"Epic and Lovely is 'alchemizing shit into the most beautiful thing' writ large." @modaviau.bsky.social shared a playlist for her novel Epic and Lovely at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/09/25/m... @wvupress.bsky.social

Congratulations to Megan Howell, whose book Softie won the 2025 IPPY Awards Gold Medal in Short Story Fiction! 🎉📚✨

Congratulations to Vic Sizemore for winning the 2025 Tennessee Book Award in Fiction for his novel God of River Mud!! Finalist judge Rebecca Makkai said, “”I was immediately swept away by God of River Mud, a layered, nuanced and often harrowing story of people ill-used by religious structures”

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Attention Morgantown, WV folks: Mark your calendars for our September wrapping party! Join APBP at Ascend WV on Wednesday, September 10 to help us send books to incarcerated people in Appalachia. You’ll wrap packages, read letters, and prepare books for the mail. content credit to APBP.

Mo Daviau reads from the opening of her recently released novel Epic and Lovely! Check out our blog, The Booktimist, to read the rest of the chapter. Linked in our bio!! 🔗🔗

Happy publication week to Epic and Lovely by Mo Daviau @mauditmo !! “This book is a love bomb, a love bloom, a love letter from a soul on the edge of death who talks back, cracks wise, and throws down wisdom." —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Reading the Waves: A Memoir and The Chronology of Water

Happy release to The Accidental Network by Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard!! The Accidental Network tells the untold story of the invention of the cable modem by the small tech company LANcity in the early 1990s, illustrating how Yassini-Fard overcame a cascade of challenges to create the cable modem.

Happy Labor Day, everyone! We hope this long weekend is a well-deserved break from the daily grind. We’re offering 15% off *all* books! It’s our way of honoring the tireless effort and dedication that comes with all kinds of labor. Happy Labor Day, and happy reading! 📚✨

We have a fantastic variety of books out now!! This release includes something for everyone… Football fans ✅ Tech enthusiasts ✅ Dark-humored bookworms ✅ All three books are available for order on our website!! #newrelease #newbooks #wvufootball #internet #cable #disabilities #novel #california

Just in time for football and back-to-school, Almost Heaven is out now!! Sports journalist John Antonik covers Bowden’s entire WVU tenure from 1966–75 and the circumstances, issues, difficulties, and obstacles that he had to overcome that were unique to this period in Mountaineer sports history.

Congratulations to Joanna Allen for her work Saharan Winds receiving the ASLE-UKI Book Prize!! The prize is awarded by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland, to recognize outstanding works in the environmental humanities. @asleuki.bsky.social #bookaward

An incredible thoughtful review that we can’t stop reading! Anthony speaks to the form and intricate connections within Campanioni’s work. Read the rest at the link in our bio 🔗🔗 #heavyfeatherreview #poetry #amwriting #instapoets #writing #smallpress #microfiction #flashfiction

Marc Harshman will be celebrating the publication of his new collection of poems at the Ohio County Public Library TOMORROW @12pm in Wheeling! #books #poetry #poetlaureate #westvirginia

So excited about this important, unputdownable book by Rachel Weaver, coming out with @wvupress.bsky.social!

My spring correspondence with @richardscottlarson.com — online & offline & between lines — was so bountiful & energizing ! ❤️‍🔥 & now you can read it in full @truemag.bsky.social @wvupress.bsky.social & @uwiscpress.bsky.social 📚⚡️ https://truemag.org/2025/08/08/body-work-a-correspondence/

Welcome Meredith McCarroll, our new editor-at-large! Meredith McCarroll, PhD acquires books in Appalachian Studies. McCarroll was co-editor of Appalachian Reckoning. She is a past president of the Appalachian Studies Association and took over as Editor of Journal of Appalachian Studies last year.

⭐️⭐️ Incredible News !!!! ⭐️ ⭐️ Mo Daviau’s @mauditmo Epic and Lovely was included in the September 2025 IndieNext list!!! This fantastic list is comprised of books nominated by booksellers across the country. Congratulations, Mo! Link in bio 🔗🔗

I Hate It Here, Please Vote For Me received a wonderful review in the Appalachian Journal!! Ferrence’s experience and commentary on the current polarizing political landscape feels particularly relevant, and Josh Howard agrees. Read the rest in the Summer 2025 issue. #politics #politicalbook #gop

🚨🚨EVENT SCHEDULE 🚨🚨 Mo Daviau is hitting the road with Epic and Lovely!! Next month, Mo will be reading at some of her (and our) favorite spots—including WVU Campus in Morgantown. There will even be some sparkly stickers of a cat holding Epic and Lovely with preorders.

Wonderful reviews of Mo Daviau’s Epic and Lovely are rolling in! Available for preorder now and official release on September 1st!

New author signing! We welcome Rachel Weaver and her memoir, Dizzy, the first book in our Connective Tissue series!

Matthew Ferrence, author of Please Vote For Me, I Hate It Here, published an OpEd in The Observer earlier this month. He speaks about his campaign and the political illusion: “That’s my biggest point: politics is built on narratives much more than policies […]“ Check the link in our bio 🔗🔗

Zoë Gadegbeku presented at the African Book Festival in Berlin this past weekend! She sat on various panels and read from Blue Futures, Break Open, which was released In March! A few clips from her presentations can be viewed on our Instagram. Congratulations Zoë!! 🌊🌊

WVU Press is thrilled to announce our signing of Meghana Mysore’s debut collection of short stories. Mysore is an Indian American writer and a daughter of immigrants. The collection, tentatively entitled “Let All Our Ghosts Depart” is slated for a Fall 2026 release. Author photo by Nima Mysore.

