West Virginia University Press

10/13/2025

🚨‼️ EVENT TONIGHT‼️🚨

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

TONIGHT— 7:30 PM in room 130 Colson Hall on the downtown campus.

Can’t wait to see you there!

10/13/2025

Today, on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor Indigenous knowledge, storytelling, and resilience.

Indigenous Ecocinema by Salma Monani brings attention to a thriving Indigenous cinema archive and argues for a methodological approach that ushers Indigenous intellectual voices front and center in how we theorize this archive.

Monani discusses how Indigenous cinema’s ecological entanglements are a crucial and complementary aspect of its agenda of decolonialism.

As we reflect today, we celebrate the power of film to sustain cultural memory and imagine more just futures.

10/09/2025

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

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

In 2024, WVUP and the APBP worked together to publish This Book Is Free and Yours to Keep. The book

The book presents an engaging collection of letters and artwork by people in prison that highlights the crucial work done by the APBP. Through the words of people directly impacted by the criminal punishment system, the collection provides uncommon insight into reading practices and everyday life in prisons and jails while being an inspiration for prison book projects, prison reform, and abolition.

10/03/2025

This October release, each book holds a powerful message.

Lessons from “Take Me Home, Country Roads”by Sarah L. Morris examines the song “Country Roads” as it illuminates a universal sense of belonging to place even as it obscures the literality of the place it names.

Artifact: Encounters with the Campus Shooting Archives by Julija Šukys seeks to understand university and college campus shootings that involve students and faculty of those institutions, and the stories we tell ourselves in their wake.

The Keep by Henry T. Ireys and Priscilla M. Ireys tells the story of a mid-life couple finding an old farm that promises refuge from hectic lives and encroaching illness. Written separately by wife and husband with distinctly separate voices, the book’s essays illustrate different perspectives of life on a farm with deep appreciation of nature’s complexities.

All available on our website.

10/01/2025

🚨‼️ 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.

West Virginia University Press and the WVU Department of Creative Writing are pleased to welcome novelist Mo Daviau to the WVU campus for an event Monday, October 13 at 7:30 PM in room 130 Colson Hall on the downtown campus. Daviau will appear with Creative Writing MFA Kanza Javed.

Can’t wait to see you there!

09/24/2025

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

09/24/2025

While most people struggled with the tedium of dial-up online connections in the 1980s, an electrical engineering alumnus of West Virginia University envisioned a radically different future. Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard asked a groundbreaking question: “Why not use the same cable that delivered television...

09/10/2025

Congratulations to Vic Sizemore - Author 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 both internal and external-but a story that offers humor along the way and, ultimately, well-earned joy.”

09/09/2025

09/08/2025

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.

Stop by anytime between 6:00 and 8:00 pm. All materials supplied. New and experienced volunteers welcome. We hope to see you there! 📚📙📖

content credit to APBP.

09/06/2025

09/04/2025

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

Epic and Lovely is the swan song of Nina Simone Blaine, the daughter of a long-dead 1950s Vegas crooner and a Texas beauty queen forty years his junior. In the wake of her unexpected divorce, Nina returns to her hometown of Los Angeles to spend her final days with The Friends of the Good Thumb, a support group for patients with A12 Fibrillin Deficiency Syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects children of much-older fathers, causes several physical deformities, and results in death around the age of forty.

Written as a deathbed letter to the UCLA physician who has tracked Nina and the other Good Thumbs throughout their lives, Nina recounts her final days with the group and with Cole, the charismatic, sadistic fellow A12er with whom she has fallen madly in love, who charms and harms her in equal measures.

“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. Daviau reminds us that death always kisses birth, living always births dying, crying keeps us whole, and laughter is good medicine. I swooned.”
—Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Reading the Waves: A Memoir and The Chronology of Water

This book has brought us many laughs and tears…we are so thrilled for others to read it. Stay tuned for more content about this book, and take a peak at Mo’s tour dates posted on our page.