Austyn Wohlers

my novel hothouse bloom is out today! thank you so much to all the friends, loved ones, mentors, & peers who have helped bring this book into the world 🪷🕊️🌸🍎🌳 and to my wonderful agent @alexreubert editor @megireid and publicist @zoe.aline shipping is free for the first week! you can also read an excerpt from the novel today on @debutiful launching the book at Books Are Magic Montague tonight with Benjamin Crais and P&T Knitwear tomorrow with Bud Smith! massive love!!

The paperback edition of HOTOUSE BLOOM by Austyn Wohlers is coming! Praised as luminous and feral in equal measure and called “the rare kind of debut that resets the bar for the field at large” by Blake Butler and “strikingly original” by Mesha Maren in The New York Times, this novel raising urgent questions about whether genuine human connection to an ecosystem is still possible amid the forces of modern consumerism and capitalism. We’re also thrilled to share that it’s a finalist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, with the final announcement coming March 10. Join us in celebrating this bold, unforgettable book. Coming August 11, but preorder your copy at hubcity.org/hhb to get it first.

enter my world of pain tomorrow at 1pm on @nts_radio thanks dagmar for having me

We first learned about Austyn Wohlers this year when we came across her record BODYMELT IN THE GARDEN OF DEATH released on Geographic North @geographicnorth We were immediately taken aback by the sensorial nature of this release. As we listened, we swam in layer after layer of earthy references, airy textures, and flooded, weighty droned distortions. Every listen provided us with a new experience and we loved it so much we stocked it immediately in our shop. Apparently you loved it as well as we sold out all of our copies within weeks - Bodymelt in the Garden of Death sold faster than any other record we stocked this year. All this to say, we are beyond thrilled to wrap our year by welcoming Austyn to perform at our free daytime Winter Solstice show next Sunday at Miller Plaza. No matter what kind of year you’ve had, Austyn’s sound will meet you where you stand and provide context for reflection, deep emotion, grounding, meditation, and release. It’s as if her sound acts as a caring mother gently, but firmly ushering you to a deeper sense of connection to yourself, the world, and the work of being alive. Please join us Sunday as we want to say thank you for supporting us this year in our Dinner Series, in our efforts to bring you new culinary and musical discoveries, joy, and opportunities to forge new relationships. Sujata Singh, our feature chef for Dinner Sunday evening, will provide an A La Carté food and beverage menu during the show. Stay with us later for dinner, as Sujata has prepared a Winter Warmer 5-course Indian meal to prepare our bodies for hibernation, for slowing down, and for finding warmth within ourselves and in the world we inhabit. Join Us Sunday December 21 Winter Solstice Daytime Show 2p-5:30p Free All Ages Welcome (21 to drink) Miller Plaza Downtown Chattanooga A La Carté Food / Beverage provided by Spice Trail @spicetrailcha Music Lineup: Austyn Wohlers @geelriandre Slow Blink @sloow_blink Atonal Drift @christopherknowles Dinner Series Finalé 5:30p Seating $95 All Ages Welcome (21 to drink) 5-Course Indian Menu by Sujata Singh @spicetrailcha Complimentary Cocktail Full Bar Music Provided by @alliebashuk Sound @jw_sound <3

We are happy to announce our 2025 Dinner Series finalé and Day 2 EOY celebrations show at Miller Plaza on December 21 beginning at 2PM. Right on the solstice, we will bring together elements of warmth, spices, textural sounds, meditations upon the year and and a gentle wind-down into Winter. The day begins at 2PM with live sets from Atonal Drift @christopherknowles Slow Blink @sloow_blink and Austyn Wohlers @geelriandre at Miller Plaza. Sujata Singh @sujatashahisingh of Spice Trail @spicetrailcha will offer an a la carte food and beverage menu for showgoers. At 5:30, we'll sit for a coursed dinner with Sujata and an all vinyl set curated by Allie Bashuk @alliebashuk at Spice Trail. Dinner will be intimate, warm, and intended to set us right for Winter and the end of the year. Here's any details you need: Dinner Series Finalé 2025 Free Daytime Show All Ages Welcome (21 to drink) Miller Plaza 2p-5:30p Austyn Wohlers @geelriandre Slow Blink @sloow_blink Atonal Drift @christopherknowles A La Carte F&B Spice Trail @spicetrailcha Shop: CATALOG @monospace.cha Dinner: Chef: Sujata Singh @sujatashahisingh Selector: Allie Bashuk @alliebashuk 5:30p Seating All Ages Welcome (21 to drink) 5(6) courses Complimentary Cocktail Full Bar Tickets: $95 Available in Bio Link Sound: JW Sound @jw_sound Our 2025 finalé will gently wind us down from our party Saturday night at the @boneyard.bar featuring a special menu with INTROSPEKT @sage_introspekt , SCOTIA @scotia_trax , JETHIMSELF @jethimself , DENNIS RICHIE @dennis___richie , OOB @the_glorious_oob , and CATALOG @monospace.cha

