Take advantage of our brief but significant summer sale! All titles are discounted 50 percent. Enter the code SUMSALE50% when you check out at our online store, and watch the dollars fall fall fall away! Our sale runs through Wednesday, June 28, 2023.
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The NDSU Press has received a $15,000 grant from the Literary Arts Emergency Fund, which is administered by the Academy of American Poets, the Community of Literary Magazine and Presses and the National Book Foundation. In total, the fund has granted $4.3 million to 313 nonprofit literary arts organizations and publishers across the U.S. that have experienced continued financial losses due to COVID-19.
“Of the 313 presses receiving support, we are one of only seven university presses, including the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison, Letras Latinas at University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies and the University of Arizona Poetry Center,” said Suzzanne Kelley, NDSU Press editor in chief. “With paper shortages, higher costs and delays in printing and shipping, and multiple disruptions in the supply chain, we at NDSU Press are tasked daily to overcome industry challenges and expenses. This important one-time grant provides sure footing for our future.”
Check out the complete announcement at NDSU News: NDSU Press receives grant | NDSU News | NDSU
Publisher note from Suzzanne Kelley
Welcome to the Folk School on Willow Creek, featuring University Distinguished Professor Tom Isern, singing and telling stories from the Salon on Willow Creek. Every Friday evening, 8:00 p.m. Central Time, Isern belts out ballads and tells the backstories of the lyrics, the authors, and the people of the plains who sang the songs. This Friday, July 25, he’ll feature “The Letter Edged in Black.” Do you know the significance of the edging? Tune in . . . you’ll find out. The Folk School lasts about 30 minutes, but you’ll wish it lasted longer. This week’s program is the 14th in the series.
Here is a link to Prairie Public’s Main Street, where host Doug Hamilton interviewed Isern just this week about the Folk School.
And here is a link to the Folk School page on Facebook.
Publisher note from Suzzanne Kelley
In late September, NDSU Press will be visible in multiple sessions and responsibilities at the 55th Northern Great Plains History Conference for 2020. Too bad for all of us, our sessions will be virtual, but I still look forward to witnessing the splendid work from scholars across the United States and Canada. While the conference is by necessity going virtual, its home base will still be Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the sacred and ancestral lands of the Ojibwe and Dakota Nations.
Two of our NDSU Press authors and I will present papers in the session called Literary Aspirations on the Northern Plains, wherein…
Prairie scholars describe and reflect upon their literary aspirations and their place in the history of the northern plains. The first author examines the seventy-year history of publishing by the Institute for Regional Studies; the emergence of its publishing imprint, North Dakota State University Press; and its vision as the voice of the prairies and the plains. The second author reflects on his ambitions and audacity in roasting that great chestnut of regional history, the Nonpartisan League. The third author considers how best to invigorate the familiar genre of collected essays in the realm of regional literary nonfiction.
Here are the session participants:
Jeanne K. Ode
Moderator: Jeanne K. Ode, Acting Press Director and Managing Editor of South Dakota History, South Dakota State Historical Society Press
Suzzanne Kelley
Paper 1: “Serving, not only the scholarly world, but the world in which the scholar lives”: North Dakota State University Press Celebrates 70 Years. Suzzanne Kelley, Publisher and Assistant Professor of Practice
Terry L. Shoptaugh
Paper 2: Roasting a Chestnut: Historians Return to the Nonpartisan League. Terry L. Shoptaugh, Archivist and Professor of History (Ret’d.), Minnesota State University–Moorhead
Thomas D. Isern
Paper 3: Doing History in Grassy Places. Thomas D. Isern, University Distinguished Professor and Professor of History, North Dakota State University
David Grettler
Commentator: David Grettler, Professor of History, Northern Sate University, South Dakota
We invite YOU to attend the session and/or the whole conference, September 16-19, 2020. Follow along for updates here: 2020 Northern Great Plains History Conference.
