Writer-Editor. Debut novel THE LIMITS OF THE WORLD @DelphBks @AragiAuthors. Founder & editor @commonmag. Obsessed with sense of place and exotic fruits.
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I had to check with my editor to make sure I was reading it right, but it seems Fatigue is indeed #1 nonfiction on Amazon (in the Kindle Singles). Apart from alphabetical order, I've never been in first place for writing, so gonna enjoy this while it lasts!
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Excited to share our farmworker portfolio episode with Texas Public Radio, hosted by Yvette Benavides (@borderworldgirl)! Listen now for interviews with @jen_acker, co-editor @trustmiguel, Nora Rodriguez Camagna, and readings from the portfolio.
tpr.org/podcast/book-public/…
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Actor, author, and recipient of the 2023 🏆Lambda Literary Award, @MaulikPancholy presents 📕‘Nikhil Out Loud’ a novel about a gay Indian American boy who learns the power of using his voice, at a book reading panel during the IAAC Literary Festival 2023. Joining him is author Shastri Akella ( @shastriav ) 🏆winner of the Fractured Lit Flash Fiction Contest and 🏅the Best Microfiction Contest, presenting 📘‘The Sea Elephants’, an enchanting tale through mythology, desire, and grief. Bestselling author and Founder and editor-in-chief of The Common, Jennifer Acker ( @jen_acker ), will 🎤moderate the panel.
🗓️November 19 | 📍Conrad New York Downtown | Room B | ⏲️12.00 -12.50 pm
🎟️RSVP now! bit.ly/3Sh6yfs
⭐️Open to all for free ⭐️
#literaryfestival #NYC #booklovers #authorsofinstagram #IAAC #books
Sometimes my favorite part of cover reveal day is the pun 😂
Turnip the volume—it's time for our Issue 26 cover announcement!
Over half of our fall issue will showcase a portfolio of writing and art from the farmworker community: the stories, essays, poems, and artwork of immigrant agricultural workers, co-edited by @TrustMiguel.
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"Par excellence is THE LEGIBLE ELEMENT, Ralph Sneeden’s astonishing book of water-borne essays...Read just one page and beware of the undertow."
—@jen_acker, author of THE LIMITS OF THE WORLD and editor at @commonmag. Learn more and order a copy today at bit.ly/44cqVx4!
This piece is a gift. Really conveys what fatigue/PEM is like and the challenge we face in improving people’s lives.
🛑I wrote about what “fatigue” really means for people with long COVID and ME/CFS, and why this profoundly debilitating symptom is so often misunderstood and trivialized.
(This piece also covers PEM.) 1/
theatlantic.com/health/archi…
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Don't miss this exciting conversation between @ValeriaLuiselli and TC editor in chief @jen_acker about home, migration, and untold stories:
thecommononline.org/let-me-o…
ALT Jennifer Acker and Valeria Luiselli at LitFest 2023
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My first lit mag story in 10 years is live at @commonmag! If you want to spend more time in #TheFamilyIzquierdo barrio and want to read a story about their neighbor Teddy and his spirit-seeing dog, check it and order a paper copy of this great issue!
thecommononline.org/tag/rube…
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It was a wonderful collaboration with @jen_acker, @nashwagowanlock, @nariology, @sawadhussain, maia tabet and Laura Albast.
The result: all these stories and art works from Kuwait int the latest issue of (the-one-and-only) @commonmag.
Read/see it all: thecommononline.org/issues/i…
So grateful for our Arabic translators! So dedicated and talented.
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Wow do I love this essay on love and poetic form. Join @zeinabeck next week for a longer treatment of this theme. Still spaces left!
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Check out this piece full on love and the ghazal by @zeinabeck that was recently published in @newlinesmag—and if you love it, don't forget to register for her craft class which is just a week away!
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So excited for these authors. Such a joy to work with all of them.
A big congratulations to @noor_naga, Lisa Hsiao Chen (@Qidurian), and @sindyabhanoo, three of our contributors who have been shortlisted for PEN awards!
pen.org/literary-awards/anno…
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Recently attended amazing @commonmag online craft class by author, journalist, Guggenheim Fellow @AnnaBadkhen. Inspiring note, paraphrased: 'When I sit down & start writing I want to do something to shift, to disturb, to illuminate, to bridge.' That's the higher goal & calling!
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We are shocked and saddened by the tragic deaths of the farmworkers in Half Moon Bay and will dedicate our forthcoming farmworkers' portfolio to the memory of these lives.
The call for submissions has been extended to February 17.
thecommononline.org/farmwork…
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Check out this old Contributors in Conversation podcast hosted by @steventagle. It features our editor-in-chief @jen_acker and contributor Stephen O'Connor!
thecommononline.org/contribu…
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FATIGUE by @jen_acker is an excellent Kindle short about how ME and the added challenge of her husband's disability affected the author's marriage. 8/14
So proud of these authors! Congratulations!!
Congrats to Noor Naga (@noor_naga), co-editor of our Issue 22 Arabian Gulf portfolio and Issue 15 contributor, on winning @Center4Fiction's 2022 First Novel Prize! Two other TC contributors, Lisa Chen and Fatimah Asghar (@asgharthegrouch), also made the longlist!
In 2021, 410 nonprofit literary orgs and publishers from 44 states, plus DC & Puerto Rico, served 8.9M ppl in person and 211.4M online.
TY @nationalbook @PoetryFound @CLMPorg for this data & report & esp your advocacy! (We need $) clmp.org/press-center/first-…
An excellent letter & thread carefully pointing out the reporting problems w this article. @jspotila is too professional to say so, but @NYMag has egg on its face. A correction is in order.
The @nymag article about #LongCovid and #MECFS by @ManvBrain is misleading, biased, and riddled with errors. I sent a letter to the editor today, which you can read on my blog. occupyme.net/2022/11/22/new-… 1/11
