LET ME COUNT THE WAYS by Tomás Q. is the memoir of a journey into obsessive-compulsive disorder, a mechanism to survive a childhood filled with pain, violence, and unpredictability. Save 50% during our Summer Sale: bit.ly/UNPsummersale

Next Thursday at 7:30pm CT, Elizabeth Cooperman, author of WOMAN PISSING, will be in conversation with Eula Biss and Jaydra Johnson on Art Under Duress hosted by @calyxpress.bsky.social The panel, held via zoom, is free and open to the public. Register here:

"In @rhemley.bsky.social ’s work, we return with him to events and people not because he (or we, by proxy) can change them, but because his understanding of them can change through the alchemy of the essay," writes Renee K. Nicholson. Read the review: bit.ly/3Skm4py

Tomorrow, join Julie Choffel (DEAR WALLACE) and @brandelfrance.bsky.social (LOCOMOTIVE CATHEDRAL) in conversation with Maria Fernanda at @politicsprose.bsky.social The discussion starts at 5pm EDT and will be livestreamed. Details:

Excerpt: OLD RAGS AND IRON by R. F. McEwen Using tree-trimming as one of several central metaphors,OLD RAGS AND IRON is a collection of narrative poems about the life experiences of working-class people.

So grateful for @jamestatehill.bsky.social and the Writer’s Chronicle team for featuring a sneak peak of THANK YOU FOR STAYING WITH ME (@univnebpress.bsky.social). writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-apr...

Lory Bedikian, author of JAGADAKEER: APOLOGY TO THE BODY (winner of the Raz/Shumaker @prairie-schooner.bsky.social Book Prize in Poetry), has two poems featured in the Spring 2025 issue of @pshares.bsky.social 🎉 pshares.org/authors/lory...

In HOW TO CHANGE HISTORY @rhemley.bsky.social grapples with the individual's navigation of history and the conflict between personal and public histories. Save 40% when you order now: bit.ly/4chdEIN

Excerpt: LOCOMOTIVE CATHEDRAL With wit and vulnerability, @brandelfrance.bsky.social explores resilience in the face of climate change and a global pandemic, race, and the concept of a self, all while celebrating the power of breath as “baptism on repeat.”

New ARCs are available on @netgalley.bsky.social this month!

For Poetry Month, use code 6PM25 at checkout for 40% off my book TWO OPEN DOORS IN A FIELD, now through April 30th at @univnebpress.bsky.social : www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/the-backwate...

The Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry is open for submissions now through May 1, 2025! This year's judge is @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social, @nytimes.com bestselling author of eight books of poetry and prose and the new DEAR WRITER (Simon & Schuster, 2025).

We have plenty of ways to save on your favorite books in April. #booksky #booksale

"I realized that the biggest overarching theme was ontology . . . I think foundationally, that’s what all writers are trying to figure out," writes @baileygaylinmoore.bsky.social, author of THANK YOU FOR STAYING WITH ME in an interview with @thesunlightpress.bsky.social.

The AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show is on display at UNL's Love Library North! @aupresses.bsky.social Join us for a special opening event tonight from 4-6 p.m. to celebrate the acclaimed annual catalog of selected entries. bit.ly/41Kk9z7

Hey Awp-ers—I’ll sign copies of my essay collection Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist on Friday, March 28 from 11-11:30. Stop by booth #359 and say hello! #awpla2025 @univnebpress.bsky.social

A hearty congratulations to @janellebassett.bsky.social 🎉 Her book THANKS FOR THIS RIOT is a finalist for the @penamerica.bsky.social /Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection! Check out the full list of finalists: bit.ly/4iKPjNC

In her overview of eight authors’ accounts of using journalistic strategies to propel their fiction, Parul Kapur finds a common thread: that research on a story allows one, in Phil Klay’s words, to “feel comfortable enough with the material [to] invent.” at.pw.org/DoYourResearch

Congratulations to @janellebassett.bsky.social, whose debut short story collection Thanks for This Riot has been longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize! Bassett's collection was the winner of the 2023 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize, published by @univnebpress.bsky.social.

Join us at the AWP Bookfair in Los Angeles next week for author signings with three Raz/Shumaker Book Prize winners: Lory Bedikian, @janellebassett.bsky.social, and @jaredharel.bsky.social. We'll be at Booth #466!

From the author of INSIDE THE MIRROR, winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel.

Was sent this earlier last week—thanks so much for words, @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social!! www.columbiatribune.com/story/entert...

The Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize is closing soon! Send us your manuscript by March 15: prairieschooner.unl.edu/book-prize-g...

Today's the official pub day for my new book of poems, Locomotive Cathedral (Backwaters Press/University of Nebraska Press). The portrait of René ("my crow") is by Bill Smith.

Today is the publication date of my new collection of essays, HOW TO CHNAGE HISTORY: A Salvage Project. This one took only 25 years to write. bookshop.org/p/books/how-...

Excerpt: The Windflower Home Almanac of Poetry THE WINDFLOWER HOME ALMANAC OF POETRY is an anthology of poems originally selected by Ted Kooser in 1980 and published by his Windflower Press, a small publisher that specialized in poetry from the Great Plains.

Announcing the Judge for the 2025 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry: @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social Submissions will be accepted April 1 through May 1. More information below!

Aria Aber, author of the @prairie-schooner.bsky.social Prize in Poetry winner HARD DAMAGE (Nebraska, 2019) and the novel GOOD GIRL, will present a reading this Thursday (2/20) at 5:30 p.m. in the Bailey Library of Andrews Hall, Room 229. The event is free and open to the public. bit.ly/3QpJs4d

Submissions for the 2025 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize for fiction and poetry are now open! The deadline for the contest is March 15, 2025, and writers can submit their entries through Submittable.

"Oburumu [Tares]’s poetry bears the brunt of reality," writes Open Country Mag. Tares, author of ORIGINS OF THE SYMA SPECIES (@apbf.bsky.social) joins them for an interview about life and poetry. bit.ly/4gsnV5y

"Bassett excels at depicting the uneven burden of intimacy borne by women. It strains her characters’ relationships with their children, their partners, and themselves." Thankful for this review of THANKS FOR THIS RIOT by Mike Nees in Full Stop. www.full-stop.net/2025/02/05/r...

Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto was featured in @unlincoln.bsky.social's Graduate Report! His book, THE NAMING (December, 2025), will be published in the African Poetry Book Series (@apbf.bsky.social). newsroom.unl.edu/announce/gra...

So stoked to shared this 40% off QR code for my collection of essays, Thank You for Staying with Me, out with @univnebpress.bsky.social March 1st!

"My latest book, HOW TO CHANGE HISTORY: A SALVAGE PROJECT can be described variously as a collection of linked essays or a memoir-in-essays, a tricky form no matter what you call it..." writes @rhemley.bsky.social. Read more in "The Linked Essays Dilemma": tablerock.substack.com/p/the-linked...