Du Bois at 150

New edition of "The Souls of Black Folk" and a sesquicentennial celebration

This month, University of Massachusetts Press and UMass Amherst Libraries are set to release a brand new edition of W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk. Published in honor of the...
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Announcing the 2018 Juniper Literary Prize winners for Poetry and Fiction

and the launch of a new prize for Creative Nonfiction

UMass Press and the MFA for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are delighted to announce the winners of the 2018 Juniper Literary Prizes in Poetry and Fiction.
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Two UMass Press books selected as Choice Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017

"Measuring the Harlem Renaissance" and "For a Short Time Only" among the honorees

We're pleased to announce that Michael Soto’s Measuring the Harlem Renaissance and Peter Benes’s For a Short Time Only were selected as “Choice Outstanding Academic...
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New Books