News
AUGUST 2020
Atelier26 publisher M. Allen Cunningham's new book Q&A (coming January 2021) is now available for preorder from Regal House Publishing!
MARCH 2020
Atelier26 to Publish Debut by Breakout 8 Writer Amy Lee Lillard
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 6, 2020
PORTLAND, OR — Atelier26 Books is tremendously pleased to announce acquisition of the short story collection Dig Me Out, the debut book by Berlin Prize Finalist and Breakout 8 writer Amy Lee Lillard, for publication in the first half of 2021.
Spanning genres, continents, and eras, Lillard’s multilayered collection is all at once outrageously imaginative, provocative, and deeply absorbing. Ranging from the speculative to the historical, from magical realism to forensic realism, Dig Me Out carries the reader somewhere new — and newly thrilling — with every story, and constitutes a dazzling and rightfully dangerous work of literary art.
Author Amy Lee Lillard was shortlisted for the 2017 Berlin Writing Prize and named one of Epiphany’s Breakout 8 Writers in 2018. Her writing appears in Foglifter, Off Assignment, Adroit, Gertrude, and other publications. Lillard is one of the broads behind Broads and Books, a funny and feminist book podcast. She holds an MFA in fiction writing from the Pan-European program at Cedar Crest College, an MA in literature from Northwestern University, and a BA in English, journalism and psychology from the University of Iowa.
“I’ve been following Lillard’s bold and brilliant work for a few years now,” said Atelier26 founder and publisher M. Allen Cunningham, “and I’ve hoped all along to have the privilege of bringing it to readers. Maybe not since I first read Jayne Anne Phillips’ Black Tickets or the work of Ali Smith have I been so electrified as a reader. The stories in Dig Me Out take on huge and important themes like institutionalized misogyny and homophobia, societal and climatological violence, and the specter of our technologized future. But these stories also astonish on every other level, from the rhythms of each sentence to the breathtaking plots and the deep humanity of the authorial vision. This is the kind of fiction Atelier26 exists to celebrate and share.”
For the launch of Dig Me Out, Atelier26 is planning intensive regional promotion in the Midwest and in the Pacific Northwest, including author events.
Atelier26 Books are distributed to the trade by Independent Publishers Group/Small Press United, and available through Ingram and Baker & Taylor. Founded in 2011, Atelier26 exists to demonstrate the powers and possibilities of literature through beautifully designed and expressive books that get people listening, talking, and exchanging ideas. Prior Atelier26 titles have been honored by the PEN/Hemingway Award (Finalist), the PEN/Robert Bingham Award (Semi-Finalist), and the Balcones Fiction Prize (Winner), championed by independent booksellers, and cited on numerous Best of the Year lists.
For more information, contact atelier26books [at] gmail [dot] com.
JANUARY 2020
Wiki love for Atelier26: We're proud to be one of only ten distinguished independent publishers featured in the new video wiki "Independent Book Publishers Producing Quality Literature," from Ezvid Wiki!
AUGUST 2019
Author, Atelier26 Publisher, and Portland State University Professor M. Allen Cunningham to Teach an Intensive, 4-credit Creative Writing Course in Vienna, summer 2020. Open to all PSU-students and non-PSU students alike. Want to join?
Powell's Books Names Margaret Malone's People Like You One of Twenty-five Books to Read Before You Die
Atelier26 publisher M. Allen Cunningham's new book Q&A (coming January 2021) is now available for preorder from Regal House Publishing!
MARCH 2020
Atelier26 to Publish Debut by Breakout 8 Writer Amy Lee Lillard
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 6, 2020
PORTLAND, OR — Atelier26 Books is tremendously pleased to announce acquisition of the short story collection Dig Me Out, the debut book by Berlin Prize Finalist and Breakout 8 writer Amy Lee Lillard, for publication in the first half of 2021.
Spanning genres, continents, and eras, Lillard’s multilayered collection is all at once outrageously imaginative, provocative, and deeply absorbing. Ranging from the speculative to the historical, from magical realism to forensic realism, Dig Me Out carries the reader somewhere new — and newly thrilling — with every story, and constitutes a dazzling and rightfully dangerous work of literary art.
Author Amy Lee Lillard was shortlisted for the 2017 Berlin Writing Prize and named one of Epiphany’s Breakout 8 Writers in 2018. Her writing appears in Foglifter, Off Assignment, Adroit, Gertrude, and other publications. Lillard is one of the broads behind Broads and Books, a funny and feminist book podcast. She holds an MFA in fiction writing from the Pan-European program at Cedar Crest College, an MA in literature from Northwestern University, and a BA in English, journalism and psychology from the University of Iowa.
“I’ve been following Lillard’s bold and brilliant work for a few years now,” said Atelier26 founder and publisher M. Allen Cunningham, “and I’ve hoped all along to have the privilege of bringing it to readers. Maybe not since I first read Jayne Anne Phillips’ Black Tickets or the work of Ali Smith have I been so electrified as a reader. The stories in Dig Me Out take on huge and important themes like institutionalized misogyny and homophobia, societal and climatological violence, and the specter of our technologized future. But these stories also astonish on every other level, from the rhythms of each sentence to the breathtaking plots and the deep humanity of the authorial vision. This is the kind of fiction Atelier26 exists to celebrate and share.”
