West Virginia University Press

12/19/2025

Garden gnomes, Mothman, and AI doppelgängers walk into a blog…

Read “Ghost in the Machine” by Tom Bredehoft, author of Foote: A Mystery Novel on the Booktimist

https://booktimist.com/2025/12/19/ghost-in-the-machine/

12/16/2025

HOLIDAY25 is still active through December 31st! Order (and preorder) your books now!
https://wvupressonline.com/

12/15/2025

Looking for a last minute holiday gift? Check out our Holiday Bundles! Buy one of these three-book groupings and get 50% off 🌲❄️

🚨Access through link🚨
https://wvupressonline.com/node/1045

Appalachian Literature and Culture—
Poetry, essays, and criticism that listen closely to Appalachian landscapes, lives, and the pressures that shape them.

Historical & Regional Insights—
Books that trace Appalachian history through labor, conflict, and memory, revealing how the past continues to mark the present.

Literary Fiction and Storytelling
Fiction that moves through questions of belonging, loss, and connection, shaped by the spaces people inhabit.

12/09/2025

“I love the holiday season at the bookstore. Very few customers are objectively rude, though some of them haven’t gotten the memo about keeping the A word out of their mouths”

Read more in our latest blog post “The Booktimist Guide to Independent Bookstore Shopping During the Holiday Rush” by Mo Daviau 🎄❄️

https://booktimist.com/2025/12/06/the-booktimist-guide-to-independent-bookstore-shopping-during-the-holiday-rush/

12/04/2025

Open Mic TONIGHT!! 7PM at Stumptown Ales in Fairmont.

The event features two distinguished readers:
Marc Harshman, West Virginia Poet Laureate & Doug Van Gundy, Director of WV Wesleyan’s MFA Program.

Check out Marc’s Dispatch from the Mountain State and Believe What You Can on our website.

12/02/2025

EVENT TONIGHT!

Join Juliya Šukys in Austin, TX at Alienated Majesty Books tonight at 7pm.

Don’t miss this great opportunity to learn more about this crucial book. See you there!

11/26/2025

Check out the Booktimist for an interview with Julija Šukys, the author of Artifact.

11/24/2025

🚨Holiday Sale! Now through December 31 use code HOLIDAY25 at wvupress.com for 25% all titles.

11/20/2025

Did you know that Bobby Bowden is the oldest football coach in NCAA history to win his first national championship at age 64, and he is also the oldest to ever win a title at age 70? Those are among the surprising things you will learn by purchasing Almost Heaven, now available at wvupress.com, Amazon.com and many of your favorite local bookstores throughout West Virginia.

Almost Heaven John Antonik

11/18/2025

Check out the Booktimist for Mo Daviau, Author new article about bagels in Morgantown!! 🥯

https://booktimist.com/2025/11/17/morgantown-city-of-bagels-and-books/

A blog about books and culture from West Virginia University Press

11/14/2025

A fantastic event at the Queens Public Library with Chris Campanioni!! His work is diverse, vibrant, and engaging—check out North by North/west on our website.

11/13/2025

We’re proud to celebrate The In-Betweens by Davon Loeb, featured in this People article. A poignant exploration of identity, family, and memory, Loeb’s memoir continues to resonate deeply with readers and critics alike.