neurodivergent
What’s in Spoon Knife 3?
Spoon Knife is Autonomous Press’ annual anthology of original stories by queer and/or neurodivergent authors. Spoon Knife accepts short fiction of any genre, plus memoir and the occasional poem. Each volume of Spoon Knife has a different team of editors and a different theme. The 2018 Autumn Equinox saw the publication of Spoon Knife 3: […]
Continue readingBarking Sycamores: Breakthrough Neurodivergent Lit
[Pictured: a portion of Barking Sycamores’ Issue 14 cover.] This spring, Barking Sycamores approaches two major milestones. For one, the journal celebrates its fourth anniversary on April 1! Also, March marks two years since it joined the AutPress family. In that time, this literary journal centering neurodivergent voices has published 13 issues to date, with […]
Continue readingUnsticking Your Brain: Or, Writing Poems When You Haven’t Been Writing Poems
Let’s face it. If you write poetry, your craft depends just as much on practicum as it does on ideas. When you’re lacking one or both these elements, attempting to generate a new poem can feel a little Sisyphean…or like moving through a swimming pool full of cement…or…well, pick any metaphor you like, but you […]
Continue readingAuthor Interview: Ada Hoffmann Discusses Monsters in My Mind and Other Projects
We sat down with Ada Hoffmann, author of Monsters in My Mind, to talk about speculative fiction, the state of the writing world, and what’s next. AutPress: Why MONSTERS IN MY MIND? Why speculative fiction generally, and why this collection? Ada: I grew up around speculative fiction. It’s a childhood love, and one of those […]
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