For the launch of Dig Me Out, Atelier26 is planning intensive regional promotion in the Midwest and in the Pacific Northwest, including author events.
Atelier26 Books are distributed to the trade by Independent Publishers Group/Small Press United, and available through Ingram and Baker & Taylor. Founded in 2011, Atelier26 exists to demonstrate the powers and possibilities of literature through beautifully designed and expressive books that get people listening, talking, and exchanging ideas. Prior Atelier26 titles have been honored by the PEN/Hemingway Award (Finalist), the PEN/Robert Bingham Award (Semi-Finalist), and the Balcones Fiction Prize (Winner), championed by independent booksellers, and cited on numerous Best of the Year lists.
For more information, contact atelier26books [at] gmail [dot] com.
JANUARY 2020
Wiki love for Atelier26: We're proud to be one of only ten distinguished independent publishers featured in the new video wiki "Independent Book Publishers Producing Quality Literature," from Ezvid Wiki!
AUGUST 2019
Author, Atelier26 Publisher, and Portland State University Professor M. Allen Cunningham to Teach an Intensive, 4-credit Creative Writing Course in Vienna, summer 2020. Open to all PSU-students and non-PSU students alike. Want to join?
Powell's Books Names Margaret Malone's People Like You One of Twenty-five Books to Read Before You Die
JANUARY 2019
Atelier26 Receives a 2019 Oregon Literary Fellowship ($3,500)
SEPTEMBER 2018
M. ALLEN CUNNINGHAM'S Perpetua's Kin Named One of the "Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2018" in New York Magazine
and
Featured as a Front Porch Pick by The Quivering Pen
and
Named a Staff Pick at Powell's Books
Atelier26 Receives a 2019 Oregon Literary Fellowship ($3,500)
SEPTEMBER 2018
M. ALLEN CUNNINGHAM'S Perpetua's Kin Named One of the "Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2018" in New York Magazine
and
Featured as a Front Porch Pick by The Quivering Pen
and
Named a Staff Pick at Powell's Books
AUGUST 2018:
M. ALLEN CUNNINGHAM'S Perpetua's Kin ELICITS EARLY APPLAUSE FROM BOOKSELLERS ACROSS THE U.S.
M. ALLEN CUNNINGHAM'S Perpetua's Kin ELICITS EARLY APPLAUSE FROM BOOKSELLERS ACROSS THE U.S.
WOODY SKINNER’S A THOUSAND DISTANT RADIOS LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 PEN/BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTION
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 20, 2017
PORTLAND, OR — Atelier26 Books is thrilled to join PEN America in announcing that author WOODY SKINNER’s short story collection A THOUSAND DISTANT RADIOS is a current semi-finalist for the 2018 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction.
A Thousand Distant Radios, a collection of ten stories that capture the passions and compulsions of modern America with dark humor and folkloric flair, was published this November in trade paperback original by Atelier26 Books, a Portland literary publisher with a staff of two.
“A Thousand Distant Radios came to Atelier26 through our open submissions,” said Atelier26 founder and publisher M. Allen Cunningham, who runs Atelier26 Books from a home office, “and we couldn’t be prouder to share it with readers. Skinner’s work is wonderfully outsized, funny, raw, and touching — alive and expressive from first page to last. I’m delighted to see it receive this deserved recognition and take its place in such outstanding company on the PEN/Bingham longlist.”
The 2018 PEN/Bingham Prize judges are Mia Alvar, Rion Amilcar Scott, Justin Torres, and Claire Vaye Watkins. The finalists will be announced in January 2018. The winners will be celebrated at the 2018 PEN America Literary Awards ceremony on February 20 at the NYU Skirball Center in NYC.
Woody Skinner’s work has won the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award and appeared in Mid-American Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Catamaran, Hobart, Booth, Another Chicago Magazine, River Styx, and elsewhere. He holds a BA in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi, an MFA from Wichita State University, and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati. Originally from Batesville, Arkansas, he currently lives in Chicago.
Cunningham, a novelist and editor, founded Atelier26 Books in 2011. A Thousand Distant Radios is the press’s 11th release. Atelier26 specializes in contemporary literature in elegantly designed trade editions and its titles are distributed to the trade by Independent Publishers Group/Small Press United.
The PEN/Bingham Prize was established in memory of Robert W. Bingham, who died in 1999 at the age of 33, to commemorate his support of young writers, his love of literature, and his contribution to literary fiction.
For more information, contact: M. Allen Cunningham, publisher, Atelier26 Books – atelier26books@gmail.com; or Diane Prokop, publicist – atelier26books.publicity@gmail.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 20, 2017
PORTLAND, OR — Atelier26 Books is thrilled to join PEN America in announcing that author WOODY SKINNER’s short story collection A THOUSAND DISTANT RADIOS is a current semi-finalist for the 2018 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction.
A Thousand Distant Radios, a collection of ten stories that capture the passions and compulsions of modern America with dark humor and folkloric flair, was published this November in trade paperback original by Atelier26 Books, a Portland literary publisher with a staff of two.
“A Thousand Distant Radios came to Atelier26 through our open submissions,” said Atelier26 founder and publisher M. Allen Cunningham, who runs Atelier26 Books from a home office, “and we couldn’t be prouder to share it with readers. Skinner’s work is wonderfully outsized, funny, raw, and touching — alive and expressive from first page to last. I’m delighted to see it receive this deserved recognition and take its place in such outstanding company on the PEN/Bingham longlist.”
