The Gullah-Geechee people, descendants of enslaved Africans, are known to live in the Sea Islands and along South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and North Carolina coast. What is less known, howe…
Read Full StoryColumbia, SC – July 14, 2026 University of South Carolina Press is pleased to share that Chris Johns joined our team as Sales and Marketing Director on July 8, 2026. Johns brings 28 y…
Read Full StoryMollie Barnes joins Holly Jackson on Books by the River for a conversation about her new book, Paper Heroines: Women Writers in Conversation and Community Across the Sea Islands, 1838-1902. In…
Read Full StoryColumbia, SC – June 1, 2026 University of South Carolina Press (USC Press) makes its digital resources accessible ahead of the original April 2026 compliance deadline for Title II of th…
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Co-authors Chef Kevin Mitchell and food historian David S. Shields, Taste the State and Taste the State Georgia, team up again as co-hosts in a new South Car…
When Shannon Ivey was 42 and a single mom, she was diagnosed with Stage 3 rectal cancer. In an interview with Today.com, Shannon shares how she attributed early symptoms to perimenopause and l…
Read Full StoryThe South Carolina African American Heritage Commission (SCAAHC) selects Carolyn Click’s The Cost of the Vote for their 2026 book prize. The award recognizes outstanding original work…
Read Full StoryClaudia Smith Brinson, author of Stories of Struggle and Injustice in Focus, will be inducted to the South Carolina Academy of Authors, the state's literary hall of fame, during the biennial…
Read Full StoryFrom family to historical recipes, bestseller lists to award finalists, USC Press has a delicious cookbook ready to take its place in your kitchen! Have you been in a slump making the same d…
Read Full StoryChef Kevin Mitchell and culinary historian David S. Shields discuss their new book, Taste the State Georgia, on Good Day Atlanta. Shields explains that Georgia was the first state to define lo…
Read Full StoryThe Cormac McCarthy Society is partnering with the University of South Carolina Press to publish an online database of the personal library of renowned author Cormac McCarthy. After his passi…
Read Full StoryFor many readers, Hunter S. Thompson evokes a spirit of counterculture and mystery. Best known for his books, Fear and Loathing in Law Vegas, and Hell’s Angels, his other works and trou…
Read Full StoryIn May 2025, University of South Carolina Press collaborated with a group of South Carolina and Georgia organizations to host the first Piedmont Publishing Symposium at Wofford College in Spa…
Read Full StoryIn their new book, Your Daughters Will Prophesy: Religion and Rhetoric in the Nineteenth-Century Woman's Movement, co-authors Lisa Gring-Pemble and Martha Watson detail how women used scriptu…
Read Full StoryUniversity of South Carolina Press moves Open Carolina to Manifold at USC, an accessible hosting platform. In fall 2023, USC Press launched its open access collection, Open Carolina, in partne…
Read Full StoryStarting this spring semester, University of South Carolina Press is giving a $1,000 stipend to students participating in its longtime internship program. Like many nonprofit book publishers,…
Read Full StoryUniversity of South Carolina Press partners with Paradigm Publishing Services, a divsion of DeGruyter Brill, as part of their growing University Press Library group (UPL). Paradigm makes resea…
Read Full StoryUniversity of South Carolina Press is pleased to announce it is now publishing accessible ebooks. In a step toward increasing accessibility in its publishing program, starting with the spring…
Read Full StoryThe Southern Political Science Association presented M.V. Hood, III and Seth C. McKee with the 2025 V.O. Key Award for Rural Republican Realignment in the Modern South: The Untold Story, at th…
Read Full StoryWhen Lisa Silvestri, associate teaching professor of communication arts and sciences at Penn State, felt isolated while adjusting to her life as a first-time parent on parental leave, she reac…
Read Full StoryThis fall, University of South Carolina Press welcomed its first Graduate Acquisitions Assistant, Emma Silvis, who is earning a dual master’s degree in English and library and informatio…
Read Full StoryThe Washington Independent Review of Books selected The Garretts of Columbia by David Nicholson as one of its 51 Favorite Books of 2024. The Independent was launched in 2011 by writers and ed…
Read Full StoryThe North American Society for the Sociology of Sport presented Richard M. Southall, Mark S. Nagel, Ellen J. Staurowsky, Richard T. Karcher, and Joel G. Maxcy with the 2024 Outsanding Book Awa…
Read Full StoryNorth Carolina Humanities selected Hungry Roots by Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre as a North Carolina Reads pick for April 2025. North Carolina Reads is a virtual book club th…
