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07/10/2025

We're moving to a smaller office, and that means free books for you! Visit Alden Library 101 on Monday, July 14, from 9 am to 4 pm. We have fiction, poetry, children's books, history, African studies, Appalachian studies, and more!

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07/08/2025

Join us at the FREE Columbus Book Festival this weekend! Check out our titles—for kids and adults—and score some awesome OHIO swag at booth 48. Plus, beloved Columbus-based mystery novelist Andrew Welsh-Huggins will be in our booth Saturday, 11–noon. If you haven't read one of his Andy Hayes Mysteries, you're missing out. See you there!

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05/21/2025

Check out prize-winning poet Han VanderHart—author of LARKS—on the Of Poetry Podcast: https://ofpoetrypodcast.com/2025/05/18/episode-72-han-vanderhart-of-larks-genealogy-and-truth-as-a-poetics-and-the-line-with-guest-host-amorak-huey/

Through June 8, use promo code SUN to get 40% off all our books at https://www.ohioswallow.com/

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05/20/2025

With summer nearly here, we’ve got reading on our minds and a special online sale to offer: From May 20 to June 8, use promo code SUN at https://ohioswallow.com to get 40% off ALL books. Order more than $30 and get free U.S. shipping. Happy reading!

05/15/2025

"Steele’s work is in a category apart, however. No serious poet can afford to ignore it, and in fact few have." A wonderful review of Timothy Steele's All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing in Plough: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/to-rhyme-is-human

05/02/2025

Comics fans, Dan Gearino—author of Comic Shop: The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a New Geek Culture—is featured in a new documentary showing tomorrow at 4:30 at the Gateway Film Center in Columbus! Check out the trailer: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9h713m
Learn more about Dan's terrific book here: https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780804012133/comic-shop/

04/25/2025

Malaria on the Move is a "richly documented case study that should be read by scholars and practitioners alike." The book examines how migration and travel influence the risk of malaria and reaffirms the need to take into consideration local socioeconomic factors in designing and implementing interventions.

04/23/2025

Congratulations to Mamie Morgan, winner of the 2025 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize for MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S TOAST!

Final judge Natalie Shapero writes, "A Midsummer Night's Toast is a book of relentless, headlong energy. These skillful and fiery poems, trapped between reverence for literary tradition and immense cynicism, stake out a wild and granular territory (one poem, for example, is titled 'When my husband slides a record from Barbra Streisand's sleeve and it's actually The Best of Aerosmith'). These poems delve into tip work, into the service economy, into the endless scroll, into 'the earnest century where you got paid per word'; they subvert our expectations of what is immediate, what is remote, what is familiar, what can never be pinned down. '[T]hey don't know about the poetry,' the speaker announces to the reader, 'how it sometimes makes things worse.'"

The book will be published in spring 2026. Thank you to all the wonderful writers who entered this year's contest. We're currently accepting submissions for the 2026 contest (through December 31). Please visit https://www.ohioswallow.com/poetry-prize/ to learn more.

04/16/2025

Student Appreciation Lunch 2025 ⭐️📖

Congrats to our three seniors graduating in May!
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We wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors!

04/11/2025

🌟 Staff Picks! 🌟

This week, Sally shares their favorite OU Press read: Evidence of My Existence by Jim Lo Scalzo

From a l***r colony in India to an American research station on the Antarctic Peninsula, from the back rooms of the White House to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, Evidence of My Existence tells a unique and riveting story of seventeen years spent racing from one photo assignment to the next. It is a story of both photojournalism and the consequences of obsessive wanderlust.

Learn more at ohioswallow.com 📖

04/11/2025

Congratulations, HPP Finalists! ⭐️

Here is a list of the finalists for the 2025 Hollis Poetry Prize contest. Stay tuned for an announcement of the winner next week!

To learn more about the Poetry Prize and submit your application for the 2026 contest visit www.ohioswallow.com/poetry-prize/.

04/11/2025

Bestseller Feature ☀️🍄🌱

Appalachian Mushrooms | A Field Guide
By Walter E. Sturgeon

Appalachian Mushrooms is unparalleled in its accuracy and currency, from its detailed photographs to descriptions based on the most advanced classification information available, including recent DNA studies that have upended some mushrooms’ previously accepted taxonomies. This guide is destined to be an indispensable authority on the subject for everyone from beginning hobbyists to trained experts, throughout Appalachia and beyond.

Learn more at ohioswallow.com.