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01/14/2025

From the forthcoming Publishers Weekly review:

Beware the Tall Grass weaves the stories of the Sloans, a modern family grappling with their young son Charlie’s troubling memories of a past life as a sol...

01/14/2025

From the forthcoming Publishers Weekly Review...

Mountain Time: A Field Guide to Astonishment is an essay collection that explores the inner and outer natures of remarkable human and nonhuman beings. It is ...

01/11/2025

We are reading and reading!

01/08/2025

We hope to announce finalists for the annual Jordan Prize by the end of the week.

12/21/2024

From a forthcoming Publishers Weekly review: "Unnerving, distinctive, and told in fine, intimate prose, Morris’s time-crossed novel debut contrasts the present—through the story of Eve Sloan, a mother raising her son in Northern Virginia—and the past, with Thomas Boone, a young man headed for Vietnam in the 1960s. While developing both threads with warm humanity, Beware the Tall Grass builds to an unexpected connection between these characters and eras."

Beware the Tall Grass can be ordered at Amazon and via CSU Press's marketing partner UGA Press at: https://ugapress.org/browse-books/...

12/21/2024

From a forthcoming Publishers Weekly review: "Golden unites nature and humankind into a breathtaking, give-and-take dance, transporting readers from immigrant stories and insightful explorations of displaced Indigenous peoples to considerations of the animals at her doorstep, all connected by threads of love and respect." Renata Golden's "Mountain Time" can be ordered at Amazon and via CSU Press's marketing partner, UGA Press at: https://ugapress.org/browse-books/?keyword=Renata+Golden

12/20/2024

Our thanks to the Southern Lit Review for this review of "Beware the Tall Grass:"

It’s easy to see why Ellen Birkett Morris’s enchanting debut novel, Beware the Tall Grass (Columbus State University 2024), won The Donald L. Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence. The novel expertly entwines two moving tales, that of Eve Sloan, a mother trying desperately to understand and prote...

12/16/2024

Dear Friends,
This Saturday morning in Las Cruces at 10:00am, Renata Golden will be reading at COAS Bookstore. If you're looking for a Christmas gift for a nature reader, here is a splendid book of essays about the Chiricahua Mountains. This is a book that has already sold out its first print run!

11/27/2024

We're very pleased to announce that Maureen P. Stanton's Jordan Prize-winning memoir, "The Murmur of Everything Moving," is now available for pre-order at Amazon and at CSU Press's marketing partner, UGA Press: https://ugapress.org/browse-books/...

11/27/2024

We're very pleased to say that CMarie Fuhrman's essay collection, "Salmon Weather," is now available for pre-order at Amazon and directly via CSU Press's marketing partner, UGA Press at: https://ugapress.org/browse-books/?keyword=salmon+weather

11/13/2024

Thanks to Compulsive Reader for this review of "Beware the Tall Grass:"

Book Reviews, Literary Fiction Reviews A review of Beware the Tall Grass by Ellen Birkett Morris November 7, 2024 Reviewed by James B. Wells Beware the Tall Grass by Ellen Birkett Morris Columbus State University Press Paperback, 244 pages, ISBN-13: 979-8988732105, March 2024 The belief in the dead....

11/08/2024

From CSU Press author, Ellen Birkett Morris

11/02/2024

Renata Golden's book Mountain Time in Alabama

10/22/2024

Please join us for the Third Annual CSU Press Reading, Wednesday, Oct. 23rd at 7pm, featuring Ellen Birkett Morris and Renata Golden, in downtown Columbus at 1304 Frank Brown Hall (at the corner of 12th Street and Broadway).
This reading is free and open to the public!

10/22/2024

Saturday, November 2nd, 2024 from 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Ellen Birkett Morris will be at the Kentucky Book Festival, Joseph-Beth Booksellers signing Beware the Tall Grass

10/17/2024

Saturday, October 19, 2024
11 AM
“Building A Narrative - Creating a Roadmap”
2024 Louisville Book Festival
Louisville International Convention Center

10/14/2024

Please support this CSU Press reading on Oct. 24th, 2024 at 7pm at the Georgia Center for the Book at the Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore Street, Decatur, GA, 30030. Ellen Birkett Morris will be reading from her award winning novel, Beware the Tall Grass, and Renata Golden will be reading from her collection of nature essays, Mountain Time