published in 2022, curated by guest editor Catherine McNamara, series editor Nathan Leslie, and Managing Editor Michelle Elvy. The anthology is now available.
• NOV 7, NEW RELEASE: Happy Book Birthday to Ashley Elizabeth’s BLACK HAS EVERY RIGHT TO BE ANGRY! This collection of poems about the historical and current Black experience in the United States is now available.
• OCT 17, NEW RELEASE: Happy Book Birthday to Barbara Sabol’s WATERMARK! This collection of poems about the Great Johnstown Flood of 1889 is now available.
• AUG 22, NEW RELEASE: Happy Book Birthday to Stephanie Staab’s LETTERLOCKING! This collection of poems about the power of letters and concealing intimate truths is now available.
• AUG 8, NEW RELEASE: Happy Book Birthday to Dayton J. Shafer’s HOMESLICE! This collection of ethnographic monologues that investigates & deconstructs 90s/turn-of-the-millennium American identity is now available.
• JUL 25, NEW RELEASE: Happy Book Birthday to Brett Biebel’s WINTER DANCE PARTY! This linked flash collection about Buddy Holly’s Iowa plane crash site in 1959, is now available.
• MAY 13, ACQUISITION: We’re thrilled to announce the acquisition of Ashley Marie Farmer’s THE FARMACIST, a reprint of the fantastic out-of-print flash story collection of the same name. We couldn’t be happier to be bringing this long-lost gem back into the world.
• MAY 12, ACQUISITION: We’re thrilled to announce the acquisition of Jen Karetnick’s WHAT FORGES US STEEL: THE JUDGE JUDY POEMS, a thematic collection of poetry that looks at pop-culture icon Judge Judy through a variety of lenses. This fantastic chapbook will be joining our Little Pigeon series.
• MAY 11, ACQUISITION: We are delighted to (re)welcome Ryan Ridge back to our lineup with the acquisition of HUNTERS & GAMBLERS, a reprint of the out-of-print short-story collection of the same name that will also include fantastic new material. This deluxe edition will be joining our full-length titles.
• MAY 11, ACQUISITION: We’re excited to announce the acquisition of Michelle Acker’s DEAD ROBINS SOCIETY, a collection of poems inspired by and responding to superhero comic books, grappling with what it means to love an artistic genre that, in myriad historical and cultural ways, is invested in not loving you back. This chapbook will be joining our Little Pigeon series.
• MAY 11, ACQUISITION: We’re thrilled to announce Sudha Balagopal’s TINY UNTRUTHS, a collection of flash stories linked by an exploration of the human condition to reveal universal truths that straddle continents and countries and blend thoughts, ideas, and customs from the east and west.
• MAY 10, ACQUISITION: We’re stoked to announce the acquisition of Brendan Walsh’s NOTJUSTYET NOTJUSTYET, a collection of poetry that asks the universe for one more day before destruction in regard to our constant exposure to death, imperialism, and climate catastrophes, specifically in the author’s home of South Florida and his past home of Southeast Asia.
• MAY 10, ACQUISITION: We’re excited to announce the acquisition of Jeffrey Hantover’s 87½ MINUTES, a novella featuring a post-Covid love story at the possible end of the world, where two journalists at a tabloid notice an increasing number of weird events stemming from alien misinterpretations of the Golden Record launched into space on the 1977 Voyager I.
• MAY 10, ACQUISITION: We’re thrilled to announce the acquisition of Benjamin Goluboff’s LIVES AND TIMES, a collection of speculative biographical poetry about groundbreaking and glass ceiling-shattering artists, generals, musicians,  photographers, and other movers and shakers of pop-cultural significance.
• APR 25, ACQUISITION: We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of Wendi White’s TURTLE ISLAND RISING, a collection of environmental poetry that interweaves the author’s relationship to the earth and affinity for nature with her ancestors’ history of colonizing and extracting wealth from the new world while exploiting its first inhabitants.
• APR 22, ACQUISITION: We’re happy to announce the acquisition of Elliott Coates’ & PLEASE, a poetry collection of the correspondence from Charles Dickens’ troubled youngest sibling, Augustus, to his famous brother. This chapbook will be joining our Little Pigeon series.
• APR 22, ACQUISITION: We’re excited to announce the acquisition of Matthew Pitt’s THE BE-EVERYTHING! BROTHERS, a literary novella in which two brothers must forgive each other and their shared traumatic childhood in order to run a popular children’s show that tests their brotherly limits.
• APR 21, ACQUISITION: We’re so excited to welcome Ben Tanzer—Emmy winner, podcast producer, author, and lit-citizen extraordinaire—to our fall lineup with the acquisition of BE COOL and LOST IN SPACE, reprints of an out-of-print memoir-in-vignettes and an essay collection on fatherhood, respectively, for dual-publication.