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We publish novellas, poetry, poetry in translation, and Miami University (OH) nonfiction. linktr.ee/MiamiUniversityPress

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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
We’re delighted to officially reveal the stunning cover for our beautiful new novella, When They Came Home, coming May 5, 2026! Preorder the book now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or wherever you buy books!
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We’re so happy to announce that a winner has been selected for the 2026 Novella Prize! Congratulations to Chris Dodds and his manuscript NECESSARY CUTS! Chris Dodds lives in Oklahoma City with his wife and two feral goblins. Necessary Cuts is his first book.
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Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
"Randolph Healy deserves to get noticed. The Ireland-raised poet and math teacher—who will turn 70 next year—has been assembling thoughtful, counterintuitive poems, short and long, into small press volumes since the 1980s." Stephanie Burt on Randolph Healy clereviewofbooks.com/stephanie-bu...
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It’s Better to Stay Many-Minded: On Randolph Healy’s "The Electron-Ghost Casino" - Cleveland Review of Books
Some poets get noticed easily, early on. Their work speaks to the moment, or to the zeitgeist, or to a nation’s or a generation’s sense of itself.
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Happy to see THE ELECTRON-GHOST CASINO in the mix here! sites.miamioh.edu/miami-univer...
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
It was such a delight to meet novella author @andreaavery.bsky.social this week! Thanks to everyone who came out to her reading! Andrea visited @miamiohenglish.bsky.social on Monday to share excerpts from her novella, VISITING COMPOSER, sign copies, and answer questions about craft and research. ✨🌞✨
Novella author Andrea Avery, dressed in red and brown hues, smiles from behind a wood podium.
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Excited to hear @andreaavery.bsky.social read at our home base of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, TONIGHT – 9/8 - 6:30PM! Join us!
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
"The Electron-Ghost Casino conducts sensorial/semantic/surprising pleasures in poems w/ quickness, an alert ear, & sometimes tenderness, up to the snuff of a good conversation—digressive, propulsive, slapstick." –Sean Pierson reviews Randolph Healy www.poetryinreview.com/reviews/elec...
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
"Writing and music are all bound up for me" –– VISITING COMPOSER author @andreaavery.bsky.social was featured on her local NPR station in Phoenix. Andrea reads in our home base of Oxford Ohio next week. Listen in: www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...
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This composer-turned-author questions the traditional structures of music and literature
“Visiting Composer” was written by Andrea Avery, who will speak Thursday night at Changing Hands Bookstore in Phoenix.
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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Hope to see you in (round on the ends and high in the middle) O-hi-O
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
We're thrilled to host @andreaavery.bsky.social for a reading next week - September 8 @ 6:30PM in Miami University's Harris Hall (500 Harris Dr, Oxford OH)! #novella #novellas #fiction
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Good news! We've extended our 2026 Novella Prize deadline by a day! You have more time to polish up your manuscripts and send them our way before the end of Monday, Sept 1 at midnight EDT. mupress.submittable.com/submit #novella #BookContest #bookprize #fiction #fictionbooks #smallpresspublishing
Tall stack of brightly colored Miami University Press novellas against green grass in the background.
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
"A deeply moving book, one that will live long in the reader’s mind" Thanks, Billy Mills, for including our editor's newest book in this review –– Studies in the Unnatural World by Keith Tuma (Wild Honey Press)
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Ohio Poetry Association @ohiopoetry.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
SAVE THE DATE: November 15th in South Euclid, Ohio! attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/13881294
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Get Sharp! 2025 Ohio Poetry Publishing Conference
Free and open to all poets
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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I had the very cool opportunity to create a playlist for my novella, Visiting Composer. It’s up now at Largehearted Boy: largeheartedboy.com/2025/07/10/a...
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Andrea Avery’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Visiting Composer – Largehearted Boy
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Calling all Phoenix friends –– @andreaavery.bsky.social is reading from VISITING COMPOSER at @changinghands.bsky.social on Thursday, August 21: www.changinghands.com/event/august...
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
"I am obsessed with this book" –– @kelceyervick.bsky.social on @andreaavery.bsky.social's VISITING COMPOSER bookshop.org/p/books/visi...
I am obsessed with this book . . . Andrea Avery’s savvy and searching protagonist is on a quest to learn the tragic past of a mysterious visitor, even as she tries to reimagine her own future as a female artist. With searing humor and feminist fury, Visiting Composer is set powerfully against a backdrop of music, literature, and the teachers and systems that fail us.
–Kelcey Ervick, author of The Keeper and The Bitter Life of Božena Němcová
Final judge, 2024 Miami University Press Novella Prize
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
"fast, spooky, quietly devastating" –– @bonnienadzam.bsky.social on VISITING COMPOSER bookshop.org/.../visiting...
