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Announcing the Fall 2009 List!
The Fall 2009 title list is now online.
For the media — high resolution images of book jackets can be found on our Flickr account.

Announcing the 2010 Poetry Series Winner and Finalists!
Michael Walsh of Minneapolis has won the University of Arkansas Press’ inaugural $5,000 Miller Williams Poetry Prize for his poetry collection, The Dirt Riddles. The book will be published in the spring of next year. Walsh will give a featured reading at the 2010 Arkansas Festival of Writers, sponsored by the university’s Programs in Creative Writing and Translation.
There are two finalists in this year’s competition, and both of their books will be published in the spring of 2010 as well, Pamela Gemin for her collection, Another Creature, and Eric Leigh for Harm’s Way. Click here for the press release.

Recent Awards for University of Arkansas Press books:
•The Oxford American Book of Great Music Writing won ForeWord Magazine's Gold lst place prize for music category.
•Now You're the Enemy: Poems by James Allen Hall was co-winner in the gay poetry category from Lambda Book Awards.
•Gary Fincke's Fire Landscape won the 2009 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence (given to a past finalist for their main poetry prize).

Signings:

Tom Kennedy
November 18, 2009
Giffels Auditorium, University of Arkansas
In partnership with UA Libraries Special Collections
3 pm reception, 3:30 program, 4 pm signing

Brooks Blevins
October 26, 2009
Old State House Museum
300 W. Markham, Little Rock, AR 12:00 p.m.
November 2, 2009
Lyon College, Batesville, AR
December 5, 2009
Shiloh Museum of History
118 W. Johnson Ave., Springdale, AR, 2:00 p.m.
December 5, 2009
Nightbird Books
205 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville, 5:00 p.m.
April 8-11, 2010
Arkansas Literary Festival
Little Rock, AR

Janice Sumler-Edmond
October 15, 2009
BookWoman
5501 North Lamar, Austin, TX 7:00 p.m.

Sondra Gordy
November 12, 2009
Faulkner County Library, 1900 Tyler St.
Conway, AR, 7:00 p.m.

Daniel Donaghey
September 30, 2009
CAB Poetry Reading, Eastern Connecticut State University
Student Center Theater, 7 pm
February 17, 2010
University Hour Reading, Eastern Connecticut State University
Science Building 301, 3 pm
February 17, 2010
Manchester Community College, 8 pm

Jim Cherry
November 14, 2009
Parkin Archaeological State Park
Parkin, AR, 3:00

Terese Svoboda Fall 2009 Tour Dates
OCT 4, NY: Katonah Library Series
OCT 11, NY: "Crossing the Line," with Stephen Elliott (THE ADDERALL DIARIES) at Idlewild Books
OCT 20, NY: WORDS/MUSIC at The Gershwin Hotel
OCT 25, NY: 440 Gallery, reading with Rachel Sherman (LIVING ROOM)
OCT 26, MA: Blacksmith House Reading Series, Boston
OCT 28, MD: University of Maryland Writers Here and Now
OCT 29-30, MD: Writers Center, Bethesda
NOV 5, IL: Women & Children First (with Maureen Seaton & Gina Frangello), Chicago
NOV 12, NY: "The Long Life of the Short Story with Ben Greenman (CORRESPONDENCES) at the Center for Fiction
NOV 17, NY: Opium Magazine's Literary Death Match
JAN 10-16, FL: Atlantic Center for the Arts, Blue Flower Arts Winter Writers' Conference
FEB 2, NY: The Poetry Society of America's "Poems & Pints" Series

Roy Reed
May 16
Nightbird Books
205 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville, 6:00 p.m.
June 19
Fort Smith Public Library
3201 Rogers Avenue, Fort Smith, 12:00 p.m.
September 14
Saline County Library
1800 Smithers Drive, Benton, AR, 6:30 pm

Orissa Arend and Kay Sloan
October 17, 2009
Louisiana Book Festival
Spanish Town Road at N. 4th St., Baton Rouge

Billy Higgins will discuss his new book, The Barling Darling: Hal Smith in American Baseball, at the Legacies & Lunch program at 12 noon on October 7th in the Darragh Room of the Main Library, 100 Rock Street, Little Rock. A book signing will follow.