Happy Friday everyone! Earlier this year, APBP hosted a lovely launch event in conjunction with WVU Press for This Book is Free and Yours to Keep: Notes from the Appalachian Prison Book Project. APBP recently posted a lovely article about the event. We have linked the article in our bio 🔗🔗

🚨EVENT TONIGHT 🚨 Katy Ryan, a professor in the Department of English, and graduate student Destinee Harper will read from “This Book is Free and Yours to Keep,” a collection of letters and artwork by people in prison that highlights the crucial work done by the Appalachian Prison Book Project.

Only ONE DAY left to #ABF2025 !! Zoë Gadegbeku will be at the African Book Festival @abfberlin in Berlin, Germany! She’ll be participating in multiple events on Sunday, so check out the program linked in our bio 🔗🔗

Marc Harshman, West Virginia Poet Laureate, shares insights into his poetic roots, his deep connection to the natural world, and the unexpected path to becoming a celebrated writer, teacher, and advocate for the arts. Check out Booktimist (linked in bio) to read the Q&A 🔗

Weaving a Fabric of Unity shares the story of FUNDAEC (Foundation for the Application and Teaching of Science). In this interview, Dr. Arbab shares how the initiative began and the inspiring response the book has received from professors and students. Watch the interview at the link in our bio 🔗

See you at the upcoming ASLE meeting in College Park, MD. We’ll be in the exhibition hall T-F with a great display of our books, including Joanna Allan’s Saharan Winds: Energy Systems and Aeolian Imaginaries in Western Sahara, a finalist for the Ecocriticism Book Award! #asle25 @asle-us.bsky.social

We love seeing WVU authors together!!! Chris Campanioni, Rachel King, and Mo Daviau were at Annie Bloom’s Books for a fantastic event. Chris, author of north by north/west, was in conversation with Rachel King, author of Bratwurst Haven, and Genevieve Hudson, author of Boys of Alabama (Liveright).

We are thrilled to announce that we've signed Kayla Murphy's debut novel, "More Abundantly." Look "More Abundantly" on our Spring 2026 list.

Pride Month Pick: God of River Mud: A Novel @vicsizemore.bsky.social #lgbtqia #LGBTQLiterature #lgbtqbooks #queerliterature #pridemonth #pridebooks #queerappalachia

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👋🏽 @chriscampanioni.bsky.social here again, sharing another video adaptation of north by north/west that might provide a peek into my archive & methodology. This short is called “hanging around my hard drive” & I hope you enjoy it in your free time 🍿🎥 https://vimeo.com/1092775393/a81efdf086

👋🏽 @chriscampanioni.bsky.social here, sharing some of my recent book’s many spiritual guides. In a conversation for @adroitjournal.bsky.social I mention how I wanted to make an untraceable text. But there’s many different footprints that mark north by north/west’s meandering cruise🕵🏻‍♂️ 🏄‍♀️📚 🎥

👋🏽 Chris Campanioni here, sharing an adaptation from my book north by north/west. There’s doubling, duplicates, fakes, & remakes; carbon copies (CCs) abound. This 🎥 is called “purely temporary” & I hope you enjoy it in your free time🍿 You can watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1092517734/8ed8505fd5

Pride Month Pick: Storytelling in Queer Appalachia: Imagining and Writing the Unspeakable Other. #lgbtqia #LGBTQLiterature #lgbtqbooks #queerliterature #pridemonth #pridebooks #queerappalachia

Hey familia! I’m Chris Campanioni and my recent book of nonfiction north by north/west was published with West Virginia University Press just last month, on May 1, 2025.

Pride Month Pick: Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place 🌟2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist 🌟Named the BEST LGBTQ+ MEMOIR of 2022 by Book Riot 🌟Named a New York Public Library Best Book of 2022 🌟Weatherford Award finalist, nonfiction

Daily(ish) #Pride #SmallPress #books: Disobedience by @joy-and-defiance.bsky.social (@bookhugpress.bsky.social): bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/... -and- God of River Mud by @vicsizemore.bsky.social (@wvupress.bsky.social): wvupressonline.com/god-of-river... #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈📚

Zoë Gadegbeku here, talking about my inspiration and the path I took towards BLUE FUTURES. In encountering Black authors from the Caribbean, the US, and from other parts of the African diaspora, I encountered a sort of uncanny feeling…[1/9]

Hi! I’m Zoë Gadegbeku, and my debut novel BLUE FUTURES, BREAK OPEN was published with West Virginia University Press in March 2025. I’m excited to be taking over the WVU Press social accounts this week to talk about my novel, my creative practice, and new projects I’m working on.

Jen Mapes here again, with another town from my new book The New American Small Town. Today: Kent, Ohio

Jen Mapes here again, with another town from my new book The New American Small Town. Today: Anaconda, Montana.

Jen Mapes here again, with another town from my new book The New American Small Town. Today: Anaconda, Montana.

Jen Mapes here again, with another town from my book, The New American Small Town. Today: Steamboat Springs, CO.

Pride Month Pick: LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia, edited by Jeff Mann and Julia Watts. #lgbtqia #LGBTQLiterature #lgbtqbooks #queerliterature #queerpoetry #lgbtqpoetry #pridemonth #pridebooks

Hi everyone, I’m Jen Mapes, author of The New American Small Town: Lessons for Sustainable Urban Futures, and I’m taking over the WVUP account this week.