Andrea Avery’s Visiting Composer is a fast, spooky, quietly devastating, paradoxically animating read. Her characters are reaching beyond a linear world of space and time, and the patriarchy that has determined its perimeters, for beauty, art, and connection stripped of their modern baggage. Whether they fully become or must abandon themselves in the process is the heart of the mystery of this elegant, haunting book.
–Bonnie Nadzam, author of Lamb and Lions, co-author of Love in the Anthropocene
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Musician Gregory Spatz re @andreaavery.bsky.social's VISITING COMPOSER: "Gorgeous, layered, and full of feeling, this brief trip out of time and into the hearts and minds of two psychically connected young composers is a delight." bookshop.org/p/books/visi...
Gorgeous, layered, and full of feeling, this brief trip out of time and into the hearts and minds of two psychically connected young composers is a delight. Avery knows how to write about music—about the people whose main love is music, and the creeps who live to take advantage of them—more movingly and accurately than anyone I’ve come across. This is a fantastic piece of work. 
–Gregory Spatz, musician, author of What Could Be Saved: Bookmatched Novellas & Stories
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A brief but harmless period of weightlessness @hughsheehy.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Something small and beautiful in the ongoing storm: a book of prose poems by Keith Tuma. This volume is electric with love, pain, clarity, and, most unexpectedly, a kind of hope. Check it out. From Wild Honey Press: www.wildhoneypress.com/BOOKS/Studie... @miamioh-press.bsky.social
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Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Working on something about the thoughtful, often lovely poetry of Randolph Healy @miamioh-press.bsky.social for @clereviewbooks.bsky.social & TIL Healy has archived most or all of his poems online for free! sites.google.com/view/randolp...
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Poetry Shorter Poems as individual files Selected Shorter poems in one file Longer Poems
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🎶 Happy Publication Day to VISITING COMPOSER by @andreaavery.bsky.social!! 🎶 “Gorgeous, layered, and full of feeling, this brief trip out of time and into the hearts and minds of two psychically connected young composers is a delight.” –Gregory Spatz sites.miamioh.edu/miami-univer...
A copy of VISITING COMPOSER against a green plant background.
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Send us your gorgeous #novella manuscripts! 🌞 The 2026 Miami University Press Novella Prize is open for submissions: mupress.submittable.com/submit – 18-40k words / deadline August 31 Pic of the novella collection so far! @andreaavery.bsky.social's VISITING COMPOSER (top of stack) is out in July!
A tall stack of Miami University Press novella prize-winning books against a background of green grass.
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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Aaaaaahaagahhagahahahahhaha my author copies just arrived and July 1 you can all read the untold story (part of it, anyway) of the world’s greatest imaginary time-traveling female composer Preorder at: sites.miamioh.edu/miami-univer...
the cover of a paperback novella is shown. The title is Visiting Composer and the author is Andrea Avery. The cover design is an abstract, vaguely musical image of circles and arcs in black, yellow, orange, and blue, meant to evoke early 20th-century graphic design, as the book is about an aspiring female composer in 1910 Baltimore who crash-lands in a music theory class in 1996 in Arizona.
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
✨Preorder✨ VISITING COMPOSER by @andreaavery.bsky.social! "Andrea Avery's Visiting Composer is a fast, spooky, quietly devastating, paradoxically animating read" -– Bonnie Nadzam bookshop.org/p/books/visi...
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Visiting Composer
Check out Visiting Composer - <p>Enid Bluff has begun to fall out of love with music, not only because her ideas are too often dismissed by her male classmates (and professors) in the composing progra...
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Q&A Part II between Rashi Rohatgi (SITA IN EXILE) and @ashleyhoneysett.bsky.social (FICTIONS): ashleyhoney.substack.com/p/thoreau-to...
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Thoreau took the Bhagavad Gita to his cabin
Rashi Rohatgi Q&A continued
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
"The kinds of writing that we are taught in schools as being foundationally American–Thoreau, Emerson–are intentionally and extensively engaged with Hindu tradition.”–Rashi Rohatgi (SITA IN EXILE) in conversation with @ashleyhoneysett.bsky.social (FICTIONS) ashleyhoney.substack.com/p/hindu-myth...
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Rashi recommends books!
Rashi Rohatgi Q&A part one
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
SITA IN EXILE has been reviewed by Scroll.IN! You can read the review here: scroll.in/article/1080...
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Calling all #novella fans! @ashleyhoneysett.bsky.social and other novella authors will read and discuss the form at the "For the Love of the Novella" #AWP25 panel Saturday, March 29 at 9AM. Don't miss!
