Kathleen Condray, author of Das Arkansas Echo: A Year in the Life of Germans in the Nineteenth-Century South spoke with Kyle Kellams on KUAF's...
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Deadline Extended for the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize!
The deadline for the $1,000 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize has been extended to May 1, 2021. About the Etel Adnan Poetry Series Every year the...
40 years and more of the UA Press
Accomplishments of the University of Arkansas Press in its 40 years of book publishing will be discussed by a virtual panel sponsored by the...
A Theory of Birds Named Finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award
A Theory of Birds by Zaina Alsous has been named a finalist for the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The book has previously won the 2020 The George...
Author Elizabeth Shores to Discuss Shared Secrets
Join the University of Arkansas Libraries and Press for a discussion of author Elizabeth Shores' recent book, Shared Secrets: The Queer World of...
40% Off for Black History Month
To celebrate Black History Month, the University of Arkansas Press is offering 40% off two books that explore African-American History in Arkansas....
Fugitivism Wins 2020 Booker Worthen Literary Prize
Fugitivism: Escaping Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1820–1860 by S. Charles Bolton has won the 2020 Booker Worthen Literary Prize. Like...
A Theory of Birds reviewed in The Rumpus
Zaina Alsous’s A Theory of Birds is a marvel in using scientific theory and classification to explore womanhood, exile, minority experience, the...
New Course Adoptions
University of Arkansas Press books are used in a wide variety of college courses. A selection of these can be found on our course adoptions page....
New Orleans Sports Reviewed in the Journal of Southern History
The Journal of Southern History has reviewed New Orleans Sports: Playing Hard in the Big Easy, edited by Thomas Aiello: “New Orleans Sports: Playing...
Virtual Book Talk and Class: Brian Walter teaches Donald Harington at OLLI
The University of Arkansas Press has published Double Toil and Trouble, the first new volume of fiction in more than a decade by beloved Arkansas...
A Theory of Birds Wins Arab American Book Award
A Theory of Birds: Poems by Zaina Alsous has won the 2020 George Ellenbogen Poetry Award from the Arab American National Museum, part of the Arab...
Danielle Badra Wins 2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize
Danielle Badra has been named the winner of the 2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize for her collection Like We Still Speak, which will be published by the...
Now Available: Seattle Sports
Seattle Sports: Play, Identity, and Pursuit in the Emerald City, edited by Terry Anne Scott, explores the vast and varied history of sports in this...
Submissions are Open for the $5,000 Miller Williams Poetry Prize
Every year, the University of Arkansas Press accepts submissions for the Miller Williams Poetry Series and from the books selected awards the $5,000...
Sanderia Faye in the Dallas Morning News
Amistad Press launched the movement and hashtags #BlackPublishingPower and #BlackOutBestSellerList to support black authors and get their names on...
Leon Stokesbury Wins Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia Writers Association
The Georgia Writers Association (GWA) announced via Facebook Live the winners and finalists of the 56th annual Georgia Author of the Year Awards....
Michael McGriff Named 2021 Miller Williams Poetry Prize Winner
Michael McGriffCraig BlaisMadeleine WattenbergAuthor, editor and translator Michael McGriff has won the 2021 Miller Williams Poetry Prize for his...
The Man in Song Named One of the Best Country Music Books of All Time by Book Authority
Book Authority has ranked The Man in Song: A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash by John M. Alexander as number seven on its list of the "82 Best...
Jayson Iwen on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Simply Superior
Jayson Iwen appeared on Wisconsin Public Radio's Simply Superior to discuss his poetry collection Roze & Blud, which won the 2020 Miller...
Fugitivism Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History
"Fugitivism," Shaun Wallace writes in the May 2020 issue of The Journal of Southern History, "enriches scholarly knowledge and understanding of...