Award Winners and Nominees
Bohemian New Orleans
Winner of the 2007 Eudora Welty Prize
In 1960, Jon Edgar and Louise “Gypsy Lou” Webb founded Loujon Press on Royal Street in New Orleans’s French Quarter. The small publishing house quickly became a giant. Heral ...
No Future in This Country
Winner of the 2021 Book of the Year Award from the Religious Communication Association
Winner of the 2021 Top Book Award from the National Communication Association's African American Communication and ...
Haunted Property
Winner of a 2021 South Central Modern Language Association Book Prize
At the heart of America’s slave system was the legal definition of people as property. While property ownership is a cornerstone of t ...
Coming Out of the Magnolia Closet
2020 Digital Book World Best Book (Published by a University Press)
In Coming Out of the Magnolia Closet: Same-Sex Couples in Mississippi, John F. Marszalek III shares conversations with same-sex couples ...
Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks
Winner of the Children’s Literature Association’s 2022 Edited Book Award
Contributions by Carolina Alonso, Elena Avilés, Trevor Boffone, Christi Cook, Ella Diaz, Amanda Ellis, Cristina Herrera, Guadalupe ...
Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma
Winner of the 2020 Eudora Welty Prize
Theorists emphasize the necessity of writing about—or witnessing—trauma in order to overcome it. To this critical conversation, Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma: ...
Yo' Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux
Winner of the 2018 Chicago Folklore Prize
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Winner of the 2018 Opie Prize
Jeanne Soileau, a teacher in New Orleans and south Louisiana for more than forty years, examines how children’s folklore, especially a ...
Po' Monkey's
Winner of the 2020 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Photography
Outside of Merigold, Mississippi, off an unmarked dirt road, stands Po’ Monkey’s, perhaps the most famous house in Mississippi and ...
World War I and Southern Modernism
Winner of the 2018 Eudora Welty Prize
When the United States entered World War I, parts of the country had developed industries, urban cultures, and democratic political systems, but the South lagged behind, ...
The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell
Winner of the 2020 Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize
Contributions by Kylie Cardell, Aaron Cometbus, Margaret Galvan, Sarah Hildebrand, Frederik Byrn Køhlert, Tahneer Oksman, Seamus O’Malley, Annie Mo ...