M. Allen Cunningham    author, editor, teacher

 Cunningham's New Book ​Q&A Arrives 

 from Regal House Publishing (order it now)

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cover design: Nathan Shields
Q&A is Cunningham's bold new page-turner
​about reality television, big pharma,
​high-tech distraction,
the triumph of incoherence,
​and deception via screens.
Q&A Video Excerpt: In Living Rooms Across America
​Q&A Video Excerpt: The Largest Possible Audience
​Q&A Trailer

NEW: 




​Thoreau's Leaves: the Thoreau Podcast




hosted by M. Allen Cunningham
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atmospheric audio excursions



into the world of Thoreau's work
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​Study creative writing with ​Cunningham



in Vienna, summer 2021!



4-credit course open to all PSU students 

and non-PSU students alike!



Details HERE.

New Novel ​Perpetua's Kin Out Now:

*One of the Most Anticipated Titles of the Season, New York Magazine
*A Favorite Summer Read, The Oregonian
*A Bookseller Favorite, with Staff Picks at:
Powell's Books (OR)
Northshire Books (NY)
Milkweed Books (MN)
Mrs. Dalloway's Booksellers (CA)
*A Goodreads Pick for the 2019 Tournament of Books
With ​Perpetua's Kin M. Allen Cunningham once again demonstrates that he is one of the bravest and most talented novelists writing today.     
​-Eowyn Ivey, author of To the Bright Edge of the World and Pulitzer Prize Finalist
​Perpetua's Kin blew me away with its stark, astonishing music. A flat-out brilliant book.     
​-Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks

Read M. Allen Cunningham's

Published Essays, Reviews, etc.

On Thoreau's unheralded humor (Lit Hub)
On Rilke & the Paris Library (Tin House)
On Solitude & Social Media (Fiction Writers Review)
​On John Berger (Propeller Quarterly)
On Rejection (Poets & Writers)
On Ali Smith, on Julian Barnes, on Ruskin, on Spectacle, on Independent Publishing
& More...

Buy Cunningham's ​Books

Q&A, a hybrid work (2021)
​​Perpetua's Kin, a new novel (2018)
Partisans, a samizdat novel
Lost Son, a novel about Rilke
The Green Age of Asher Witherow, a novel
The Honorable Obscurity Handbook, essays
The Flickering Page, cultural criticism
Date of Disappearance, stories
Funny-Ass Thoreau, humor/scholarship

Hire Cunningham
 

to Teach or Edit

*And study with Cunningham in Vienna!
"I don't think I've ever learned so much in a writing class before."
​-Portland State University student
(more: TEACHING)
​"[He] changed the way I think about my own work and how it lives in the world."
-author Margaret Malone (People Like You)​
(more: EDITING)

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Have a listen:

In the Atelier, a weekly podcast about writing, literature, and the life of the imagination, hosted by M. Allen Cunningham:
Thoreau's Leaves, a atmospheric excursion into the works of Henry David Thoreau, hosted by M. Allen Cunningham:
Audio Dispatches from M. Allen Cunningham:
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