Alice James Books
@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social
Alice James Books is an independent poetry press dedicated to publishing books that matter by poets who inspire.
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🎉 Happy Pub Day to ALL THE POSSIBLE BODIES by Iain Haley Pollock 🎉 A candid collection on violence, racial justice, and what it means to be American.
🔗 ORDER NOW: bit.ly/possiblebodies
🔗 ORDER NOW: bit.ly/possiblebodies
September 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🎉 Happy Pub Day to ALL THE POSSIBLE BODIES by Iain Haley Pollock 🎉 A candid collection on violence, racial justice, and what it means to be American.
🔗 ORDER NOW: bit.ly/possiblebodies
🔗 ORDER NOW: bit.ly/possiblebodies
So proud to celebrate @estherwslin.bsky.social and her stunning debut COLD THIEF PLACE, just longlisted for the 76th National Book Awards! 🌟 A rare honor for a first collection + a testament to Esther’s extraordinary voice. Congrats to Esther and all this year’s nominees! 💐📚 #NBAwards
September 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
So proud to celebrate @estherwslin.bsky.social and her stunning debut COLD THIEF PLACE, just longlisted for the 76th National Book Awards! 🌟 A rare honor for a first collection + a testament to Esther’s extraordinary voice. Congrats to Esther and all this year’s nominees! 💐📚 #NBAwards
Big congrats to DeeSoul Carson, named a 2025 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Poetry Fellow! 🎉 And cheers to Sarah Ghazal Ali, a finalist this year—AJB is so proud to publish you both! Learn more: buff.ly/KWx91wz 🌟
August 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Big congrats to DeeSoul Carson, named a 2025 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Poetry Fellow! 🎉 And cheers to Sarah Ghazal Ali, a finalist this year—AJB is so proud to publish you both! Learn more: buff.ly/KWx91wz 🌟
📣 We're hiring! AJB seeks a part-time Production Coordinator (20–25 hrs/wk) in New Gloucester, ME. Join our team & help bring books to life! 2–3 yrs experience preferred. Must commute 2+ days/wk.
📚 Details: bit.ly/AJBSubmit
#PublishingJobs #MaineJobs #BookJobs
📚 Details: bit.ly/AJBSubmit
#PublishingJobs #MaineJobs #BookJobs
August 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
📣 We're hiring! AJB seeks a part-time Production Coordinator (20–25 hrs/wk) in New Gloucester, ME. Join our team & help bring books to life! 2–3 yrs experience preferred. Must commute 2+ days/wk.
📚 Details: bit.ly/AJBSubmit
#PublishingJobs #MaineJobs #BookJobs
📚 Details: bit.ly/AJBSubmit
#PublishingJobs #MaineJobs #BookJobs
🎉 Happy Pub Day to SAINT CONSEQUENCE by Michael M. Weinstein! A luminous debut exploring transition, illness, and the body as a site of transformation—spiritual, physical, and public. Out now from Alice James Books: bit.ly/saint-conseq...
August 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
🎉 Happy Pub Day to SAINT CONSEQUENCE by Michael M. Weinstein! A luminous debut exploring transition, illness, and the body as a site of transformation—spiritual, physical, and public. Out now from Alice James Books: bit.ly/saint-conseq...
Seattle: Join us Aug 12 at Hugo House for "Towards Collective Liberation"—a live poetry event celebrating FREELAND by @leighsugar.bsky.social, with readings by @theoceanisgay.bsky.social & Shelby Handler.
✨ 6–8pm PT | Theater Lobby
📍 Register: buff.ly/9VT0osq
#SeattlePoetry #LiveLit #HugoHouse
✨ 6–8pm PT | Theater Lobby
📍 Register: buff.ly/9VT0osq
#SeattlePoetry #LiveLit #HugoHouse
July 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Seattle: Join us Aug 12 at Hugo House for "Towards Collective Liberation"—a live poetry event celebrating FREELAND by @leighsugar.bsky.social, with readings by @theoceanisgay.bsky.social & Shelby Handler.
