Marketing Plans
Confirmed Coverage
June 2024: Publishers Weekly - Fall 2024 Poetry Preview
September 2024: Debutiful - roundup and podcast reading on First Taste
Sept. 19: Read Appalachia Podcast
September 2024: Southern Review of Books - review
TK: Electric Lit - Books by Librarians roundup
Book launch
Sept. 10 - Epilogue Books - Chapel Hill, NC
- Author tour, including North Carolina reading series, book festivals, and workshops
- Outreach to poetry podcasts and Youtube: Poetry Foundation, Ours Poetica, Poetry Daily, The Slowdown, etc.
- National review outreach
- Indie bookseller campaign
- Social media outreach
The Girl Who Became a Rabbit, is a book-length lyric, a dark, ruminative poem that pushes the limits of the prose-poetic form to explore how the body carries and shapes grief and what it means to tell a story.
Examining reclaimed narratives of embodiment, gentle hauntings, and fables of the body, Emilie Menzel approaches the body as a home we consciously build, spinning myths and fairytales as ways to rewrite the body’s history.
In the spirit of Maggie Nelson and Max Porter, Menzel’s writing is wild, lush, recursive, and intentionally messy. A mesmerizing and unique debut, The Girl Who Became a Rabbit intersects fable and trauma, femininity and creatureliness, and imagines the transformation of the body, perhaps, into language.
