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06/03/2026

"Brothers 36 & 39" from Christopher McCurry's THE GOSPEL OF GOD BOY (Accents Publishing, 2025). Read by the author. Video by Carina Grady!

05/31/2026

Dear writers, readers, supporters, and friends of Accents Publishing,

We are happy to announce the results of our 2025 Open Reading Period.

The following books have been selected for publication during the remainder of 2026 and throughout 2027. We look forward to bringing each of these outstanding books into the world and to working closely with these talented authors.

Please join us in congratulating them.

We were humbled by the large number of high-quality manuscripts we received. The selection process took longer than expected, and we had to make a number of very difficult decisions, but we feel we selected the titles that most closely reflect where Accents Publishing hopes to grow and evolve over the next eighteen months.

We deeply appreciate everyone who submitted work to us. Thank you for trusting us with your writing, and we sincerely hope to have the opportunity to read your work again in the future.

With appreciation,
Katerina Stoykova
and the team at Accents Publishing


The Double-Souled Son, a novel by Mary Louise Hill

Languages of Birds, a short story collection by Geraldine Ann Marshall
The Water Collection, a short story collection by Bill Carman

True Bias, essays and sketches by Melita Schaum

Alert the Oracle, poetry by Tabitha Dial
Alien Mother, poetry by Kristina Erny
Animals, poetry by Rumen Pavlov
Birds of Thunder, poetry by Jessica D. Thompson
Catching a Ride in the Gizzard of a Bird, poetry by Sujata Lakhe
Flotilla: A Family Memoir in Verse, poetry by Melissa Jørgenrud Helton
From Field to Fable, poetry by Richard Taylor
My Father, the Water Bird, poetry by Sean Corbin
My Life as a Cricket, poetry by Linda Bryant Davis
Neighborhood Watch, poetry by Bill Brymer
Orchestra of Belonging, poetry by Marianne Peel
Orfeito, poetry by Ricardo Nazario y Colón
Places You Must Not Go, poetry by Flora K. Schildknecht
Stare on Paper, poetry by Stuart Horodner
Tendrill, poetry by Amy Le Ann Richardson
This Set Down / This, poetry by Libby Falk Jones
Think. Pray. God, poetry by Wendy Jett
Your Curious Guidebook to Climate Change, poetry by Vivian Faith Prescott

05/30/2026

Poet Manny Grimaldi reads B Elizabeth Beck's PAINTED DAYDREAMS (Accents Publishing, 2019).

05/29/2026

So proud that Curtis L. Crisler is an Accents Publishing author!

"Currently, I am beginning my second term as Indiana’s Poet Laureate. It’s very fulfilling and arduous, simultaneously, but I enjoy bringing Hoosiers together via poetry....
..Writing is one of the best creative endeavors to address who and why we are us. We need more great writers. We need great publishers to publish great writers. We need more great humans too."

Link to the entire interview can be found in the first comment.

05/27/2026

Fans and friends of the Accents podcast on WUKY, here is another episode. Joe Survant and Katerina Stoykova have a conversation about Joe's latest book, his travel, his writing and more! Give it a listen!

Katerina Stoykova interviews poet Joe Survant about his new book, The Stone.

05/21/2026

Announcing these three upcoming Summer educational offerings that Accents Publishing and the Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning have prepared for you! A two-hour ekphrastic ONLINE workshop with B. Elizabeth Beck, a four-week IN PERSON journaling and illustration class with Richard Taylor and a six-week ONLINE poetry master class with Melissa Jørgenrud Helton

Go to Carnegie's website to sign up or follow the links in the comments!

05/18/2026

Guess who finally showed up on Instagram?
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05/18/2026

"I like that it’s bloody. I like that it’s kind of alarming. Oh. I like when I read it to myself, I feel something deep and ancient working within it."

Christopher McCurry and THE GOSPEL OF GOD BOY (Accents Publishing, 2025)

Read the entire interview on the Accents Publishing's blog. Link in the first comment.

05/14/2026

2026. What we've done so far.

05/14/2026

Poet Manny Grimaldi Reads Poet Kathleen Gregg.