West Virginia University Press

01/08/2025

Claire Jiménez interviews Megan Howell about cruelty, vulnerability, and the uncanny in her debut short story collection, Softie.

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12/23/2024

12/16/2024

Praise for Megan Howell's short story collection, Softie, from Ms. Magazine.🌟

12/12/2024

Up now on Booktimist: Salma Monani, author of Indigenous Ecocinema, describes new ways to approach Indigenous responses to climate issues.

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Introducing the concepts of d-ecocinema and d-ecocinema criticism, Salma Monani’s Indigenous Ecocinema expands the purview of ecocinema studies and not only brings attention to a thriving Indigenous cinema archive but also argues for a methodological approach that ushers Indigenous intellectual voices front and center in how we theorize this archive. Its case-study focus on Canada, particularly the work emanating from the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto—a nationally and internationally recognized hub in Indigenous cinema networks—provides insights into pan-Indigenous and Nation-specific contexts of Indigenous ecocinema.

This absorbing text is the first book-length exploration foregrounding the environmental dimensions of cinema made by Indigenous peoples, including a particularly fascinating discussion on how Indigenous cinema’s ecological entanglements are a crucial and complementary aspect of its agenda of decolonialism.

Salma Monani imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival

12/11/2024

Winter Sale ❄️☃️ Now through December 31st take 25% off everything with code WINTER25 on wvupress.com

12/10/2024

We're so pleased to announce that we've signed engineering visionary Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard, hailed as the "father of the cable modem," for "The Accidental Network," a memoir describing how he developed and brought to market one of the signature technologies behind today’s global broadband revolution.

Yassini-Fard devised a vision for transforming cable television lines to convey high-speed internet traffic not long after graduating from WVU with an electrical engineering degree in 1981. "How would our lives change," he wondered, "if everyday people had a stable, high-speed data connection to the internet?" They could work remotely, access connected healthcare (telemedicine), engage in distance learning, and be united with faraway families and friends. While Yassini-Fard wasn't the first to imagine a world of digital connectivity, he was in the vanguard of those actually making the dream a reality, through his extraordinary creative insight of utilizing the residential cable network and applying innovative digital signal processing techniques.

“The Accidental Network” is both a valuable history of technology innovation and an engrossing account of business conducted at high speed. The book details Yassini-Fard’s journey from engineer to entrepreneur in the race to secure technology partners, create a wholly new marketplace, and convince cable industry executives that there was money to be made in transmitting data to households at a time when skepticism about the eventual reach of personal computing was the norm. This is the story of how Yassini-Fard and a 20-person team from his company LANcity were willing to bet it all (including the deed for Yassini-Fard's home!) on the creation of the cable modem and the pursuit of widescale global adoption.

Look for "The Accidental Network" in Fall 2025!

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12/09/2024

Author Matthew Ferrence has been busy with I Hate It Here, Please Vote For Me. Check out his FOUR latest media appearances!!

🔗🔗 Links in our bio.

Listen to Ferrence on Passionate World Talk Radio chatting with Betsy discussing the challenges of being a rural progressive and his book, I HATE IT HERE, PLEASE VOTE FOR ME.

“We have to be bold enough to call out things we don’t think are right.” Great interview with West Virginia Morning about rural politics and his book, I HATE IT HERE, PLEASE VOTE FOR ME.

“Done well, government can be a way to help people get a fair shake.” Listen to Ferrence discussing his book, I HATE IT HERE, PLEASE VOTE FOR ME on New Books Network

Ferrence and Danielle Moodie, Allegheny College creative writing professor, talk about rural voters and I HATE IT HERE, PLEASE VOTE FOR ME on Woke AF Daily.

12/03/2024

Zoë Gadegbeku's novel, Blue Futures, Break Open, received a starred review from Foreword Reviews! 💙

Blue Futures, Break Open is coming in March and available for preorder now.

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12/02/2024

It's pub day for three excellent new titles from WVU Press!

