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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 bestseller lists throughout the country. Tracy Sherrod, editorial director of Amistad, brought this idea to life. She...
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. Poet Leon Stokesbury was awarded posthumously awarded the lifetime achievement award. Leon Stokesbury was born in Oklahoma...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Shared Secrets
Portrait of Charles J. Finger by Robert Hobart Davis, c. 1922 (Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library).The University of Arkansas Press announces the forthcoming publication of Shared Secrets: The Queer World of Newbery Medalist Charles J. Finger,...
Michael McGriff Named 2021 Miller Williams Poetry Prize Winner
Michael McGriff Craig Blais Madeleine Wattenberg Author, editor and translator Michael McGriff has won the 2021 Miller Williams Poetry Prize for his collection Eternal Sentences. Two finalists were also named: Craig Blais for his collection Moon News and Madeleine...
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 Country Music Books of All Time." "In discovering why Cash wrote a given song or chose to record it, Alexander...
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 Williams Poetry Prize and was published by the University of Arkansas Press in March 2020. His work was selected by former U.S....
Announcing the forthcoming publication of The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas
The University of Arkansas Press announces the forthcoming publication of The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas: How White Nationalism Came to Rule a State, by Kenneth C. Barnes. The 1920s saw an explosion in the Klan’s power across the state, with at least 150 Arkansas...
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 enslaved fugitives and fugitivity in the antebellum South, introducing individual stories of fugitivity from the lower...
To Feast on Us as Their Prey wins 2020 ASFS Book Award
To Feast on Us as Their Prey: Cannibalism and the Early Modern Atlantic, edited by Rachel B. Herrmann, has won the 2020 book award for an edited volume from the Association for the Study of Food and Society. The ASFS Book Award recognizes an outstanding book about...
NOW AVAILABLE: Artivate Volume 9, Number 1
Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts issue 9.1 (Spring 2020) is now available. The newest issue of Artivate opens with observations from editors Paul Bonin-Rodriguez and Neville Vakharia, on COVID-19 and the challenges facing artists and the arts...