Anthony Wood’s Black Montana is a finalist for the 2022 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize 2022 SABR Baseball Research Awards Lawrence Baldassaro for Tony Lazzeri: Yankees Legend and Baseball Pioneer Josh Chetwynd for “Taking Your LUMPs: Major League Baseball’s History of … Continue reading Recent Award Winners
Awards Fruit, Fiber, and Fire won the Fray Francisco Atanasio Domínguez Award from the Historical Society of New Mexico. The Power of Scenery is a finalist for the Marfield Prize. Reviews Dear Diaspora Review in Poetry Society of America: “This 2021 … Continue reading News & Reviews
Mike Stark is the author of Chasing the Ghost Bear: On the Trail of America’s Lost Super Beast from Bison Books. Recently, he caught up with himself over a beer at his home in Tucson, Arizona. With jazz on the … Continue reading Mike Stark interviews Mike Stark
I AM Books will be hosting a free zoom webinar event on April 14, 2022, with UNP author Lawrence Baldassaro. Focusing on Tony Lazzeri as the person who first drew large numbers of Italian fans to the ballpark and who … Continue reading Home Run: The Italian American Embrace of Baseball – Virtual Event
We have a number of ways to save this month on your next favorite book! Click the links below to browse each sale. National Poetry Month Passover Holocaust Remembrance Day Baseball Continue reading April Sales
Early this year, UNP’s new running (and walking) team was formed. The plan is to participate in local runs on a quarterly basis or more. Our first run was the end of March. The Spring Forward Run was a great … Continue reading Introducing the UNP Footnotes!
The submission period for the Backwaters Press yearly poetry prize begins today, April 1, and ends May 1. Guidelines for the prize series can be found here. The judge for the 2022 contest is Christine Stewart-Nuñez, South Dakota poet laureate from … Continue reading The 2022 Backwaters Prize in Poetry competition is now open
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 recently finished The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 … Continue reading March Staff Reading List
Clark Whitehorn is the executive editor of Bison Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press. Below he shares his experience on being a part of the Tucson Festival of Books that took place on March 12-13 in Tucson, … Continue reading People Make Publishing: Clark Whitehorn on the Tucson Festival of Books
UNP is proud to celebrate Women’s History Month with a reading list featuring women veterans from Potomac Books. Save 50% off a selection of books during Women’s History Month! Enter the code 6WHM22 in the promotion code field of your … Continue reading Women in the Military: Women’s History Month Reading List
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