UI Press at the Iowa City Book Festival

Make sure to mark your calendars for the Iowa City Book Festival, which runs from October 2-5! The University of Iowa Press will have a booth on the ped mall downtown, so stop by and visit us! UI Press authors Kathleen Founds and Heather A. Slomski will be there to talk about their work at the festival as well. Check out Kathleen's book, When Mystical Creatures Attack!, and Heather's book, The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons.

For more information on our events at the ICBF, please visit our Facebook events page.

We can't wait to see you there!

Iowa City Book Festival: THE WIFE OF MARTIN GUERRE by Janet Lewis

Are you planning on hitting the Iowa City Book Festival this weekend? We’ll be selling books from presses around the Midwest tomorrow and are excited to be featuring The Wife of Martin Guerre, by Janet Lewis from the Ohio University Press. Based on a notorious trial in sixteenth-century France, this story of Bertrande de Rols is the first of three novels making up Janet Lewis's Cases of Circumstantial Evidence suite (featuring The Wife of Martin Guerre, The Trail of Soren Qvist, and The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron).

Praise for The Wife of Martin Guerre

“Flaubertian in the elegance of its form and the gravity of its style.”—The New Yorker

Iowa City Book Festival: featuring THE PRAIRIE SCHOONER BOOK PRIZE: TENTH ANNIVERSARY READER, edited by James Engelhardt & Marianne Kunkel

The Iowa City Book Festival starts today! Come see us on Saturday in downtown Iowa City, where we’ll be selling great books from presses around the Midwest, including The Prairie Schooner Book Prize: Tenth Anniversary Reader, edited by James Engelhardt and Marianne Kunkel. This book, from the University of Nebraska Press, features excerpts of fiction and poetry from ten years of Prairie Schooner Book Prize winners.

Praise for The Prairie Schooner Book Prize

“The Prairie Schooner Book Prize series has brought a host of wonderful writers to us. This anthology shines with new and familiar voices—voices often made familiar by being chosen as contest winners. An anthology to cherish.”—Stephen Dunn, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winner Different Hours

Iowa City Book Festival: FRIED WALLEYE AND CHERRY PIE: MIDWESTERN WRITERS ON FOOD, edited by Peggy Wolff

The Iowa City Book Festival is coming up! Look for our table downtown on Saturday, October 12, where we will be selling our titles as well as books from various presses around the Midwest. We're very excited to say that we will have Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie: Midwestern Writers on Food, edited by Peggy Wolff, coming to us from the University of Nebraska Press!

Praise for Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie

“A brilliant collection of Heartland food stories."—Publishers Weekly

Iowa City Book Festival: featuring THE BLUE KIND by Kathryn Born

The Iowa City Book Festival is only two weeks away! Mark your calendar to stop by our table to get your copy of Kathryn Born's The Blue Kind, winner of the Midwest Book Award in the Fiction: Fantasy/SciFi/Horror/Paranormal category, from the Northern Illinois University Press!

Praise for The Blue Kind

“Kathryn Born’s The Blue Kind is the compelling tale of one woman’s battle with addiction in a future where women mean less than the drugs their men peddle. The protagonist, Alison, is a thoughtful narrator, full of personal flaws as well as insight. This well-wrought novel explicitly undertakes the discussion of the role of women in society through the lens of a dystopian future. There really is nothing quite like it.”—Terri Griffith

Iowa City Book Festival: featuring BUTTER: A NOVEL by Anne Panning

Are you ready for the Iowa City Book Festival? Make sure to visit our table on Saturday, October 12. We’ll be selling our own books, as well as books from presses around the Midwest. Don’t miss the chance to buy Butter: A Novel, by Anne Panning, from the Northern Illinois University Press. Butter is a coming-of-age story about an eleven-year-old named Iris who learns she’s not only adopted but also that her parents' marriage isn’t as stable as she once thought.

Praise for Butter

“Anne Panning is one of the most underrated writers in America. Butter, with its irresistible young narrator, confirms her gift for making storytelling look easy. The book reminds me in many ways of Mary Karr’s The Liar’s Club, Tony Earley’s Jim the Boy, and Jeannette Wall’s The Glass Castle. Quickly engrossing and full in its emotive texture, this expertly crafted novel is disarming, innovative, and unforgettable.”—Nancy Zafris

Iowa City Book Festival: featuring MINISTERS OF FIRE: A NOVEL by Mark Harril Saunders

There are just six days left until the Iowa City Book Festival. Don’t miss the opportunity to grab your copy of Ministers of Fire: A Novel, by Mark Harril Saunders, coming to us from the Ohio University Press! It is a Wall Street Journal named it one of the Top Ten Mysteries of 2012, the Washington Post listed it among the 50 Notable Works of Fiction, and Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review.

Praise for Ministers of Fire

“In Mark Harril Saunders's gripping first novel, Ministers of Fire, tensions and ambiguities induce moral guilt and mortal dread…. Mr. Saunders makes his large cast of international characters come to life with quick strokes. Ministers of Fire deserves a place next to the works of such masters as Charles McCarry and Robert Stone.”—The Wall Street Journal