Congratulations to these UNP authors who were recently recognized for their work!

2023 Julie Suk Book Award

The Gathering of Bastards (Nebraska, 2023) by Romeo Oriogun is the winner of the Julie Suk Book Award, given to books published by small, literary, or university press.

2023 David J. Weber Book Prize

The Forgotten Diaspora (Nebraska, 2023) by Travis Jeffres is a finalist for the 2023 David J. Weber Book Prize.

2024 WLA Literary Awards

The Sound of Undoing (Nebraska, 2023) by Paige Towers is the Nonfiction Winner. This award is for the highest literary achievement by an author with a Wisconsin connection, for a work of nonfiction written in the previous year.

Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award

The Interlochen Center for the Arts has announced the inaugural Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award. The award is presented to the best works of creative arts in the past year.

Autumn Song (Nebraska, 2023) by Patrice Gopo is the winner.

2024 AFHF Book Prize

Emergency War Plan (Potomac Books, 2023) by Sean M. Maloney is the winner of the Air Force Historical Foundation’s Air Power History Book Prize.

New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards

Changing Woman (Bison Books, 2023) by Venetia Hobson Lewis is the winner for Best First Book-Arizona category and a finalist for Best Fiction-Historical-Arizona category.

2024 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award

Speculative Wests (Nebraska, 2023) by Michael K. Johnson won the 2024 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary and Cultural Studies.

2024 AAHGS Book Award

Hell on the Border (Bison Books, 2021) by Sidney Thompson won the 2024 International Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society Book Award for Historical Fiction.