University of Akron Press

01/22/2025

Hit those 2025 reading goals with a book of poetry! ✨

When the speaker’s Iranian grandmother who read fortunes passes away, she begins to understand that she’s inherited her grandmother’s gifts. Without an initiation to forecasting, the speaker is left to make sense of her history and her future through signs and experiences she can’t explain. The poems excavate the past to make sense of loss and inheritance, of magic and fate. Teeming with foxes and birds, Malak translates what’s seen and unseen, and what can be heard in the quiet.

Take 30% off now until the end of January with code "30Malak."
Order: https://blogs.uakron.edu/uapress/product/malak/

01/10/2025

Immense gratitude to ArtsNow for their support of our series on self-care coming this spring! We are delighted to connect writers in to the talented and brilliant workshop hosts, empowering them to write, engage, and sustain themselves as artists. More details coming soon.

Congratulations to the University of Akron Press! In partnership with Elizabeth’s Bookshop & Writing Centre, the University of Akron Press will present "Finding a Shell: How to Care for Yourself as a Writer," a four-part series on self-care for writers. Participants will use what they learned to continue to produce work and sustain themselves as a writer for years to come. Read more: https://bit.ly/4etqjsi

01/10/2025

✨ DOUBLE COVER REVEAL ✨

New year and new excitement for our forthcoming poetry collections! We are beyond thrilled to share the covers for Sarah Green's collection The Deletions, 2023 Akron Poetry Prize Editor's Choice, and Jess Smith's collection Lady Smith, winner of the 2023 Akron Poetry Prize!

Preorder coming soon!



Cover design by the incredible Amy Freels from art by Kylie Q Gellatly and Emily Starck! 🔥

12/20/2024

📣 EXCITING NEWS 📣

The University of Akron Press is excited to announce that it will publish the poetry collection I’ll Take My Body To-Go by .fredricks as the 2024 Akron Poetry Prize editor’s choice selection!

Regarding this collection, Fredricks states, “I’ll Take My Body To-Go is a book about girls. Girls who burn at the belly like a shot tin can. Girls who feel freshly peeled, ugly, and certain they’ve been cheated of something, they’re just not sure of what yet. Girls who wing their eyeliner as fiercely as an oath. Girls who listened to Monica Lewinsky jokes exchanged as a form of comedic currency. Girls who listened to the belly laugh of coverage surrounding Britney Spears’s emotional breakdown. Girls who listened, are listening still.”

More here: https://www.uakron.edu/im/news/2024-akron-poetry-prize-editors-choice

12/12/2024

Thank you for including A Mollusk Without a Shell in your holiday catalog, Mac's Backs-Books On Coventry!

12/10/2024

Happy publication day to Malak by Jenny Sadre-Orafai! 🤩

Order your copy today and save 30%: https://blogs.uakron.edu/uapress/product/malak/

12/06/2024

Join us today inside Bierce Library for a pop up holiday sale! Snag some timeless holiday gifts at 30% off from 11am to 3pm in the main lobby.

11/29/2024

Check out our bookshelf at Northside Marketplace to score 30% off all our Northside books for the holidays. Books make excellent gifts! 📚

11/26/2024

Many thanks to Jennifer Passios at for beautifully covering Artists on Creative Administration!

Read the full review here: https://thinkingdance.net/articles/2024/11/24/3/Stories-From-The-Middle/

Tonya Lockyer The National Center for Choreography - Akron

11/21/2024

✨ Congratulations to Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, for winning the National Book Award in Poetry, and to all the National Book Awards winners tonight!

11/20/2024

’s Something About Living on display inside !

11/20/2024

11/15/2024

LitHub: Who is the person or what is the place or practice that had the most significant impact on your writing education?

Khalaf Tuffaha: My writing is shaped by a childhood in which my family moved back and forth between and within cultures and languages. It felt difficult sometimes, but I think of it now as an incredible gift. Entering new spaces where I had partial access, most often through language, but was still an outsider, taught me about the power of paying attention, and about the ways a self is constructed.

Learn more about Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and the other 2024 National Book Award finalists on LitHub: https://lithub.com/meet-the-2024-national-book-award-finalists/

11/14/2024

Everyone: Meet Gwen Bushen, our amazing student assistant! Gwen has been with the Press since the beginning of this semester, but she's already made some excellent contributions to editorial and marketing. The skills she's learned from her University of Akron coursework coupled with her work ethic and tenacity have made her a valuable contribution to the Press.

Read the full story about Gwen here: https://www.uakron.edu/im/news/beneath-the-paperwork-lies-passion-ua-student-finds-her-calling-through-her-internship

11/13/2024

Did you know The National Book Awards has been considered one of the most prestigious literary awards since 1950? And that this year The University of Akron Press published a poetry collection that's a finalist?! We are the only university press on this year's list of honorees!

Join us in cheering for Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s "Something About Living," during the ceremony on November 20th. You can register to watch online for FREE at: https://www.nationalbook.org/awards2024/ -to-watch

Huge gratitude to University Libraries at The University of Akron for this wonderful display by the front entrance! 🎉📚

Check out Something About Living inside the Library or grab your own copy here: https://blogs.uakron.edu/uapress/product/something-about-living/

11/12/2024

November 11-15 is University Press Week! To celebrate the many ways university presses , we're sharing this online reading and discussion with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and Maya Abu Al Hayyat, hosted by Noor Hindi and presented by Haymarket Books on November 15th!

Register now: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/haymarketbooks/1459605

11/04/2024

Friends, join us in rooting for Lena Khalaf Tuffaha by tuning in to the 75th National Books Awards!

Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 8pm The National Book Awards Ceremony will be broadcast live from Cipriani Wall Street, free for readers everywhere. Join us in celebrating the 2024 honorees by registering to watch!