University of New Orleans Press

07/08/2024

We love a pretty stack of books to start the week :)

07/02/2024

Summer reminder that several of our books are also available as audiobooks! Check out your library's catalog for your next UNO Press read.

06/27/2024

Our social media coordinator was at the Society for the Study of Southern Literature this week and saw a familiar name! We're so happy to share Moira Crone's THE NOT YET with our southern friends :)

06/22/2024

We had such a fun time conducting the second edition of our self-publishing intensive class. Here are some of our favorite moments!

06/18/2024

Join us this Thursday for an evening with Moira Crone, author of THE NOT YET!

You can check out author Moira Crone's visual art at the Sullivan Gallery, 3825 Magazine Street. Her science fiction novel, The Not Yet, was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick 2012 science fiction novel of the year. See her next Thursday at UNO!

06/17/2024

We're so excited to show you the zines of our labor! Check out the final products of our summer self-publishing intensive this Friday at Paper Machine!

06/12/2024

Thinking about joining UNO's CWW? Check out MONDAY NIGHTS: STORIES FROM THE CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS, edited by Fredrick Barton and Joanna Leake.

06/11/2024

Not one, not two, but *three* UNO Press publications in Maurice Carlos Ruffins' New York Times piece "Read Your Way Through New Orleans"!

Check out the article below.

New Orleans is a thriving hub for festivals, music and Creole cuisine. Here, the novelist Maurice Carlos Ruffin shares books that capture its many cultural influences.

06/10/2024

It's PM official! We are overjoyed to announce the 2024 UNO Press Publishing Lab Winner: Josh Denslow's MAGIC CAN'T SAVE US. Make room on your shelves for this enchanting collection!

06/05/2024

Happy Pride!! 🌈🏳️‍⚧️✨ We are so proud to release the second edition of Alex Myers' SUPPORTING TRANSGENDER STUDENTS: UNDERSTANDING GENDER IDENTITY AND RESHAPING SCHOOL CULTURE.

06/05/2024

"With copyediting in particular, my dream vision, in addition to the things that I mentioned in the article, is something like a conversation that happens between an author and the copyeditor before the copyediting happens, where the author names some of their values as a writer. And a lot of the work that I try to do now is values driven, and I found in working with writers that sometimes it’s actually really hard to even identify your own values as a writer, because we’re not accustomed to doing that. So being able to identify them, to say what you want in a copyeditor, and also — in a totally ideal dream world — being able to understand the larger systems and structures that inform your values, because I think some people come in there saying, 'Well, I just want to be respected,' but not really thinking about where respect comes from and what they mean by that. So: informed statement of values, a copyeditor who puts those values first — before, maybe, the publisher’s values, before social values — and then does the work."

It's been over a year since Helen Betya Rubinstein released her pot-stirring LitHub article "Against Copyediting." Check out her thoughts on the reaction of readers in this interview with Outside the Book! Literary Hub

I talked with Helen Betya Rubinstein about the aftershocks of writing “Against Copyediting,” which appeared on Literary Hub.

06/03/2024

SEEING BLACK: BLACK PHOTOGRAPHY IN NEW ORLEANS 1840 & BEYOND, one of our most expansive art book projects to date, is off to the printer! We truly can't wait for you to hold it in your hands this fall!

06/03/2024

We're still cooking up our latest UNO Press Lab winner's cover. But many of the creatures you'll encounter therein need no introduction: the Loch Ness Monster, the tooth fairy, Big Foot, banshees, leprechauns, and harpies, oh my! Stay tuned for more on this uncanny cast of characters and our 2024 Publishing Lab Prize pick.
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05/28/2024

Happy Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month! Shoutout to all of the amazing AAPI authors out there!

05/21/2024

Having a hard time getting into your summer TBR? Try picking up one of our poetry collections!

05/20/2024

“I hope that through this book, educators see themselves,” Austin said. “Teaching is a really tough profession, engaging with so many lives day after day, worrying about your students who may be going through rough times, wanting to reach each student to engage them so they become lifelong learners. . .Teaching is all consuming, if you let it be, and it’s hard not to let it if you love what you do. You have to love your students and be passionate about what you do.”

Check out the latest piece on Dr. Pat Austin and her collection TALES FROM A TEACHING LIFE!

The path to becoming a lifelong educator wasn’t always apparent for Pat Austin, PhD. While studying for a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Agnes Scott College In Georgia, something changed.

05/15/2024

Have you met the UNO Press staff? Click the link below to learn about more about our team!
https://www.uno.edu/unopress/about

05/14/2024

Kitchen table talks about parenting, leaving fundamentalism, and the very messy business of living with loss, Desiree Richter's THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE IS A MUST READ. Available this fall, wherever fine books are sold!

