Jennifer Sinor is the author of several books, including The Yogic Writer: Uniting Breath, Body, and Page; Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World (Nebraska, 2020); Letters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O’Keeffe; and Ordinary Trauma: A Memoir. Her work has appeared in Best American … Continue reading From the Desk of Jennifer Sinor: Writing Inspiration from a Family Diary
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 here! … Continue reading UNP Books on NetGalley
The 2026 Backwaters Prize in Poetry competition is accepting submissions now through May 1. The winner will be awarded a $2,000 cash prize and the honorable mention will be awarded a $1,000 cash prize. Both winners will be awarded the publication … Continue reading The Backwaters Prize in Poetry competition is now open
The 2025 Backwaters Prize in Poetry competition is accepting submissions now through May 1! The winner will be awarded a $2,000 cash prize and the honorable mention will be awarded a $1,000 cash prize. Both winners will be awarded the publication … Continue reading The Backwaters Prize in Poetry competition is Open!
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
Universal Letter Writing Week takes place every year during the second full week of January, and it encourages us all to pick up a pen and paper and write to someone. This year, it takes place from January 8 to … Continue reading Letter Writing Week Reading List
We are extending the submission period for the Zero Street Fiction Series to April 1st and changing the submission period going forward. It will now be open November 1 through April 1. The series seeks LGBTQ+ literary fiction of all kinds, from … Continue reading New submission period for Zero Street Fiction Series
We are currently accepting submissions for the Zero Street Fiction Series until December 1st. The series seeks LGBTQ+ literary fiction of all kinds, from stories of modern life to innovations on traditions of genre and are particularly interested in BIPOC … Continue reading Accepting Zero Street Fiction Series Submissions
Suzanne Roberts is the author of Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties (Nebraska, 2022), Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel (Nebraska, 2020), and Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail (Bison Books, 2012), and four collections of poetry. Visit her … Continue reading From the Desk of Suzanne Roberts: There’s No Such Thing as Writer’s Block, Writing Inspiration in 6 Easy Tips
SAVE 50% on over a thousand different titles from our rich and capacious backlist. From Native American History to Latin American Studies, from Military History to African Poetry, from books on the Great Plains to the literature of the American West, there’s … Continue reading Summer Reading Sale!