The 2018 PEN/Bingham Prize judges are Mia Alvar, Rion Amilcar Scott, Justin Torres, and Claire Vaye Watkins. The finalists will be announced in January 2018. The winners will be celebrated at the 2018 PEN America Literary Awards ceremony on February 20 at the NYU Skirball Center in NYC.
Woody Skinner’s work has won the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award and appeared in Mid-American Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Catamaran, Hobart, Booth, Another Chicago Magazine, River Styx, and elsewhere. He holds a BA in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi, an MFA from Wichita State University, and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati. Originally from Batesville, Arkansas, he currently lives in Chicago.
Cunningham, a novelist and editor, founded Atelier26 Books in 2011. A Thousand Distant Radios is the press’s 11th release. Atelier26 specializes in contemporary literature in elegantly designed trade editions and its titles are distributed to the trade by Independent Publishers Group/Small Press United.
The PEN/Bingham Prize was established in memory of Robert W. Bingham, who died in 1999 at the age of 33, to commemorate his support of young writers, his love of literature, and his contribution to literary fiction.
For more information, contact: M. Allen Cunningham, publisher, Atelier26 Books – atelier26books@gmail.com; or Diane Prokop, publicist – atelier26books.publicity@gmail.com
Malone's People Like You Cited in CNN Travel's "Best Beach Reads for Summer 2017"
June 22, 2017
"Malone's characters are funny and unhappy and self-sabotaging and honest and brave," says Maddie Dawson. "I couldn't stop reading these stories and now I find myself missing them, so I go and reread them over and over." See the article HERE
"The supreme heir to Wallace Stevens" & Other Advance Praise for Distinguished Poet Sidney Wade's Bird Book (coming September 2017)
Spring 2017
"Bird Book is more than an aviary; in poems sleek as a beak and 'catholic // in their taste / for carrion,' Wade troubles the air with her eye and ear for wonder — for creatures that, like us, are fragile but 'oddly / godly.' This collection, unlike any I have read, builds, with its gorgeous, expansive, 'earth-sprung language,' a compassionate call to action: 'we must learn to balance trust and power.' Sidney Wade’s linguistic and philosophical turns in Bird Book confirm that she is both the supreme heir to Wallace Stevens and one of the most original poets in the language." -RANDALL MANN, author of Straight Razor
"The quick, closely observed poems in Sidney Wade's beguiling Bird Book move from page to page like their subjects -- in flight, on air, a murmuration sweeping across the horizon. Curl up with this lovely book, or better still, take it out to the woods and the crowded skies and let it be your field guide." -WILLIAM SOUDER, author of Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America, Pulitzer Prize Finalist
"As impressive and thrillingly exact as these poems are concerning matters ornithological, it is the exquisite music -- 'earth-sprung, bright, and resonant' -- of Wade's radically short line that so enchants me ... yield[s] more vitality and delight than any gathering of poems I have encountered in a very long time. If a gang of angels conspired to write a field guide to selected birds, I think it might resemble Bird Book." -B.H. FAIRCHILD, author of The Blue Buick and Usher
"Sidney Wade’s poems in Bird Book remind us of the sonic closeness of the words 'bird' and 'bard.' These are poems of wit, surprise, elegance, joy, and a sense of the marvelous. They take flight." -MARK JARMAN, author of The Heronry
"Sidney Wade’s natural world is one in which the lively and the lovely frequently converge in that poetic service of giving fresh names to all the eye and mind frequently take for granted. It isn’t just that Wade deploys her winged subjects for our momentary consideration...but she does so in a way that results in new, original expressions for love, awe, joy, and the subtle, menacing acknowledgment that all life, in one way or another, is migratory and gorgeously (if also sorrowfully) evanescent. This is a beautiful, wise, and timely collection." -DANIEL ANDERSON, author of Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel
"Luminous ... graceful ... precise. Wade makes us look up and out past our phones and screens to the trees, the sky." -RUBEN QUESADA, author of Next Extinct Mammal
See more HERE.
"An amazing writer, ready to blow you away" & Other Advance Praise for Debut Author Woody Skinner's A Thousand Distant Radios (coming November 2017)
Spring 2017
"Sly, tragic, violent, beautiful...the most gripping work I've read in some time." -Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Portable Veblen
"Mesmerizing...wild and open-hearted...A Thousand Distant Radios announces the arrival of an amazing writer, fully-formed, ready to blow you away." -Kevin Wilson, author of Perfect Little World and The Family Fang
"I love Woody Skinner’s deft, ironic writing; he’s like a literary country doctor, giving you the bad news so gently you barely notice how much it hurts. Inventive, emotional, and shruggingly comic." -J. Robert Lennon, author of Familiar and Broken River
"An extravagantly weird book...a singular talent." -Kyle Minor, author of Praying Drunk
See more HERE.
Cunningham's Introduction to Funny-Ass Thoreau Featured on Lit Hub
November 2017
Cunningham writes: "Thoreau never intended for Walden to serve as a self-help manual for virtuous living. His intention was to arrive at certain inalienable truths, but his means of getting there was often oblique rather than direct, and always more artful than strictly autobiographical. He was no social architect, had no such pretensions, and thus was not in the business of issuing blueprints. Throughout his body of writing he relied on exaggeration, sarcasm, paradox, and aphoristic hyperbole over straightforward statement. He frequently opted for the literary and allusive over the literal. And he larded his lines with puns and submerged secondary meanings that frequently aimed for laughs." READ THE REST on Lit Hub.