▪️ Softie: Stories by Megan Howell
▪️ This Book is Free and Yours to Keep: Notes from the Appalachian Prison Book Project edited by Connie Banta, Kristin DeVault-Juelfs, Destinee Harper, Katy Ryan, Ellen Skirvin
▪️ Indigenous Ecocinema: Decolonizing Media Environments by Salma Monani

🍦Softie: Stories

In beautifully melancholy stories of magical realism, the women and girls in Softie transform their bodies and test their sanity, trying to find meaning in the loneliest of places.

"...a beautiful and striking collection about friendship, secrets, and unspeakable desires." —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

📚 This Book is Free and Yours to Keep: Notes from the Appalachian Prison Book Project

Read more about this title, on our blog, booktimist.com

This Book Is Free and Yours to Keep presents a captivating collection of letters and artwork by people in prison that highlights the crucial work done by the Appalachian Prison Book Project (APBP), a nonprofit that provides books to incarcerated people in West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Maryland. Through the words of people directly impacted by the criminal punishment system, the collection provides uncommon insight into reading practices and everyday life in prisons and jails while being an inspiration for prison book projects, prison reform, and abolition.

🎥 Indigenous Ecocinema: Decolonizing Media Environments

Introducing the concepts of d-ecocinema and d-ecocinema criticism, Monani expands the purview of ecocinema studies and not only brings attention to a thriving Indigenous cinema archive but also argues for a methodological approach that ushers Indigenous intellectual voices front and center in how we theorize this archive. Its case-study focus on Canada, particularly the work emanating from the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto—a nationally and internationally recognized hub in Indigenous cinema networks—provides insights into pan-Indigenous and Nation-specific contexts of Indigenous ecocinema.

Learn more about these books at wvupress.com and our blog, booktimist.com

Appalachian Prison Book Project (APBP) imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival

12/02/2024

For all our ebooks are 50% off with code CYBER50 on wvupress.com 🖱

11/30/2024

It's Small Business Saturday! We're especially grateful this holiday season for the small independent stores that carry our books, host our authors for readings, give us valuable feedback, and guide readers to our titles.

These include friends like the F.A.R.M. in Granville (), Monkey Wrench Books in downtown Morgantown (), WordPlay in Wardensville (), Taylor Books in Charleston (), White Whale Books () in Pittsburgh, and so many more. These small businesses really are at the heart of what we do.

11/29/2024

Today we commemorate Native American Heritage Day by celebrating WVU’s Native American Studies Program for its 30+ years of student education, regional and community programming, and ongoing work in support of Indigenous rights, tribal sovereignty, and justice.

Photos from WVU's Peace Tree Ceremony Wednesday, November 6, 2024, with guest of honor Kody Grant (Pueblo of Isleta/Eastern Band of Cherokee).

11/27/2024

Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁🦃 Now through Friday take 25% off everything with code BOOKSGIVING on wvupress.com

11/25/2024

Coming up this Wednesday through Friday: take 25% off everything with code BOOKSGIVING on wvupress.com

11/24/2024

Check out Phoebe Wagner on Groks Science Radio Show!!

Last week, she took the time to discuss Almanac for the Anthropocene and how we use our collective efforts to guide a solarpunk future.

🔗🔗 link in bio!

11/19/2024

Congratulations to Author Matthew Ferrence whose book I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me is on the longlist for the 2025 WCoNA Book of the Year!

Writers Conference of Northern Appalachia

11/15/2024

We're at the WVU Mountaineer Week Craft Fair through Sunday!

WVU Mountainlair Ballrooms
Nov. 16 - 11 am to 7 pm
Nov. 17 - 11 am to 4 pm

11/15/2024

To round out 2024, we celebrate Connective Tissue, our newest series which focuses on the health humanities and narrative medicine. This series will by covering innovative approaches to healthcare, integrating expressive arts and humanities practices into health settings, and artfully rendering stories of illness, disability, and healthcare.

Read more about this series on our blog, Booktimist.
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