Accents Publishing

11/07/2025

Four short Olya Stoyanova poems in the Bulgarian issue of BODY magazine, edited by Clint Margrave. Take a look!
These poems are included in the forthcoming collection HAPPINESS STREET, brought to you by Accents Publishing.

Olya Stoyanova is a poet, writer and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her last poetry book, “Street Happiness”, won two national awards.

11/05/2025

New on the Accents podcast on WUKY! Accents Editor Katerina Stoykova talks with Manny Grimaldi about his new book, Finding a Word to Describe You. Give this episode a listen, it's always an experience to hear Manny read his work!

Katerina Stoykova interviews poet Manny Grimaldi about his new book, Finding a Word to Describe You.

11/04/2025

THIS SATURDAY! A rare opportunity to study with Frank X Walker! This two-hour workshop has been brought to you by Accents Publishing and the Carnegie Center.

Writing Through Grief, Trauma & Pain with Frank X Walker

One of Kentucky's finest poets, author of the award-winning collection Last Will, Last Testament will share with us his way of harnessing the energies of grief, trauma and pain to transform them into literary works of truth and immediacy. Participants will work with a series of prompts to generate their own material and to examine the inseparability of love from sorrow, of future from past.

A native of Danville, Kentucky, Frank X Walker is the first African American writer to be named Kentucky Poet Laureate. Walker has published thirteen collections of poetry, including Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers, which was awarded the 2014 NAACP Image Award for Poetry and the Black Caucus American Library Association Honor Award for Poetry. His honors also include a 2004 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry, the 2008 and 2009 Denny C. Plattner Award for Outstanding Poetry in Appalachian Heritage, the 2013 West Virginia Humanities Council’s Appalachian Heritage Award, as well as fellowships and residences with Cave Canem, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Kentucky Arts Council. In 2020 Walker received the Donald Justice Award for Poetry from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. The recipient of honorary doctorates from University of Kentucky, Transylvania University, Spalding University and Centre College, Walker is the founding editor of pluck! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture and serves as Professor of English and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

11/8 10am to noon EST
Online
$40
https://bit.ly/writing_grief

11/03/2025

On the way from the printer: Olya Stoyanova's HAPPINESS STREET!

Accents Publishing is proud to present Happiness Street, a poetry collection by award winning Bulgarian poet Olya Stoyanova. Family relationships, travel and the importance of everyday connections take center stage in these sparse, deceptively simple poems.

Read a sample poem, blurbs, author bio and order your copy at:
https://accents-publishing.com/happinessstreet.html

11/02/2025

Yes! We are open for submissions!

10/29/2025

Lisa Groen has a published a historical fiction book, The Cassatt Sisters: A Novel of Love and Art. If you like conversations about art, writing and/or feminist issues, you will love this podcast. Give it a listen. The Accents podcast on WUKY, hosted by Katerina Stoykova.

Katerina Stoykova interviews writer Lisa Groen about her historical fiction book, The Cassatt Sisters: A Novel of Love and Art.

10/22/2025

Accents Publishing, in partnership with the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning is pleased to offer a workshop by celebrated poet and teacher Cecilia Woloch, the author of Labor: The Testimony of Ted Gal (Accents Publishing, 2024).

The workshop is online, 6-8pm on 10/28, $40. To register, scan the QR code or go to bit.ly/persona_poem.

Other Voices Lost & Found: Crafting the Historical Persona Poem

Material for poems is everywhere – including in personal and historical archives. In this workshop, we’ll discuss how other voices — drawn from testimonies, transcripts, letters and other “found” materials – can be used to craft poems-of-witness and historical persona poems. We’ll read and discuss literary models, exchange ideas for subjects and approaches, and then participants will be led into a writing exercise in which materials-at-hand and imagination are combined to draft a poem in the voice of someone from the past, whether a historical figure or an ancestor.

Cecilia Woloch is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Foundation. Besides Labor: The Testimony of Ted Gal (Accents Publishing), Cecilia is the author of Sacrifice, a Book Sense 76 Selection in 2001; Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem, which has been given multi-disciplinary presentations across the U.S. and Europe; Late, for which she was named Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry in 2004; Narcissus, winner of the Tupelo Press Snowbound Prize in 2006; Carpathia, a finalist for the Milton Kessler Award in 2010; Earth, winner of the 2015 Two Sylvias Press chapbook prize, and Sur la Route (On the Road) a novel-in-vignettes.

10/18/2025

Wendy Jett's reading during Accents Publishing Book Hop on 9/19 at the Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning. Video by Bill Brymer.

10/18/2025

The next Accents Original Series workshop in partnership with the Carnegie Center will take place in a little over a week. Cecilia is a remarkable poet and teacher and I look forward to learning from her!

Other Voices Lost & Found: Crafting the Historical Persona Poem
Material for poems is everywhere – including in personal and historical archives. In this workshop, we’ll discuss how other voices — drawn from testimonies, transcripts, letters and other “found” materials – can be used to craft poems-of-witness and historical persona poems. We’ll read and discuss literary models, exchange ideas for subjects and approaches, and then participants will be led into a writing exercise in which materials-at-hand and imagination are combined to draft a poem in the voice of someone from the past, whether a historical figure or an ancestor.

Cecilia Woloch is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Foundation. Besides Labor: The Testimony of Ted Gal (Accents Publishing), Cecilia is the author of Sacrifice, a Book Sense 76 Selection in 2001; Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem, which has been given multi-disciplinary presentations across the U.S. and Europe; Late, for which she was named Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry in 2004; Narcissus, winner of the Tupelo Press Snowbound Prize in 2006; Carpathia, a finalist for the Milton Kessler Award in 2010; Earth, winner of the 2015 Two Sylvias Press chapbook prize, and Sur la Route (On the Road) a novel-in-vignettes.

Online
10/28, 6-8pm EST
$40

10/15/2025

Accents Publishing is proud to announce this year's nominations for The Pushcart Prize!

Renee Rigdon for "Thoughts &" from the collection PLANT DADDY

Christopher McCurry for "God Boy Gets a Lesson From His Pops" from the poetry collection THE GOSPEL OF GOD BOY

Wesley Houp for "Art Contest" from the poetry collection STRUNG OUT ALONG THE ENDLESS BRANCH

B. Elizabeth Beck for "Take Five" from the short story collection SWAN SONGS

Kevin Nance for "The Last Bur Oak at McConnell Springs" from the poetry collection SMOKE

Jeremy Paden for "LI." from the collection how to recognize god's chosen

Congratulations to the authors for the nominations and we look forward to the results!

10/09/2025

Open reading at Accents Publishing 11/1 to 12/31. Tell your friends.

10/08/2025

TOMORROW!

Join Jeremy Paden, author of how to recognize god’s chosen, for an exploration of poetry as spiritual practice. Both song and prayer are, perhaps, our earliest forms of poetry, and both give voice to our deepest longings. Both are also central in most religious practices. The word religion comes from religio. While Augustine proposes that religio come from religare, to bind again or to bind fast, Cicero states it comes from re-legere, to re-read or to read with care. In this workshop, we will focus on Cicero’s notion of reading and rereading: (re)reading the self, (re)reading the world, (re)reading other spiritual poets. Participants will be provided with an anthology of poems, as well as and reading and writing prompts that engage those poems with an eye toward writing new poems.

October 9th
6-8pm EST
$40
Online

To register, scan in the QR code or click on the link in the first comment.