Courtney Ochsner
@court8961.bsky.social
Acquiring editor at the University of Nebraska Press (@univnebpress.bsky.social). All opinions my own.
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LET ME COUNT THE WAYS by Tomás Q. is the memoir of a journey into obsessive-compulsive disorder, a mechanism to survive a childhood filled with pain, violence, and unpredictability.
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June 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
LET ME COUNT THE WAYS by Tomás Q. is the memoir of a journey into obsessive-compulsive disorder, a mechanism to survive a childhood filled with pain, violence, and unpredictability.
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Next Thursday at 7:30pm CT, Elizabeth Cooperman, author of WOMAN PISSING, will be in conversation with Eula Biss and Jaydra Johnson on Art Under Duress hosted by @calyxpress.bsky.social
The panel, held via zoom, is free and open to the public. Register here:
The panel, held via zoom, is free and open to the public. Register here:
May 15 Panel: Art Under Duress w/ Eula Biss, Elizabeth Cooperman & Jaydra Johnson - CALYX
Thursday, May 15th – Zoom5:30-7:00 pm Pacific – 8:30-10:00 pm EasternZoom Registration – This is a free event Join us for an insightful panel discussion exploring the resilience, creativity, and…
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May 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Next Thursday at 7:30pm CT, Elizabeth Cooperman, author of WOMAN PISSING, will be in conversation with Eula Biss and Jaydra Johnson on Art Under Duress hosted by @calyxpress.bsky.social
The panel, held via zoom, is free and open to the public. Register here:
The panel, held via zoom, is free and open to the public. Register here:
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"In @rhemley.bsky.social ’s work, we return with him to events and people not because he (or we, by proxy) can change them, but because his understanding of them can change through the alchemy of the essay," writes Renee K. Nicholson.
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May 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"In @rhemley.bsky.social ’s work, we return with him to events and people not because he (or we, by proxy) can change them, but because his understanding of them can change through the alchemy of the essay," writes Renee K. Nicholson.
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Read the review: bit.ly/3Skm4py
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Tomorrow, join Julie Choffel (DEAR WALLACE) and @brandelfrance.bsky.social (LOCOMOTIVE CATHEDRAL) in conversation with Maria Fernanda at @politicsprose.bsky.social
The discussion starts at 5pm EDT and will be livestreamed. Details:
The discussion starts at 5pm EDT and will be livestreamed. Details:
Poetry Night Panel - with Brandel France de Bravo & Julie Choffel - in conversation with María Fernanda — at Conn Ave
With wit and vulnerability, Brandel France de Bravo explores resilience in the face of climate change and a global pandemic, race, and the concept of a self, all while celebrating the power of breath…
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April 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Tomorrow, join Julie Choffel (DEAR WALLACE) and @brandelfrance.bsky.social (LOCOMOTIVE CATHEDRAL) in conversation with Maria Fernanda at @politicsprose.bsky.social
The discussion starts at 5pm EDT and will be livestreamed. Details:
The discussion starts at 5pm EDT and will be livestreamed. Details:
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Excerpt: OLD RAGS AND IRON by R. F. McEwen
Using tree-trimming as one of several central metaphors,OLD RAGS AND IRON is a collection of narrative poems about the life experiences of working-class people.
Using tree-trimming as one of several central metaphors,OLD RAGS AND IRON is a collection of narrative poems about the life experiences of working-class people.
Excerpt: Old Rags and Iron
R. F. McEwen was born in Chicago, Illinois. Since 1962 he has been a professional logger and tree trimmer, and he has taught English in Chadron, Nebraska, since 1972. McEwen is the author of several books, most recently The Big Sandy, Bill’s Boys and Other Poems, and And There’s Been Talk . . . His newest poetry collection, Old Rags and Iron: New and Selected Poems…
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April 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Excerpt: OLD RAGS AND IRON by R. F. McEwen
Using tree-trimming as one of several central metaphors,OLD RAGS AND IRON is a collection of narrative poems about the life experiences of working-class people.
Using tree-trimming as one of several central metaphors,OLD RAGS AND IRON is a collection of narrative poems about the life experiences of working-class people.
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So grateful for @jamestatehill.bsky.social and the Writer’s Chronicle team for featuring a sneak peak of THANK YOU FOR STAYING WITH ME (@univnebpress.bsky.social).
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Thank You for Staying with Me: Essays (preview)
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April 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
So grateful for @jamestatehill.bsky.social and the Writer’s Chronicle team for featuring a sneak peak of THANK YOU FOR STAYING WITH ME (@univnebpress.bsky.social).
