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The Juniper Prize Literary Prize Contest opens August 1st. We want to hear from you!

Enter from August 1 to September 30 at umasspress.submittable.com

Kerry Dolan’s Safe Places, Juniper Prize Winner for the Short Story, has been named a finalist for the Forword INDIES: Book of the Year Awards, A Bronze Medalist for the Independent Publisher Book Awards, and a Finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award for Short Stories.

Designed for use in courses and engaging for general readers, this new compilation is the most diverse, most inclusive, and most comprehensive resource available for teaching and learning about the civil rights movement. With chronological and geographical depth, The New Civil Rights Movement Reader addresses a range of key topics, including youth activism, regional and local freedom struggles, voting rights, economic inequality, gender, sexuality, and culture, and the movement’s global reach.

University of Massachusetts Press has partnered with Tantor Media. Click here for a current list of our audiobooks!

Andrew Witmer’s Here and Everywhere Else: Small-Town Maine and the World, won the American Association for State and Local History Publication award and was a Finalist for the 2023 New England Society Book Awards, in the Non-fiction category.