Autofocus Books
@autofocusbooks.bsky.social
A literary publisher of artful autobiographical writing. autofocusbooks.com
2027 is looking mighty fine already at Autofocus! Thrilled to be working with @lillydancyger.bsky.social on this absolute gem of a book.
July 31, 2025 at 8:38 PM
2027 is looking mighty fine already at Autofocus! Thrilled to be working with @lillydancyger.bsky.social on this absolute gem of a book.
The new Autofocus anthology, If I Can Be Honest, is out today! It commemorates the four years of the online journal that morphed into this press. Some of the best formally rich short personal prose you can find anywhere, if we may say so!
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/if-i...
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July 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The new Autofocus anthology, If I Can Be Honest, is out today! It commemorates the four years of the online journal that morphed into this press. Some of the best formally rich short personal prose you can find anywhere, if we may say so!
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/if-i...
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/if-i...
Happy book birthday to @ferrifrigida.bsky.social’s OUT THERE IN THE DARK! Join the virtual book launch tonight (6/17) on YouTube at 6pm PT/9pm ET (links in the comments).
June 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Happy book birthday to @ferrifrigida.bsky.social’s OUT THERE IN THE DARK! Join the virtual book launch tonight (6/17) on YouTube at 6pm PT/9pm ET (links in the comments).
Our fall box is up on preorder! Erin Slaughter’s THE DEAD DAD DIARIES. Naomi Washer’s MARGINALIA. Lena Ziegler’s A REVISIONIST HISTORY OF LOVING MEN. Find out about these forthcoming titles today at
autofocusbooks.com.
autofocusbooks.com.
May 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Our fall box is up on preorder! Erin Slaughter’s THE DEAD DAD DIARIES. Naomi Washer’s MARGINALIA. Lena Ziegler’s A REVISIONIST HISTORY OF LOVING MEN. Find out about these forthcoming titles today at
autofocusbooks.com.
autofocusbooks.com.
For the first time in 18+ months, we (finally) have a call for open submissions again (for one month)!
autofocuslit.submittable.com/submit
autofocuslit.submittable.com/submit
April 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
For the first time in 18+ months, we (finally) have a call for open submissions again (for one month)!
autofocuslit.submittable.com/submit
autofocuslit.submittable.com/submit
Also, hang out with your friendz on mountains.
@andrewbertaina.bsky.social
@aaronburch.bsky.social
@lexikentmonning.bsky.social
@andrewbertaina.bsky.social
@aaronburch.bsky.social
@lexikentmonning.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Also, hang out with your friendz on mountains.
@andrewbertaina.bsky.social
@aaronburch.bsky.social
@lexikentmonning.bsky.social
@andrewbertaina.bsky.social
@aaronburch.bsky.social
@lexikentmonning.bsky.social
Meet your heroes.
@otherppl.bsky.social
@otherppl.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Meet your heroes.
@otherppl.bsky.social
@otherppl.bsky.social
Consider supporting us today! We want to publish books for a very long time. You can help! In return, you’ll get access to a handful of digital artifacts (to start), find community around artful autobiographical writing, + save a little $$ at some point. autofocusbooks.com/memberships
March 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Consider supporting us today! We want to publish books for a very long time. You can help! In return, you’ll get access to a handful of digital artifacts (to start), find community around artful autobiographical writing, + save a little $$ at some point. autofocusbooks.com/memberships
Friends & readers in/around NYC: on Saturday at 5:30pm, Roxy Cinema is hosting a screening of forthcoming Autofocus author David Shields’s recent doc that contextualizes this very shitty moment in history. Come hang out with us and try to have a little fun in spite of it!
March 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Friends & readers in/around NYC: on Saturday at 5:30pm, Roxy Cinema is hosting a screening of forthcoming Autofocus author David Shields’s recent doc that contextualizes this very shitty moment in history. Come hang out with us and try to have a little fun in spite of it!
Yes I Am Human I Know You Were Wondering
March 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Yes I Am Human I Know You Were Wondering
Our summer box is now available for preorder(!): Katharine Coldiron’s OUT THERE IN THE DARK, E.N Couturier’s ORGANIC MATTER, & a surprise anthology, collecting 40+ prose works from the 4 years of our online journal (RIP, 2020-2024), plus a free 4th book. Find out more at autofocusbooks.com!
March 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Our summer box is now available for preorder(!): Katharine Coldiron’s OUT THERE IN THE DARK, E.N Couturier’s ORGANIC MATTER, & a surprise anthology, collecting 40+ prose works from the 4 years of our online journal (RIP, 2020-2024), plus a free 4th book. Find out more at autofocusbooks.com!
Just realized I have not, on this app, posted about our spring 2025 box. 3 different books, all illustrative of our approach(es) to artful autobiographical writing. All 🔥. Plus a free Lives of Writers shirt! A solid place to start for ppl new to the press:
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/spring-2025-box
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/spring-2025-box
February 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Just realized I have not, on this app, posted about our spring 2025 box. 3 different books, all illustrative of our approach(es) to artful autobiographical writing. All 🔥. Plus a free Lives of Writers shirt! A solid place to start for ppl new to the press:
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/spring-2025-box
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/spring-2025-box