Series
UNT Press offers 620 works in 27 named series. From this page you can find a series with titles that align with your own interests.
Great American Cooking Series
This series is designed to publish the eating habits and culinary practices of the American people, past and present. This series will publish cookbooks exploring the culinary history of various regions of the Americas or where American cuisine has spread abroad, including memorable recipes, distinctive dishes, menus, and methods of preparation. We welcome books that examine the regional and ethnic influence upon the cuisine and its ingredients. These books will enable scholars to understand better the foodways of our more recent past, while today’s cooks will welcome these historic and modern collections of recipes to prepare savory meals for family, friends, and special events.
American Military Studies
Books in this series study the American military during peace and war, from colonial times to the present, and may include operational accounts, unit histories, strategy and tactics, and general studies in American military experience and thought. Titles are intended to appeal to military historians, officers and veterans of the U.S. military, and nonspecialists.
North Texas Crime and Criminal Justice Series
This series welcomes scholarly and general audience titles on crime, law and justice, criminal justice issues, and corrections in the United States, with special concentration on Texas and the West.
A. C. Greene Series
Named in honor of A. C. Greene, distinguished book editor, columnist, historian, and novelist, this series welcomes books on Texas and the Southwest.
Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Series
Co-published by UNT Press and the Mayborn School of Journalism, this series features the winner of the annual Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference manuscript competition.
North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Series
This series welcomes biographies and memoirs of American veterans and military figures from all periods of American military history. Especially encouraged are veteran memoirs edited or annotated by military academics or specialists.
North Texas Lives of Musicians Series
Mainly focusing on biographies, this series encourages books that combine biographical narrative with rigorous analysis of musical performance or composition. Subjects can be from any era or style, but we prefer contemporary or recent American musicians or groups. Writing style should appeal to a general audience as well as to academics. Works should be rigorously researched and thoroughly documented. Original studies are favored, but anthologies and autobiographies will also be considered. Fiction and poetry will not be considered.
Evelyn Oppenheimer Series
Named in honor of Evelyn Oppenheimer, book reviewer, essayist, agent, and author, this series is open to books on Texana.
Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction
Submitting for Katherine Anne Porter
Practical Guide Series
This series welcomes books that teach with practical, concrete advice on a particular topic.
Award Winner
Sonic Crossings Series
University of North Texas Press is proud to announce its new book series, Sonic Crossings, which will be edited by ethnomusicologist Cathy Ragland. The series is accepting proposals for projects that explore theoretical approaches, methodologies, and dialogues in the study of sound knowledge, mediation, music making, and listening that cross academic and creative arts disciplines as well as geographical and experiential borders. The series recognizes current advances in emerging transnational and global trends, cultural perceptions, and technologies of sound and sound production and their effects on how we create, listen to, and experience music in modern society. Projects focusing on music/sound cultures in Texas, the American Southwest, and the U.S./Mexico border are also encouraged.
Publications of the Texas Folklore Society
The University of North Texas Press co-publishes an annual publication with the Texas Folklore Society, which is dedicated to collecting, presenting, and preserving the folklore of Texas and the Southwest. The Society is the oldest folklore organization continually functioning in the United States. For more information about the Texas Folklore Society.
Texas Local
Books in this series study the history of Texas at the city, county, and regional level from early times to the present day. Topics may include city and county histories, events in a specific region of Texas, or biographies. Contextualizing the specific regional history to the wider history of Texas is strongly encouraged. Titles are intended to appeal to both Texas historians and nonspecialist readers.
Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry
Submitting for Vassar Miller
Frances B. Vick Series
Named in honor of the author, folklorist, publisher, and founding director of UNT Press, this series welcomes books on Texana and Texas history.
War and the Southwest Series
Richard G. Lowe, Gustav L. Seligmann, and Calvin L. Christman, Series Editors
Western Life Series
This series publishes books on life in the western United States, most notably on cowboys and ranching but open to all aspects of western culture and social history.
