A historic home for vibrant voices in poetry and prose. Since the press’s earliest days at our home in the Ozarks, we’ve served as an outpost of literary excellence both in the area and in the international community of letters. Cofounded by acclaimed poet Miller Williams, the University of Arkansas Press is home to some of the language’s most celebrated writers, including Billy Collins, Frank Stanford, Ellen Gilchrist, and John Williams. We continue our search for poetry, memoirs, novels, essays, and collections that vivify, problematize, and delight, all the while pursuing greater representation and inclusion in our authorship and a heightened connection to traditionally underserved and underappreciated readerships.
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The University of Arkansas Press annually selects books for the Miller Williams Poetry Series, awarding the $5,000 Miller Williams Poetry Prize each summer. For nearly 25 years, this series has been the cornerstone of the press’s commitment to outstanding new poetry, honoring its cofounder and longtime director, Miller Williams.
Domestica, winner of the 2026 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, is now available for pre-order. “Samuel Piccone’s debut collection, Domestica," writes poet Leila Chatti, "is a field study of the quiet, (extra)ordinary labors that hold a family together. With a voice at...
Julia Kolchinsky's poem "I do not mention the war in my birthplace to my six-year-old son but somehow his body knows" was featured on Maggie Smith's podcast The Slowdown. "Today’s poem," says Maggie Smith, "made my breath catch in my throat, because it captures so...
Holly Mason Badra, editor of Sleeping in the Courtyard: Contemporary Kurdish Writers in Diaspora was interviewed by Holly Smith in the Washington Independent. For many of us, our introduction to “the Kurds” came during the Gulf wars, when the Kurdistan region of...
Kirkus Reviews has named The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford, by James McWilliams, one of the best nonfiction books of 2025. In a starred review, Kirkus hailed McWilliams’s biography of the late Arkansas poet as “the full-throated biography fans have been yearning...
The deadline to submit manuscripts for the 2027 Miller Williams Poetry Prize has been extended until October 21. Every year, the University of Arkansas Press accepts submissions for the Miller Williams Poetry Series and from the books selected awards the $5,000 Miller...
"I knew nearly nothing about the life of Frank Stanford before this new, barnstorming, capacious biography. I knew only the smallest amount about his poetry. I’d heard he died young of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Maybe I saw that on the cover of a tattered...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of the third, authoritative edition of Frank Stanford's The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You. The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You is a Southern Gothic epic unlike...
Wes Tirey has intereviewed James McWilliams at High Horse Magazine about writing his acclaimed biograph of Frank Stanford, out now from the University of Arkansas Press. WT: As much as I’d love to try to ask my questions in prose poem form, I don’t have the chops to...
Barley Child: Poems by Greg Rappleye—winner of the 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize has been reviewed in the Colorado Review by Robert Dunsdon. “[A] richly imagined and lyrically presented record of the Irish American experience from the pen of someone who knows, who...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that the 2026 Miller Williams Poetry Prize has been awarded to Samuel Piccone by series editor Patricia Smith. The poet will receive a $5,000 cash prize, and his manuscript Domestica will be published in the...