Dear NDSU Press friend,
Like others who are able, our graduate assistant, interns, and I will be conducting NDSU Press business from our home locations.
Book orders will be shipped out once per week on Mondays. Orders can be placed anytime through our website “Shop Now” link at http://www.ndsupress.org.
Everyone take care, and–here’s what THIS doctor orders–use this time to read and write.
—Suzzanne Kelley, Publisher, NDSU Press
Hear ye! Hear ye!
NDSU Press is pleased to announce our 5th Annual NDSU Press Party is about to commence! Free and open to the public, hors d’oeuvres and cash bar, music and readings, prose and poetry, cake—who could ask for more? Well, what the heck, since it’s our 70th anniversary, let’s throw in a 25 percent discount on book purchases and some door prizes, too!
When: Thursday, March 5, 2020, from 7 PM – 9 PM
Where: Harry D. McGovern Alumni Center, 1241 University Dr N, Fargo, ND
This year’s featured titles and authors:
NDSU Press aims to stimulate and coordinate interdisciplinary scholarship throughout the Red River Valley, state of North Dakota and the plains of North America. The press publishes peer-reviewed scholarship shaped by national or international events and comparative studies. NDSU Press operates under the umbrella of the North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies.
This project is supported in part by generous donors to the NDSU Press Fund; the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; and a grant from the North Dakota Council on the Arts, which receives funding from the state legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Hear ye! Hear ye!
NDSU Press is pleased to announce our 5th Annual NDSU Press Party is about to commence! Free and open to the public, hors d’oeuvres and cash bar, music and readings, prose and poetry, cake—who could ask for more? Well, what the heck, since it’s our 70th birthday, let’s throw in a 25 percent discount on book purchases and some door prizes, too!
When: Thursday, March 5, 2020, from 7 PM – 9 PM
Where: Harry D. McGovern Alumni Center, 1241 University Dr N, Fargo, ND
This year’s featured titles and authors:
NDSU Press aims to stimulate and coordinate interdisciplinary scholarship throughout the Red River Valley, state of North Dakota and the plains of North America. The press publishes peer-reviewed scholarship shaped by national or international events and comparative studies. NDSU Press operates under the umbrella of the North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies.
This project is supported in part by generous donors to the NDSU Press Fund; the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; and a grant from the North Dakota Council on the Arts, which receives funding from the state legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.
From NDSU Publicist Zachary Vietz
It’s that time of the year again where NDSU Press gets to show off its great books!
Join us on Thursday, March 7, from 7 to 9 P.M. at the Harry D. McGovern Alumni Center and hear from our wonderful authors and their new books.
The works being featured are Apple in the Middle by Dawn Quigley, Hunter’s Log: Volumes II & III by Timothy Murphy, Pacing Dakota by Thomas D. Isern, Operation Snowbound: Life behind the Blizzards of 1949 by David W. Mills, Still by Rebecca E. Bender and Kenneth M. Bender, and Destiny Manifested by Bonnie Larson Staiger.
It is sure to be a wonderful, literature filled night with music from Cat Sank Trio, refreshments, a cash bar, and best of all: free and open to the public!
Check-in at our Facebook event here.
Join us at the Rourke Art Gall
ery on February 2, 2019, for a reading from one of the last works of the late prairie poet Timothy Murphy The event is also a showcase of Murphy’s collection of Charles Beck’s woodcuts. Murphy and Beck were long-time friends and collaborators, with several of Beck’s woodcut images appearing on Murphy’s book covers. These literary and visual artists found inspiration in the same landscape. We will be launching Hunter’s Log: Volumes II & III, with poems read by Murphy’s brother, Jim Murphy, and friends.
This publication celebration is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
The event will be from 3-5:30 P.M. at The Rourke Art Gallery & Museum located at 521 Main Ave, Moorhead, Minnesota 56560
RSVP to our Facebook event here and keep up to date on the event!