Funny-Ass Thoreau has also been highlighted on Arts & Letters Daily, the Paris Review Daily, Poets & Writers Daily News, and The Seattle Review of Books. Equally exciting, it was the subject of a pancake video by the legendary Saipancakes!
Update, spring 2017: The Thoreau Society added Cunningham's introductory essay to the official Thoreau bibliography.
Atelier26 Books Receives Grant from the Oregon Community Foundation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 7, 2016
Atelier26 Books is proud to announce that it is the recipient of a $2,000 Small Arts & Culture Grant from The Oregon Community Foundation. The grant will support the publication of a new work of literature slated for release in 2017.
“This material support from the Oregon Community Foundation is extremely meaningful,“ said Publisher M. Allen Cunningham. “One of my core beliefs about publishing is that quality books are far more than consumable goods, and shared reading experiences can foster community and cultural vitality. It is thanks to grants like this and generous donations from readers that Atelier26 is able to bring unconventionally beautiful and resonant works to the public. I hope that our recognition by the Oregon Community Foundation will encourage generous individuals to consider us for their year-end giving.” Cunningham notes that Atelier26 always accepts tax-deductible donations of any size through its website.
Atelier26 is an independent publisher in Portland, Oregon that exists to demonstrate the powers and possibilities of literature through beautifully designed and expressive books that get people listening, talking, and exchanging ideas. Our recent release, People Like You by Margaret Malone, was named a 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist for Debut Fiction and was awarded the Balcones Fiction Prize.
The mission of The Oregon Community Foundation is to improve life in Oregon and promote effective philanthropy. OCF works with individuals, families, businesses and organizations to create charitable funds to support the community causes they care about. Through these funds OCF awards more than $60 million annually in grants and scholarships.The Foundation makes grants available through an application process that involves local citizens in the review and evaluation of requests for funds. Applications are available through the Foundation’s Portland office. Individuals or businesses interested in establishing a fund should visit www.oregoncf.org.
www.Atelier26Books.com | Distributed to the trade by IPG/Small Press United
For more information, contact: M. Allen Cunningham, Publisher: atelier26books@gmail.com
or Diane Prokop, Publicist: atelier26books.publicity@gmail.com
June 22, 2017
"Malone's characters are funny and unhappy and self-sabotaging and honest and brave," says Maddie Dawson. "I couldn't stop reading these stories and now I find myself missing them, so I go and reread them over and over." See the article HERE
"The supreme heir to Wallace Stevens" & Other Advance Praise for Distinguished Poet Sidney Wade's Bird Book (coming September 2017)
Spring 2017
"Bird Book is more than an aviary; in poems sleek as a beak and 'catholic // in their taste / for carrion,' Wade troubles the air with her eye and ear for wonder — for creatures that, like us, are fragile but 'oddly / godly.' This collection, unlike any I have read, builds, with its gorgeous, expansive, 'earth-sprung language,' a compassionate call to action: 'we must learn to balance trust and power.' Sidney Wade’s linguistic and philosophical turns in Bird Book confirm that she is both the supreme heir to Wallace Stevens and one of the most original poets in the language." -RANDALL MANN, author of Straight Razor
"The quick, closely observed poems in Sidney Wade's beguiling Bird Book move from page to page like their subjects -- in flight, on air, a murmuration sweeping across the horizon. Curl up with this lovely book, or better still, take it out to the woods and the crowded skies and let it be your field guide." -WILLIAM SOUDER, author of Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America, Pulitzer Prize Finalist
"As impressive and thrillingly exact as these poems are concerning matters ornithological, it is the exquisite music -- 'earth-sprung, bright, and resonant' -- of Wade's radically short line that so enchants me ... yield[s] more vitality and delight than any gathering of poems I have encountered in a very long time. If a gang of angels conspired to write a field guide to selected birds, I think it might resemble Bird Book." -B.H. FAIRCHILD, author of The Blue Buick and Usher
"Sidney Wade’s poems in Bird Book remind us of the sonic closeness of the words 'bird' and 'bard.' These are poems of wit, surprise, elegance, joy, and a sense of the marvelous. They take flight." -MARK JARMAN, author of The Heronry
"Sidney Wade’s natural world is one in which the lively and the lovely frequently converge in that poetic service of giving fresh names to all the eye and mind frequently take for granted. It isn’t just that Wade deploys her winged subjects for our momentary consideration...but she does so in a way that results in new, original expressions for love, awe, joy, and the subtle, menacing acknowledgment that all life, in one way or another, is migratory and gorgeously (if also sorrowfully) evanescent. This is a beautiful, wise, and timely collection." -DANIEL ANDERSON, author of Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel
"Luminous ... graceful ... precise. Wade makes us look up and out past our phones and screens to the trees, the sky." -RUBEN QUESADA, author of Next Extinct Mammal
See more HERE.
