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2024 AWP Annual Meeting

UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at AWP 2024 – we hope you’ll stop by our table (T1408) to say hello to editors Lucas Church & Cate Hodorowicz and to browse our literary nonfiction titles on display. If you can’t join us in-person, you can always visit our virtual booth!

Michael Ramos (author of The After) Book Signing on Friday, February 9 at 1:30 pm at the UNC Press Table (T1408) at AWP 2024

Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and Imagination by Stephanie Clare Smith, the first book in our Great Circle Books series, publishes next week! Pick up this Kirkus Reviews #1 Must-Read New Memoir at our booth.

Everywhere the Undrowned by Stephanie Clare Smith "This stunningly lyrical memoir is a profoundly insightful glimpse into the complex and frightening consequences of parental neglect...A masterful literary memoir about caring for those responsible for our trauma."—Kirkus Reviews (STARRED review)

Great Circle publishes literary nonfiction by emerging writers about place—emphasizing those who have not yet published a book-length work of literary nonfiction. The series welcomes the full range of the genre, including memoir, literary journalism, personal and lyric essays, and work that defies easy classification.

Series Editors: Kiese Laymon & Marie Mutsuki Mockett 

UNC Press Sponsoring Editors: Lucas Church & Cate Hodorowicz

You can learn more about the series here. Contact: greatcircle@uncpress.org

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  • Kiese Laymon is a Black southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon is the author of the NAACP Image Award winning novel, Long Division and the essay collection, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. Laymon’s bestselling memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir, won the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the 2018 Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, the Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media, and was named one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by The New York Times. Laymon is the Libby Shearn Moody Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rice University and founder of the Catherine Coleman Arts and Justice Initiative.
  • Marie Mutsuki Mockett was born to an American father and Japanese mother. American Harvest: God, Country and Farming in the Heartland (Graywolf) won the 2021 Northern California Book Award for General Nonfiction and is a tribute to the complicated and nuanced history of the United States and its people. Her memoir, “Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye,” was a finalist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award. She lives in San Francisco, and teaches at the Bennington Writing Seminars.
  • Editorial Board: Rosalind Bentley Barrie Jean Borich Stephanie Elizondo Griest Randon Billings Noble Hasanthika Sirisena John Jeremiah Sullivan
  • Advisory Members: Sayantani Dasgupta Megha Majumdar
Use promo code 01DAH40 to receive our 40% conference discount. Titles on display include: The Other Side of Silence A Memoir of Exile, Iran, and the Global Women's Movement Mahnaz Afkhami Chronicling Stankonia The Rise of the Hip-Hop South Regina Bradley A Question of Value Stories from the Life of an Auctioneer Robert Brunk This We'll Defend A Noncombat Veteran on War and Its Aftermath Paul Crenshaw All the Agents and Saints, Paperback Edition Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands Stephanie Elizondo Griest The Distance from Slaughter County Lessons from Flyover Country Steven Moore The After A Veteran's Notes on Coming Home Michael Ramos Come! Come! Where? Where? Essays James Seay Everywhere the Undrowned A Memoir of Survival and Imagination Stephanie Clare Smith Accidental Kindness A Doctor's Notes on Empathy Michael Stein Far from the Rooftop of the World Travels among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents Amy Yee

Stop by our virtual booth to browse our literary nonfiction titles on display. Be sure to use promo code 01DAH40 at checkout to receive our 40% conference discount. And if your order totals over $75, domestic US shipping is FREE.

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