In less than 3 weeks UNP will be exhibiting at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ (AWP) conference! The AWP Conference & Bookfair is the annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers of contemporary creative writing. Enjoy a … Continue reading Excerpt: Acetylene Torch Songs
In less than 3 weeks UNP will be exhibiting at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ (AWP) conference! The AWP Conference & Bookfair is the annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers of contemporary creative writing. Enjoy a … Continue reading Excerpt: Voice First
The University of Nebraska Press is proud to be on NetGalley’s publisher list! NetGalley is a digital platform that helps authors and publishers promote digital review copies to book reviewers and other publishing industry professionals. Join the online reader community … Continue reading UNP Books on NetGalley
Angela Wanhalla (Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki, Ngāi Tahu) is a professor of history at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the coauthor of He Reo Wāhine: Māori Women’s Voices from the Nineteenth Century and author of Matters of the Heart: A History of … Continue reading Excerpt: Of Love and War
ICYMI Liza Black (Picturing Indians) and Nancy Marie Mithlo (Knowing Native Arts) on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour to discuss Killers of the Flower Moon. Reviews Truman and the Bomb Review in Parameters: “Truman and the Bomb is relevant to today’s … Continue reading News & Reviews
Sophie Klahr is a poet, teacher, and editor. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry London, and elsewhere. Her poetry collection Two Open Doors in a Field was published by the Backwaters Press in March of 2023. Today is … Continue reading Excerpt: Two Open Doors in a Field
Steve Friesen is the retired director of the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave in Golden, Colorado, and contributing editor of True West magazine. He is the author of Lakota Performers in Europe: Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left Behind and Buffalo Bill: Scout, Showman, Visionary. … Continue reading Excerpt: Galloping Gourmet
Congratulations to these UNP authors who were recently recognized for their work! WHA Awards We Are Not Animals (Nebraska, 2022) by Martin Rizzo-Martinez won the 2023 John C. Ewers Award which is given annually for the best published book on … Continue reading Recent Award Winners
Happy National Sci-Fi Day! Celebrated today, the date corresponds with the birth of science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. He was known to be one of the most prolific writers of all time and considered to be one of the fathers … Continue reading Reading List: National Sci-Fi Day
UNP staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the books we gifted to loved ones this holiday season or are planning to read in the new … Continue reading December Staff Reading List
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