"An amazing writer, ready to blow you away" & Other Advance Praise for Debut Author Woody Skinner's A Thousand Distant Radios (coming November 2017)
Spring 2017
"Sly, tragic, violent, beautiful...the most gripping work I've read in some time." -Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Portable Veblen
"Mesmerizing...wild and open-hearted...A Thousand Distant Radios announces the arrival of an amazing writer, fully-formed, ready to blow you away." -Kevin Wilson, author of Perfect Little World and The Family Fang
"I love Woody Skinner’s deft, ironic writing; he’s like a literary country doctor, giving you the bad news so gently you barely notice how much it hurts. Inventive, emotional, and shruggingly comic." -J. Robert Lennon, author of Familiar and Broken River
"An extravagantly weird book...a singular talent." -Kyle Minor, author of Praying Drunk
See more HERE.
Cunningham's Introduction to Funny-Ass Thoreau Featured on Lit Hub
November 2017
Cunningham writes: "Thoreau never intended for Walden to serve as a self-help manual for virtuous living. His intention was to arrive at certain inalienable truths, but his means of getting there was often oblique rather than direct, and always more artful than strictly autobiographical. He was no social architect, had no such pretensions, and thus was not in the business of issuing blueprints. Throughout his body of writing he relied on exaggeration, sarcasm, paradox, and aphoristic hyperbole over straightforward statement. He frequently opted for the literary and allusive over the literal. And he larded his lines with puns and submerged secondary meanings that frequently aimed for laughs." READ THE REST on Lit Hub.
Funny-Ass Thoreau has also been highlighted on Arts & Letters Daily, the Paris Review Daily, Poets & Writers Daily News, and The Seattle Review of Books. Equally exciting, it was the subject of a pancake video by the legendary Saipancakes!
Update, spring 2017: The Thoreau Society added Cunningham's introductory essay to the official Thoreau bibliography.
Atelier26 Books Receives Grant from the Oregon Community Foundation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 7, 2016
Atelier26 Books is proud to announce that it is the recipient of a $2,000 Small Arts & Culture Grant from The Oregon Community Foundation. The grant will support the publication of a new work of literature slated for release in 2017.
“This material support from the Oregon Community Foundation is extremely meaningful,“ said Publisher M. Allen Cunningham. “One of my core beliefs about publishing is that quality books are far more than consumable goods, and shared reading experiences can foster community and cultural vitality. It is thanks to grants like this and generous donations from readers that Atelier26 is able to bring unconventionally beautiful and resonant works to the public. I hope that our recognition by the Oregon Community Foundation will encourage generous individuals to consider us for their year-end giving.” Cunningham notes that Atelier26 always accepts tax-deductible donations of any size through its website.
Atelier26 is an independent publisher in Portland, Oregon that exists to demonstrate the powers and possibilities of literature through beautifully designed and expressive books that get people listening, talking, and exchanging ideas. Our recent release, People Like You by Margaret Malone, was named a 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist for Debut Fiction and was awarded the Balcones Fiction Prize.
The mission of The Oregon Community Foundation is to improve life in Oregon and promote effective philanthropy. OCF works with individuals, families, businesses and organizations to create charitable funds to support the community causes they care about. Through these funds OCF awards more than $60 million annually in grants and scholarships.The Foundation makes grants available through an application process that involves local citizens in the review and evaluation of requests for funds. Applications are available through the Foundation’s Portland office. Individuals or businesses interested in establishing a fund should visit www.oregoncf.org.
www.Atelier26Books.com | Distributed to the trade by IPG/Small Press United
For more information, contact: M. Allen Cunningham, Publisher: atelier26books@gmail.com
or Diane Prokop, Publicist: atelier26books.publicity@gmail.com
Atelier26 to Publish Debut by Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award Winner Woody Skinner
PORTLAND, OR — Atelier26 Books is delighted to announce acquisition of the short story collection A Thousand Distant Radios, the debut title by Woody Skinner, for publication in late 2017 or early 2018. Set throughout the American South, the stories in A Thousand Distant Radios are brilliantly bold, indelible, occasionally larger-than-life explorations of the passions and compulsions at the heart of American identity.
Author Woody Skinner
Woody Skinner grew up in Batesville, Arkansas, and he holds a BA in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi and an MFA from Wichita State University. His work has won the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award and appeared in Mid-American Review,The Carolina Quarterly,Hobart, Booth, Another Chicago Magazine, and elsewhere. He’s currently a PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati.
“A Thousand Distant Radios came to Atelier26 through our open submissions,” said Atelier26 founder and publisher M. Allen Cunningham, “and this astounding manuscript brings to mind all the reasons the publishing industry ought to banish the term ‘slush.’ Skinner’s stories are wonderfully outsized, funny, raw, and touching — alive and expressive from first page to last. I knew we couldn’t pass this work up. I’m very excited to share A Thousand Distant Radios with readers, and I predict great things for Woody Skinner.”
For the book’s launch, Atelier26 is planning intensive regional promotion in the South and in the Pacific Northwest, including author events.
Atelier26 Books are distributed to the trade by Independent Publishers Group/Small Press United, and available through Ingram and Baker & Taylor. Founded in 2011, Atelier26 exists to demonstrate the powers and possibilities of literature through beautifully designed and expressive books that get people listening, talking, and exchanging ideas.
For more information, contact atelier26books [at] gmail [dot] com.
For immediate release: May 3, 2016
PORTLAND, OR — Atelier26 Books is delighted to announce acquisition of the short story collection A Thousand Distant Radios, the debut title by Woody Skinner, for publication in late 2017 or early 2018. Set throughout the American South, the stories in A Thousand Distant Radios are brilliantly bold, indelible, occasionally larger-than-life explorations of the passions and compulsions at the heart of American identity.