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Lory Bedikian, author of JAGADAKEER: APOLOGY TO THE BODY (winner of the Raz/Shumaker @prairie-schooner.bsky.social Book Prize in Poetry), has two poems featured in the Spring 2025 issue of @pshares.bsky.social 🎉
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April 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Lory Bedikian, author of JAGADAKEER: APOLOGY TO THE BODY (winner of the Raz/Shumaker @prairie-schooner.bsky.social Book Prize in Poetry), has two poems featured in the Spring 2025 issue of @pshares.bsky.social 🎉
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In HOW TO CHANGE HISTORY @rhemley.bsky.social grapples with the individual's navigation of history and the conflict between personal and public histories.
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April 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
In HOW TO CHANGE HISTORY @rhemley.bsky.social grapples with the individual's navigation of history and the conflict between personal and public histories.
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Excerpt: LOCOMOTIVE CATHEDRAL
With wit and vulnerability, @brandelfrance.bsky.social explores resilience in the face of climate change and a global pandemic, race, and the concept of a self, all while celebrating the power of breath as “baptism on repeat.”
With wit and vulnerability, @brandelfrance.bsky.social explores resilience in the face of climate change and a global pandemic, race, and the concept of a self, all while celebrating the power of breath as “baptism on repeat.”
Excerpt: Locomotive Cathedral
Brandel France de Bravo is the author of the poetry collections Provenance and Mother, Loose and the editor of Mexican Poetry Today: 20/20 Voices. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2024, 32 Poems, Barrow Street, Conduit, Diode, Salamander, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. Her newest poetry collection, Locomotive Cathedral (Backwaters Press, 2025) was published in March.
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April 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Excerpt: LOCOMOTIVE CATHEDRAL
With wit and vulnerability, @brandelfrance.bsky.social explores resilience in the face of climate change and a global pandemic, race, and the concept of a self, all while celebrating the power of breath as “baptism on repeat.”
With wit and vulnerability, @brandelfrance.bsky.social explores resilience in the face of climate change and a global pandemic, race, and the concept of a self, all while celebrating the power of breath as “baptism on repeat.”
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New ARCs are available on @netgalley.bsky.social this month!
UNP Books on NetGalley
The University of Nebraska Press is proud to be on NetGalley’s publisher list. NetGalley is a digital platform that helps authors and publishers promote digital review copies to book reviewers and other publishing industry professionals. Join the online reader community here! Peruse the forthcoming titles that are available on the platform this month: Georgia and Anita LIZA BENNETT Based on extensive research, including their fifty-year correspondence, …
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April 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
New ARCs are available on @netgalley.bsky.social this month!
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For Poetry Month, use code 6PM25 at checkout for 40% off my book TWO OPEN DOORS IN A FIELD, now through April 30th at @univnebpress.bsky.social :
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April 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
For Poetry Month, use code 6PM25 at checkout for 40% off my book TWO OPEN DOORS IN A FIELD, now through April 30th at @univnebpress.bsky.social :
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The Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry is open for submissions now through May 1, 2025!
This year's judge is @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social, @nytimes.com bestselling author of eight books of poetry and prose and the new DEAR WRITER (Simon & Schuster, 2025).
This year's judge is @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social, @nytimes.com bestselling author of eight books of poetry and prose and the new DEAR WRITER (Simon & Schuster, 2025).
The Backwaters Prize in Poetry competition is Open!
The 2025 Backwaters Prize in Poetry competition is accepting submissions now through May 1! The winner will be awarded a $2,000 cash prize and the honorable mention will be awarded a $1,000 cash prize. Both winners will be awarded the publication of the book by the University of Nebraska Press under its imprint, Backwaters Press. The judge for the 2025 contest is Maggie Smith, the
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April 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry is open for submissions now through May 1, 2025!
This year's judge is @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social, @nytimes.com bestselling author of eight books of poetry and prose and the new DEAR WRITER (Simon & Schuster, 2025).
This year's judge is @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social, @nytimes.com bestselling author of eight books of poetry and prose and the new DEAR WRITER (Simon & Schuster, 2025).
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"I realized that the biggest overarching theme was ontology . . . I think foundationally, that’s what all writers are trying to figure out," writes @baileygaylinmoore.bsky.social, author of THANK YOU FOR STAYING WITH ME in an interview with @thesunlightpress.bsky.social.
A Conversation with Bailey Gaylin Moore - The Sunlight Press
For someone to slow down and read your book and to feel a connection with you, it's kind of ineffable how that makes you feel. It's overwhelming and it's super humbling.
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April 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"I realized that the biggest overarching theme was ontology . . . I think foundationally, that’s what all writers are trying to figure out," writes @baileygaylinmoore.bsky.social, author of THANK YOU FOR STAYING WITH ME in an interview with @thesunlightpress.bsky.social.
