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Welcome to our AWP Virtual Exhibit!

Letter from a Place I've Never Been

Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited

Your Crib, My Qibla

The Leave-Takers

The Rinehart Frames

Unholy Heart

Get Thee to a Bakery

To Hell with It

Everybody's Jonesin' for Something

Mahagony

Bad Tourist

Celeste Holm Syndrome

Sky Songs

Delusions of Grandeur

Foxlogic, Fireweed

If the Body Allows It

Some Are Always Hungry

Anything Will Be Easy after This

ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS & WRITING PROGRAMS

Welcome to our AWP virtual book exhibit! We are offering our convention discount of 40% off and free shipping until April 30, 2021 with the code 6AWP21.

We welcome new submissions. To submit a proposal please contact:  

Courtney Ochsner
Associate Acquisitions Editor
cochsner2@unl.edu

AUTHOR MEET & GREETS

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FEATURED SERIES

AMERICAN LIVES

Tobias Wolff, series editor

The singular American life is a source of endless diversity, and the methods of telling the life are as important as the details themselves. The American Lives series, called “splendid” by Newsweek, features works of creative or literary memoir that, whether evoking moments of death or disease, in family or marriage, history, politics, religion, or culture, provide glimpses into singular American lives. Taken together, these stories coalesce into a richly textured and colorful portrait of our contemporary culture.


FLYOVER FICTION

Ron Hansen, series editor

The books in the Flyover Fiction series are set on the Great Plains, a region located in the center of the country and referred to either sentimentally as the Heartland or dismissively as flyover country, a region more clearly defined by what it is not than by what it is. Books in this series actively engage–through plot, character, setting, or theme–with what it means to inhabit this region.


BACKWATERS PRESS

Emily Wendell, managing editor

The Backwaters Prize in Poetry, an international poetry book competition initiated by The Backwaters Press in 1998, has produced award-winning books by some of America’s finest authors. Building upon an impressive backlist in poetry and prose that contributes to the cultural landscape of our state and region, one poetry manuscript is selected each year as a winner, and one as a honorable mention, by a committee of preliminary judges and one final judge for inclusion in this series. The selected volumes are published by the University of Nebraska Press. Submission guidelines for the prize series can be found at nebraskapress.unl.edu/the-backwaters-press-prize/.


THE BACKWATERS PRIZE IN POETRY

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 of their book by the University of Nebraska Press under its imprint, The Backwaters Press. The judge for the 2021 contest is Huascar Medina, Poet Laureate of Kansas.

Click here for more information.


AFRICAN POETRY BOOK

Kwame Dawes, series editor

Under the helm of series editor Kwame Dawes, the African Poetry Book Series seeks to discover and highlight works of African poetry with a wide-ranging scope; from classic works to modern and contemporary voices. The greatest challenge facing African poetry in English is a lack of access to both classic works and the stream of works from new African writers. Currently there is no press in the United States, or elsewhere, that devotes itself entirely to the publication of African poetry written in English. This series looks to rectify this gap and also collect works of classic African poetry that have otherwise been forgotten.

With the help of an Editorial Board made up of gifted and internationally regarded poets, Kwame Dawes looks to publish two to three new titles per year. Submission guidelines for the series can be found on the African Poetry Book Fund website.


TED KOOSER CONTEMPORARY POETRY

Ted Kooser, series editor


THE RAZ/SHUMAKER PRAIRIE SCHOONER BOOK PRIZE

Kwame Dawes, series editor

Throughout its years of continuous publication Prairie Schooner has consistently maintained a national reputation for literary excellence. Building upon this venerable history, the journal selects one short story collection and one poetry collection from contemporary writers each year for this prize series. The series is sponsored and vetted by the staff of Prairie Schooner and a venerable committee of judges, and the selected volumes are published each year by UNP. Submission guidelines for the prize series can be found on the Prairie Schooner website: prairieschooner.unl.edu/book-prize.

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SHOP ALL OUR AWP TITLES

To save 40% enter the code 6AWP21 in the promotion code field of your shopping cart and click “Add Promotion Code.” Offer expires April 30, 2021 and is good for U.S. and Canadian shipments only.

To purchase books outside of North America, please contact Charlotte Anderson at Combined Academic Publishers by email at charlotteanderson@combinedacademic.co.uk using the discount code CS2020UNP.