Read Full StoryThe Southern Review of Books featured The End of Tennessee by Rachel M. Hanson as one of its Best Southern Books of August 2024. Published by Queens University of Charlotte’s MFA program…
Read Full StoryIn October, the Women’s National Book Association selected The Garretts of Columbia by David Nicholson as a 2024 Great Group Reads pick. Launched in 2009, the Great Group Reads program p…
Read Full StoryAfter a full year of planning, fundraising, and still more planning, University of South Carolina Press is proud to announce that their undergraduate internship is now a paid opportunity! The…
Read Full StoryUniversity of South Carolina Press and South Carolina ETV and Public Radio (SCETV) partner to celebrate jazz legend Marian McPartland with an evening of live jazz and a book launch for the for…
Read Full StoryJason Friedman's new book, Liberty Street: A Savannah Family, Its Golden Boy, and the Civil War, was featured on Good Morning America as a GMA Buzz Pick for August 29, 2024. In Liberty Street,…
Read Full StoryEditors Derrick P. Alridge, Jon N. Hale, and Tondra L. Loder-Jackson win a 2024 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award for Schooling the Movement: The Activism of Southern B…
Read Full StoryColumbia, SC, March 1, 2024 – University of South Carolina Press, one of the oldest and most distinguished publishing houses in the South, is pleased to announce its strategic partnershi…
Read Full StoryWhen Ana Bichanich joined the University of South Carolina Press in September to lead its Editorial, Design, and Production department, she brought 10 years of production editor experience as…
Read Full StoryThe Library of Virginia announced the winners of the 26th Annual Virginia Literary Awards during a celebration held on October 14. Margaret Edds's What the Eyes Can’t See: Ralph Northam,…
Read Full StoryThe University of South Carolina Press, in partnership with the University of South Carolina Libraries, is delighted to announce the launch of Open Carolina, an open-access publishing platfor…
Read Full StoryThe Library of Virginia announced its 2023 finalists for the Virginia Literary Awards that honor Virginia authors for their work in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Margaret Edds's What the Eye…
Read Full StoryCOLUMBIA, SC, October 13, 2022 – University of South Carolina Office of the Provost and University of South Carolina Press announced today that Michael J. McGandy has been appointed dire…
Read Full StoryInvisible No More, a comprehensive collection about the impact of African Americans on the University of South Carolina, will launch at a virtual celebration on MLK Day in partnership with the…
Read Full StoryUniversity Presses are a force to #KeepUP with! 2021 marks the 10th anniversary of University Press Week and we’re celebrating with a guest blog from author Mary Martha Greene that we h…
Read Full StoryThe AGLOW Awards in Craft Competition has awarded Rob Simbeck’s The Southern Wildlife Watcher: Notes of a Naturalist the 2021 Best of Book Award. The Association of Great Lakes Outdoor…
Read Full StoryWhat should I include in my proposal? How and when should I approach an editor? How do I write a response to peer reviews? When can I expect a contract? Many authors have these questions, but…
Read Full StoryIn Gullah Spirituals musicologist Eric Crawford traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and Black identity in the twentieth…
Read Full StoryThe French translation of Bren McClain’s One Good Mama Bone, titled Mama Red by French publisher Éditions Le Nouveau Pont, has been awarded the Prix Maya 2021 Award for Best Anima…
Read Full StoryW. Clay Creswell has been a North and South Carolina region shark-bite investigator for the Shark Research Institute Global Shark Attack File since 2004. A trusted media resource for the Natio…
Read Full StoryClaudia Smith Brinson, author of Stories of Struggle, contributes to PBS’s “American Experience” documentary “The Blinding of Isaac Woodard” with a piece document…
Read Full StoryThe University of South Carolina Press is proud to partner with JSTOR and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library to support readers seeking to engage…
Read Full Story"one of a handful of people who, when they speak, the entire Congress listens."—President Barack Obama We celebrate Congressman James Clyburn, author of Blessed Experiences: Genuinely S…
Read Full StoryThe exhibition opened at the National Veterans Memorial and Museum in Columbus, Ohio in September 2020. The 50-portrait watercolor series—one Veteran portrait from each state—was c…
Read Full StoryI have been long been fascinated by Southern cultures. At first glance, it appears that the South is dominated by an overarching, monolithic culture. It is easy to believe that culture never c…
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