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.
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that the 2022 Miller Williams Poetry Prize has been awarded to J. Bailey Hutchinson by series editor Patricia Smith. The poet will receive a $5,000 cash prize, and her manuscript Gut will be published in the...
BUNDLE DEAL – $30 The Guestroom Novelist + Double Toil and Trouble by Donald Haringtonedited by Brian Walter “The Guestroom Novelist is a treasure chest for anyone who, like me, considers Donald Harington one of the finest writers of our day, and his Stay More one of...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that the 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize has been awarded to Maya Salameh for her manuscript How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave. The poet will receive a $1,000 cash prize, and her manuscript will be published...
Introduction to Beyond Memory, by Pauline Kaldas and Khaled Mattawa: The desire to make ourselves visible on our own terms drives the creation of this anthology of Arab American creative nonfiction. Within these pages, we have brought together the varied voices of...
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 University of Arkansas Press accepts submissions for the Etel Adnan Poetry Series and awards the $1,000 Etel Adnan Poetry...
The University of Arkansas Press announces the forthcoming publication of Like We Still Speak by Danielle Badra, winner of the 2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. Conversation and memory are at the heart of Danielle Badra’s Like We Still Speak, winner of the 2021 Etel Adnan...
Craig Blais’s Moon News, a finalist for the 2021 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, deploys the sonnet form to treat subjects as diverse as Gregor Samsa, SpongeBob SquarePants, and the cosmos. Here the form’s capaciousness is engaged to full effect. Blais, who turned to...
“Rizkallah says all the things I feel as a fellow Lebanese American woman at this moment in America’s history. She won the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize for the magic my body becomes. This collection contains one of my favorite poems: ‘if teta never had to leave lebanon I...
Fady Joudah, who directs the Etel Adnan Poetry Series with coeditor Hayan Charara, speaks with Jeffrey Brown of PBS NewsHour about the intersection of poetry and healing. Joudah, who practices internal medicine at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston, talks...
The golden shovel is a contemporary poetic form that follows a set of rules invented by the acclaimed poet Terrance Hayes in homage to Gwendolyn Brooks, the former poet laureate and the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize. When Mr. Hayes created his poem,...