Author Woody Skinner
Woody Skinner grew up in Batesville, Arkansas, and he holds a BA in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi and an MFA from Wichita State University. His work has won the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award and appeared in Mid-American Review,The Carolina Quarterly,Hobart, Booth, Another Chicago Magazine, and elsewhere. He’s currently a PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati.
“A Thousand Distant Radios came to Atelier26 through our open submissions,” said Atelier26 founder and publisher M. Allen Cunningham, “and this astounding manuscript brings to mind all the reasons the publishing industry ought to banish the term ‘slush.’ Skinner’s stories are wonderfully outsized, funny, raw, and touching — alive and expressive from first page to last. I knew we couldn’t pass this work up. I’m very excited to share A Thousand Distant Radios with readers, and I predict great things for Woody Skinner.”
For the book’s launch, Atelier26 is planning intensive regional promotion in the South and in the Pacific Northwest, including author events.
Atelier26 Books are distributed to the trade by Independent Publishers Group/Small Press United, and available through Ingram and Baker & Taylor. Founded in 2011, Atelier26 exists to demonstrate the powers and possibilities of literature through beautifully designed and expressive books that get people listening, talking, and exchanging ideas.
For more information, contact atelier26books [at] gmail [dot] com.
For immediate release: May 3, 2016
Margaret Malone's People Like You Wins $1,500 Balcones Fiction Prize
PORTLAND, OR — Atelier26 Books is thrilled to announce that Margaret Malone’s debut short story collection People Like You has won the 2015 Balcones Fiction Prize. Malone will receive a $1,500 cash award and a paid trip to Austin, Texas to give a reading next spring. This award follows fast on Malone’s honor as a finalist for the 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award last month.
Balcones judge John Blair, author of the Drue Heinz Prize winning collectionAmerican Standard, had this to say:
"Margaret Malone's People Like You is a masterfully minimalist collection of lives lived poorly but with the best of intentions. Her stories are powerful, sad, and plain-spoken, and this debut collection takes the normative-yet-desperate circuits of the day-to-day that Bobbie Anne Mason and Frederick Barthelme brought to the forefront of American short fiction and makes them both new again and powerfully affecting. These are marvelous and worthy stories, and very much deserving of recognition."
Administered by the Balcones Center for Creative Writing at Austin Community College, the Balcones Fiction Prize is committed to recognizing outstanding works of literary merit annually.
People Like You, a collection of nine stories all featuring female protagonists, was published last November in trade paperback original by Atelier26 Books, an independent literary publisher in Portland, Oregon, and was named a best book of 2015 by The Oregonian, The Portland Mercury, Powell’s Books, and The Quivering Pen.
Margaret Malone is a 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award finalist and the recipient of fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission and Literary Arts, two Regional Arts & Culture Council Project Grants, and residencies at The Sitka Center and Soapstone. Her writing has appeared in The Missouri Review, Oregon Humanities Magazine, Coal City Review, Swink, Nailed, latimes.com, and elsewhere, including recently the Forest Avenue Press anthology The Night, and the Rain, and the River. A Dangerous Writers alumnus, Malone has a degree in philosophy from Humboldt State University and has taught creative writing as a visiting artist at Pacific Northwest College of Art. She lives with her husband, filmmaker Brian Padian, and two children in Portland, where she co-hosts the artist and literary gathering SHARE.
M. Allen Cunningham, a novelist and editor, founded Atelier26 Books in 2011.People Like You is the press’s eighth release. Atelier26 exists to demonstrate the powers and possibilities of literature through beautifully designed and expressive books that get people listening, talking, and exchanging ideas. Its titles are distributed to the trade by Independent Publishers Group/Small Press United.
For more information, contact Atelier26 HQ: atelier26books@gmail.com
PORTLAND, OR — Atelier26 Books is thrilled to announce that Margaret Malone’s debut short story collection People Like You has won the 2015 Balcones Fiction Prize. Malone will receive a $1,500 cash award and a paid trip to Austin, Texas to give a reading next spring. This award follows fast on Malone’s honor as a finalist for the 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award last month.
Balcones judge John Blair, author of the Drue Heinz Prize winning collectionAmerican Standard, had this to say:
"Margaret Malone's People Like You is a masterfully minimalist collection of lives lived poorly but with the best of intentions. Her stories are powerful, sad, and plain-spoken, and this debut collection takes the normative-yet-desperate circuits of the day-to-day that Bobbie Anne Mason and Frederick Barthelme brought to the forefront of American short fiction and makes them both new again and powerfully affecting. These are marvelous and worthy stories, and very much deserving of recognition."
Administered by the Balcones Center for Creative Writing at Austin Community College, the Balcones Fiction Prize is committed to recognizing outstanding works of literary merit annually.
People Like You, a collection of nine stories all featuring female protagonists, was published last November in trade paperback original by Atelier26 Books, an independent literary publisher in Portland, Oregon, and was named a best book of 2015 by The Oregonian, The Portland Mercury, Powell’s Books, and The Quivering Pen.
