Patrick O'Dowd

Senior Acquisitions Editor at @KentuckyPress.

[Patrick O'Dowd @patrickodowd]

The annual Tony Ryan Book Award at @castletonlyons is always a wonderful event but it was particularly special this year with @maryperdue's Landaluce listed as a finalist.

[Patrick O'Dowd @patrickodowd]

This announcement came through last week while I was traveling but I'm so thrilled to be working with @Yaelwrites71 on her forthcoming collection, BLACK MESTIZA! It'll be part of @Kentuckypress' New Poetry & Prose series with the brilliant Lisa Williams.🎉
https://t.co/VlVybI1RyC

[Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (Publishing Updates Only) @Lisa_teabag]

Waking up to find out through twitter that Drinking from Graveyard Wells was shortlisted for the Ursula Le Guin Prize for Fiction😭😭💙judged by Tochi Onyebuchu, Karen Joy Fowler, Alexander Chee & more. Literally only finding out now😭💙

[Silas House 📘 @silasdhouse]

I’m proud that one of my conversations with my friend bell hooks is included in the forthcoming book _bell hooks: The Last Interview and Other Conversations_. Our talk is featured today in @washingtonpost. #bellhooks https://t.co/FHkdlMmI7i

[Patrick O'Dowd @patrickodowd]

Happy Friday! Truly excited to be publishing Tammy Oberhausen's debut novel, THE EVOLUTION OF THE GOSPELETTES, as part of the Fireside Industries imprint with @HindmanSchool @silasdhouse.

https://t.co/SWRL38l5hA

@KentuckyPress

[Patrick O'Dowd @patrickodowd]

Let's go! I can't wait to see this novel in the hands of readers soon. 🎉

[Patrick O'Dowd @patrickodowd]

Beyond thrilled for this book! @Avalyn_Hunter

Another great addition to @nicholsonjamesc's Horses in History series with @KentuckyPress.

https://t.co/VAkHKkUDOS

[Avalyn Hunter @Avalyn_Hunter]

It's official: my history of the Kentucky Oaks will be titled The Kentucky Oaks: 150 Years of Running for the Lilies. On target for a spring 2024 release, following close on the September 12, 2023 release for Dream Derby! @KentuckyPress #DreamDerbyBlackGold #150YearsofLilies

[Patrick O'Dowd @patrickodowd]

Thrilled to see Mary Perdue and her book, Landaluce, named as a semifinalist for the annual Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award https://t.co/sX9XpJNpXn via @BloodHorse @KentuckyPress

[Tor.com (Now at @Reactormag) @tordotcom]

“Devastating and hopeful in turn yet always resonant...[L]ines as clear and fraught as poetry. Worldbuilding immersive and masterful.”

@mayagittelman reviews Yvette Lisa Ndlovu’s “unmissable” debut collection Drinking from Graveyard Wells: https://t.co/NkzWWSUaUt

[Patrick O'Dowd @patrickodowd]

Sown in the Stars is a valuable cultural document, full of experience and wisdom from farmers who consult celestial cycles and the zodiac signs to time their planting.
https://t.co/W0zI4zBpiQ

[University Press of Kentucky @KentuckyPress]

#OneDayforUK is here, and we are asking for your donation. The University Press of Kentucky is a non-profit publisher that has been producing high-quality books for over 75 years.

Every gift, no matter how small, makes a difference! Donate now at https://t.co/ndGjnJmfyq

[Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (Publishing Updates Only) @Lisa_teabag]

It’s spooky season! So excited to share this wonderful blurb about my debut collection from a master of AfroSurreal horror @pdjeliclark . If you like stories about ghosts, hauntings, & African mythology that centers Black women pre-order:
https://t.co/MQ4EoQoEU3

@KentuckyPress

[Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (Publishing Updates Only) @Lisa_teabag]

If you like these books, you will like Drinking from Graveyard Wells! @KentuckyPress
https://t.co/MQ4EoQo74v

[University Press of Kentucky @KentuckyPress]

The cover for Yvette Ndlovu's @lisa_teabag DRINKING FROM GRAVEYARD WELLS will be revealed to the public SEPTEMBER 2 on @locusmag (https://t.co/tZ718XWGHO). Keep and eye out 👀 and pre-order your copy now at https://t.co/X94M8cZ2uk!

[University Press of Kentucky @KentuckyPress]

Register now! Virtual First Friday - The Gospel of Freedom: Black Evangelicals and the Underground Railroad, with Dr. Alicestyne Turley https://t.co/sJwtJTzdIp via @KyHistSoc

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The Kentucky Press Warehouse Sale is on now! Up to 75% off! - https://t.co/glsI4pQW8B

[Patrick O'Dowd @patrickodowd]

"The help being provided at the @HindmanSchool is indicative of the general attitude of people in the region. Nobody is waiting for anyone else to come do the work. The people have armed themselves with rakes, hoes, and shovels." --@silasdhouse
https://t.co/NBZXnRPN9Z

[Patrick O'Dowd @patrickodowd]

We will rebuild in EKy. Then we must ask why 100-year floods are happening so often. https://t.co/J2GtxJ9n94

[Patrick O'Dowd @patrickodowd]

The Case Against Commercial Logging in Wildfire-Prone Forests

https://t.co/XtzhuEWDDn

@JohnMuirProject @KentuckyPress

[Patrick O'Dowd @patrickodowd]

‘We could lose history.’ Appalachian archives soaked in record Kentucky flooding. https://t.co/BtdBqUJ5zV