Autumn House Press

Welcome to Autumn House Press

We hope you’ll explore our selection of extraordinary poetry and fiction – for your own enjoyment, for classroom use, or as gifts for friends and colleagues.  You can also learn about our annual Fiction Prize, Poetry Prize and Chapbook Award competitions, as well as our online journal, Coal Hill Review. (Please note that Autumn House accepts unsolicited manuscripts only through these competitions.) Or check out our upcoming readings and community outreach events.

Many of our books and their authors have won acclaim. Sue Ellen Thompson, author of The Golden Hour and The Leaving, as well as editor of The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (all published by Autumn House Press), has been awarded the 2010 Maryland Author Award from the Maryland Library Association. Robert Gibb’s What the Heart Can Bear was recently named one of the Best Books of 2009 by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Another recent release, Blood Honey by Chana Bloch, was selected by Jane Hirshfield as the winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America. Naomi Shihab Nye selected Samuel Hazo’s Just Once for the Maurice English Poetry Award, and Hazo also garnered the 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Radius of Arab-American Writers. And finally, Julie Suk was the recipient of the Brockman-Campbell Prize, selected by Colette Inez, for her book The Dark Takes Aim.

Autumn House is a community of volunteers, modestly-paid staff and supporters who believe that fine literature can make a real difference in our lives and our culture.   By choosing our books, participating in our prize competitions, attending our events, or making a donation, you become a part of that community.  We thank you!

We invite you to browse our catalog (here), to learn more about the press (here), and to join us at one of our many events in the Pittsburgh area (here).  Subscribe to our RSS feed (here) and stay up to date on the latest Autumn House happenings. Also feel free to “Like” our Facebook fan page (here) and to follow us on Twitter (here).