Kim Hogeland

This is a promotional graphic for the University Press of Florida’s Fall 2025 Publishing Symposium. It features the three sessions that make up the symposium, “Understanding Editors,” “Careers in Publishing,” and “Publishing Career Meetup,” as well as their respective start and end times in multicolored bands against an azure background. University Press of Florida and UF Press logos appear in white in the bottom right corner, while white text in the left corner reads, “Fall 2025 Publishing Symposium.”

Don’t forget to register for our Fall 2025 Publishing Symposium!

Please join us for this free virtual event on October 23rd, starting at 1pm EST. It is open to anyone who would like to learn more about book publishing. Register here: upress.ufl.edu

Salem development expands affordable urban housing for Siletz tribal members • Oregon Capital Chronicle Members of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians celebrated the opening of a 40-unit affordable housing project in Salem.

Members of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, the city of Salem and Oregon housing advocates celebrated the opening of Kloshe Illahee Haws, a 40-unit affordable housing project spanning nearly 9 acres in northeast Salem.

Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...

Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New from OSU Press this October is the second edition of Ellen Morris Bishop's "Living with Thunder: Exploring the Geologic Past, Present, and Future of the Pacific Northwest."
Order today: Publication date: October 28, 2025.
beav.es/x72
#NorthwestGeology #Oregon #Washington #Idaho

This was the era when I was clearing all the permissions for California Poetry, a chaotic process indeed (poets!), and that's how I met Jack Hicks, of whom I was very fond. He had really great stories. And he introduced me to the professor who would become my grad advisor at Davis.

The PRHC! Malcolm and I went to a California Studies Assn conference at Davis hosted by the PRHC. It was memorable for me at 22, listening to people talk and plan and be enthusiastic about this place and community, and being treated as someone who had things to say in return.

With Plainspoken approach, University Press of Kansas pursues regional audience — and writers • Kansas Reflector Plainspoken Books is is really interested in telling authentic Midwest stories and getting them in front of national a national readership.

Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: With Plainspoken approach, University Press of Kansas pursues regional audience — and writers @univpressofkansas.bsky.social #ksleg

How did housing in Bend become so expensive? Jonathan Bach joins the Exchange.

Author Jonathan Bach recently chatted with Jefferson Public Radio's (@jpradio.bsky.social) the #JeffersonExchange about his new book "High Desert, Higher Costs: Bend and the Housing Crisis of the American West."
Take a listen: beav.es/x76.
#HousingCrisis #Housing #Bend #CentralOregon

Applications sought for next editor(s) of Environmental History. For more information please visit the ASEH website: www.aseh.org

Bucknell University has announced it will close its press in 2026 because it "only" publishes scholarly books and doesn't serve undergraduates. The press's students disagree. @bucknellupress.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social #feedingtheelephant networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Oregon firefighter arrested at Washington state wildfire released by ICE • Oregon Capital Chronicle A wildland firefighter who was arrested by immigration agents while fighting a wildfire in Washington state has been released from detention.

A wildland firefighter detained by immigration agents while fighting a fire is back home with his family in Oregon after nearly four weeks in detention. buff.ly/YpZVE5V via @stateline.org

Happy Publication Day to Stephen Forrester!!!
"Richard Neuberger: Oregon Politics and the Making of a US Senator" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press!
beav.es/xJP
#OregonHistory #OregonPolitics #PoliticalBiography #RichardNeuberger #USSenator #Conservation

Turning You Dissertation into a Book webinar promotional tile

All are invited to the first in Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series, "Turning Your Dissertation into a Book," Oct 9 at 1pm ET. Organized by our Faculty Outreach Committee with the Rutgers Ctr for Minority Serving Institutions.

Register here: https://buff.ly/UiOAr5M

Even if you missed the event last week, it's not too late to pick up a copy of Tami Parr's "Goats in America." 🐐
"The book . . . is information dense, so much so that the weight of information would be difficult to digest were it not that Parr’s writing style is so crisp and conversational."

A damn shame. I've always admired TUP's excellent environmental literature books, among their many other fine titles.

What Makes Beaver Ponds Bigger? - Eos For the first time, researchers are able to add hydrologic estimates to find where reintroducing beavers could best benefit a watershed and the humans who live within it.

