Wednesday, March 6 through Saturday, March 9, UNP will be at the 2024 NINE Spring Training Conference. The Spring Training Conference is a multi-disciplinary academic conference, featuring presentations on a wide range of baseball topics, including history, analytics, law, media … Continue reading UNP at the NINE Spring Training Conference
The University of Nebraska Press is happy to announce that Tomás Q. Morín will be the judge for the 2024 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry competition. Morín is the author of the poetry collections Machete, A Larger Country, and Patient Zero. He … Continue reading Announcing the Judge for the 2024 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry
On February 12 the Society for American Baseball Research announced the winner of its 2024 Seymour Medal. We not only published the winner of this year’s medal but the runner-up as well! Steven P. Gietschier’s Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years … Continue reading Clean Sweep for the 2024 Seymour Medal
Glow Big Red is a 24-hour day of giving to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln to raise money for scholarships, colleges, programs, student organizations, inclusion, mental health, and much more. The giving day starts today at noon and continues through noon … Continue reading Help Support UNP at UNL and GLOW ALL IN
In 2 weeks UNP will be exhibiting at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ (AWP) annual conference! The AWP Conference & Bookfair is the annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers of contemporary creative writing. Enjoy a sneak … Continue reading Excerpt: Where Are You From
To help spread the word about new UNP books, our publicity team launched the UNP Influencer Partnership in 2023. As part of the partnership, influencers can request and receive galleys (physical or e-book) or finished books of their choice. We … Continue reading UNP Influencer Partnership: Spring/Summer 2024 titles available
UNP’s running (and walking) team, Footnotes, participated in the 2023 Lincoln Track Club Holiday Run at Pioneers Park on Sunday, December 3. Around 500 people signed up to run and all proceeds went to the Capital Humane Society. #RunForBowWowsAndMeowsMeows “Most of … Continue reading People Make Publishing: Footnotes at the Holiday Run
The following is a letter from Jane Ferreyra, director of the University of Nebraska Press. Happy fall from the University of Nebraska Press! Our thanks to you, the authors, friends, supporters, and customers of the University of Nebraska Press (UNP)! … Continue reading A Word from UNP’s Director: The FY22-23 Annual Report
John Mabry was the sports editor for the Lincoln Journal Star from 1997 to 2007. During that time he helped cover the Husker volleyball team at five NCAA Final Fours. He has written more than five hundred features for the Journal Star and its niche … Continue reading From the Desk of John Mabry: Nebraska Volleyball Day
Erik Sherman is a baseball historian and the New York Times best-selling author of Kings of Queens: Life beyond Baseball with the ’86 Mets and Two Sides of Glory: The 1986 Boston Red Sox in Their Own Words (Nebraska, 2021). He is the coauthor of five other … Continue reading From the Desk of Erik Sherman: Celebrating the Retirement of Fernando Valenzuela’s #34
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