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 September 25, 2008
Poetry Reading
Roger Sedarat
Dear Regime
Dodge Poetry Festival, New Jersey
WLIB Radio Interview
Omar Ali
Mark Riley with Politics Plus, New York City
7:35 p.m.
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
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.
Memoir Writing Workshop
Thomas Larson
The Memoir and the Memoirist
St. Louis Writers Guild, Barnes & Noble Bookstore
10 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
