Several UNP authors will be presenting at the South Dakota Festival of Books, taking place from Friday, September 23rd to Sunday, September 25th. The state’s premier literary event, the Festival celebrates literature in South Dakota and beyond by connecting the … Continue reading UNP Authors at South Dakota Festival of Books
Tune in to 89.1 FM on September 23 at 7:00 p.m. CST or Sunday, September 25 at 9:00 p.m. for KUAR’s radio program Arts & Letters Radio featuring UCA creative writing professor Mark Spitzer and the controversial fish known as burbot, … Continue reading Upcoming Event: Mark Spitzer on Arts & Letters Radio
C. Thomas Shay is a senior scholar in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of Under Prairie Skies: The Plants and Native Peoples of the Northern Plains (Nebraska, July 2022). Writing Under Prairie Skies … Continue reading From the Desk of C. Thomas Shay: The Making of an Ethnobotany
Mary Peltola (Yup’ik) won a special election for the House seat left vacant after the death of Republican Don Young. Her win makes Peltola the first Democrat in 50 years and the first woman to hold the seat along with … Continue reading Mary Peltola (Yup’ik) wins Alaska special election, becoming first Alaska Native in Congress
The University of Nebraska Press is pleased to announce the selection of the first book in the new fiction series, Zero Street. Forget I Told You This by Hilary Zaid will be published September 1, 2023. Forget I Told You … Continue reading Announcing the first book in the Zero Street Fiction series
Awards Your Crib, My Qibla shortlisted for the Nigeria Prize for Literature and named a finalist for the Julie Suk Award Dear Diaspora named a finalist for the Julie Suk Award Burning the Breeze named a finalist for Evans Handcroft … Continue reading News & Reviews
The critically acclaimed and widely popular Black Elk Speaks has now sold over one million copies. This cements the book as the number one bestseller on the University of Nebraska Press backlist. Since its original publication, there have been numerous … Continue reading Black Elk Speaks Sells Over One Million Copies
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. “I just finished I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain … Continue reading August Staff Reading List
Pete Carril, Princeton’s Hall of Fame basketball coach, passed away on August 15, 2022 at the age of 92. During Carril’s time at Princeton, his team won the National Invitational Tournament in 1975, won 13 Ivy League titles, and earned … Continue reading Remembering Pete Carril
The University of Nebraska Press is proud to announce the winner of the Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry for 2022: Laura Reece Hogan of Los Angeles, California, and her manuscript Butterfly Nebula. Hogan will be awarded $2,000 for her winning … Continue reading Announcing the 2022 Backwaters Prize in Poetry Winner
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