05/09/2024

What are your summer plans? We still have spots available for our 2024 self-publishing intensive! Check out some our favorite moments from last year (as well as the FAQ in the comments)!

05/07/2024

"In Mark Twain’s satire, a raving King Leopold of Belgium launches an impassioned defense of his gruesome policies in Africa, claiming his divine right to brutalize the Congolese people. A scathing condemnation of imperialism and the violence that it incites, Twain’s words retain all of their vitriol over a century later. For years this remarkable work, which lead the first international campaign for human rights, has only been reproduced in low-quality facsimile.

Using the original 1905 release, The University of New Orleans Press has restored the manuscript with new typesetting and archival photographs. In a new introduction, Dr. Hunt Hawkins provides crucial insight into Twain’s mindset as he pushes for social reform. Although Twain likely never knew the impact of his campaign, King Leopold’s Soliloquy remains a hallmark of anti-imperialist rhetoric and a testament to the power of Twain’s words."

05/07/2024

We love hearing these words read aloud!

05/07/2024

"In the time of reconstruction following the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina, a number of Brazilian immigrants relocated to New Orleans, establishing their own immigrant network in the city. POST-KATRINA BRAZUCAS examines how this network developed from 2005 to the present and how Brazilians 'performed' their presence in their new home. While rebuilding a devastated city, Brazilians created a new enclave in New Orleans and created hybrid forms of Brazilian-New Orleanian cultural expression."

What's your favorite New Orleans history book?

05/04/2024

Today!! Join us for an afternoon of poetry

04/30/2024

Check out cultural and literary activist Tony Diaz on the latest episode of WORDS ON A WIRE, where he discusses his book THE TIP OF THE PYRAMID: CULTIVATING COMMUNITY CULTURAL CAPITAL!

On this episode of Words on a Wire, host Daniel Chacón invites writer and activist Tony Diaz into the Poets’ Cove to discuss his latest book, The Tip of the Pyramid: Cultivating Community Cultural Capital (University of New Orleans Press, 2022).

04/29/2024

THE IMAGIST POEM: MODERN POETRY IN MINIATURE includes work from T. E. Hulme, T. S. Eliot, F. S. Flint, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, H. D., Richard Aldington, William Carlos Williams, Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Herbert Read, Adelaide Crapsey, Max Michelson, e.e. cummings, and Archibald MacLeish! National Poetry Month may be drawing to a close, but poetry never will.

04/26/2024

We are *in love* with the new cover of Hernán Lara Zavala's CHARRAS, translated by Christopher Romaguera and on bookshelves soon!
Christopher Louis Romaguera, Writer

04/24/2024

“Schools right now seem to pretend that gender exists only for those at the margins—the trans kids, the nonbinary students. But everyone—teachers, administrators, parents and students—has a gender identity, an understanding of self that is formed by the historical, cultural and personal journey through gender that they have taken in their life. To not have the vocabulary and conceptual framework to perceive gender and grasp its role in your life is a huge deficit. . . Gender is right there. And when it is taught well—openly and expansively—the classroom is full of wonder, laughter and curiosity. Just what education should be.”

Alex Myers' words are always such a pleasure to read, and we're incredibly excited to be releasing the second edition of SUPPORTING TRANSGENDER STUDENTS—out in the world this June!

A Vermont program director writes that students must be equipped with tools to talk about their sense of self and their feelings on roles, rules and hierarchies.

04/23/2024

"What Kuzmich’s characters yearn for is more complex and far-reaching than what the American Dream, with its false and simplifying promises, can satisfy. Perhaps what makes Kuzmich’s stories so startling and original is the author’s refusal to meet our expectations, as her Armenian-American characters long for more than what our preconceived notions of closure or happiness can give them."

Check out Monica Macansantos' review of Naira Kuzmich's IN EVERYTHING I SEE YOUR HAND!

$18.95 Buy Book About the Book Author: Naira KuzmichReviewed By: Monica MacansantosGenre: FictionPublisher: University of New Orleans PressPublished: 2022Pages: 192 Book ReviewThe late Naira Kuzmich’s In Everything I See Your Hand is a startling and provocative debut story collection chronicling t...

04/23/2024

"Braver's novel is rich and humane, a tightly controlled, beautifully orchestrated portrait of contemporary terrors and the feedback loops of fear and paranoia they create that mesmerize us and, tragically, sometimes drive us mad. There are those that disappear in the violence, and those that disappear searching for them in their wakes, trying to make sense of insanity." — Paul Harding, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Adam Braver's THE DISSAPEARED is available now!