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 💃🏼📚
05.03.2026 21:57 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
03.03.2026 22:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
03.03.2026 21:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Meet Megan Howell, author of Softie: Stories, at WVUP booth 1260 and get your copy signed! #AWP26
03.03.2026 20:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Meet Julija Šukys, author of Artifact: Encounters with the Campus Shooting Archives, at WVUP booth 1260 and get your copy signed! #AWP26
03.03.2026 18:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
03.03.2026 17:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Meet Rachel Weaver, author of Dizzy: A Memoir, at WVUP booth 1260 and get your copy signed! #AWP26
03.03.2026 15:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#AWP26 is almost here…
Come find us and our authors!
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
27.02.2026 17:08 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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
25.02.2026 18:21 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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
16.02.2026 18:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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. 🌍
Rachel Weaver woke up dizzy in her early thirties—and it never fully went away. Dizzy: A Memoir, part of WVU Press’s Connective Tissue series, explores chronic illness, misdiagnoses, and care that doesn’t listen. Out now.
#literarymemoir #chronicillness #patientadvocacy @reneeknicholson.bsky.social
Renée K. Nicholson, the editor of our Connective Tissue series and author of Fierce and Delicate, appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle with an essay titled “Narrative Medicine: Building Bridges Between Creative Writing and Healthcare”
Beautiful work!
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-dec...
Ok given the news I feel like I have to pull out this blog post I wrote in 2019 about times and places where people saw cold and snow as a great boon not a curse. We have much to learn from this history. edgeeffects.net/hey-snow-its...
24.01.2026 02:02 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
It was the greatest honor of my career to be a runner up for the George Perkins Marsh prize for best book in environmental history at #aesh2025. I wrote this book for these people and it is so great to know they liked it! @wvupress.bsky.social
13.04.2025 15:02 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Sejal Shah, author of How To Make Your Mother Cry, will be teaching her signature six-week class, “The Stories You Need to Tell”
This is a phenomenal opportunity to focus on your writing, including memoir, fiction, poetry, or something in between.
We’ve linked the registration in our bio 🔗🔗
An excerpt from Sarah Rose Nordgren’s forthcoming book, Wilderment: Creative Writing in the Time of Climate Change, is now available.
Published by AGNI as “You Are Not the Choir—or, Seeing the Matrix”, it offers a glimpse into Nordgren’s work.
Read the excerpt →
agnionline.bu.edu/blog/you-are...
Looking forward to this reading at Monkey Wrench Books—an evening with poet Marc Harshman, joined by Sarah L. Morris. January 16 at 6:30
dispatch from the mountain state Marc Harshman
wvupressonline.com/node/985
Lessons from “Take Me Home, Country Roads” Sarah L. Morris
wvupressonline.com/node/1002
oh hey that's me, reviewing Jennifer Mapes for @hnetreviews.bsky.social.
New American Small Town is of interest to #urbanists and those who live in small towns and think about #urbanism. CC @urbanism.plus @urbanhistorya.bsky.social also @wvupress.bsky.social
Blue Futures, Break Open by Zoë Gadegbeku received a wonderful review in Rain Taxi Review of Books. Check out the rest in their Winter 2025 issue.
raintaxi.com/rain-taxi-re...
A look back at a big, vibrant year full of movement, growth, and great reads. We’re reflecting on the moments, books, and conversations that made 2025 memorable—check out our latest blog post for the full year in review.
booktimist.com/2025/12/29/2...
#newyear #books #booksoftheyear
