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West Virginia University Press @wvupress.bsky.social · 13h

Celebrate Banned Book Week by contributing to the Appalachian Prison Book Project!

The nonprofit provides books to incarcerated people in West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Maryland.

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West Virginia University Press @wvupress.bsky.social · 6d

This October each book holds a powerful message.

A novel about a mid-life couple finishing refuge on a farm, an examination of the beloved song “Country Roads”, and a purposeful encounter with campus shooting archives to understand the stories we tell ourselves in their wake.

Available now.

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West Virginia University Press @wvupress.bsky.social · 8d

🚨‼️ EVENT ALERT‼️🚨

WVU Press welcomes author Mo Daviau to Morgantown in joint event at WVU’s Colson Hall with author and WVU MFA graduate Kanza Javed.

Can’t wait to see you there!

#morgantownwv #event #reading #booklover

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David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social · 14d

"Epic and Lovely is 'alchemizing shit into the most beautiful thing' writ large."

@modaviau.bsky.social shared a playlist for her novel Epic and Lovely at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/09/25/m... @wvupress.bsky.social

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West Virginia University Press @wvupress.bsky.social · 15d

Congratulations to Megan Howell, whose book Softie won the 2025 IPPY Awards Gold Medal in Short Story Fiction! 🎉📚✨

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West Virginia University Press @wvupress.bsky.social · 29d

Congratulations to Vic Sizemore for winning the 2025 Tennessee Book Award in Fiction for his novel God of River Mud!!

Finalist judge Rebecca Makkai said, “”I was immediately swept away by God of River Mud, a layered, nuanced and often harrowing story of people ill-used by religious structures”

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 29d

If you've dated an abusive person, and you've dreamed of their comeuppance, my new novel is for you: wvupressonline.com/epic-and-lov...

Epic and Lovely

Epic and Lovely Mo Daviau

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West Virginia University Press @wvupress.bsky.social · Sep 8

Attention Morgantown, WV folks: Mark your calendars for our September wrapping party!

Join APBP at Ascend WV on Wednesday, September 10 to help us send books to incarcerated people in Appalachia. You’ll wrap packages, read letters, and prepare books for the mail.

content credit to APBP.

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West Virginia University Press @wvupress.bsky.social · Sep 8

Mo Daviau reads from the opening of her recently released novel Epic and Lovely!

Check out our blog, The Booktimist, to read the rest of the chapter. Linked in our bio!! 🔗🔗

West Virginia University Press @wvupress.bsky.social · Sep 4

Happy publication week to Epic and Lovely by Mo Daviau @mauditmo !!

“This book is a love bomb, a love bloom, a love letter from a soul on the edge of death who talks back, cracks wise, and throws down wisdom."
—Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Reading the Waves: A Memoir and The Chronology of Water

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West Virginia University Press @wvupress.bsky.social · Sep 2

Happy release to The Accidental Network by Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard!!

The Accidental Network tells the untold story of the invention of the cable modem by the small tech company LANcity in the early 1990s, illustrating how Yassini-Fard overcame a cascade of challenges to create the cable modem.

West Virginia University Press @wvupress.bsky.social · Aug 30

Happy Labor Day, everyone! We hope this long weekend is a well-deserved break from the daily grind.

We’re offering 15% off *all* books! It’s our way of honoring the tireless effort and dedication that comes with all kinds of labor.

Happy Labor Day, and happy reading! 📚✨

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West Virginia University Press @wvupress.bsky.social · Aug 29

We have a fantastic variety of books out now!! This release includes something for everyone…

Football fans ✅
Tech enthusiasts ✅
Dark-humored bookworms ✅

All three books are available for order on our website!!

#newrelease #newbooks #wvufootball #internet #cable #disabilities #novel #california

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West Virginia University Press @wvupress.bsky.social · Aug 25

Just in time for football and back-to-school, Almost Heaven is out now!!

