Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Jasmin Attia, author of "The Oud Player of Cairo," will be reading at the Barnes & Noble at University of Rochester on October 2nd. 021
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026More news in our end-of-summer newsletter: mailchi.mp/4c402d26e948... Here's to a terrific season of cool temps, falling leaves, and plenty of apple and pumkin pie for dessert! 010
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Surprise! The summer's almost over! This little guy was certainly taken aback at the news the other day when discovered foraging on our windowsill. And with the end of summer comes the start of our favorite season, as we ramp up for some fantastic new titles to share with you. 001
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Monifa Love is the winner of the 2026 Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature! As a result, we will publish her poetry collection "After the Rain" in 2027. 022
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 30/06/2026We celebrate this summer solstice with an image taken just after a deluge heralded an early start of the monsoon season this year! While no pots of gold have turned up, we are viewing the rainbow as a sign of hope and good fortune for all in the coming months. 0234
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Happy publication day to "Brahms Comes to Dinner" by Boman Desai! This novel won the Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature and we're pleased to introduce it to the world. Tonight at 7 PM CT, Boman launches the book at Secret World Books (owned by author @gaylebrandeis.bsky.social). 041
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 06/04/2026New Lyonel Trouillot novel out tomorrow! "The Old Woman of Calvary Hill" completes his trilogy with this magical realism narrative, as told by the “old woman” of the title. Translated by Lena Taub Robles. schaffnerpress.com/books/the-wa... 021
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 19/02/2026We're looking forward to a banner year with fascinating new titles, a new company logo, and a move to a different distributor: our old colleagues @ipgbook.bsky.social, who will be taking up sales of our list as of March 1st. Read more: mailchi.mp/9de6277fe603... 051
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 19/02/2026👀 Our new colophon, designed by Victoria Brenman. What do you see first? An anemone, a starfish, a flower, an "S," or something else? ⭐ 🌸 040
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Coming soon to a book spine near you: our new logo, designed by Victoria Brenman. It has a living quality to it like a starfish or anemone. It's also comprised of the letter S. 081
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 01/02/2026👀 Did you mean to submit your manuscript about music for the Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature, but you ran out of time? If so, good news for you: we're extending this year's submission deadline until February 14th. Please share and send us your work! schaffnerawards.com #booksky 052
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 22/01/2026The Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature is accepting submissions for book-length manuscripts about music and its influence: www.schaffnerawards.com 032
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Nicholas Schaffner Award submissions are open: www.schaffnerawards.com 011
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Out today: GENERATOR, the debut novel by Korean/Swiss journalist Rinny Gremaud. This book was translated by Holly James and designed by Hollis Duncan. schaffnerpress.com/books/genera... 021
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Fall news from Schaffner Press (including extra-small editorial assistant Miles). Hope you all enjoy the changing seasons as much as possible and stay kind. mailchi.mp/7c36980cc502... 040
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Happy publication day to "EYES IN THE SOLES OF MY FEET: From Horseshoe Crabs to Sycamores, Exploring Hidden Connections to the Natural World" by Caroline Sutton! (And now that the finished book is out, one lucky reader will find an ARC in a Little Free Library in an undisclosed location. 🦀) 020
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Publishers Weekly reviews "Eyes in the Soles of My Feet: From Horseshoe Crabs to Sycamores, Exploring Hidden Connections to the Natural World" by Caroline Sutton, out next month: www.publishersweekly.com/9781639640812 010
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Caroline Sutton, author of “Eyes in the Soles of My Feet: From Horseshoe Crabs to Sycamores, Exploring Hidden Connections to the Natural World" (out in October!), wrote an op ed for @easthamptonstar.bsky.social about protecting horseshoe crabs. Read it here: www.easthamptonstar.com/guestwords-o... 022
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Coming in October 🦀 Cover design: Jordan Wannemacher 030
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Schaffner Press author Gustavo Eduardo Abrevaya was honored by the city of Buenos Aires, who proclaimed his novel THE SANCTUARY as the city's official book of the year in a televised award ceremony that featured authors Ana Maria Shua and Luis Gusmán as presenters. Congratulations, Gustavo! 020
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 08/07/2025"New around here?" A Cooper's hawk looks quizzically at the bird atop a sculpture by Anne Maley-Schaffner. 010
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Boman Desai of Chicago, IL is the winner of the 2025 Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature for his novel "Brahms Comes to Dinner," which we will publish in June 2026! Congrats to Boman and our finalists: Andre Miftaraj, Linda Raven-Woods, Kase Johnstun, and Jim Currie. 011
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 03/07/2025"Reading [Arthur Derounian’s] work today feels like a Hollywood prequel script recounting a villain’s origin story." Michael Bobelian on the relevance of "Under Cover,” the 1943 exposé of the United States’ Nazi underworld, for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-... 032
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Our anthology of Irish women writers is Publishers Lunch official! Coming your way in 2026. 020
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Proud to be publishing STEPSISTERS: CONTEMPORARY SHORT STORIES BY IRISH WOMEN WRITERS in 2026! These stories are translated from the Irish language. 011
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 22/04/2025We were saddened to learn that Todd Grimson, author of BRAND NEW CHERRY FLAVOR, STAINLESS, and STABS AT HAPPINESS, died January after a fall at his home in Gresham, Oregon, at the age of 73. mailchi.mp/1e04ac025f21... 010
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 05/04/2025got so excited about the PW review that we made a li'l graphic 042
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Schaffner Press author Bill Carter (FOOLS RUSH IN) spoke on a panel at the Tucson Festival of Books with novelists Ed Burns (A KID FROM MARLBORO ROAD) and Ramona Emerson (SHUTTER) about taking books to film. They packed the Student Union Ballroom with 400+ people! 010
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 13/03/2025This Saturday! We're co-hosting a screening of KISS THE FUTURE, the documentary film inspired by Bill Carter's memoir FOOLS RUSH IN. See you at Pidgin Palace Arts Gallery. 000
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 07/03/2025On Sunday, March 16th at the Tucson Festival of Books, you have two chances to see our author Bill Carter (memoir FOOLS RUSH IN --> documentary KISS THE FUTURE): - 10 a.m. "From Memoir to the Silver Screen" - 2:30 p.m. "Lights! Camera! Publish!" tucsonfestivalofbooks.org?action=displ... 012
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Today is the publication date for "The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura," a novel by Tierno Monénembo and translated by Ryan Chamberlain! We're proud to introduce this important book into the world. schaffnerpress.com/books/the-li... 021
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Eugene friends, save the date: on April 16, Dianne Dugaw and @amandawpowell.bsky.social will read for the Windfall Reading Series, in person at the Downtown Eugene Public Library. Hope to see you there! 000
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 22/01/2025"Adams chronicles the case with a compelling blend of academic rigor, reportorial legwork and engaging prose." Michael Bobelian ("Battle for the Marble Palace") reviewed "The Containment" by Michelle Adams (@fsgbooks.bsky.social) for @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0... 031
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 23/12/2024From all of us at Schaffner Press, here's wishing you a peaceful holiday season and a joyful New Year! We look forward to bringing you more good tidings and good books as the year begins. 050