Sanderia Faye’s Mourner’s Bench is an impressive first novel, set between 1964 and 1965 in Deep South Maeby, Arkansas. Amid this tumultuous time of...
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Etel Adnan Poetry Prize Announced
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The University of Arkansas Press, together with the Radius of Arab American Writers, announces the initiation of the Etel Adnan...
Announcing the 2016 Miller Williams Poetry Prize Winner and Finalists
Fayetteville, Ark—The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the winner and finalists for the $5,000 2016 Miller Williams Poetry Prize,...
Library Journal calls Aaron Henry of Mississippi "essential"
Morrison presents a comprehensive biography of Aaron Henry (1922–97), a civil rights activist, organizer, and elected representative from Dublin,...
"An astute coming-of-age tale."—Kirkus
In her debut novel, Faye sensitively explores the turbulence of the civil rights movement in small-town Arkansas through the eyes of a young...
“Foxes, not oxes” – An Excerpt from A Spectacular Leap
Wilma Rudolph was born on this day (June 23) in 1940. Born and raised just about forty miles east of Nashville, Tennessee, in the small town of...
The Journal of Southern History reviews Of the Soil
The Journal of Southern History has published a wonderful review of Of the Soil: Photographs of Vernacular Architecture and Stories of...
A tribute to Miller Williams, by Jo McDougall
REMEMBERING MILLER Although I’d stumbled along as a poet for almost twenty years by the time I attended a 1979 writers conference in Little...
The Rise to Respectability reviewed in American Historical Review
The Rise to Respectability has already gotten excellent reviews from Arkansas Historical Quarterly, the Journal of Southern History, the Journal of...
Journal of Southern History reviews When the Wolf Came
Mary Jane Warde's wonderful history of the Civil War and the Indian Territory has picked up yet another review, this time in The Journal of Southern...
The Arkansas-Virginia Poetry Connection
Fayetteville, Arkansas is roughly one thousand miles from the state of Virginia. But this week, with the annual Virginia Festival of the Book in...
March is Arkansas Archeology Month!
Arkansas has been officially celebrating archeology since 1991. In 2002, Arkansas Archeology Week expanded to Arkansas Archeology Month. The annual...
Top 14 Sellers for 2014
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce our 14 bestselling books for 2014. The books that rose to the top last year represent our...
Roy Reed interviewed on Ozarks at Large about Selma
Roy Reed was interviewed on KUAF's Ozarks at Large about his coverage of the Selma voting rights protest in 1965 and the new movie Selma. Roy Reed...
Pinson Mounds picks up another great review
“A tour de force … provides an interesting, intriguing, and comprehensive consideration of this important Mid-south Middle Woodland site… I strongly...
When the Wolf Came wins 2014 Pate Award
The Fort Worth Civil War Round Table is pleased to announce that Mary Jane Warde is the winner of the 2014 A. M. Pate, Jr. Award in Civil War...
2 UA Press titles named Outstanding Academic Title Winners by Choice Magazine
A Documentary History of Arkansas, ed. by C. Fred Wiliams et al. 2nd ed. In this era of online resources, justifying a new print reference work,...
Miller Williams Dies at 84
Miller Williams, the founder and first director of The University of Arkansas Press, passed away on Thursday, January 1, 2015. Williams, a...
“An inspired addition to the research…"
“An inspired addition to the research on the Greensboro massacre and its aftermath. More important, it is a significant scholarly inquiry...
“A solid work of scholarship that is essential for scholars…"
Another excellent review of When the Wolf Came, this time in the Autumn 2014 issue of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly: "A solid work...
"A vibrant word picture of a war…"
"A vibrant word picture of a war that was fought in less familiar locales by protagonists from an unfamiliar society." —America's Civil War...