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Summit Series: 2025 Prize Winner – Patricia Killelea
The CMICH Press Summit Series is thrilled to announce the winner of our second annual book contest: Solace: Poems from the Northwoods, by Patricia Killelea.
Solace was chosen by this year’s judge, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Diane Seuss (author of frank: sonnets and Modern Poetry: Poems, who had the following to say:
Moral Treatment Book Release Party
The CMich Press Summit Series will hosting a book release party for Moral Treatment, winner of the 2024 Summit Series prize. If you are local to the campus of Central Michigan University, then stop by the Park Library Auditorium on Thursday, February 27 at 7:00 p.m....
Hydrologic Cycle | Coming to Kickstarter
We're pleased to announce that our next game, a revised version of Hydrologic Cycle, is coming to Kickstarter! Follow the prelaunch page here! Hydrologic Cycle is a fast-paced, 1v1 or 2v2 player, area-control card game where players fight for control of the global...
Three Questions with Makiyah Alexander on Rising Waters
Makiyah Alexander is an animator and character illustrator originally from Kalamazoo, Michigan. A graduate of Central Michigan University in 2020, Makiyah creates illustrations and animation geared toward her interest of emulating the forgotten hopes, dreams, loves,...
Announcing Rising Waters
It’s Spring, 1927. While Americans dance the Charleston and drink bootlegged liquor, the Mississippi Delta faces a flood of epic proportions. If battered river levees collapse, everything important to you will be washed away. RISING WATERS is a cooperative board game...
Pardon Our Dust!
Welcome to the new Central Michigan University Press website & e-commerce store. We're excited for you to poke around and see what we've all been up to these last several months as we've been building the Press. Some of the site is still a work in progress, so...