Margaret Malone is a 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award finalist and the recipient of fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission and Literary Arts, two Regional Arts & Culture Council Project Grants, and residencies at The Sitka Center and Soapstone. Her writing has appeared in The Missouri Review, Oregon Humanities Magazine, Coal City Review, Swink, Nailed, latimes.com, and elsewhere, including recently the Forest Avenue Press anthology The Night, and the Rain, and the River. A Dangerous Writers alumnus, Malone has a degree in philosophy from Humboldt State University and has taught creative writing as a visiting artist at Pacific Northwest College of Art. She lives with her husband, filmmaker Brian Padian, and two children in Portland, where she co-hosts the artist and literary gathering SHARE.
M. Allen Cunningham, a novelist and editor, founded Atelier26 Books in 2011.People Like You is the press’s eighth release. Atelier26 exists to demonstrate the powers and possibilities of literature through beautifully designed and expressive books that get people listening, talking, and exchanging ideas. Its titles are distributed to the trade by Independent Publishers Group/Small Press United.
For more information, contact Atelier26 HQ: atelier26books@gmail.com
Atelier26 to Publish New Book by Distinguished Poet Sidney Wade
PORTLAND, OR — Atelier26 Books is excited to announce the acquisition of Sidney Wade’s glorious new volume of poetry Bird Book. Dedicated to the unearthly wonders of winged creatures, rich with sublime and playful verse in praise of all things avian, Wade’s exquisite poems are sure to draw poetry lovers to birding, and naturalists to poetry.
“Bird Book is marvelously alive and inviting, and will inspire and delight general readers, poetry enthusiasts, and avid birders or naturalists,” said Atelier26 publisher M. Allen Cunningham. “Ms. Wade’s bird poems are formally elegant and yet brilliantly vivid and accessible, and they show a keen sensitivity to the mysteries and intricacies of the animal world. This is a treasure of a book, and I’m so honored that Atelier26 has the opportunity to present it to readers.”
Sidney Wade’s poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry Magazine, and many other publications. She is the author of six volumes of poems: Straits & Narrows, Stroke, Celestial Bodies, Empty Sleeves, Green, and From Istanbul. She attended the University of Vermont, earning a BA in philosophy and an MEd in Counseling, received a PhD in English from the University of Houston, and has served as president of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP). A Fulbright scholar and translator, Wade is a professor emerita at the University of Florida where she taught creative writing and was poetry editor for the UF literary journal Subtropics.
Publication is planned for late 2017 or early 2018 and will include an illustrated limited-edition hardcover, an illustrated trade paperback, and an enhanced e-book version with bird audio.
Atelier26 Books are distributed to the trade by Independent Publishers Group/Small Press United, and available through Ingram and Baker & Taylor. Founded in 2011, Atelier26 exists to demonstrate the powers and possibilities of literature through beautifully designed and expressive books that get people listening, talking, and exchanging ideas.
For more information, contact atelier26books [at] gmail [dot] com.
“Bird Book is marvelously alive and inviting, and will inspire and delight general readers, poetry enthusiasts, and avid birders or naturalists,” said Atelier26 publisher M. Allen Cunningham. “Ms. Wade’s bird poems are formally elegant and yet brilliantly vivid and accessible, and they show a keen sensitivity to the mysteries and intricacies of the animal world. This is a treasure of a book, and I’m so honored that Atelier26 has the opportunity to present it to readers.”
Sidney Wade’s poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry Magazine, and many other publications. She is the author of six volumes of poems: Straits & Narrows, Stroke, Celestial Bodies, Empty Sleeves, Green, and From Istanbul. She attended the University of Vermont, earning a BA in philosophy and an MEd in Counseling, received a PhD in English from the University of Houston, and has served as president of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP). A Fulbright scholar and translator, Wade is a professor emerita at the University of Florida where she taught creative writing and was poetry editor for the UF literary journal Subtropics.
Publication is planned for late 2017 or early 2018 and will include an illustrated limited-edition hardcover, an illustrated trade paperback, and an enhanced e-book version with bird audio.
Atelier26 Books are distributed to the trade by Independent Publishers Group/Small Press United, and available through Ingram and Baker & Taylor. Founded in 2011, Atelier26 exists to demonstrate the powers and possibilities of literature through beautifully designed and expressive books that get people listening, talking, and exchanging ideas.
For more information, contact atelier26books [at] gmail [dot] com.
Watch Joshua Ferris Introduce Margaret Malone's People Like You as a PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist
Debut Author Margaret Malone's People Like YouReceives Prestigious PEN/Hemingway Honors
PORTLAND, OR — Atelier26 Books is thrilled to join PEN New England in announcing that Portland writerMargaret’s Malone’s short story collectionPeople Like You has been named one of two finalists for the 2016 PEN/ Hemingway Awardfor Debut Fiction. This puts Malone in a distinguished list of previous honorees that includes Junot Diaz, Elizabeth Gilbert, Edward P. Jones, Jhumpa Lahiri, Marilynne Robinson, and George Saunders. In addition to the national notoriety that comes with PEN/Hemingway honors, Malone will be given a one-month residency at Wyoming’s legendary Ucross Foundation.
People Like You, a collection of nine stories all featuring female protagonists, was published last November in trade paperback original by Atelier26 Books, a Portland literary publisher with a staff of two.
“Margaret’s work in People Like You is so brilliantly crafted, moving, and witty,” said M. Allen Cunningham, who runs Atelier26 Books from his home office, “that it’s an incredible pleasure to see it recognized by such an illustrious award. I can’t help thinking that this is exactly how a high-profile literary prize should work. I hope other very small presses will take heart from this. So many are doing such excellent books, and yet many deserving authors fly under the radar.”
