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Results From Accents Publishing’s 2025 Open Reading Period

Dear writers, readers, supporters, and friends of Accents Publishing,

We are happy to announce the results of our 2025 Open Reading Period.

The following books have been selected for publication during the remainder of 2026 and throughout 2027. We look forward to bringing each of these outstanding books into the world and to working closely with these talented authors.

Please join us in congratulating them.

We were humbled by the large number of high-quality manuscripts we received. The selection process took longer than expected, and we had to make a number of very difficult decisions, but we feel we selected the titles that most closely reflect where Accents Publishing hopes to grow and evolve over the next eighteen months.

We deeply appreciate everyone who submitted work to us. Thank you for trusting us with your writing, and we sincerely hope to have the opportunity to read your work again in the future.

With appreciation,

Katerina Stoykova
and the team at Accents Publishing

The Double-Souled Son, a novel by Mary Louise Hill 

Languages of Birds, a short story collection by Geraldine Ann Marshall
The Water Collection, a short story collection by Bill Carman

True Bias, essays and sketches by Melita Schaum

Alert the Oracle, poetry by Tabitha Dial
Alien Mother, poetry by Kristina Erny
Animals, poetry by Rumen Pavlov
Birds of Thunder, poetry by Jessica D. Thompson
Catching a Ride in the Gizzard of a Bird, poetry by Sujata Lakhe
Flotilla: A Family Memoir in Verse, poetry by Melissa Jørgenrud Helton
From Field to Fable, poetry by Richard Taylor
My Father, the Water Bird, poetry by Sean Corbin
My Life as a Cricket, poetry by Linda Bryant Davis
Neighborhood Watch, poetry by Bill Brymer
Orchestra of Belonging, poetry by Marianne Peel
Orfeito, poetry by Ricardo Nazario y Colón
Places You Must Not Go, poetry by Flora K. Schildknecht
Stare on Paper, poetry by Stuart Horodner
Tendril, poetry by Amy Le Ann Richardson
This Set Down / This, poetry by Libby Falk Jones
Think. Pray. God, poetry by Wendy Jett
Your Curious Guidebook to Climate Change, poetry by Vivian Faith Prescott

Katerina Stoykova to Teach at Tupelo Quarterly

Accents Publishing founder and senior editor Katerina Stoykova will teach a three-hour workshop at Tupelo Quarterly as part of their Spring Series Workshops. More info here.

Workshop Description

You have accumulated a stack of poems, so what’s next? How do you go about arranging your material into a book? Should you work towards a chapbook or a full-length collection? What could be a manageable, non intimidating place to get started? What is the best way to organize the work? Should you break it into sections or shape it into one continuous flow? How can you recognize a good title for a collection? What are the main architectural elements of a book? How to keep sane and motivated throughout all this? Poet/Editor/Publisher Katerina Stoykova will discuss best practices on these and give tips to keep the process manageable and fun.

Meet Your Instructor

A Bulgarian by birth, Katerina Stoykova is a bilingual poet living in Kentucky and is the author of Between a Bird Cage and a Bird House (University Press of Kentucky, 2024) and The Poet’s Guide to Publishing: How to Conceive, Arrange, Edit, Publish and Market a Book of Poetry (McFarland, 2024). Katerina is the founder and senior editor of Accents Publishing, as well as the creator of the Accents podcast on WUKY. Katerina serves as the 2025-2026 President of the Kentucky State Poetry Society. 

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Katerina Stoykova Interviews Br. Paul Quenon on the Accents Podcast on WUKY

I’ve been a fan and admirer of Brother Paul Quenon’s poetry, memoir and photography. I had the rare opportunity to interview him for the Accents podcast on WUKY and ask him questions! I hope you listen!

https://www.wuky.org/podcast/accents/2026-03-04/paul-quenon

Katerina Stoykova interviews Peter Coyote for the Accents Podcast

Actor/Diriector/Narrator/Writer Peter Coyote and Katerina Stoykova had a chance to record a conversation for the Accents podcast on WUKY.

In this interview you will hear Peter read a few poems from his upcoming book, talk about becoming a Buddhist priest, living the life of a curious person, and more.

Listen here.