Recent News · 
Fannie Quigley a 2008 WILLA Awards Finalist
September 15, 2008
Searching for Fannie Quigley is a 2008 finalist for the WILLA Literary Awards honoring women's stories set in the American West. The 2007 biography of a legendary Alaskan pioneer was written by Jane Haigh, the 2007 Alaska historian of the year. Winners will be announced October 24-26 at the Women Writing the West conference in San Antonio, TX. Searching for Fannie Quigley is a finalist in the scholarly nonfiction category.
Kirkus & PW Give Starred Reviews to Latest Amish Mystery
July 11, 2008
Two starred reviews in major magazines have jump-started the publication of P. L. Gaus’s Separate from the World: An Ohio Amish Mystery. Publishers Weekly called Gaus’s “excellent sixth Ohio mystery” “another winner in this fine regional series”; Kirkus Reviews called it a “sharp mystery” and “A perceptive look at problems that have no easy solutions.”
News Archive
- April 2008
- Young Lions Fiction Award Goes to Currie
- Granary of Rome Wins Geography Award
- Olmanson Wins Jackson Prize
- William Logan Foreword on New Critics Appears in VQR
- Matthew Cohen Wins Benda Prize for Best Book in Southeast Asian Studies
- March 2008
- Malae a 2008 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalist
- Two OU Press Books Named Ohioana Award Finalists
- Resurrecting the Granary of Rome Wins Top Prize in Environmental History
- February 2008
- Four Books Chosen as CHOICE Outstanding Titles
- Religion in Ohio Editor Still Promoting Interfaith Dialogue
- Post Office Honors Charles Chesnutt with Stamp
- January 2008
- Teach the Free Man a Story Prize “Notable Book”
- Book on Political Independents Recommended
- December 2007
- The Chronicle Review Praises New Criticism Anthology
- Claim to the Country a Library Journal “Editor’s Pick”
- Anita Ellis Interviewed About Rookwood and Indians
- November 2007
- Keillor to Read Shaw
- October 2007
- U.S. News Photographer to Visit Athens
- Jane Haigh Is an Alaska “Historian of the Year”
- Ricky Clark Honored by Ohioana
- Times Interviews Author About Buddhism in Burma
- September 2007
- Quick-Change Artist a Gardner Fiction Finalist
- August 2007
- Quick-Change Artist a Fiction Award Finalist
- May 2007
- Out of the Woods Into the News
- Hometown for an Hour Wins Audre Lorde Award
- Dunbar Collection an AAUP/ALA “Best of the Best”
- April 2007
- A Women of the Times in AJ’s Top 12
- March 2007
- OUP on NPR
- OU Press Poet on The Writer's Almanac
- Fugitive Slave Story Wins History Prize
- Hometown for an Hour an Audre Lorde Finalist
- Architecture in Cincinnati an Ohioana Award Finalist
- Dunbar Collection an Ohioana Award Finalist
- Michigan Law Wins Second State Award
- Pollution Author’s Op-Ed Reviewed on Salon.com
- January 2007
- Ora Anderson in Ohio Natural Resources Hall of Fame
- October 2006
- Holy Week Gets a Starred Review
- September 2006
- Michigan Law Book Earns State History Award
- African AIDS History Reviewed in NE Journal of Medicine
- July 2006
- Authors Booked on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show
- May 2006
- Garrison Keillor reads Timothy Steele
- Christian Science Monitor Reviews A Burning Hunger
- Trick of Sunlight Gets Booklist Starred Review
- March 2006
- Timothy Steele Praised in Booklist
- Library Journal Reviews History of AIDS in Africa
- Publishers Weekly Raves over A Prayer for the Night
- Two Finalists for Ohioana Book Awards
- Poetry Daily to feature Jennifer Rose
- Library Journal Calls Burning Hunger “Riveting”
- January 2006
- New York Times Picks Prisoner Pear for Editors’ Choice
- Military Intervention in Foreign Affairs
- CHOICE’s “Best of the Best”
- National Park Service and DeVoto
- October 2005
- Ouidah a Finalist for Herskovits, Douglass Awards
- Publishers Weekly Calls Prisoner Pear "Efficient, Accomplished"
- Kirkus Reviews
- September 2005
- Library Journal Reviews Darrow
- July 2005
- Attention Ohio Art Libraries
- May 2005
- Poetry Lauds The Optimist
- DeVoto's West Gets Lead Review in Bloomsbury
- Mehigan Poem Wins Pushcart Prize
- Apartheid Book Called a "Superb Study" in CHOICE
- John Brown Book Reviewed in NYRB
- A “Fearless First Book”
- March 2005
- The Optimist a Finalist for L.A. Times Book Prize
- Indonesian-English Dictionary “A Valuable Addition”
- February 2005
- Highland Sanctuary Called "Fascinating," "Groundbreaking"
- Subjects on Display Earns "Essential" Rating from CHOICE
- Mehigan’s The Optimist Featured on Poetry Daily
- Tensions of Empire Wins Prize
- January 2005
- CHOICE Praises Ecology Study
- ForeWord Features a Pair
- The Optimist Makes ForeWord’s Big 10 Picks of 2004
- “An Amazing Book from an Academic Press”
- June 2004
- Graham R. Wins Robert Colby Book Prize
Conference Archive
Event(s) for July 10, 2008
Poetry Reading
Roger Sedarat
Dear Regime
Watchung Booksellers, Montclair, NJ
Upcoming Events ·
Memoir Writing Workshop
Thomas Larson
The Memoir and the Memoirist
Mobile Writers Guild, Mobile, AL
1:15-3:15 p.m.
Reading
Jo Carson
Teller Tales
Southern Festival of the Book, Nashville
2:30–3:30 p.m.
Author Presentation and Signing
One Book, One Community participants
Gene Logsdon
The Man Who Created Paradise
Kent State University-Tuscarawas Campus
7 p.m.
Memoir Writing Workshop
Tom Larson
The Memoir and the Memoirist
Main Street Books, Hattiesburg, MS
4-6 p.m.
Memoir Writing Workshop
Thomas Larson
The Memoir and the Memoirist
East Baton Rouge Parish Library
7-9 p.m.
Book signing
Charles Lumpkins
American Pogrom
East-West Crossings, State College, PA
2:30 p.m.
All-Day Memoir Writing Workshop
Thomas Larson
The Memoir and the Memoirist
BookPeople, Austin, TX
9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
