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West Virginia’s largest book publisher. Our titles include a National Book Award finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Weaving a Fabric of Unity shares the story of the pioneering enterprise that came to be identified as FUNDAEC (the Foundation for the Application and Teaching of Science), highlighting five decades of stories, learning, and insight from key individuals central to shaping its…
WVU Press is thrilled to announce our signing of Meghana Mysore’s debut collection of short stories. Mysore is an Indian American writer and a daughter of immigrants. Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, Roxane Gay’s…
Happy Friday everyone! Earlier this year, APBP hosted a lovely launch event in conjunction with WVU Press for This Book is Free and Yours to Keep: Notes from the Appalachian Prison Book Project. The party was held at the Aull Center, where APBP houses the books and letters that…
🚨EVENT TONIGHT 🚨 Katy Ryan, a professor in the Department of English, and graduate student Destinee Harper will read from “This Book is Free and Yours to Keep,” a collection of letters and artwork by people in prison that highlights the crucial work done by the Appalachian…
Only ONE DAY left to #ABF2025 !! Zoë Gadegbeku will be at the African Book Festival @abfberlin in Berlin, Germany! She’ll be participating in multiple events on Sunday: 11am CEST —— IMAGINED COMMUNITIES: Fiction & Environmental Change 12:30pm CEST —— LOVE & VENGEANCE: The…
Marc Harshman, West Virginia Poet Laureate, shares insights into his poetic roots, his deep connection to the natural world, and the unexpected path to becoming a celebrated writer, teacher, and advocate for the arts. With warmth and humility, he discusses the stories that…
We hope to see some of you at the upcoming ASLE - Association for the Study of Literature and Environment - meeting in College Park, MD. We’ll be in the exhibition hall from Tuesday afternoon to Friday afternoon with a great display of our books, including Joanna Allan’s Saharan…
We love seeing WVU authors together!!! Chris Campanioni, Rachel King, and Mo Daviau were at Annie Bloom’s Books last weekend for a fantastic event. Chris, author of north by north/west, was in conversation with Rachel King, author of Bratwurst Haven, and Genevieve Hudson, author…
We are thrilled to announce that we've signed Kayla Murphy's debut novel, "More Abundantly." This novel follows a young woman grappling with alcoholism and unexpected pregnancy, who leaves her job at a strip club and is forced to return to her small Appalachian town where she…
Pride Month Pick: God of River Mud: A Novel To escape a life of poverty and abuse, Berna Cannaday marries Zechariah Minor, a fundamentalist Baptist preacher, and commits herself to his faith, trying to make it her own. After Zechariah takes a church beside the Elk River in rural…
👋🏽 Chris Campanioni [@chriscampanioni] here again, sharing a video adaptation from north by north/west that might provide a peek into my archive & methodology. This short is called “hanging around my hard drive” & I hope you enjoy it in your free time 🍿 You can watch the full…
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Happy #Juneteenth We love this list of Books for Juneteenth by eeiden_reads on Instagram. Full list here 👇 instagram.com/p/DLFIiEOAOvR/…
👋 Chris Campanioni [@chriscampanioni] here again, sharing some of north by north/west’s many spiritual guides. In a conversation for the Adroit Journal, I mention how I wanted to make an untraceable text. But there’s many different footprints that mark north by north/west’s…
Chris Campanioni [@chriscampanioni] here again, sharing a video adaptation from my book of nonfiction / book-length adaptation—a very rough translation of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 film, North by Northwest—north by north/west. There’s doubling, duplicates, fakes, & remakes; carbon…