NEWS

• 05/16/12: Cross Over Water Named a Finalist in the 2012 International Latino Book Awards
  Richard Yanez's novel, Cross Over Water has been named a finalist in the 2012 International Latino Book Awards in the category, "Best Novel - Adventure/Drama - English." The 14th annual International Latino Book Awards will be held the evening of June 5, 2012 at 7 p.m. at the Instituto Cervantes in New York City in the heart of midtown at 211 East 49th Street. Click here for more information.
• 04/10/12: Cross Over Water Named a Finalist in ForeWord's Book of the Year Awards
  Richard Yanez's novel, Cross Over Water has been named a finalist in ForeWord's Book of the Year Awards in the category of multicultural fiction. Click here for more information.
• 02/22/12: Phyllis Barber Interviewed on Mormon Matters
  Phyllis Barber, author of Raw Edges was recently interviewed on Mormon Matters, a weekly podcast exploring Mormon culture and current events. Along with Joanna Brooks, another Mormon memoir author, Phyllis talks about the genesis of this book and a previous University of Nevada Press memoir, How I Got Cultured. Click here for the entire podcast.
• 01/03/12:
  Ronald H. Limbaugh's, Tungsten in Peace and War, 1918-1946 has been named Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine.
• 12/12/11: Liberty Lanes Wins Design Award and will be in the 2012 New York Book Show
  Liberty Lanes by Robin Troy has won a design award in the General Trade, Quality Paperback category to be in the 2012 New York Book Show.
• 11/01/11: Eileen Wallis' Earning Power Named Honorable Mention for Armitage-Jameson Prize
  Earning Power: Women and Work in Los Angeles, 1880-1930 by Eileen V. Wallis has been chosen as an honorable mention for this year's Armitage-Jameson Prize awarded by The Coalition for Western Women's History, for the most outstanding monograph or edited volume published in western women's and gender history in 2010. For more information about the award, click here.
• 09/06/11: Marching Students Wins 2011 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award
  Marching Students: Chicana and Chicano Activism in Education, 1968 to the Present has been named to the list of books for the 2011 Critics' Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA). The Critics’ Choice Award serves to recognize and increase awareness of recent scholarship deemed to be outstanding in its field and of potential interest to members of the Association. For more information about the award, click here.
• 09/01/11: Nevada Reads is under way!
  Nevada Reads is the state's first community group read and Friendly Fallout 1953, by Ann Ronald, is the choice for 2011. Check the schedule below to join the adventure: • Saturday, September 17, 10:00 AM: Ann’s author visit to Sierra Nevada College, 999 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, NV 89451 • Sunday, September 18, 7:00 PM to 7:30 PM: Ann Ronald's “Conversations” interview with KNPB, Channel 5 • Saturday, October 22, 3:00 PM: Sparks Library, 1125 12th St., Spark, NV 89431. Panel discussion, Nevada’s Explosive Past: a discussion of the realities of above-ground atomic testing and nuclear development in Nevada and around the world. Panel members include: Cheryll Glotfelty, Chair (UNR English professor), Peter Goin (photographer), Jim Hulse (historian), Michon Mackedon (author of Bombast), and Ron Phaneuf (atomic physicist). • Saturday, October 22, 2:00 PM: Ann’s author visit to Paseo Verde Library, 280 South Green Valley Pkwy, Henderson, NV 89012 • Saturday, October 22, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM: Heritage Park Senior Facility Library, 300 South Racetrack Rd., Henderson, NV 89015 • Wednesday, October 26, 5:30 PM: Panel discussion, Nevada’s Explosive Past, South Valleys Library, 15650 Wedge Parkway, Reno, NV 89511 • Monday, November 14, 2:00 PM: Ann’s author visit to Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Warren Nelson Building, 401 W. Second St., Suite 235, Reno, NV 89503 • Thursday, November 17, 1:30 PM: Ann’s author visit to South Valleys Library, 15650 Wedge Parkway, Reno, NV 89511 Keep checking back for additional events and venues!
