Pride Month is the perfect time to pick up a book featuring LGBTQ+ voices and perspectives written by one of our authors. With our summer reading sale, you can get our books half-off! As a bonus, now until the end of … Continue reading Pride Month Reading List
Shop our annual SUMMER SALE! Whether youre interested in history, poetry, sports, memoir, or want to find that perfect gift—save 50% on thousands of our books, including our imprints Bison Books, The Backwaters Press, and Potomac Books. Just enter 6SUMM23 … Continue reading Summer Reading Sale
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’ve just started Emily Henry’s Happy Place, which follows Harriet and … Continue reading May Staff Reading List
During May, we honor Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage month by celebrating the important contributions of the AA and NHPI community to our nation’s history. This reading list highlights stories of AA and NHPI experiences alongside recent … Continue reading AA and NHPI Heritage Month Reading List
Awards Mónica Gomery’s Might Kindred was a category finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award Reviews We Who Walk the Seven Ways Review in Foreword Reviews: “Covering topics as diverse as race, religion, and the craft of writing, We Who Walk the … Continue reading News & Reviews
We’re pleased to share our new Fall / Winter 2023 seasonal catalog! Browse the online version to see forthcoming titles from Nebraska, Bison Books, Potomac Books, the Jewish Publication Society, and The Backwaters Press. Visit our NetGalley page for a … Continue reading Introducing the Fall / Winter 2023 Seasonal Catalog
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 will finish The Bladed Faith by David Dalglish later … Continue reading April Staff Reading List
Uhuru Portia Phalafala is a senior lecturer of English literature at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. She is the author of Keorapetse Kgositsile and the Black Arts Movement: Poetics of Possibility and coeditor of Keorapetse Kgositsile: Collected Poems, 1969–2018 (Nebraska, 2023). Her … Continue reading Excerpt: Mine Mine Mine
Happy National Poetry Month! The University of Nebraska Press is celebrating all month long with a 50% off sale on all poetry collections. Furthermore, our Backwaters Prize in Poetry competition is accepting submissions through May 1. The poetry published by … Continue reading National Poetry Month Reading List
The submission period for the Backwaters Press yearly poetry prize is now open, and ends May 1. Guidelines for the prize series can be found here. The judge for the 2023 contest is Hilda Raz. Raz is the editor of the … Continue reading The 2023 Backwaters Prize in Poetry competition is now open
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