New from WVU Press: Danielle Raad's Above the Oxbow—a journey through the tangle of rich narratives surrounding Mount Holyoke, a locally cherished mountain in Western Massachusetts.
Available on our website.
Out now from WVU Press: Beyond Ourselves—the first volume to comprehensively consider the urgency and legacy of Muriel Rukeyser’s work.
Available at www.wvupress.com.
Zoe Gadegbeku's debut novel, Blue Futures, Break Open is longlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award!
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🏅Jennifer Mapes is the recipient of this year’s John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize from the American Association of Geographers!
Publishing is a business, but it’s also a craft, and each book is created by a team of professionals. When you give to WVU Press, you are challenging us to put everything we’ve got into the creative work and cutting-edge scholarship we bring into the world.
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#WVUDayofGiving is this week! WVU Press is now part of the WVU Libraries. Your gifts on Wednesday will support the important work of the press for years to come.
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WVU Press is excited to be heading to the Appalachian Studies Association Conference at Marshall University.
Logo: Charlie Umhau
#appalachianstudies #appalachia #appalachian #appstudies #asa
Natalie Mead found strength and courage in Rachel Weaver’s Dizzy.
The Dizzy audiobook, narrated by Nicole Poole, will be available April 7, 2026! 👂
#DizzyMemoir #chronicillness #medicalmemoir #patientadvocacy
In a new Booktimist essay, Renée K. Nicholson (@reneeknicholson.bsky.social) reflects on vintage style, chronic illness, and the meaning—and well-being—we can find in what we wear.
It's a glimpse into our Connective Tissue series, where the arts, humanities, and medicine meet.
Link in bio!
We had a fantastic time at #AWP26 in Baltimore last week. Next week we're headed to ASA! See full post on Instagram or Facebook.
n x n/w’s first award season ❤️🔥 huge congrats to all the finalists! & thanks to the readers responsible for recognizing this curious book for this incredible honor. more news in june. pick up a copy from @wvupress.bsky.social at AWP & allow me the pleasure to autograph yours on Saturday 💃🏼📚
Join us at @charmcitybooks.bsky.social 🐦⬛ in Baltimore for an off-site AWP reading Friday, March 6 from 3:30 - 4:30 pm
🐦⬛Rachel Weaver
🐦⬛Corinna Cook
🐦⬛Julija Šukys
📍426 West Franklin Street, Baltimore, MD
RSVP here: www.charmcitybooks.com/events/47468...
#AWP #AWP26 #awpoffsite
Meet Chris Campanioni, author of north by north/west: (an attention to frequency), at WVUP booth 1260 and get your copy signed! #AWP26
Meet Corinna Cook, author of Permafrost Is an Archive and Other Inheritances from the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands, at WVUP booth 1260 and get your copy signed! #AWP26
Meet Megan Howell, author of Softie: Stories, at WVUP booth 1260 and get your copy signed! #AWP26
Meet Julija Šukys, author of Artifact: Encounters with the Campus Shooting Archives, at WVUP booth 1260 and get your copy signed! #AWP26
Meet Neema Avashia and Sejal Shah, authors of Another Appalachia and How to Make Your Mother Cry, at WVUP booth 1260 and get your copy signed! #AWP26
Meet Rachel Weaver, author of Dizzy: A Memoir, at WVUP booth 1260 and get your copy signed! #AWP26
Ravens circle over towns where Black communities once thrived. In “My Appalachia: Nevermore”, William H. Turner reflects on growing up in Lynch, KY. Turner bears witness to a Black Appalachian world that is largely gone but lives on in memory.
Full essay on Booktimist—link in bio.
#Blackhistory
Elizabeth Harden Gilmore made change as WV’s first Black woman funeral director, founding the state’s first CORE chapter & desegregating Charleston. This BHM, we celebrate her and historian James D. Randall + his gift of 200 photos to KCPL. Full post on Facebook/Instagram.
#Blackhistory #WVhistory.
Congratulations to Helen Kapstein's Petroforms: Oil and the Shaping of Nigerian Aesthetics, which is a PROSE Award Finalist in Humanities: Literature. 🏅 @americanpublish.bsky.social @wordbird20.bsky.social
Stop by the WVU Bookstore Wednesday, March 4th for a signing of the award-winning This Book Is Free and Yours to Keep in connection with the College Behind Bars screening and panel in WVU’s Human Rights Film Series! ✍️ @appalachianpbp.bsky.social
Permafrost Is an Archive by Corinna Cook—out now!
Essays look at the Alaska–Yukon borderlands through ice patches, records, and maps, showing how colonial policies, Indigenous histories, and climate change shape the region.
#creativenonfiction #climatewriting #environmentalessays #Indigenousstudies
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" is a global anthem of connection. In her WVU Press book, Sarah Morris traces its history and impact, exploring identity, place, and longing.
More in bio.
Photos courtesy of Scott Lituchy, Sarah McDivitt, Jennifer Shephard, Matt Sunday, Kallie Nealis, and WVU Archives.
Join WVUP author Megan Howell for An Evening with the 2025 5 Under 35 at Books & Books in Coral Gables on Feb 19!
Her debut, Softie, offers bold, strange stories of womanhood and transformation.
Details: www.miamibookfair.com/event/an-eve...
#debutauthor #magicalrealismreads #shortstorycollection
From Southeast Alaska to Fairbanks’ boreal forest, where black spruce stand “the toughest things you have ever met,” Corinna Cook listens—to trees, winter, and traces of history and change. Excerpt: Permafrost Is an Archive—link in bio! #environmentalwriting #climateliterature #ecocriticism
NPR’s Maureen Corrigan calls Rachel Weaver’s Dizzy “arresting,” praising her raw, honest journey through chronic illness and the health care system.
Read (or listen to) the full review linked in our bio.
#NPRBooks #FreshAirNPR #DizzyMemoir #chronicillness #medicalmemoir
“The Keep has it all…”
From compassion and humor to the work of tending land—and one another—this reflection speaks to the care at the center of Henry and Priscilla’s life together.
Available on our website—www.wvupressonline.com
#Appalachia #farmlife #familyfarm #rurallife
This Friday, WVU Press author Helen Kapstein (wordbird20.bsky.social) will speak at the University of Houston on her book Petroforms: Oil and the Shaping of Nigerian Aesthetics.
She’ll discuss how artists use oil to challenge narratives and confront its cultural and environmental impact. 🌍