✨ 6–8pm PT | Theater Lobby
📍 Register: buff.ly/9VT0osq
#SeattlePoetry #LiveLit #HugoHouse
✨ 6–8pm PT | Theater Lobby
📍 Register: buff.ly/9VT0osq
#SeattlePoetry #LiveLit #HugoHouse
#BefriendaBook to support 1 of 11 upcoming AJB titles by funding editorial, production, or promotion 📚 Each donation enters you to win signed copies of all 11 books — a full shelf of poetry from debut and award-winning voices! Give now → bit.ly/BefriendaBook
July 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
#BefriendaBook to support 1 of 11 upcoming AJB titles by funding editorial, production, or promotion 📚 Each donation enters you to win signed copies of all 11 books — a full shelf of poetry from debut and award-winning voices! Give now → bit.ly/BefriendaBook
Look who’s in Poets & Writers! 🎉
Honored to see @leighsugar.bsky.social's FREELAND featured in “Page One” alongside such powerful new work.
More: buff.ly/pJwoIUW 💫
Honored to see @leighsugar.bsky.social's FREELAND featured in “Page One” alongside such powerful new work.
More: buff.ly/pJwoIUW 💫
June 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Look who’s in Poets & Writers! 🎉
Honored to see @leighsugar.bsky.social's FREELAND featured in “Page One” alongside such powerful new work.
More: buff.ly/pJwoIUW 💫
Honored to see @leighsugar.bsky.social's FREELAND featured in “Page One” alongside such powerful new work.
More: buff.ly/pJwoIUW 💫
Thrilled to welcome @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social back to Alice James Books for her newest collection, THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURE IS YOU, out June 2027 🙌
Expansive poems on memory, theory & time.
🔗 buff.ly/CEUXRXc
Expansive poems on memory, theory & time.
🔗 buff.ly/CEUXRXc
June 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Thrilled to welcome @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social back to Alice James Books for her newest collection, THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURE IS YOU, out June 2027 🙌
Expansive poems on memory, theory & time.
🔗 buff.ly/CEUXRXc
Expansive poems on memory, theory & time.
🔗 buff.ly/CEUXRXc
Grateful for early love for @leighsugar.bsky.social's FREELAND:
✨ @electricliterature.com interview on love, prison & poetry
buff.ly/T6ZFunM
⭐ Bear Review: “a work of obsession & analysis”
buff.ly/AgcCkvj
📝 @phillychapbook.bsky.social: “Ars Poetica” + note
buff.ly/HLEIIzB
Thanks for reading 📖
✨ @electricliterature.com interview on love, prison & poetry
buff.ly/T6ZFunM
⭐ Bear Review: “a work of obsession & analysis”
buff.ly/AgcCkvj
📝 @phillychapbook.bsky.social: “Ars Poetica” + note
buff.ly/HLEIIzB
Thanks for reading 📖
June 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Grateful for early love for @leighsugar.bsky.social's FREELAND:
✨ @electricliterature.com interview on love, prison & poetry
buff.ly/T6ZFunM
⭐ Bear Review: “a work of obsession & analysis”
buff.ly/AgcCkvj
📝 @phillychapbook.bsky.social: “Ars Poetica” + note
buff.ly/HLEIIzB
Thanks for reading 📖
✨ @electricliterature.com interview on love, prison & poetry
buff.ly/T6ZFunM
⭐ Bear Review: “a work of obsession & analysis”
buff.ly/AgcCkvj
📝 @phillychapbook.bsky.social: “Ars Poetica” + note
buff.ly/HLEIIzB
Thanks for reading 📖
@estherwslin.bsky.social's essay, “I Was Undocumented for 21 Years,” is now in TIME Magazine. Her story of living without status from age 4 to 27 arrives at a crucial moment.
Esther is the author of COLD THIEF PLACE, published by AJB in March 💛
📰 buff.ly/F7vc223
Esther is the author of COLD THIEF PLACE, published by AJB in March 💛
📰 buff.ly/F7vc223
June 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
@estherwslin.bsky.social's essay, “I Was Undocumented for 21 Years,” is now in TIME Magazine. Her story of living without status from age 4 to 27 arrives at a crucial moment.
Esther is the author of COLD THIEF PLACE, published by AJB in March 💛
📰 buff.ly/F7vc223
Esther is the author of COLD THIEF PLACE, published by AJB in March 💛
📰 buff.ly/F7vc223
FREELAND by @leighsugar.bsky.social is out today from Alice James: bit.ly/FREEL4ND 🖤🤍
A fierce, inventive debut tracing a love across prison walls and the systems of mass incarceration. Poems on race, memory, mental illness, and freedom.
Available now wherever books are sold 📚
A fierce, inventive debut tracing a love across prison walls and the systems of mass incarceration. Poems on race, memory, mental illness, and freedom.
