The 2026 Backwaters Prize in Poetry competition is accepting submissions now through May 1. The winner will be awarded a $2,000 cash prize and the honorable mention will be awarded a $1,000 cash prize. Both winners will be awarded the publication … Continue reading The Backwaters Prize in Poetry competition is now open
In honor of National Poetry Month, we are pleased to offer a 40% discount on poetry books! Books included are in the African Poetry series, the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, and the Backwaters Prize in Poetry. The poetry published by … Continue reading National Poetry Month Sale
UNP staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the titles where our noses have been buried. “This month I’ve been reading The Midnight Shift, a vampire murder … Continue reading March Staff Reading List
Mimi Nichter (née Beeber) is a cultural and medical anthropologist, public speaker, and a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Arizona. She is the author or coauthor of four anthropology-related books and the recipient of the Margaret Mead Award … Continue reading Excerpt: Hostage
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in social media posts, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Thank You for Staying with Me: Essays (Nebraska, 2025) by Bailey Gaylin Moore. About the … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Thank You for Staying With Me
Reviews And You Will Call it Fate Review in Booklist: “A memoir keenly relevant to our times by a gifted writer.” Life Beyond Fear Review in Kirkus: “A moving account of motherhood, displacement, and resilience amid war.” Lion of the … Continue reading News & Reviews
Jill Christman is the author of If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (Nebraska, 2022), Darkroom: A Family Exposure, and Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood. She is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at Ball State University, where she serves as editor … Continue reading Excerpt: The Heart Folds Early
Congratulations to the following UNP authors who were finalists for the 2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards! “This year’s finalist judging process leaves us buoyant about the health of independent publishing,” says Executive Editor Matt Sutherland. Winners in … Continue reading Announcing the 2025 Foreword INDIES Finalists
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in social media posts, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird (Nebraska, 2025) by Mike Stark. About … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Starlings
Kirsten Leng is an associate professor in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Sexual Politics and Feminist Science: Women Sexologists in Germany, 1900–1933. Her new book Pleasure, … Continue reading Excerpt: Play, Pleasure, and Politics
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