• 07/05/11: Ronald H. Limbaugh's, Tungsten in Peace and War, 1918-1946 Wins the Mining History Association's 2011 Spence Award
  Ronald H. Limbaugh's, Tungsten in Peace and War, 1918-1946 has been named a winner of the 2011 Spence Award, presented by the Mining History Association.
• 04/26/11: Going Through Ghosts a Finalist in the Western Writers of America Spur Awards
  Mary Sojourner's novel, Going Through Ghosts has been named a finalist in the Western Writers of America Spur Awards competition for the Western Long Novel category.
• 10/08/10: Linda Hasselstrom wins the Zonta Award
  Linda Hasselstrom's book, No Place Like Home has been selected as the winner in the Zonta category, best book by a woman writer, awarded by the Parmly Billings Library and the High Plains Book Awards committee.
• 09/09/10: Linda Hasselstrom wins the 2010 WILLA Literary Award
  Linda Hasselstrom's, No Place Like Home has been selected as the 2010 winner of the WILLA Literary Awards for Creative Nonfiction awarded by Women Writing the West.
• 09/03/10: Mary Sojourner interviewed on KUNR
  Mary Sojourner gave an interview about her latest book, Going Through Ghosts on KUNR. Click here to listen to the interview.
• 04/22/10: The Mechanics of Falling wins the Northern California Book Award in Fiction
  The Mechanics of Falling and Other Stories by Catherine Brady received the Northern California Book Award in Fiction.
• 03/16/10: The Family Ranch a finalist for the 2009 Book of the Year Award from ForeWord Reviews
  ForeWord Reviews announced The Family Ranch by Linda Hussa is a finalist in the Regional category for the 2009 Book of Year Award.
• 02/10/10: The Mojave Desert named Finalist for the 2009 PROSE Awards!
  The Mojave Desert has been chosen as a Finalist/Honorable Mention in the Earth Sciences category for the 2009 PROSE Awards, the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence.
• 11/24/09: Book wins design award from the 2010 New York Book Show
  The University of Nevada Press received a book design award from the 2010 New York Book Show for Nevada's Historic Buildings.
• 10/29/09: Books win Design Awards from the Chicago Book Clinic and Media Show
  The University of Nevada Press received book design awards from the Chicago Book Clinic and Media Show for The Mechanics of Falling and Other Stories and The Family Ranch.
• 10/07/09: Books win design awards from Bookbuilders West
  The University of Nevada Press received book design awards from Bookbuilders West for The Family Ranch, Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature, Literary Nevada, and Let There Be Night.
• 07/01/09: Little Lost River named finalist for the 2009 Paterson Fiction Prize
  Little Lost River: A Novel by Pamela Johnston has been chosen as a finalist for the 2009 Paterson Fiction Prize. The Paterson Fiction Prize is sponsored by the Poetry Center at Passiac County Community College and recognizes outstanding novels or collections of short fiction.
• 04/13/09: Books win 2009 PubWest Book Design Awards
  The University of Nevada Press received book design awards at the 2009 PubWest Book Design Awards for Literary Nevada, edited by Cheryll Glotfelty and Teaching About Place, edited by Laird Christensen and Hal Crimmel.
• 01/27/09: 38th Annual Bookbuilders West Book Show
  The University of Nevada Press received a book design award at the 38th Annual Bookbuilders West Book Show for Teaching About Place, edited by Laird Christensen and Hal Crimmel.
• 01/23/09: 2009 AAUP Book, Jacket and Journal Show Award
  The University of Nevada Press received a book design award at the 2009 AAUP Book, Jacket and Journal Show for Let There Be Night by Paul Bogard.
• 09/30/08: Book Award
  Touring the Sierra Nevada by Cheryl Koehler has been selected for its cover design to appear Print's Regional Design Annual.
• 02/29/08: Awards
  Chicago Book Clinic Awards for design and production: Sweet Promised Land, 50th Anniversary Edition by Robert Laxalt (book); Psychotherapy as Religion: The Civil Divine in America by William M. Epstein (jacket); Unfit for Marriage: Impotent Spouses on Trial in the Basque Region of Spain, 1650-1750 by Edward J. Behrend-Martínez (jacket)