Sports journalist John Antonik covers Bowden’s entire WVU tenure from 1966–75 and the circumstances, issues, difficulties, and obstacles that he had to overcome that were unique to this period in Mountaineer sports history.

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West Virginia University Press @wvupress.bsky.social · Aug 22

Congratulations to Joanna Allen for her work Saharan Winds receiving the ASLE-UKI Book Prize!!

The prize is awarded by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland, to recognize outstanding works in the environmental humanities.
@asleuki.bsky.social
#bookaward

West Virginia University Press @wvupress.bsky.social · Aug 20

An incredible thoughtful review that we can’t stop reading! Anthony speaks to the form and intricate connections within Campanioni’s work.

Read the rest at the link in our bio 🔗🔗

#heavyfeatherreview #poetry #amwriting #instapoets #writing #smallpress #microfiction #flashfiction

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West Virginia University Press @wvupress.bsky.social · Aug 18

Marc Harshman will be celebrating the publication of his new collection of poems at the Ohio County Public Library TOMORROW @12pm in Wheeling!

#books #poetry #poetlaureate #westvirginia

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andreasomberg.bsky.social @andreasomberg.bsky.social · Aug 6

So excited about this important, unputdownable book by Rachel Weaver, coming out with @wvupress.bsky.social!

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Chris Campanioni @chriscampanioni.bsky.social · Aug 12

My spring correspondence with @richardscottlarson.com — online & offline & between lines — was so bountiful & energizing ! ❤️‍🔥 & now you can read it in full @truemag.bsky.social @wvupress.bsky.social & @uwiscpress.bsky.social 📚⚡️ https://truemag.org/2025/08/08/body-work-a-correspondence/

richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · Aug 11

very grateful to be in conversation with @chriscampanioni.bsky.social for @truemag.bsky.social: "I think the body is always the place to start when it comes to personal storytelling, because to me the body is always a narrative, or at least the inevitable starting point of one."

Body/Work: A Correspondence

Since we’d never met in person, I had to picture Richard taking notes, making observations as he walked around Brooklyn’s Cortelyou Road or maybe further south, on Foster Avenue, perhaps on his way…

truemag.org

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West Virginia University Press @wvupress.bsky.social · Aug 15

Welcome Meredith McCarroll, our new editor-at-large!

Meredith McCarroll, PhD acquires books in Appalachian Studies. McCarroll was co-editor of Appalachian Reckoning. She is a past president of the Appalachian Studies Association and took over as Editor of Journal of Appalachian Studies last year.

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West Virginia University Press @wvupress.bsky.social · Aug 13

⭐️⭐️ Incredible News !!!! ⭐️ ⭐️

Mo Daviau’s @mauditmo Epic and Lovely was included in the September 2025 IndieNext list!!!

This fantastic list is comprised of books nominated by booksellers across the country.

Congratulations, Mo!
Link in bio 🔗🔗

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West Virginia University Press @wvupress.bsky.social · Aug 11

I Hate It Here, Please Vote For Me received a wonderful review in the Appalachian Journal!!

Ferrence’s experience and commentary on the current polarizing political landscape feels particularly relevant, and Josh Howard agrees. Read the rest in the Summer 2025 issue.

#politics #politicalbook #gop

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West Virginia University Press @wvupress.bsky.social · Aug 6

🚨🚨EVENT SCHEDULE 🚨🚨

Mo Daviau is hitting the road with Epic and Lovely!! Next month, Mo will be reading at some of her (and our) favorite spots—including WVU Campus in Morgantown.

There will even be some sparkly stickers of a cat holding Epic and Lovely with preorders.

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West Virginia University Press @wvupress.bsky.social · Aug 5

Wonderful reviews of Mo Daviau’s Epic and Lovely are rolling in!

Available for preorder now and official release on September 1st!

West Virginia University Press @wvupress.bsky.social · Aug 4

New author signing! We welcome Rachel Weaver and her memoir, Dizzy, the first book in our Connective Tissue series!