Available now wherever books are sold 📚
June 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
FREELAND by @leighsugar.bsky.social is out today from Alice James: bit.ly/FREEL4ND 🖤🤍
A fierce, inventive debut tracing a love across prison walls and the systems of mass incarceration. Poems on race, memory, mental illness, and freedom.
Available now wherever books are sold 📚
A fierce, inventive debut tracing a love across prison walls and the systems of mass incarceration. Poems on race, memory, mental illness, and freedom.
Available now wherever books are sold 📚
We’re thrilled to welcome Olatunde Osinaike to Alice James Books for his second collection, IMAGE + LIKENESS, out August 2027 🙌
🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4kwud76
📚 Preorder 20% off: bit.ly/imglikeness
🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4kwud76
📚 Preorder 20% off: bit.ly/imglikeness
June 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
We’re thrilled to welcome Olatunde Osinaike to Alice James Books for his second collection, IMAGE + LIKENESS, out August 2027 🙌
🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4kwud76
📚 Preorder 20% off: bit.ly/imglikeness
🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4kwud76
📚 Preorder 20% off: bit.ly/imglikeness
🎉 Exciting news! AUTOBIOMYTHOGRAPHY OF by Ayokunle Falomo has won the 2025 Maine Literary Award for Excellence in Publishing! 💙 Huge thanks to the MWPA!
📖 Out Sept 2024 from Alice James Books
🔗 buff.ly/85oIsGD
#MaineLiteraryAwards #AliceJamesBooks
📖 Out Sept 2024 from Alice James Books
🔗 buff.ly/85oIsGD
#MaineLiteraryAwards #AliceJamesBooks
June 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
🎉 Exciting news! AUTOBIOMYTHOGRAPHY OF by Ayokunle Falomo has won the 2025 Maine Literary Award for Excellence in Publishing! 💙 Huge thanks to the MWPA!
📖 Out Sept 2024 from Alice James Books
🔗 buff.ly/85oIsGD
#MaineLiteraryAwards #AliceJamesBooks
📖 Out Sept 2024 from Alice James Books
🔗 buff.ly/85oIsGD
#MaineLiteraryAwards #AliceJamesBooks
Bay Area readers—this one’s for you! 🌟 Don’t miss acclaimed poet Mia Ayumi Malhotra, author of MOTHERSALT, as the featured reader at the Burlingame Public Library Poetry Open Mic on June 11 at 6 PM.
📍 Full event details at buff.ly/4xLuPsS
📍 Full event details at buff.ly/4xLuPsS
May 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Bay Area readers—this one’s for you! 🌟 Don’t miss acclaimed poet Mia Ayumi Malhotra, author of MOTHERSALT, as the featured reader at the Burlingame Public Library Poetry Open Mic on June 11 at 6 PM.
📍 Full event details at buff.ly/4xLuPsS
📍 Full event details at buff.ly/4xLuPsS
ICYMI: We’re thrilled to share that @sarahali.bsky.social has won the Gold Medal in Poetry at the #CaliforniaBookAwards for her stunning debut, THEOPHANIES! 🏅✨ Check out the full list of honorees at buff.ly/GDMcaLB
May 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
ICYMI: We’re thrilled to share that @sarahali.bsky.social has won the Gold Medal in Poetry at the #CaliforniaBookAwards for her stunning debut, THEOPHANIES! 🏅✨ Check out the full list of honorees at buff.ly/GDMcaLB
📣 We’ve lost our NEA funding, and the future is uncertain. But we’re still here—and still committed to publishing bold, beautiful books that amplify unheard voices.
💡 Give. Share. Connect. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/AJBNEAFund
#SupportIndiePublishing #AliceJamesBooks
💡 Give. Share. Connect. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/AJBNEAFund
#SupportIndiePublishing #AliceJamesBooks
May 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
📣 We’ve lost our NEA funding, and the future is uncertain. But we’re still here—and still committed to publishing bold, beautiful books that amplify unheard voices.
