[ artful autobiographical writing ]
SNAPSHOT
Autofocus Books is a publisher of artful autobiographical writing in any genre or form: personal essay, memoir, autofiction, confessional poetry, and anything in-between. The press specializes in relatively brief books that fit, and occasionally stretch, the boundaries of our literary interests.
Currently, we publish six to nine books a year.
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The press evolved out of an online literary journal and related podcast that published consistently from October 2020 - October 2024.
Autofocus Lit was our online journal for artful autobiographical writing. At times, it published weekly, at times monthly, at times seasonally. The archive of 318 works can be found here.
An anthology of selected prose from the journal is now available.
The Lives of Writers was our podcast series of interviews with writers about their lives in and out of books. It published 162 interviews with mostly small press authors on a weekly or monthly basis.
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The press launched, officially, in January 2022.
MASTHEAD
Publisher & editor: Michael Wheaton
Assistant editors: Lena Crown, Amy Fusselman, Sienna Zeilinger
Editorial assistants: Ian Reid, Maddie Paskow
Marketing & publicity assistant: Maddie Paskow
Cover design: Amy Wheaton
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