We're excited to see Sejal Shah's How to Make Your Mother Cry listed in the San Francisco Chronicle's Datebook feature '18 new books that celebrate the Asian American experience' in good company with Amy Tan, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and others.…

It's pub day for Sejal Shah's How To Make Your Mother Cry. 🐚🗝

“How to Make Your Mother Cry is an incredible cross-cultural manifesto of word and body: What is home. What is mother. What is family. What is self. What is woman, and how do we story her.”
—Lidia Yuknavitch, author…

We're delighted to announce that the brilliant cover by ace designer Rachel Willey Rachel Willey for Davon Loeb's Davon Loeb memoir The In-Betweens has been selected for inclusion in the Association of University Presses' prestigious 2024 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show!…

WVU Press is pleased to announce the release of its Fall 2024 seasonal catalog, featuring eight new books and two new staff members!

Fall ’24 opens with Matthew Ferrence's ʍǟȶȶɦɛա ʄɛʀʀɛռƈɛ memoir I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me: Essays on Rural Political Decay, recounting the…

We were so pleased to learn that Kristen Gentry's 'Mama Said' has been longlisted for the Robert W. Bingham Prize for debut short fiction. Congratulations, Kristen! We eagerly await the results of the next round!

PEN America Vesto

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It's pub day for Isaac Yuen's Utter, Earth: Advice on Living in a More-than-Human World. 🦋🌾

“Essays that—in their curiosity, play, and care—aim to weave us back into a world of which we are but one small part.”
—David Naimon, host of Between the Covers

“In Utter, Earth,…

It's WVU Day of Giving! Our good friends at the WVU Foundation have made it possible for us to accept your contributions to support the important work we do at give.wvu.edu/wvupress. Direct link in bio. And don't worry, we're not changing the logo!

More info at…

Congratulations to Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth, whose book Finding the Singing Spruce was a finalist for the Nonfiction Weatherford Award!

Congratulations to Terese Svoboda [email protected] and our friends at UMass Press for the thoughtful review by Hilary Leichter of Terese's two new books: Roxy and Coco (WVUP) and The Long Swim (UMASS) in New York Times Books

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What do you do with the things you collect? I wrote about making altars, my father's ashes, collecting rocks and leaves, and about how I wrote my forthcoming book, #HowtoMakeYourMotherCry . I hope you'll take a read. Thanks to Wellesley Magazine for publishing it. #HTMYMC WVU Press

Author Event with Vic Sizemore
Saturday, March 2, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Taylor Books
226 Capitol Street, Charleston, WV

Told through alternating perspectives, God of River Mud chronicles the lives of Berna Minor, her husband, their four children, and Berna’s secret lover.…

Out now is Hell's Not Far Off: Bruce Crawford and the Appalachian Left by Josh Howard josh howard.

Hell’s Not Far Off is a grounded, politically engaged study of the Appalachian journalist and political critic Bruce Crawford, a scourge of coal and railway interests. Crawford…

Terese Svoboda, author of Roxy and Coco, is doing a discussion and Q&A tonight alongside Caroline Hagood and Joan Silber.

Tickets available at bit.ly/knitweartix
Terese Svoboda [email protected]

We're delighted to share this advance snippet of a VERY positive Foreword review of Sejal Shah's Sejal Shah (order How to Make Your Mother Cry) How to Make Your Mother Cry!

Reviewer Elaine Chiew joins Deesha Philyaw and Lidia Yuknavitch in praising How to Make Your Mother Cry (out May 1, available for…

“All she wants is what all of us want: to love and be loved, to do meaningful work, to be herself, to live and thrive.” GOD OF RIVER MUD author Vic Sizemore writes about loving his trans child. WVU Press goodmenproject.com/featured-conte…

Congratulations to Neema Avashia! Another Appalachia is highly recommended in the new National Geographic 'Essential guide to visiting West Virginia!' Essential reading indeed! National GeographicTravel

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West Virginia University Press had to skip AWP this year, but that didn't stop our kind friends The Rumpus from offering to host a few WVUP authors for signings at their table (1707). Here's a handy guide to dates, times, and authors.

Sejal Shah (pre-order How to Make Your Mother Cry)
Kristine Langley Mahler…