💡 Give. Share. Connect. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/AJBNEAFund
#SupportIndiePublishing #AliceJamesBooks
💡 Give. Share. Connect. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/AJBNEAFund
#SupportIndiePublishing #AliceJamesBooks
We’re celebrating the release of Leigh Sugar’s powerful debut, FREELAND, with a multi-city book tour—starting with a launch at Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor and closing out at Singapore Unbound in NYC. See the graphic for more details! Hope to see you at a stop near you 🫶
May 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
We’re celebrating the release of Leigh Sugar’s powerful debut, FREELAND, with a multi-city book tour—starting with a launch at Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor and closing out at Singapore Unbound in NYC. See the graphic for more details! Hope to see you at a stop near you 🫶
Thrilled to share that THEOPHANIES by @sarahali.bsky.social has been shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize! 🌟📚 A heartfelt congratulations to Sarah—and to all those honored this year! 🎉 Read the full list at buff.ly/5ZQu8pS
May 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Thrilled to share that THEOPHANIES by @sarahali.bsky.social has been shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize! 🌟📚 A heartfelt congratulations to Sarah—and to all those honored this year! 🎉 Read the full list at buff.ly/5ZQu8pS
@leighsugar.bsky.social 's FREELAND hits shelves everywhere next month! Full of "forceful, freewheeling" (Edward Hirsch) poems, this book is available to preorder at 20% off now until 6/10 @ bit.ly/FREEL4ND ⚡️ For the impatient among us, here's a list of backlist AJB titles to enjoy while you wait 🙌
May 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
@leighsugar.bsky.social 's FREELAND hits shelves everywhere next month! Full of "forceful, freewheeling" (Edward Hirsch) poems, this book is available to preorder at 20% off now until 6/10 @ bit.ly/FREEL4ND ⚡️ For the impatient among us, here's a list of backlist AJB titles to enjoy while you wait 🙌
Surprise! Our Fall 2025 season just got a little bit bigger. We're excited to announce that AJB will publish Judith Vollmer's 7th poetry collection, THE PAVESE STONE, in March 2026. Welcome to AJB, @jtreev.bsky.social 💜
Visit buff.ly/rxzyv1F for more info!
Visit buff.ly/rxzyv1F for more info!
April 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Surprise! Our Fall 2025 season just got a little bit bigger. We're excited to announce that AJB will publish Judith Vollmer's 7th poetry collection, THE PAVESE STONE, in March 2026. Welcome to AJB, @jtreev.bsky.social 💜
Visit buff.ly/rxzyv1F for more info!
Visit buff.ly/rxzyv1F for more info!
Congratulations to the 2025 Guggenheim Fellows, with special attention to AJB poets Richie Hofmann (SECOND EMPIRE), francine j. harris (PLAY DEAD), Cynthia Cruz (RUIN), and Mihaela Moscaliuc, the author of FATHER DEAD and the forthcoming HEARTMOOR 💚 More at buff.ly/LOOQUJV
April 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Congratulations to the 2025 Guggenheim Fellows, with special attention to AJB poets Richie Hofmann (SECOND EMPIRE), francine j. harris (PLAY DEAD), Cynthia Cruz (RUIN), and Mihaela Moscaliuc, the author of FATHER DEAD and the forthcoming HEARTMOOR 💚 More at buff.ly/LOOQUJV
Love & warm congrats to Mary Helen Callier on the launch of her stunning debut, WHEN THE HORSES 🦋 This gorgeous, haunting book was chosen as the 2023 #AliceJamesAward Editor’s Choice—and we’re so excited it’s finally out in the world 💛 Order today at buff.ly/F983jQg
April 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Love & warm congrats to Mary Helen Callier on the launch of her stunning debut, WHEN THE HORSES 🦋 This gorgeous, haunting book was chosen as the 2023 #AliceJamesAward Editor’s Choice—and we’re so excited it’s finally out in the world 💛 Order today at buff.ly/F983jQg
Check out the @poetrysociety.org's website to read @estherwslin.bsky.social's "In Their Own Words" essay discussing her poem, "The Ghost Wife" from COLD THIEF PLACE. Tysm to the Poetry Society for featuring Esther's work! 🌟 More at buff.ly/3AzhlwF
April 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Check out the @poetrysociety.org's website to read @estherwslin.bsky.social's "In Their Own Words" essay discussing her poem, "The Ghost Wife" from COLD THIEF PLACE. Tysm to the Poetry Society for featuring Esther's work! 🌟 More at buff.ly/3AzhlwF
Looking for an easy and affordable way to support poets while growing your library? Consider giving to AJB's #350Friday Fundraiser 🌟 Suggested donation is just $3.50, and each donation enters you for a chance to win 5 staple AJB collections curated for #NationalPoetryMonth! More @ buff.ly/GAoXAtV
April 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Looking for an easy and affordable way to support poets while growing your library? Consider giving to AJB's #350Friday Fundraiser 🌟 Suggested donation is just $3.50, and each donation enters you for a chance to win 5 staple AJB collections curated for #NationalPoetryMonth! More @ buff.ly/GAoXAtV