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West Virginia's largest book publisher.
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Check out the Booktimist for an interview with Julija Šukys, the author of Artifact.
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🚨Holiday Sale! Now through December 31 use code HOLIDAY25 at wvupress.com for 25% all titles
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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 on our website.
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Check out the Booktimist for Mo Daviau’s new article about bagels in Morgantown!!

Link in our bio 🔗🔗

@modaviau.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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.
November 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
We’re proud to celebrate The In-Betweens by Davon Loeb, featured in this People exclusive. A poignant exploration of identity, family, and memory, Loeb’s memoir continues to resonate deeply with readers and critics alike.

#Memoir #LiteraryNonfiction #Books #AuthorFeature #NewReads #Publishing
November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
In West Virginia, we’re blessed with one of the highest populations of veterans per capita. Today we send our love and thanks to America’s veterans and their families. Not everyone joins the military for the same reasons, but all who do deserve our gratitude.
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Did you know that Hall of Fame football coach Bobby Bowden was a horrible driver? That’s one of the many surprising things you will discover by purchasing Almost Heaven, now available on our website and Amazon. Both ebook and print available for $27.99 when you use the code ALMOST25.
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
In 2019, Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll published “Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy” in which dozens of authors and creative artists presented a retort to the shadow Hillbilly Elegy has cast over the region

Snag a copy today at WVU's Mountaineer Week Craft Fair
November 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
WVU Press is at @mountaineerweek with our author, Sarah Morris @drcerelyn who signed books today and will be here tomorrow from 12:00 - 2:00! 🖊️ 📚
November 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Stop by and see us at WVU’s Mountaineer Week Craft Fair Friday-Sunday 11/7-11/9.

Meet author Sarah Morris from 12-2 Friday and Saturday!

#moutaineer #craftfair #westvirginia #wvu #publishing
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
🚨🚨 Event Tomorrow 🚨🚨

Join us in celebrating the release of Lessons from “Take Me Home, Country Roads”
Identity, (Be)Longing, and Imagined Landscapes by Sarah Morris.

See you at E. Moore Hall tomorrow night!
November 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Introducing our Spring 2026 catalog—featuring bold new voices, groundbreaking studies, and artful reimaginings across genres.📚

#SpringReads #NewReleases #BookCatalog
November 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Foote by Tom Bredehoft is a gripping, atmospheric read that blends suspense, small-town secrets, and a touch of the supernatural — the perfect companion for spooky season.

This Halloween, enjoy 20% off all titles with code SPOOKY20 until November 7th.
October 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Pittsburgh! Neema Avashia will be at Chatham University next week talking about Another Appalachia!

#bookevent #pittsburgh #chatham #appalachian
October 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
We are pleased to share that Take Me Home, Country Roads: Identity, (Be) Longing, and Imagined Landscapes by Sarah L. Morris has been named to the 2026 WCoNA long list!!
October 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Bobby Bowden is one of the most successful coaches in college football history, achieving his greatest successes in his 50s, 60s and 70s after leaving West Virginia University in 1975 at age 46.

Learn more about Bowden’s transformational time at WVU in Almost Heaven by John Antonik.
October 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
🚨‼️ 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!

#morgantownwv #event #reading #booklover
October 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor Indigenous knowledge, storytelling, and resilience.

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

We celebrate the power of film to sustain cultural memory and imagine more just futures.
October 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Celebrate Banned Book Week by contributing to the Appalachian Prison Book Project!

The nonprofit provides books to incarcerated people in West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Maryland.
October 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This October each book holds a powerful message.

A novel about a mid-life couple finishing refuge on a farm, an examination of the beloved song “Country Roads”, and a purposeful encounter with campus shooting archives to understand the stories we tell ourselves in their wake.

Available now.
October 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
🚨‼️ 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.

Can’t wait to see you there!

#morgantownwv #event #reading #booklover
October 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Congratulations to Megan Howell, whose book Softie won the 2025 IPPY Awards Gold Medal in Short Story Fiction! 🎉📚✨
September 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Congratulations to Vic Sizemore 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”
September 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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.

content credit to APBP.
September 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM