University of Akron Press

11/19/2025

We love a good conversation about poetry! 🔥

Check out this interview up at On the Seawall: https://www.ronslate.com/a-dialogue-with-derek-mon/

Thanks to Derek Mong for mentioning Sarah Green's The Deletions (published April 2025), and thanks to Jonathan Farmer for asking the question about poets who aren't getting as much attention as their poems deserve.

Small presses often get overlooked simply because of their size, but as a small university press, we strive to produce works that meet the highest editorial and design standards. 👏

11/14/2025

IT’S HERE! Our annual holiday sale starts now and runs through Friday, Dec. 5. All books will be 50% off when purchased online or at Northside Marketplace, including new titles and best sellers. Use code FAF50UA online. Discount code does not work on mobile devices.

We are kicking off the holiday sale with assorted cookies and a special signing of “Akron at 200,” featuring Jon Miller, inside a Bierce now until 1p.m.

11/03/2025

Huge thank you to the Buckeye Book Fair for another wonderful book fair! Our authors offered quite the spread of Ohio history books!

10/31/2025

Heading to the Byckeye Book Fair tomorrow? Be sure to say hi to all the UA Press authors attending! You'll find Dr. Jon Miller, Dr. Steven D. Hambley, and John W. Kropf with their latest works at the book fair from 9:30am to 4pm.

10/30/2025

WOW! UA Press author Sarah Green interviewed with .vanderhart, and you do not want to miss your chance to listen to this beautiful episode up at ! 🔥

https://ofpoetrypodcast.com/

10/27/2025

NEW ESSAY ALERT! ☄

There is much to enjoy in Ryan Teitman's latest essay up at Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine, as part of This Be the Place, a series of short essays in which poets explore the mysteries and meaning of a particular place.

"At this table, there is no script; the story isn’t written beforehand. No one knows exactly what will happen next; we each become performer and audience, rolled into one."

Read now: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/1735889/this-be-the-place-a-gaming-table-in-philadelphia

10/07/2025

Looking for a piece of history? Join us this weekend at Cascade Locks Parks Association for the Akron Oatmeal Festival where we'll have copies of Akron at 200 and even more local history books on sale!

09/30/2025

Happy Publication Day to What Remains

What Remains presents a grassy field with a complicated and fraught history. What is now a suburban park where people play soccer and flag football in the City of Akron, Ohio, was once a Progressive-era county infirmary’s burial ground for people who were poor, infirm, troubled, immigrant, injured, alcoholic, elderly, or otherwise deemed “unemployable” during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through community-engaged scholarship, this book uses legal, historical, archaeological, and anthropological lenses to consider what is above and below the grass. What Remains is about memories and stories; how at times we collectively remember, forget, or even invent new pasts through the process of tracing and uncovering our own histories. It is about what is worth remembering, what is better left forgotten, and who gets to decide.

Order today and save 30% with code WHAT30: https://blogs.uakron.edu/uapress/product/what-remains/

09/29/2025

📣 ANNOUNCING THE WINNER OF THE 2025 AKRON POETRY PRIZE! 📣

Congratulations to Alfredo Aguilar of Lockhart, TX, who has won the 2025 Akron Poetry Prize as chosen by Eduardo C. Corral!

This year's contest received a total of 586 entries. Congratulations also to all the finalists listed here: https://www.uakron.edu/uapress/akron-poetry-prize/poetryprizewinner.dot.

Much gratitude to Eduardo for all his care in selecting the winner. Brenda Shaughnessy will judge the 2026 competition! 🎉

And thank you to all who trusted us with their work. We never lose sight of the risk you all take when submitting your work, and we cherish every single submission.

09/23/2025

Less than two weeks remain until the winners of the Lambda Literary Awards are announced during the virtual ceremony! 🎉

Join us in rooting for all the , but especially University of Akron Press Emilia Phillips!

Don't miss your chance to listen to Emilia's , Beyond the Gender Binary, at 11AM ET.

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lammys-day-and-the-37th-annual-lambda-literary-awards-tickets-1633024753999?aff=oddtdtcreator

09/16/2025

We are beyond thrilled to share that Lena Khalaf Tuffaha has won the 2025 Washington State Book Award for Poetry! 🎉

Please join us in congratulating her on another well-deserved win!

Huge gratitude to the Washington State Library for selecting Lena's collection Something About Living.

09/12/2025