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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
Friends!!!!
It is with INCREDIBLE excitement that i make two announcements today!
1) CHECK OUT THE COVER FOR AKINOGA’S NEXT BOOK, Healing Where You Are: an Introduction to Urban Foraging by Suzannah Kolbeck with illustrations by Kim Mattison!
and 2) preorders are available! So make sure you nab your copy today!!!
Healing Where You Are will be launching later this summer, exact date forthcoming. But don’t worry: we have something extra special being cooked up. Check back here for the finalized details!
–mz
Hello, friends!
I would like to express my deep, deep appreciation with how patient everyone who ordered a copy of Double Exposure has been. I am very sorry it’s been just about a month since launch without any updates. But, i have good news! After some printing snafus (and many nights of book prep/binding), your copies of Double Exposure will start shipping out this weekend!
They came out absolutely STUNNING, and i cannot wait for y’all to experience them. They will be coming mostly media mail (which can be a little dodgy sometimes), but be on the lookout for your copies toward the end of next week!
Here’s to more books!
–mz
Friends!
We got ourselves a launch! Please join us on Saturday, April 9th at 1:30 EST on Zoom (bit.ly/3iGMtMu) in celebration of Maria C. Goodson’s Double Exposure! The reading line up is incredible (as you can see), so please don’t miss out on what will certainly be an amazing time!
More info about Double Exposure can be found on on its Spotlight page, and preorders can be made here! They are selling like the hottest of cakes, so be sure to snag yourself a copy!
–mz
Friends!
I am beyond excited to reveal the cover(s) to the next akinoga press’s next book: Double Exposure, by Maria C. Goodson.
Double Exposure will be launching on Saturday, April 9, at 1:30 pm EST on Zoom. More information (as well as the link) will be forthcoming.
A Spotlight page will be up by the end of the week if you’d like to get some more information about, and read an excerpt from, Double Exposure, and preorders are available!
–mz
FRIENDS!
Mark your calendars! The Candle Moth by Dave K will be launching virtually on Friday, February 25th at 7pm on twitch.tv/akinogapress!
It will feature readers Justin Sanders, Jamie Fountaine, and Cija Jefferson, as well as a musical guest!
Make sure you pre-order yourself a copy before the event!
FRIENDS!!!
It is with absolutely incredible excitement that i’m announcing the book being released by akinoga press! Let me formally introduce you to The Candle Moth, a story by Dave K!
This dark, nautically-themed prose poem will be launching via a virtual event in February, but preorders are available!
More info for the release will be forthcoming, so in the meantime, please check out the Candle Moth Spotlight page for some more info on the book and an excerpt. Trust me, y’all: this is NOT one you want to miss out on.
–mz
Happy new year, friends!
It is with deep gratitude that i announce submissions are now closed.
Thanks to everyone who submitted projects/proposals for consideration! I have a hefty stack that needs going through, so plan to hear from me regarding your submission around mid-January (at the absolute earliest).
I’m excited for all of the upcoming projects and for whatever else 2022 brings.
Here’s to better times.
–mz
Friends!
I am absolutely THRILLED to announce we will be launching Stephanie Garon’s ACREAGE at the Baltimore Busboys and Poets on Friday, December 10th!!! The event starts at 7 and will feature Andrew Klein and Anthony Moll as guest readers.
Please come out to support these wonderful poets, and to snag your copy of ACREAGE hot off the presses!
Stephanie Garon’s collection, ACREAGE, is now available for preorder!
Get your copy today!!!!!!!
I am thrilled to announce that akinoga press’s consideration period is NOW OPEN, and will remain so until the end of the year (December 31st)!
So, if you have a project you’ve been looking to find a home for (or have reached out to me previously about submissions), now’s your chance to send something my way!!!
But, before you do, please check out the submissions page for the guidelines. I do submissions a little differently than most presses, and it’s in your best interest to fully understand what i’m looking for. There’s also some additional information about the rough publishing timeline (if your project is selected) that it would worth being aware of before submitting.
I’m excited to see what y’all have been working on!
–mz
Friends!
Jenny Fraser and a few of the Plant Power Sisterhood presented at the What Does Climate Justice Look Like? webinar on September 24th, 2021.
More information about the webinar can be found here, a few photo highlights of the event can be found here, and the event can be streamed here!
Plant Power Sisterhood can be purchased here, and a new review of the collection can be found here!
It is with correspondent tremendous excitement that i welcome Dave K to akinoga press!!!
Dave K is a species of fungus characterised by introverted ornamentations on the spore wall. His work has been published in Barrelhouse, [PANK], X-R-A-Y, Occulum, and on the LED billboard in Baltimore’s Station North Arts District. He is the author of stone a pig (2012), MY NAME IS HATE (2014), and The Bong-Ripping Brides of Count Drogado (2017, Mason Jar Press).
It is with correspondent tremendous excitement that i welcome Maria Goodson to akinoga press!!!
Maria C. Goodson is a writer who creates systems that connect people with causes they are passionate about. From 2016 - 2021, she managed Writers & Words, a monthly reading series in Baltimore, and co-organized The Woods, an annual writing retreat in West Virginia. She enjoys making pipe cleaner art, exploring her home city of Baltimore, and writing anxiety haiku, holiday card stories, and villanelles about love and connection. She received a BA in English with a concentration in creative writing from West Virginia University, and an MA in creative writing from Oxford Brookes University in Oxford, England.
It is with parallel tremendous excitement that i welcome Anastasiya to akinoga press!!!
Anastasiya hails from Belarus, Minsk and writes under the pseudonym Birdy Asya. She works as a teacher, pursues scientific activities, and writes poetry and prose in a number of languages.
Her poetry is rooted in emotion, and one would be justified in describing her poems as “painterly”, which should come as no surprise as she is an avid visual artist as well. Her drawings are a symbiosis of abstraction and cubism, full of many colors and signs, a style truly its own.
Friends!
It is with equivalent tremendous excitement that i welcome Kristjana Gunnars to akinoga press!!!
Kristjana Gunnars is a writer and painter based in British Columbia. She has published several books of poetry, short fiction and essay collections, as well as five cross-genre works with Red Deer Press/Fitzhenry & Whiteside. She is also the author of three previous chapbooks: Snake Charmers and A Moment in Time from Above/Ground Press in Ottawa, and At Home I the Mountains from Junction Press, Ontario. 112th St. Notebook (forthcoming with akinoga) is inspired by years spent in Edmonton where she taught Creative Writing at the University of Alberta. She is currently serving as Guest Professor at the University of Iceland in the Department of Languages and Literature.