🦫+🪵=💧💧💧

eos.org/articles/wha...

New blog post features Tami Parr, author of "Goats in America."
"Why not goats? Once I started looking around for information about goats, I was surprised to find that there is not much published material out there about the animals." —Tami Parr
Read more: beav.es/xP8

OSU Press is elated that "High Desert, Higher Costs" by Jonathan Bach is selected for the shortlist in #SABEW 's sixth annual Best in Business Book Awards!
Congratulations, Jonathan! 🎉🎉🎉
See the complete shortlist at beav.es/xPH.
#BestBusinessBooks #ReadLocal #ReadUP

How to build a food sovereignty lab - High Country News Bureaucracy and budget constraints couldn’t stop CalPoly Humboldt’s Native American Studies Department from founding an Indigenous foods research lab.

The California State University system now has its first Indigenous food sovereignty lab.

www.hcn.org/issues/57-9/...

Happy Publication Day to Tami Parr (@pdxia.bsky.social)!
"Goats in America: A Cultural History" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press!
beav.es/xwz
#Goats #USHistory #Read Local #ReadUP

In ‘Richard Neuberger,’ journalist Stephen Forrester recounts the biography of a politician ahead of his time, in an Oregon hard to remember • Oregon ArtsWatch Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1954, Neuberger was an advocate for conservation, mass transit, and mail balloting.

Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1954, Neuberger was an advocate for conservation, mass transit, and mail balloting.

Ask UP logo, tagline: Authors Seeking Knowledge from University Presses

What can my own university's press do for me, even if I don't publish with it?

And conversely, what can I do for it?

Timely questions answered by host @univpressofkansas.bsky.social on our #AskUP site: https://bit.ly/4mUIuLV

The Almeda Fire burned through Bear Creek. Now native plants are taking hold The Almeda Fire turned the Bear Creek Greenway between Ashland and Phoenix into a barren, ashy landscape. Recovery has involved many partners and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The Almeda Fire was devastating. It destroyed thousands of homes, and many residents still live with lingering trauma. But The fire burned those blackberry thickets to the ground, leaving a blank canvas for the restoration work.

#FranklinFOTO is pleased to have Alan Wieder’s work, "We Will Not Be Removed: The People of King School Park" as their September exhibition. To launch the exhibit, they will host a book release party Saturday, September 6, 5 pm – 8 pm. Visit www.franklinfoto.org/events to learn more. 🎉📖📸

Inviting the AUPresses community to attend the "AUPresses Hangout - Peer Review and Indigenous Collaborators," Thurs 9/18 at 4p ET, sponsored by our Acquisitions Editorial Committee during #PeerReviewWeek.

Register today: https://bit.ly/4p8Ff4O

Attn: #PortlandOregon. Mark your calendar! Portland author Tami Parr launches her book "Goats in America: A Cultural History" at @powells.bsky.social on Hawthorne.
Thursday, September 18th, 7:00 pm
Visit beav.es/xMc to preorder and learn more about this author event.
#Goats #USHistory #ReadLocal

I wrote my master's thesis on Mt Shasta and read a lot of material on New Age stuff. I didn't use most of it as the project went a different direction, but it's been so fun to encounter it again. I'm basically the Leo pointing meme as I read Blazing Eye. Blavatsky! St. Germain! LEMURIANS!!

Tough Categories: Five Top Book Editors on Publishing Memoir and Essay Collections "Writing an essay collection or a memoir is an act of generosity. A common misconception is that these kinds of books are all about the author. They’re not. They’re about the reader. "

Great roundtable of editors talking about when memoir and essays work and when they don't, hosted by literary agent @aliahanna.bsky.social : open.substack.com/pub/aliahabi...

Freelance Writer Guidelines

I'm looking for pitches for @MotherJones' print culture section, Mixed Media! These are ~2,000-word essays that combine reporting, cultural criticism, historical research, and/or personal narrative. More details in our pitch guidelines here: www.motherjones.com/contribute/w...

Firefighters question leaders’ role in ICE raid near Bear Gulch Fire - High Country News Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities.

Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities, shares Stateline.

buff.ly/CicG9BT