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I am thrilled to announce that akinoga press will be accepting submissions from April 1–April 30!!!
Please go to the submissions page for a full rundown of submission guidelines; i do things a bit differently and any submission not following the guidelines will not be considered.
I am very much looking forward to seeing an inbox full of submissions come April.
– mz
Friends!
Can you believe that Michael B. Tager’s debut poetry collection launches in just a month?! That’s right! On Friday, April 5th, Pop Culture Poetry: The Definitive Collection will be launching with a book party and salon at Ottobar (upstairs)!
Swing on by at 6:30 to catch all of the amazing readers/performers; it’s going to be a hell of a time!
And please swing on over here to preorder yourself a copy! Preorders will be available right up until April 6th, but i will be sending them out starting in a few weeks, so don’t sleep on getting your hands on a copy early!
And if you’d like a little more info about/an excerpt from Pop Culture Poetry, swing on over to the Spotlight page!
I hope to see you at Ottobar on the 6th!
–mz
Friends!
This is suuuuuuuper late, but i have some wonderful news to share: akinoga press will be at AWP24!!!!!!!
I will be tabling with some wonderful folks from the University of Baltimore’s creative writing and publishing arts MFA. Find us at table 1337, where i’ll be slinging books and talking up the MFA program (it’s where i went and the reason akinoga press exits). Stop by and see us!!!…and maybe even pick up Pop Culture Poetry: The Definitive Collection, Michael B. Tager’s debut poetry collection, before anyone else gets it. Even the preorder folks!
-mz
Hello, friends!
Please join us this Saturday (Dec. 2nd) at 7 pm EST for the virtual launch of Dina Paulson’s newest chapbook, TOUCH/breaks!
Dina will be reading from her collection and she an i will be having a conversation about her chap and the whole process of it (as well as a Q&A).
Click here for the zoom link, and click here to preorder TOUCH/breaks.
Friends!
I am thrilled, THRILLED I SAY, to reveal the cover of the next akinoga press book and announce that preorders are now available for TOUCH / breaks by poet and writer Dina Paulson!!!!
It has been an absolute dream working with Dina over the past year or so to give this steamy chapbook a physical presence in the world. Check back in for more info about the launch (keep an eye on mid-November), and go grab a discounted copy today (which will be mailed out about a week or so before launch)!
Aaaaaaaaaand head over to the Spotlight page to get some more info about/read an excerpt from TOUCH / breaks!
Friends!
I am BEYOND EXCITED to reveal the cover of Michael B. Tager’s debut full-length collection, Pop Culture Poetry: The Difinitive Collection, which will be releasing on April 9th, 2024.
I’m also beyond excited to announce that it is available for preorder! I know, i know: this is waaaaaay earlier than my usual preorder announcements, but…y’know, be the change you want to see in the world. Or something.
Anyway! Preorders will be shipping out a week or two early (at the end of March) and will also be discounted a bit from $20 to $17, so get a copy while the getting’s good!
Friends!
I am so, SO excited to reveal the cover for the next akinoga press book! And to announce that preorders are officially open for Women and Other Angels, by Kelly Burke!!! WOOOOOOOO!!!!!
It’s been so wonderful to work with Kelly on her debut chapbook! And with Manon de Jong on the cover illustration. Please, PLEASE go check out Manon’s illustration work; she’s amazing.
Also, go get yourself a preorder of Women and Other Angels! It will be releasing later this summer (exact date forthcoming). And go check out the Spotlight page for a little more info on the chap as well as an excerpt!
Friends!
I will away from the press for the next two weeks or so, so like last time, i will be unable to fulfill any orders that come in during that span.
BUT, like last time, i will do my best to mail them out as soon as humanly possible once i get back to press stuff, so please by all means get yourself some books! Just know that they will take a little longer than usual to get to you.
–mz
Friends!
I have the good fortune to be exhibiting at this year's City Lit Fest! I will be there all day slinging books, so stop on by for some new and old releases and/or the general vibes.
Friends!
I am so, so excited to reveal the cover and announce preorders for the next akinoga book! May i present 112th Street Notebook, by poet and artist Krsitjana Gunnars!
