M. Allen Cunningham
- : fall 2019 :
- >Cunningham is looking for a position teaching creative writing on a regular basis, and you should hire him.
- >Cunningham will teach an advanced fiction workshop (WR 412) at Portland State University, winter 2020.
- >Cunningham will teach a 4-credit interdisciplinary creative writing course in Vienna, summer 2020. Want to go? All PSU students and even non-PSU students welcome!
- >Cunningham gave a featured craft lecture at the 2019 Catamaran Writing Conference in Pebble Beach, CA this August.
- >Cunningham published an in-depth interview with Ben George, Senior Editor at Little, Brown & Co. in the current issue of Poets & Writers magazine (Sept/Oct 2019). You can read the complete interview HERE (it's neatly abridged in the print version).
>Listen to short form audio dispatches from Cunningham on his podcast (subscribe through most podcasting apps). And watch for a new podcast produced by Atelier26 Books, coming soon.
>Margaret Malone's People Like You, which Cunningham solicited and edited for Atelier26 Books, was named one of Twenty-Five Books to Read Before You Die by the world's largest bookstore Powell's Books in their biggest promotion of the year.
: spring 2019 :
>Cunningham's new book, a large hybrid work about television in the U.S. entitled Q&A, is forthcoming from Regal House Publishing in 2020!
>Cunningham is a new Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Portland State University, where he taught an Advanced Fiction Seminar this spring; he also taught a spring Documentary Film Appreciation class for Clackamas Community College.
>Cunningham's new essay "Variations on the Finding" appears in the 2019 Portland Review anthology Unchartable: On Environmental Unknowns, out now.
>Cunningham's in-depth interview with Little, Brown Senior Editor Ben George will appear in the Sept/Oct 2019 issue of Poets & Writers magazine.
>Atelier26 Books exhibited at the 2019 AWP Bookfair in Portland, and hosted a reading in partnership with Moss that featured several Atelier26 authors and Northwest writers.
>Cunningham will attend the Brooklyn Book Festival and staff the Atelier26 Books table, September 22, 2019
PAST NEWS
: fall 2018 :
: fall 2017 :
: spring 2017 :
>Cunningham's Atelier26 Books is the recipient of a 2017 grant from the Oregon Community Foundation, which will help fund the production of upcoming titles.
>In Fall 2017 Atelier26 Books will release Woody Skinner's debut story collection A Thousand Distant Radios and distinguished poet Sidney Wade's Bird Book.
>Cunningham has been teaching writing workshops in Portland at Literary Arts and through Atelier26.
: fall 2018 :
- >Cunningham's new novel PERPETUA'S KIN, eleven years in the making, is now available from Atelier26 Books and has been named one of the Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2018 in New York Magazine.
- >Cunningham gave a few readings in New York City in October 2018 and has several events scheduled throughout the fall.
- >Cunningham is the recipient of a 2018 Project Grant from the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) in support of his novel PERPETUA'S KIN.
- >Cunningham will teach an Advanced Fiction Seminar at Portland State University in the spring (2019).
- >A translated excerpt from Cunningham's LOST SON appeared in the new issue of the Blatter der Rilke-Gesellschaft, the Journal of the International Rilke Society (September 2018).
- >Cunningham's story "The Sky at Her Back," which originally appeared in Catamaran, was produced in a beautiful audio edition by Petrichor Audio Magazine.
- >Cunningham's new essay "Variations on the Finding" will appear in the upcoming Portland Review anthology Unchartable: On Environmental Unknowns (and Cunningham will participate in Portland Review's Lit Crawl event on 11/9 at Literary Arts.)
- >Cunningham's in-depth interview with Little, Brown Senior Editor Ben George will appear in an upcoming issue of Poets & Writers magazine.
: fall 2017 :
- >Cunningham's new novel, PERPETUA'S KIN, will appear in September 2018! Pre-orders are now open.
- >Cunningham will teach an original 4-week course at Portland's Literary Arts in April 2018: "Writing Fiction with Lin-Manuel Miranda's 'Hamilton.' " Learn more HERE.
- >Cunningham's FUNNY-ASS THOREAU has been added to the official Thoreau bibliography by The Thoreau Society.
- >Cunningham's review of Julian Barnes' THE NOISE OF TIME will appear in a special issue of American Book Review dedicated to biographical fiction, coming soon.
- >It's a big autumn for Atelier26 Books, which has released two new titles this season: Woody Skinner's debut short story collection A THOUSAND DISTANT RADIOS, and distinguished poet Sidney Wade's seventh collection, BIRD BOOK.
- >In a recent Q & A with Independent Publishers Group, Cunningham discussed his idealistic approach to publishing, the disappearance of the "middle class" in acquisition, and where he sees Atelier26 in five years.
: spring 2017 :
- >Cunningham joins fellow Portland publishers Laura Stanfill (Forest Avenue Press) and Zachary Schomburg (Octopus Books) in reading at Plonk on Wed. May 3rd (7PM).
- >M. Allen Cunningham is included in a new documentary by filmmaker Scott Ballard.
