M. ALLEN CUNNINGHAM AUTHOR, EDITOR, TEACHER
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      • Q&A
      • Perpetua's Kin
      • Funny-Ass Thoreau
      • Partisans
      • The Honorable Obscurity Handbook
      • The Flickering Page
      • Date of Disappearance
      • Lost Son
      • The Green Age of Asher Witherow
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M. Allen Cunningham    author, editor, teacher

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 Take a 4-day fiction workshop with M. Allen Cunningham this summer in 



beautiful Pebble Beach, California, at the Catamaran Writing Conference!



July 31 - August 4



More info here.
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 Cunningham's New Book is ​Q&A 

 (Regal House Publishing) 

BUY THIS BOOK
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cover design: Nathan Shields
An urgent reimagining of the 1950s quiz show scandals ​in light of our own image-driven times.
"Warning: Never use the word genius extravagantly, except when referring to M. Allen Cunningham’s Q&A."
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ROBERT ANTONI, 
​author of As Flies to Whatless Boys and Cut Guavas
buy q&a
Reviewers & booksellers: request Q&A

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cover design: Nathan Shields
​"A flat-out brilliant book."     
​-LENI ZUMAS, author of Red Clocks
Buy Perpetua's Kin $10

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cover design: Nathan Shields
​"Hilariously irreverent."     
​-The Thoreau Society Bulletin

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cover design: Nathan Shields
​"It offered me energy. We join forces."     
​-JOHN BERGER
BUY partisans NOW $10.00 (40% off)

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cover design: Nathan Shields
"Ingenious, important, inspiring and inspiriting."     
​-CYNTHIA OZICK
buy now $10

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A novel about Rilke.
"A vast monument to the power of the creative spirit." ​-Curled Up With a Good Book
buy lost son $10

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"Classic ... The debut of a fully formed, timeless American writer." ​-Square Books, Oxford MS
​VIEW: Q&A Video Excerpt
READ/LISTEN: Cunningham's essay about the origins of Q&A: "You, Me, and the Screen Between: An Elegy"
VIEW: Cunningham reads from Q&A
VIEW: Q&A Video Excerpt
​VIEW: Q&A Trailer
LISTEN: Cunningham interviewed on Broads & Books (May 2021)
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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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In the Atelier:


​A Creativity Podcast






hosted by


M. Allen Cunningham





artfully produced


installments about


 the highs and lows


of making art

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Listen to "M. Allen Cunningham" on Spreaker.

 

Audio Dispatches from M. Allen Cunningham
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readings, teaching, experiments
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​Study creative writing with ​Cunningham



in Vienna, summer 2022!

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4-credit course open to all PSU students 

and non-PSU students alike!



Details HERE.


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The Flickering Page: The Reading



Experience in Digital Times





buy the flickering page $7

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"Superb. Deeply seductive. Demands a lingering rereading." ​-The Oregonian
buy date of disappearance $12

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Read M. Allen Cunningham's

Published Essays, Reviews, etc.

On Screen Addiction & Democratic Breakdowns (Medium) 
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...
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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

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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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  • About
    • Bio
    • REVIEWS
  • Publications
    • Books >
      • Q&A
      • Perpetua's Kin
      • Funny-Ass Thoreau
      • Partisans
      • The Honorable Obscurity Handbook
      • The Flickering Page
      • Date of Disappearance
      • Lost Son
      • The Green Age of Asher Witherow
    • Other Publications, etc.
    • Audio/Video
    • Forthcoming
  • hire cunningham
    • Speaking
    • TEACHING
    • Editing
  • BLOG
  • News
  • Appearances
    • INTERVIEWS
  • ADDENDA
  • CONTACT