West Virginia University Press is the only university press, and the largest publisher of any kind, in the state of West Virginia. A part of West Virginia University, they publish books and scholarly journals by authors around the world, with a particular emphasis on Appalachian studies, history, higher education, the social sciences, and interdisciplinary books about energy, environment, and resources. They also publish works of fiction and creative nonfiction, and collaborate on innovative digital publications, notably West Virginia History: An Open Access Reader.
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CONTEMPORARY WRITING IN WEST VIRGINIA
This is as closely-knit an anthology as you are ever likely to see. It is as though a large, extended family were drawing on the same store of family stories, jokes, symbols, landscapes, animals, trees, language, and vernacular. How many snakes are in this book? How many foxes, possums? Fossils? And how very many coal mines? But it is not merely local references that unites these writers. There is a larger vision that ties these works together.
"The connection is not so much in mutual influence, though there is some of that, but in each writer’s total immersion in place. Even those writers who no longer live in the state remember the feel, the physical texture, the overwhelming and enfolding vegetal surround of the place." Editor, Irene McKinney
- Copyright year: 2002
VIA CRUCIS
ESSAYS ON EARLY MEDIEVAL SOURCES AND IDEAS
- Copyright year: 2002
SMOKELESS COAL FIELDS OF WEST VIRGINIA
A BRIEF HISTORY
- Copyright year: 2001
EARLY ART AND ARTISTS IN WEST VIRGINIA
AN INTRODUCTION AND BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
- Copyright year: 2000
WOODY PLANTS IN WINTER
- Copyright year: 1958