Writer-Editor. Debut novel THE LIMITS OF THE WORLD @DelphBks @AragiAuthors. Founder & editor @commonmag. Obsessed with sense of place and exotic fruits.
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11 Oct 2019
I had to check with my editor to make sure I was reading it right, but it seems Fatigue is indeed #1 nonfiction on Amazon (in the Kindle Singles). Apart from alphabetical order, I've never been in first place for writing, so gonna enjoy this while it lasts!
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6 Dec 2023
Excited to share our farmworker portfolio episode with Texas Public Radio, hosted by Yvette Benavides (@borderworldgirl)! Listen now for interviews with @jen_acker, co-editor @trustmiguel, Nora Rodriguez Camagna, and readings from the portfolio.
tpr.org/podcast/book-public/…
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6 Nov 2023
Actor, author, and recipient of the 2023 🏆Lambda Literary Award, @MaulikPancholy presents 📕‘Nikhil Out Loud’ a novel about a gay Indian American boy who learns the power of using his voice, at a book reading panel during the IAAC Literary Festival 2023. Joining him is author Shastri Akella ( @shastriav ) 🏆winner of the Fractured Lit Flash Fiction Contest and 🏅the Best Microfiction Contest, presenting 📘‘The Sea Elephants’, an enchanting tale through mythology, desire, and grief. Bestselling author and Founder and editor-in-chief of The Common, Jennifer Acker ( @jen_acker ), will 🎤moderate the panel.
🗓️November 19 | 📍Conrad New York Downtown | Room B | ⏲️12.00 -12.50 pm
🎟️RSVP now! bit.ly/3Sh6yfs
⭐️Open to all for free ⭐️
#literaryfestival #NYC #booklovers #authorsofinstagram #IAAC #books
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18 Sep 2023
Sometimes my favorite part of cover reveal day is the pun 😂
18 Sep 2023
Turnip the volume—it's time for our Issue 26 cover announcement!
Over half of our fall issue will showcase a portfolio of writing and art from the farmworker community: the stories, essays, poems, and artwork of immigrant agricultural workers, co-edited by @TrustMiguel.
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Jennifer Acker retweeted
31 Jul 2023
"Par excellence is THE LEGIBLE ELEMENT, Ralph Sneeden’s astonishing book of water-borne essays...Read just one page and beware of the undertow."
—@jen_acker, author of THE LIMITS OF THE WORLD and editor at @commonmag. Learn more and order a copy today at bit.ly/44cqVx4!
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29 Jul 2023
This piece is a gift. Really conveys what fatigue/PEM is like and the challenge we face in improving people’s lives.
27 Jul 2023
🛑I wrote about what “fatigue” really means for people with long COVID and ME/CFS, and why this profoundly debilitating symptom is so often misunderstood and trivialized.
(This piece also covers PEM.) 1/
theatlantic.com/health/archi…
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Jennifer Acker retweeted
22 Jun 2023
Don't miss this exciting conversation between @ValeriaLuiselli and TC editor in chief @jen_acker about home, migration, and untold stories:
thecommononline.org/let-me-o…
ALT Jennifer Acker and Valeria Luiselli at LitFest 2023
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Jennifer Acker retweeted
10 May 2023
My first lit mag story in 10 years is live at @commonmag! If you want to spend more time in #TheFamilyIzquierdo barrio and want to read a story about their neighbor Teddy and his spirit-seeing dog, check it and order a paper copy of this great issue!
thecommononline.org/tag/rube…
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10 May 2023
It was a wonderful collaboration with @jen_acker, @nashwagowanlock, @nariology, @sawadhussain, maia tabet and Laura Albast.
The result: all these stories and art works from Kuwait int the latest issue of (the-one-and-only) @commonmag.
Read/see it all: thecommononline.org/issues/i…
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11 May 2023
So grateful for our Arabic translators! So dedicated and talented.
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24 Feb 2023
Wow do I love this essay on love and poetic form. Join @zeinabeck next week for a longer treatment of this theme. Still spaces left!
thecommononline.org/craft-cl…
23 Feb 2023
Check out this piece full on love and the ghazal by @zeinabeck that was recently published in @newlinesmag—and if you love it, don't forget to register for her craft class which is just a week away!
newlinesmag.com/first-person…
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24 Feb 2023
So excited for these authors. Such a joy to work with all of them.
24 Feb 2023
A big congratulations to @noor_naga, Lisa Hsiao Chen (@Qidurian), and @sindyabhanoo, three of our contributors who have been shortlisted for PEN awards!
pen.org/literary-awards/anno…
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Jennifer Acker retweeted
17 Feb 2023
Recently attended amazing @commonmag online craft class by author, journalist, Guggenheim Fellow @AnnaBadkhen. Inspiring note, paraphrased: 'When I sit down & start writing I want to do something to shift, to disturb, to illuminate, to bridge.' That's the higher goal & calling!
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30 Jan 2023
We are shocked and saddened by the tragic deaths of the farmworkers in Half Moon Bay and will dedicate our forthcoming farmworkers' portfolio to the memory of these lives.
The call for submissions has been extended to February 17.
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Jennifer Acker retweeted
22 Jan 2023
Check out this old Contributors in Conversation podcast hosted by @steventagle. It features our editor-in-chief @jen_acker and contributor Stephen O'Connor!
thecommononline.org/contribu…
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30 Dec 2022
FATIGUE by @jen_acker is an excellent Kindle short about how ME and the added challenge of her husband's disability affected the author's marriage. 8/14
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14 Dec 2022
So proud of these authors! Congratulations!!
13 Dec 2022
Congrats to Noor Naga (@noor_naga), co-editor of our Issue 22 Arabian Gulf portfolio and Issue 15 contributor, on winning @Center4Fiction's 2022 First Novel Prize! Two other TC contributors, Lisa Chen and Fatimah Asghar (@asgharthegrouch), also made the longlist!
13 Dec 2022
In 2021, 410 nonprofit literary orgs and publishers from 44 states, plus DC & Puerto Rico, served 8.9M ppl in person and 211.4M online.
TY @nationalbook @PoetryFound @CLMPorg for this data & report & esp your advocacy! (We need $) clmp.org/press-center/first-…
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23 Nov 2022
An excellent letter & thread carefully pointing out the reporting problems w this article. @jspotila is too professional to say so, but @NYMag has egg on its face. A correction is in order.
22 Nov 2022
The @nymag article about #LongCovid and #MECFS by @ManvBrain is misleading, biased, and riddled with errors. I sent a letter to the editor today, which you can read on my blog. occupyme.net/2022/11/22/new-… 1/11
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Jennifer Acker retweeted
18 Nov 2022
If the curtain truly is falling, a final plea to the void: support/subscribe to lit mags. Some of the most exciting literature published in American can be found in their pages.
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