Check out the Spotlight page for some more info/to read an excerpt and please go preorder yourself a copy!
I’m really, really proud of this little chapbook, and i cannot wait for it to be out in the world in mid-February!
Friends!
I will be away from the press for the next two weeks and will be unable to send out any orders that come in during that time.
But, i get them on their way as soon as i get back!
Thank y’all for your continued patronage; i deeply appreciate it.
–mz
Friends!
It is my absolute joy to announce that An Essential Melancholy, by Lora Robinson, is now officially out and about in the world!
It's been a hell of a ride, Lora, and i am beyond proud to have been able to help you bring your book into the world.
Make sure to snag your copy here! And check out the Spotlight page to read an excerpt and some lovely, lovely blurbs.
Friends!
It is with unparalleled excitement that i welcome gus casper to the press!
eli casper is an interdisciplinary artist interested in philosophy, aesthetics, digital consciousness, and poetry. Their work searches visual and temporal (non)-spaces of empathetic, dysphoric dystopias; unraveling a sense of hiddenness through nuanced intimacies, gender, ritual, and abstracted relationality. They currently reside in Baltimore.
Friends!
It is with unrelenting excitement that i welcome David Capps to the press!
David Capps is a philosophy professor and poet who lives in New Haven, CT. He is the author of three chapbooks: Poems from the First Voyage (The Nasiona Press, 2019), A Non-Grecian Non-Urn (Yavanika Press, 2019), and Colossi (Kelsay Books, 2020).
Friends!
It is with incomparable excitement that i welcome Max Henninger to the press!
Max Henninger is a writer and translator based in Berlin, Germany. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ambit, Datableed, Spam, Neutral Spaces and other journals. In 2021, he released a 60-minute audio cassette tape of poetry and sound with German experimental music duo poesi fysik. Poems for Two Voices will be his first chapbook
Friends!
It is with unbelievable excitment that i welcome Dina Paulson to the press!
Dina Paulson is a poet, essayist, and entertainment writer. In 2017, she founded Aqua Editing, a storyteller for creative thinkers. She published her chapbook, Parts of love, with Finishing Line Press (2018), placing in their New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition. Her second poetry collection, TOUCH / breaks, is forthcoming from akinoga press (2023/4). Her writing appears in The Rumpus, Collider, Cine Suffragette, FanFare, and Ghost City Press, among others. Before starting Aqua Editing, she worked with startups, nonforprofits, and schools as a content writer and taught writing and second language learning in English and Spanish.
Friends!
As i did with the last publishing cohort, i am going to be spending the next couple of weeks highlighting the next batch of writers that will be published in 2023/2024 (and you believe there are only three more writer from the last cohort left?). They are all wonderful and i cannot wait to usher their work into the world.
And on that note, it is with a whole heap of excitement that i welcome Michael B. Tager to the press!
Michael B. Tager is an editor and writer from Baltimore. His writing has appeared widely and can be found at Michaelbtager.com.
FRIENDS!
It has been far too long since i posted, but i have some WONDERFUL NEWS!!! It is my absolute pleasure to reveal the covers (THAT’S RIGHT, COVERS) for the next akinoga publication: An Essential Melancholy by Lora Robinson!!!!!
Lora and i have been working on this collection for what feels like years, and i am so, SO excited that we are a month away from launch.
I’m also incredibly excited because this collection is the first time akinoga press will be offering variant cover designs, featuring art by the tremendous Matthew Sir Robertson and Shawn Lohse.
And thirdly, i am excited to announce that preorders are officially open! Please go nab your copy today; i have no doubt these books will sell like the HOTTEST of cakes.
And if you want to get some more info about the book/read an excerpt, be sure to check out its Spotlight page.
The book will be releasing on Wednesday, November 16th, and i’ll have the full rundown of event info soon.
–mz
Friends!
I am incredibly excited to announce that Healing Where You Are will be launching Thursday, July 28th at Full Moon Acupuncture and Apothecary with a talk and medicine making workshop!
Things kick off at 6 with a discussion between Suzannah Kolbeck and Kim Mattison!
Participation in the workshop is not required to join us, but if you would like to get in on the medicine making, space is limited, so please click here to secure your spot!
-mz
