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If you love books and enjoy learning about New England, please consider making a donation to our Regional Books Fund.  We welcome donations in any amount, and this year we hope to increase the number of folks who donate to the Fund.

For the fifth year, a generous anonymous donor has pledged a 2-to-1 match for all gifts received during our fall campaign.  If you give now, your gift will be tripled! Your gift will also help us support our authors, promote our books, and keep prices affordable.

Thank you for supporting UMass Press and the Regional Books Fund!

The Juniper Literary Prizes showcase distinctive and fresh voices and share their work with a wide array of readers. Every year, faculty-judges from the distinguished University of Massachusetts MFA program select two winners in poetry, two in fiction, and one in creative nonfiction, and the awardees each receive an honorarium of $1,000 and a publication contract with the University of Massachusetts Press.

“The Innermost House is a stunning book that will make you reassess everything you thought you knew about remembering, forgetting, and storytelling.”—Adrienne Brodeur, author of Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me

“This is a book I will cherish and return to again and again.”—Natasha Trethewey, nineteenth US Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, and author of the memoirs Memorial Drive and House of Being

Read an excerpt on the book’s webpage by clicking “read more.”

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The 50+ existing episodes feature Food Margins: Lessons from an Unlikely Grocer, Teaching the History of the Book, Everyday Reading, and much more!