- >M. Allen Cunningham's Funny-Ass Thoreau was featured on LitHub.
>Cunningham's Atelier26 Books is the recipient of a 2017 grant from the Oregon Community Foundation, which will help fund the production of upcoming titles.
>In Fall 2017 Atelier26 Books will release Woody Skinner's debut story collection A Thousand Distant Radios and distinguished poet Sidney Wade's Bird Book.
>Cunningham has been teaching writing workshops in Portland at Literary Arts and through Atelier26.
- : spring 2016 :
- >M. Allen Cunningham joins the contributing editor team at Moss literary journal.
- >M. Allen Cunningham's piece, "A Publisher's Journey" is featured in Propeller Quarterly.
- >Big News from M. Allen Cunningham's Atelier26 Books: Latest Atelier26 Release Receives Prestigious PEN/Hemingway Honors
- >M. Allen Cunningham's essay "Variations on a Beginning" will appear in the Fall 2016 issue of The Timberline Review.
- Recent Appearances :
- >Sunday, March 20, 2016 / 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. > SEATTLE, WA
M. Allen Cunningham will staff the Atelier26 Books table at Seattle's awesome APRIL Festival of Independent Literature Book Expo.
Hugo House
1634 11th Ave
Seattle, WA
>Thursday March 31 - Saturday April 2, 2016 / 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. daily > LOS ANGELES, CA
M. Allen Cunningham will staff the Atelier26 Books table (#119) at the annual AWP Conference, North America's largest literary gathering.
Los Angeles Convention Center
1201 South Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA 90015 - >Friday, April 1, 2016 / 6:00-7:30 p.m. > LOS ANGELES, CA
M. Allen Cunningham reads in a stellar lineup in this AWP offsite event sponsored by Catamaran Literary Reader. Reception 6:00-6:30, then readings.
Hennessey & Ingalls Bookstore
300 S. Santa Fe Ave. (L.A. Arts District) - : fall/winter 2015 :
- M. Allen Cunningham's Atelier26 Books released author Margaret Malone's debut title PEOPLE LIKE YOU on November 17, 2015. Praised by Cheryl Strayed, Lidia Yuknavitch, Jim Shepard, and many other accomplished writers, the book has been featured in numerous outlets including The Oregonian, Portland Monthly Magazine, The Portland Mercury, Oregon's Fox12, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Late Night Library, and Largehearted Boy. Malone will give readings up and down the west coast this season.
- : spring 2015:
- M. Allen Cunningham's new book Partisans: A Lost Work by Geoffrey Peerson Leed is now out from Atelier26 Books.
Cunningham presents Partisans at Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon on Monday April 6, 2015. Details HERE.
Cunningham attends the AWP Conference in Minneapolis, April 8-11, 2015 (thanks to the Regional Arts & Culture Council).
Cunningham reads from his story collection Date of Disappearance at Another Read Through in Portland, Oregon on Saturday, May 9th. Details HERE.
Cunningham's short story "The Sky at Her Back" is forthcoming in Catamaran Literary Reader.
: fall / winter 2014 :
M. Allen Cunningham's new book Partisans: A Lost Work by Geoffrey Peerson Leed is forthcoming from Atelier26 Books, spring 2015. Excerpts and pre-order info coming soon.
Cunningham is currently at work on his fifth novel, a book he started this summer during an extremely fruitful residency at Yaddo.
After several months being out of stock, Cunningham's The Honorable Obscurity Handbook has just been re-released with a fabulous blurb by the great Cynthia Ozick, and a killer new cover by A26 designer Nathan Shields.
Cunningham's "Ghost Coda: A Rilke Pilgrimage, or: On Being Glad No One Knows You," an essay seven years in the writing, was featured on the Tin House blog in November.
As noted in the Oregonian, Atelier26 Books has announced that it will publish the brilliant debut People Like You, a collection of stories by Portland writer Margaret Malone in late 2015 or early 2016!
: summer 2014 :
M. Allen Cunningham had the honor of talking with Late Library Executive director Paul Martone for LNL's Late Night Conversation podcast. Listen to their discussion at the Late Night Library website beginning June 24th.
: spring 2014 :
For the duration of National Short Story Month, May 2014, get M. Allen Cunningham's DATE OF DISAPPEARANCE from Atelier26 Books for just $10 plus shipping (a discount of more than 40%). Atelier26 is also giving out bonus books on the first five orders.
M. Allen Cunningham's PARTISANS is one of six titles shortlisted for the 2014 Flann O'Brien Award for Innovative Fiction!
Atelier26 Books announces the forthcoming publication of Gravity by acclaimed author Elizabeth Rosner!
- An in-depth interview with M. Allen Cunningham about his novel LOST SON and his approach to biographical fiction is featured in Truthful Fictions: Conversations with American Biographical Novelists, edited by Michael Lackey, released February 2014 by Bloomsbury. Fellow interviewees include Russell Banks, Michael Cunningham, Ron Hansen, Joyce Carol Oates, and Jay Parini.