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 the forthcoming publication of Coriolis by A. D. Lauren-Abunassar, winner of the 2023 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. The Coriolis effect—from which A. D. Lauren-Abunassar’s hyperkinetic debut collection borrows its...
The University of Arkansas Press is excited to announce the forthcoming publication of The Measure of Distance: An Immigrant Novel by Pauline Kaldas. They went to Cairo, leaving behind the adobe houses built along the edge of the Nile and the villagers who all knew...
The Woods Colt: A Novel of the Ozarks Hills by Thames Williamson is now available. Edited by Phillip Douglas Howerton, The Woods Colt is part of the Chronicles of the Ozarks Series from the University of Arkansas Press, a reprint series that will make available some...
Maya Salameh's collection How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave, winner of the 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, has been reviewed in Poetry. In How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave, Maya Salameh draws on the language of computer programming to craft poems that...
Rational Anthem, a finalist for the 2022 Miller Williams Poetry Prize by Casey Thayer, has been reviewed in the Colorado Review. "Casey Thayer’s latest collection, Rational Anthem, is a meditation on American patriotism and the particular brand of masculinity that...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of The Daughter of Man by L. J. Sykso, a finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. The Daughter of Man follows its unorthodox heroine as she transforms from “maiden” to...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the 2023 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize has been awarded to A.D. Lauren-Abunassar for her manuscript Coriolis. The poet will receive a $1,000 cash prize, and her...
The University of Arkansas Press has extended the deadline for the $5,000 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. Manuscripts will now be accepted until October 15. Every year, the University of Arkansas Press accepts submissions for the Miller Williams Poetry Series and from...
Moon News has been named a finalist for the 2022 Housatonic Book Award. A finalist for the 2021 Miller Williams Poetry Prize and selected by Billy Collins, Moon News deploys the sonnet form to treat subjects as diverse as Gregor Samsa, SpongeBob SquarePants, and the...
How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave by Maya Salameh, winner of the 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, is now available. “We need a new poetry lexicon—a new way of moleculing the poem on the page, even—and Maya Salameh brings it. We need all the strange...
