Writer-Editor. Debut novel THE LIMITS OF THE WORLD @DelphBks @AragiAuthors. Founder & editor @commonmag. Obsessed with sense of place and exotic fruits.
Western MA.
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Jennifer Acker retweeted
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/…
Jennifer Acker retweeted
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
Jennifer Acker retweeted
"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!
Jennifer Acker retweeted
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
Jennifer Acker retweeted
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…
Jennifer Acker retweeted
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…
Jennifer Acker retweeted
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!
Jennifer Acker retweeted
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…
Jennifer Acker retweeted
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…
Jennifer Acker retweeted
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
Jennifer Acker retweeted
If the curtain truly is falling, a final plea to the void: support/subscribe to lit mags. Some of the most exciting literature published in American can be found in their pages.
Jennifer Acker retweeted
Just read the @nymag piece about #longcovid and I've got a lot of critiques of it - as a journalist, as an editor, &, of course, as a person living with complex chronic illness. Briefly, here are some of the issues I see, ones I think turn up in a lot of magazine pieces:🧵
Jennifer Acker retweeted
So great seeing Mary O'Donoghue's "Safety Advice for Staying Indoors" from @commonmag, @MrHWM's "Featherweight" from @NYerFiction, and Michael O'Brien's "Getting the Lead Out" from @Salamander_Mag receive some much deserved love in #BASS22's back pages.
Jennifer Acker retweeted
Friends, Please share. Kenyon is doing a search for an Asst. Prof. in Fiction.
careers.kenyon.edu/en-us/job…
Jennifer Acker retweeted
We send our wholehearted support to those participating in @MEActNet #MillionsMissing protest in Washington, D.C.
We urge @POTUS to listen to their voices and declare #MECFS and #LongCovid a #NationalEmergency
#StillSickStillFighting
Jennifer Acker retweeted
Fall is 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐚𝐠𝐚 time Read @jen_acker's The Limits of the World in #audiobook #paperback #eBook or gift-ready hardback
MORE: bit.ly/2FazlPI_LimitsoftheWo…
This & other great titles about family & ties that bind +ordering options found @DelphBks
#reading @HarperCollins
Jennifer Acker retweeted
“The United States is still haunted by the Vietnam War & the ghosts of enslavement, colonization, genocide. They’re still with us, whether or not many of us want to acknowledge them.”
Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks with @commonmag editor-in-chief @jen_acker.
bit.ly/3LaMcPC
Jennifer Acker retweeted
On popular demand, we are #reading the #winner of this year's #OHenryPrize for #ShortFiction, 'The Old Man of Kusumpur', written by #AmarMitra and #translated by Anish Gupta!
Register here - bit.ly/TheEighthBite
@commonmag @jmintonq
Jennifer Acker retweeted
We are thrilled to announce that TC has been awarded a 2022 Amazon Literary Partnership Grant. Thank you @CLMPorg for another year of funding!
thecommononline.org/the-comm…
Jennifer Acker retweeted
“I loved the editor Q&As, and particularly liked hearing what editors are looking for in a piece and how they approach editing.”
Take a look at Weekly Writes, a great opportunity to add some accountability to your writing this summer!
thecommononline.org/weekly-w…