The 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award judges were Joshua Ferris, Alexandra Marshall, and Jay Parini. Malone will collect her finalist citation at a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston on Sunday, April 10th. Her fellow finalist is S.M. Hulse for Black River, and the winner of the 2016 award is Ottessa Moshfegh for Eileen. Karim Dimechkie (Lifted by the Great Nothing) and Chigozie Obioma (The Fishermen) receive honorable mention.
Margaret Malone is the recipient of fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission and Literary Arts, two Regional Arts & Culture Council Project Grants, and residencies at The Sitka Center and Soapstone. Her writing has appeared in The Missouri Review, Oregon Humanities Magazine, Coal City Review, Swink, Nailed, latimes.com, and elsewhere, including recently the Forest Avenue Press anthologyThe Night, and the Rain, and the River. A Dangerous Writers alumnus, Malone has a degree in Philosophy from Humboldt State University and has taught creative writing as a visiting artist at Pacific Northwest College of Art. She lives with her husband, filmmaker Brian Padian, and two children in Portland, where she co-hosts the artist and literary gathering SHARE.
M. Allen Cunningham, a novelist and editor, founded Atelier26 Books in 2011. People Like You is the press’s eighth release. Atelier26 specializes in contemporary literature in elegantly designed trade editions and its titles are distributed to the trade by Independent Publishers Group/Small Press United.
The late Mary Hemingway, a member of PEN, founded the PEN/Hemingway Award in 1976 both to honor the memory of her husband, Ernest Hemingway, and to recognize distinguished first books of fiction. The award is funded by the Hemingway Family, by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and by PEN New England.
For more information, contact Atelier26 HQ at atelier26books@gmail.com
PORTLAND, OR — Atelier26 Books is thrilled to join PEN New England in announcing that Portland writerMargaret’s Malone’s short story collectionPeople Like You has been named one of two finalists for the 2016 PEN/ Hemingway Awardfor Debut Fiction. This puts Malone in a distinguished list of previous honorees that includes Junot Diaz, Elizabeth Gilbert, Edward P. Jones, Jhumpa Lahiri, Marilynne Robinson, and George Saunders. In addition to the national notoriety that comes with PEN/Hemingway honors, Malone will be given a one-month residency at Wyoming’s legendary Ucross Foundation.
People Like You, a collection of nine stories all featuring female protagonists, was published last November in trade paperback original by Atelier26 Books, a Portland literary publisher with a staff of two.
“Margaret’s work in People Like You is so brilliantly crafted, moving, and witty,” said M. Allen Cunningham, who runs Atelier26 Books from his home office, “that it’s an incredible pleasure to see it recognized by such an illustrious award. I can’t help thinking that this is exactly how a high-profile literary prize should work. I hope other very small presses will take heart from this. So many are doing such excellent books, and yet many deserving authors fly under the radar.”
The 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award judges were Joshua Ferris, Alexandra Marshall, and Jay Parini. Malone will collect her finalist citation at a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston on Sunday, April 10th. Her fellow finalist is S.M. Hulse for Black River, and the winner of the 2016 award is Ottessa Moshfegh for Eileen. Karim Dimechkie (Lifted by the Great Nothing) and Chigozie Obioma (The Fishermen) receive honorable mention.
Margaret Malone is the recipient of fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission and Literary Arts, two Regional Arts & Culture Council Project Grants, and residencies at The Sitka Center and Soapstone. Her writing has appeared in The Missouri Review, Oregon Humanities Magazine, Coal City Review, Swink, Nailed, latimes.com, and elsewhere, including recently the Forest Avenue Press anthologyThe Night, and the Rain, and the River. A Dangerous Writers alumnus, Malone has a degree in Philosophy from Humboldt State University and has taught creative writing as a visiting artist at Pacific Northwest College of Art. She lives with her husband, filmmaker Brian Padian, and two children in Portland, where she co-hosts the artist and literary gathering SHARE.
M. Allen Cunningham, a novelist and editor, founded Atelier26 Books in 2011. People Like You is the press’s eighth release. Atelier26 specializes in contemporary literature in elegantly designed trade editions and its titles are distributed to the trade by Independent Publishers Group/Small Press United.
The late Mary Hemingway, a member of PEN, founded the PEN/Hemingway Award in 1976 both to honor the memory of her husband, Ernest Hemingway, and to recognize distinguished first books of fiction. The award is funded by the Hemingway Family, by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and by PEN New England.
For more information, contact Atelier26 HQ at atelier26books@gmail.com
People Like You Featured on Good Day Oregon (Fox12)
Margaret Malone's People Like You received star treatment on Oregon's Fox 12 TV on the morning of December 17th. We especially liked how it preceded the segment on Harrison Ford and Star Wars!
The Malone/People Like You segment included a clip from the rad People Like You book trailer by Brian Padian.
See the Good Day Oregon story in full HERE.
Margaret Malone's People Like You received star treatment on Oregon's Fox 12 TV on the morning of December 17th. We especially liked how it preceded the segment on Harrison Ford and Star Wars!
The Malone/People Like You segment included a clip from the rad People Like You book trailer by Brian Padian.
See the Good Day Oregon story in full HERE.
