University of North Texas Press

09/21/2026

Congratulations to James B. Mills, whose book IN THE DAYS OF BILLY THE KID was honored this past weekend with the Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award for Outstanding Publication in New Mexico or Southwest Borderlands History from the Historical Society of New Mexico!

IN THE DAYS OF BILLY THE KID is available now at untpress.unt.edu!

09/18/2026

"Real American history that is as vividly action/adventure themed as any western novel, 'Crimewave: Murder and Mayhem in the Far West, 1850-1900' is a simply fascinating and informative read from start to finish."-Library Bookwatch

Learn more about Matthew Bernstein's CRIMEWAVE and pick up your own copy at https://untpress.unt.edu/catalog/bernstein-crimewave/

09/09/2026

Check out this excellent article over DREAMS AND IDEAS: THE ARTISTRY OF COSTUME DESIGNER WINN MORTON in Curated Texan:
https://curatedtexan.com/2026/09/winn-morton/

Pick up your own copy of the book from untpress.unt.edu!

Long before immersive experiences became the entertainment industry's favorite buzzword, Winn Morton was already creating them. Armed with little more than watercolor, imagination, and an uncanny understanding of theatrical storytelling, the Dallas native spent more than seventy years transforming s...

09/04/2026

Available this month from UNT Press:

TEXAS COTTON AND CONFEDERATE FINANCE: BLOCKADE RUNNERS, BORDER MERCHANTS, AND GOVERNMENT AGENTS by L. Tuffly Ellis and Richard B. McCaslin

TEXAS AND THE CIVIL WAR: NEW PERSPECTIVES by Carl H. Moneyhon

THE BEST AMERICAN NEWSPAPER NARRATIVES VOL. 13 edited by Gayle Reaves

Learn more about these titles and place your order at untpress.unt.edu!

09/01/2026

The Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry is now open for submissions through October 31! View the manuscript guidelines and begin the submission process at https://untpress.unt.edu/authors/vassar-miller-submissions/

08/31/2026

"Other Edens ultimately argues that paradise is not a place humanity leaves behind but one it continually attempts to rebuild through memory, faith, marriage, and language."

New review for Ash Bowen's OTHER EDENS up now at Rhino Poetry!

Ash Bowen’s Other Edens, winner of the 2026 Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, is a collection haunted less by the biblical Fall than by humanity’s compulsion to reenact it. Throughout four carefully arranged sections, Bowen returns to Genesis not as fixed scripture but as living mythology, reshapin...

08/27/2026

The Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry opens for submissions on September 1! Get your poems together and visit https://untpress.unt.edu/authors/vassar-miller-submissions/ for information on how to submit and check out our previous winners!

08/12/2026

Listen to John Langellier discuss BASTION BY THE BAY and the Presidio of San Francisco with Damien Bacich for California Frontier, and pick up a copy of the book from untpress.unt.edu!
https://youtu.be/6mJWeWYSbEM?si=sYi8xVLgMiTae3dx

08/10/2026

Thanks to Glasstire for featuring Myra Walker's DREAMS AND IDEAS: THE ARTISTRY OF COSTUME DESIGNER WINN MORTON!

William Sarradet reviews a monograph of the life and legacy of costume designer Winn Morton, published by University of North Texas Press.