NEW IN CREATIVE NONFICTION

Anything Will Be Easy after This

Anything Will Be Easy after This

Bethany Maile

Bad Tourist

Bad Tourist

Suzanne Roberts

Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's

Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's

Tiffany Midge
Foreword by Geary Hobson

Celeste Holm Syndrome

Celeste Holm Syndrome

David Lazar

Delusions of Grandeur

Delusions of Grandeur

Joey Franklin

Get Thee to a Bakery

Get Thee to a Bakery

Rick Bailey

Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited

Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited

Mimi Schwartz

The Heart of California

The Heart of California

Aaron Gilbreath

More in Time

More in Time

Edited by Jessica Poli, Marco Abel, and Timothy Schaffert
 

Muscogee Daughter

Muscogee Daughter

Susan Supernaw
Foreword by Geary Hobson

Out of the Crazywoods

Out of the Crazywoods

Cheryl Savageau

Sky Songs

Sky Songs

Jennifer Sinor

To Hell with It

To Hell with It

Dinty W. Moore

What Becomes You

What Becomes You

Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz

NEW IN FICTION

Hell on the Border

Hell on the Border

Sidney Thompson

The Leave-Takers

The Leave-Takers

Steven Wingate

Waltzing Montana

Waltzing Montana

Mary Clearman Blew

If the Body Allows It

If the Body Allows It

Megan Cummins

NEW IN POETRY

Letter from a Place I've Never Been

Letter from a Place I've Never Been

Hilda Raz
Edited by Kwame Dawes
Introduction by John Kinsella

What Happens

What Happens

Hilda Raz

Trans

Trans

Hilda Raz

Divine Honors

Divine Honors

Hilda Raz

All Odd and Splendid

All Odd and Splendid

Hilda Raz

Your Crib, My Qibla

Your Crib, My Qibla

Saddiq Dzukogi

The Rinehart Frames

The Rinehart Frames

Cheswayo Mphanza
Foreword by Kwame Dawes

Unholy Heart

Unholy Heart

Grace Bauer
 

Everybody's Jonesin' for Something

Everybody's Jonesin' for Something

Indigo Moor

Foxlogic, Fireweed

Foxlogic, Fireweed

Jennifer K. Sweeney

Some Are Always Hungry

Some Are Always Hungry

Jihyun Yun

LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

Mahagony

Mahagony

Édouard Glissant
Translated by Betsy Wing

Over Seas of Memory

Over Seas of Memory

Michaël Ferrier
Translated by Martin Munro
Foreword by Patrick Chamoiseau

Not a Clue

Not a Clue

Chloé Delaume
Translated and with an introduction by Dawn M. Cornelio

Awu's Story

Awu's Story

Justine Mintsa
Translated and with an introduction by Cheryl Toman
Foreword by Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury
 

SELECTED BACKLIST

How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences

How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences

Sue William Silverman

Borderline Citizen

Borderline Citizen

Robin Hemley

Meander Belt

Meander Belt

M. Randal O'Wain

The Distance Between

The Distance Between

Timothy J. Hillegonds

The Virgin of Prince Street

The Virgin of Prince Street

Sonja Livingston

This Fish Is Fowl

This Fish Is Fowl

Xu Xi 許素細

The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet

The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet

Kim Adrian

A Certain Loneliness

A Certain Loneliness

Sandra Gail Lambert

Island in the City

Island in the City

Micah McCrary

Bitterroot

Bitterroot

Susan Devan Harness

Disparates

Disparates

Patrick Madden

All I Feel Is Rivers

All I Feel Is Rivers

Robert Vivian

Wilderness of Hope

Wilderness of Hope

Quinn Grover

Apple, Tree

Apple, Tree

Edited and with an introduction by Lise Funderburg

Midwestern Strange

Midwestern Strange

B.J. Hollars

It's My Country Too

It's My Country Too

Edited by Jerri Bell and Tracy Crow
Foreword by Kayla Williams

From Chernobyl with Love

From Chernobyl with Love

Katya Cengel

Siberian Exile

Siberian Exile

Julija Šukys

War Flower

War Flower

Brooke King

Be with Me Always

Be with Me Always

Randon Billings Noble
 

One Size Fits None

One Size Fits None

Stephanie Anderson

In Defense of Loose Translations

In Defense of Loose Translations

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

After Combat

After Combat

Marian Eide and Michael Gibler

Beautifully Grotesque Fish of the American West

Beautifully Grotesque Fish of the American West

Mark Spitzer

Hemingway on a Bike

Hemingway on a Bike

Eric Freeze

Wise Latinas

Wise Latinas

Edited and with an introduction by Jennifer De Leon
 

Family Trouble

Family Trouble

Edited and with an introduction by Joy Castro

The Shell Game

The Shell Game

Edited and with an introduction by Kim Adrian
Foreword by Brenda Miller
Postscript by Cheyenne Nimes

Telling Stories

Telling Stories

Lee Martin

Bodies of Truth

Bodies of Truth

Edited by Dinty W. Moore, Erin Murphy, and Renée K. Nicholson
Foreword by Jacek L. Mostwin
 

On Point

On Point

Tracy Crow

Blurring the Boundaries

Blurring the Boundaries

Edited by B.J. Hollars

Of Fathers and Fire

Of Fathers and Fire

Steven Wingate

Ruby Dreams of Janis Joplin

Ruby Dreams of Janis Joplin

Mary Clearman Blew

Glory Days

Glory Days

Melissa Fraterrigo

How Winter Began

How Winter Began

Joy Castro

In Reach

In Reach

Pamela Carter Joern

Skin Memory

Skin Memory

John Sibley Williams

Exodus

Exodus

‘Gbenga Adeoba
Foreword by Kwame Dawes

Sacrament of Bodies

Sacrament of Bodies

Romeo Oriogun

‘mamaseko

‘mamaseko

Thabile Makue

Rival Gardens

Rival Gardens

Connie Wanek
Introduction by Ted Kooser

Nebraska

Nebraska

Kwame Dawes

Bodies Built for Game

Bodies Built for Game

Edited by Natalie Diaz
Hannah Ensor, Associate Editor

Extinction Events

Extinction Events

Liz Breazeale

Hard Damage

Hard Damage

Aria Aber

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