Hear from FICTIONS author Ashley Honeysett at
For the Love of the Novella: A Reading & Conversation

“The novella is a form that is in-between––not quite a short story, not quite a novel...This panel celebrates the form with readings by four novella writers, followed by a discussion of craft possibilities and challenges.”

Saturday, March 29
9:00-10:15AM
490AB, Level 2, LA Convention Center
Presenting w/ Anne Elliott, Matt Bell Sasha Hom & Rion Amilcar Scott
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
We're in Los Angeles this week- Thurs-Sat! Visit us at #AWP25 bookfair – T249 🤩 Stop by on Saturday for a book signing featuring FICTIONS author @ashleyhoneysett.bsky.social at 10:30AM
Meet Miami University Press #AWP25 bookfair - T249. Book signing w/ Fictions author Ashley Honeysett Saturday 3.29 10:30AM. Novellas! Poetry! Translation! Image of Ashley Honeysett and a table with press books displayed.
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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The Pedagogy of Climate Change, Friday, 10:35 a.m. #AWP25 ... one of only two panels at the AWP conference with Climate Change in the title or description.
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
"When I’m writing something shorter, I want the reader to feel immersed, and I appreciate that I can experiment with form or explore ideas more than characters or plot without asking for a huge reader commitment." – FICTIONS author @ashleyhoneysett.bsky.social on the #novella form
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
FICTIONS has been named as a 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist! We are so pleased to announce that FICTIONS by @ashleyhoneysett.bsky.social has been recognized in this way.
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Our author @ashleyhoneysett.bsky.social has a Substack where she recommends books she reads! You can check it out here: ashleyhoney.substack.com
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I Recommend Books | Ashley Honeysett | Substack
Books I have to sum up in some other way beyond "I loved this so much!", once a week. Click to read I Recommend Books, by Ashley Honeysett, a Substack publication. Launched 3 months ago.
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Ashley Honeysett @ashleyhoneysett.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I'm really pleased to be in the company of the other writers and publishers who are finalists for the Foreword INDIES prize in literary fiction. #finalist #literary www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books...
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Congratulations to @terrilewis1.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 Novella Prize w/ her manuscript, WHEN THEY CAME HOME. Thanks to our final judge, Amina Gautier, our readers, + the incredible writers who submitted to the contest and trusted us w/ their work. We are grateful for all of your support. 🎉🎉
Photo of novella winner, Terri Lewis, smiling and dressed in red. Background of the announcement is a wheat field. Before she became a writer and began to capture family stories, TERRI LEWIS had a career as a ballet dancer and earned a BA in history. A finalist for the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors Prize (nonfiction) and shortlisted for LitMag's Virginia Woolf award, she has published in Embark, Hippocampus, and Chicago Quarterly Review, among others, and reviews for The Washington Independent Review of Books. Her debut novel, BEHOLD THE BIRD IN FLIGHT, is forthcoming in June 2025. She lives in Denver, CO, with her husband and two lively dogs.
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
VISITING COMPOSER by @andreaavery.bsky.social has a cover! We are thrilled to share the 2024 Novella Contest winner’s cover with you all, designed by Jeff Clark’s Crisis Studio. For those waiting anxiously to hear about our 2025 novella winner, we’ll have news soon! Stay tuned!
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Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
A cover for my forthcoming novella AND an interactive puzzle activity??!? Dreams DO come true …
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Andrea Avery’s VISITING COMPOSER has a cover- puzzle out how our 2024 contest winner’s cover looks! puzzel.org/en/jigsaw/pl...
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Jigsaw puzzle - Puzzel.org
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The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
NEW on our website: Lily Ní Dhomhnaill reviews four Irish poetry collections from 2024: 'Vulgar Errors / Feral Subjects' by Fran Lock, 'The Conversation' by Jo Burns & Emily Cooper, 'STORM DRAIN' by Francis Jones, and 'The Electron-Ghost Casino' by Randolph Healy. stingingfly.org/review/irish...
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Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
“I would feel so good in my life that is just like mine” A poem by Liz Waldner.
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Chicago Writers Association @chicagowrites.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
The Write City Magazine is excited to #publish an excerpt by Ashley Honeysett, a winner of the 2024 Book of the Year Awards. You can #read the excerpt at: www.chicagowrites.org/write_city/1... Register for the awards ceremony at: cwa12.wildapricot.org/event-5977283 #fiction #bookoftheyear
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Miami University Press @miamioh-press.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Terrific book recs from FICTIONS author Ashley Honeysett! ashleyhoney.substack.com
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