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The AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show is on display at UNL's Love Library North! @aupresses.bsky.social
Join us for a special opening event tonight from 4-6 p.m. to celebrate the acclaimed annual catalog of selected entries. bit.ly/41Kk9z7
Join us for a special opening event tonight from 4-6 p.m. to celebrate the acclaimed annual catalog of selected entries. bit.ly/41Kk9z7
March 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show is on display at UNL's Love Library North! @aupresses.bsky.social
Join us for a special opening event tonight from 4-6 p.m. to celebrate the acclaimed annual catalog of selected entries. bit.ly/41Kk9z7
Join us for a special opening event tonight from 4-6 p.m. to celebrate the acclaimed annual catalog of selected entries. bit.ly/41Kk9z7
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Hey Awp-ers—I’ll sign copies of my essay collection Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist on Friday, March 28 from 11-11:30. Stop by booth #359 and say hello! #awpla2025 @univnebpress.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Hey Awp-ers—I’ll sign copies of my essay collection Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist on Friday, March 28 from 11-11:30. Stop by booth #359 and say hello! #awpla2025 @univnebpress.bsky.social
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A hearty congratulations to @janellebassett.bsky.social 🎉
Her book THANKS FOR THIS RIOT is a finalist for the @penamerica.bsky.social /Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection!
Check out the full list of finalists: bit.ly/4iKPjNC
Her book THANKS FOR THIS RIOT is a finalist for the @penamerica.bsky.social /Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection!
Check out the full list of finalists: bit.ly/4iKPjNC
March 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A hearty congratulations to @janellebassett.bsky.social 🎉
Her book THANKS FOR THIS RIOT is a finalist for the @penamerica.bsky.social /Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection!
Check out the full list of finalists: bit.ly/4iKPjNC
Her book THANKS FOR THIS RIOT is a finalist for the @penamerica.bsky.social /Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection!
Check out the full list of finalists: bit.ly/4iKPjNC
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In her overview of eight authors’ accounts of using journalistic strategies to propel their fiction, Parul Kapur finds a common thread: that research on a story allows one, in Phil Klay’s words, to “feel comfortable enough with the material [to] invent.” at.pw.org/DoYourResearch
March 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
In her overview of eight authors’ accounts of using journalistic strategies to propel their fiction, Parul Kapur finds a common thread: that research on a story allows one, in Phil Klay’s words, to “feel comfortable enough with the material [to] invent.” at.pw.org/DoYourResearch
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Congratulations to @janellebassett.bsky.social, whose debut short story collection Thanks for This Riot has been longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize! Bassett's collection was the winner of the 2023 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize, published by @univnebpress.bsky.social.
March 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Congratulations to @janellebassett.bsky.social, whose debut short story collection Thanks for This Riot has been longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize! Bassett's collection was the winner of the 2023 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize, published by @univnebpress.bsky.social.
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Join us at the AWP Bookfair in Los Angeles next week for author signings with three Raz/Shumaker Book Prize winners: Lory Bedikian, @janellebassett.bsky.social, and @jaredharel.bsky.social. We'll be at Booth #466!
March 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Join us at the AWP Bookfair in Los Angeles next week for author signings with three Raz/Shumaker Book Prize winners: Lory Bedikian, @janellebassett.bsky.social, and @jaredharel.bsky.social. We'll be at Booth #466!
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From the author of INSIDE THE MIRROR, winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel.
Parul Kapur argues that employing the investigative techniques of a reporter can help fiction writers vivify their narratives; a journalist’s tools can help world-build, develop characters, and add cultural and historical specificity to stories. at.pw.org/DoYourResearch
March 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
From the author of INSIDE THE MIRROR, winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel.
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Was sent this earlier last week—thanks so much for words, @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social!!
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Stay with — and hear — local writer Bailey Gaylin Moore at Skylark book launch
"Thank You for Staying With Me" is the debut essay collection from Columbia writer Bailey Gaylin Moore.
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March 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Was sent this earlier last week—thanks so much for words, @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social!!
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The Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize is closing soon! Send us your manuscript by March 15: prairieschooner.unl.edu/book-prize-g...
March 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize is closing soon! Send us your manuscript by March 15: prairieschooner.unl.edu/book-prize-g...
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Today's the official pub day for my new book of poems, Locomotive Cathedral (Backwaters Press/University of Nebraska Press). The portrait of René ("my crow") is by Bill Smith.
March 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Today's the official pub day for my new book of poems, Locomotive Cathedral (Backwaters Press/University of Nebraska Press). The portrait of René ("my crow") is by Bill Smith.
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Today is the publication date of my new collection of essays, HOW TO CHNAGE HISTORY: A Salvage Project. This one took only 25 years to write. bookshop.org/p/books/how-...
How to Change History: A Salvage Project
A Salvage Project
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March 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Today is the publication date of my new collection of essays, HOW TO CHNAGE HISTORY: A Salvage Project. This one took only 25 years to write. bookshop.org/p/books/how-...