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- 04/15/2025
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University of Akron Press to Launch Series on Self-Care for Writers
The University of Akron (UA) Press, in collaboration with Elizabeth’s Bookshop & Writing Center in Akron, is excited to announce it will launch “Finding a Shell: How to Care for Yourself as a Writer,” a four-part workshop series on self-care for writers, beginning Saturday, April 26. Each of the four workshops is free and open to adults writing in English. The first 20 people to register for each workshop will also receive a free book from The University of Akron Press.
- 02/12/2025
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University of Akron Press to Publish Cryptid by Annah Browning
The University of Akron Press is thrilled to announce that it will publish the poetry collection Cryptid by Annah Browning as part of the Akron Series in Poetry. Annah Browning is the author of the poetry collection Witch Doctrine (University of Akron Press, 2020) and the chapbook The Marriage (Horse Less Press, 2013), and is a cofounder of Grimoire Magazine. Her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, and other venues. She earned her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and her PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Hailing from the foothills of South Carolina, Browning currently calls southern Illinois home, where she is a professor of English at Blackburn College.
- 12/20/2024
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University of Akron Press to Publish I’ll Take My Body To-Go by Kindall Fredricks as 2024 Akron Poetry Prize Editor’s Choice
The University of Akron Press is excited to announce that it will publish the poetry collection I’ll Take My Body To-Go by Kindall Fredricks as the 2024 Akron Poetry Prize editor’s choice selection. The contest received a total of 603 entries in 2024.
Kindall Fredricks is a practicing registered nurse and poet who received her MFA from Sam Houston State University. Her work has appeared in Passages North, Boulevard, New Letters, Grist, North American Review, and more. She lives with her daughter, husband, and collective of furballs just outside of Houston, Texas. This is her first book of poetry.
- 10/02/2024
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University of Akron Press Publication Named National Book Award Finalist
The University of Akron Press announced that its recent publication, Something About Living, by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, winner of the 2022 Akron Poetry Prize, is one of only five titles on the short list for the 2024 National Book Award in Poetry. This is the second time in seven years The University of Akron Press has had a publication selected for the National Book Awards, distinguishing it as among the most prestigious publishers of poetry in the nation.
- 09/26/2024
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2024 Akron Poetry Prize Winner
Matthew Olzmann, this year’s judge, has chosen Paperweight by Ryan Teitman of Glenside, Pennsylvania, as the 2024 Akron Poetry Prize winner. The contest received a total of 603 entries in 2024.
Regarding the winning manuscript, Olzmann states:
A cloud and a ghost enter a bar. A girl walks across an ocean. One poem has a speaker who used to be a dog; in another, he turns into a rock. Ryan Teitman is an expert at taking an unlikely premise, then building and inhabiting a little world around it. These poems often reminded me of improvisational theater in the best way: how they embrace their impossible materials, and escalate with wit and humor, often in the service of some greater mystery. But what I admired most about this book is how it evolves over time: at the beginning, I was drawn to the imaginative force of the poems. By the end, I was moved by their vulnerability and tender grace. Paperweight is a collection that will linger with me for years to come.
- 05/28/2024
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UA Press to Publish Artists on Creative Administration: A Workbook from the National Center for Choreography
The University of Akron Press is excited to announce that it will publish Artists on Creative Administration: A Workbook from the National Center for Choreography, a new book edited by artist and cultural strategist Tonya Lockyer. This book features essays from and interviews with thirty artists and advocates from the dance and the performing arts worlds, sharing first-hand stories of creative administration in action through case studies, interviews, life tools, and experiments.