My conversation with Austyn Wohlers is now up on Hobart. We talked about her debut novel Hothouse Bloom, monastic life and the urge to raise goats. Thank you @geelriandre @sfldbooks.pulp @daniellechelosky Link in bio

Writer Austyn Wohlers @geelriandre in conversation with Nirica Srinivasan @twotownsfromme about her ambitious & acclaimed new novel HOTHOUSE BLOOM @hubcitywriters - link in bio #interlocutorinterviews - author photo by @missymalouff

I interviewed novelist Austyn Wohlers @geelriandre about her debut novel from @hubcitywriters , Hothouse Bloom. We had a lovely conversation about living in a decaying world, the necessity of community, and her novel. As creative millennial who dreams of losing myself in the natural world, Hothouse Bloom spoke to me, and had me searching my own soul about what those pastoral dreams mean. Read the interview on Write or Die Mag. #writing #authorinterview

HOTHOUSE BLOOM, out yesterday from Hub City (@hubcitywriters ), marks the emergence of a talented new novelist in the literary scene—and necessarily, one writing with candor on the pursuit of art itself. Austyn Wohlers’ (@geelriandre ) first book throws the stakes of making into stark relief by imagining what happens to a painter who renounces her career to live out a ruralist’s fantasy on an inherited apple orchard. Kate Meadows (@apresmoitheflood ) sat down to chat with Wohlers about all that hangs in the balance when it comes to creative success.🍎 — Read on our substack (workingartistmag.substack.com) or website (workingartistcollective.com) — If you’re in NYC, come to Hothouse Bloom’s second launch tonight at @ptknitwear !

Hothouse Bloom book tour dates! very excited to hit the road and see some friends this September. thanks to everyone who will be reading, playing, and talking with me: 8/26 Brooklyn, NY: Books are Magic Montague with Benjamin Crais, 7pm 8/27 Manhattan, NY: P&T Knitwear with Bud Smith, 6:30pm 9/5 St Johnsbury*, VT: Sam’s Listening Bar with Touissant St. Negritude and Alex Homan, 7pm 9/9 Baltimore, MD: Normal’s Books and Records with Blake Butler, 7pm 9/10 DC: Lost City Books with Paul Maliszewski, 7pm 9/11 Richmond, VA: Fountain Books with Andi Richardson, 6pm 9/12 Asheville, NC: Bagatelle Books with Ashleigh Bryant Phillips, 7pm 9/15 Athens, GA: Avid Bookstore with Christee Henry, 7pm 9/16 Atlanta, GA: Commune (with a DJ set by Geographic North) with A. V. Tapia, 7pm 9/21 Brooklyn Book Fest (Hub City Tent) Flyer by @sam__leidig

We're thrilled to share with you that Austyn Wohlers's debut novel, HOTHOUSE BLOOM is a ⭐September Indie Next Pick!⭐ We're so happy that this strange, funny, lush debut novel has resonated with so many booksellers nationwide. 🍎 “A tremendously lush, stylistic novel enlivened by the push and pull between our main character’s interiority and the natural world to which she attempts to escape from her own head. A calming, quietly alluring read.” —Bryan Seitz, @literatibookstore 🍎 “Hothouse Bloom begins ethereally, but drags you back to earth in the same vein as Clarice Lispector or Otessa Moshfegh.” —Mikey LaFave, @avidbookshop 🍎 “Hothouse Bloom is a stylistically assured and mature debut novel that peers into Eden and finds there no paradise, but instead the all-devouring appetites of capital. Austyn Wohlers is a writer worth our attention.” —Stephen Sparks, @pointreyesbooks 🍎 “With poetic and sensual descriptions, Austyn Wohlers puts readers inside the mind of Anna, a young painter who has inherited her late grandfather’s apple orchard.” —Nancy Pierce, @bookmiser Take a look at the final copies! Preorder yours from your local indie bookshop or at hubcity.org/hothousebloom. Psst...Calling all lit fic bookstagrammers in the U.S.: leave us a comment if HOTHOUSE BLOOM sounds like it's up your alley! We’ll put you in our pool to potentially receive a review copy.

teaching a class on dialog in fiction this September! through the hudson valley writers center. signup link in bio — That’s how I began to understand that you don’t talk just to talk, to say “I did this, I did that, I ate and drank,” but you talk to find an idea, to learn how the world works. I’d never thought of it before. —Cesar Pavese The difficult task of representing speech in literature is usually addressed in creative writing classes by two methods: eavesdropping on and transcribing conversations overheard in public, and crystalizing wordy dialog into more poetic and succinct forms. However, these techniques only scratch the surface of what we can learn and theorize about dialog in fiction. In this 2-hour intensive, we will explore several unique approaches to writing dialogue, do generative in-class writing exercises together, and close-read texts by Francine Prose, Ursula K. Le Guin, Elena Ferrante, Julio Cortázar, and Gary Indiana.