The University of North Texas Press was founded in 1987 and published its first book in 1989. Though we are the newest university press in North Texas (following SMU Press and TCU Press), we have quickly become a leading press with the most titles in print (more than 200) and published (15 to 16 each year). We are fully accredited members of the Association of American University Presses. Our books are distributed and marketed nationally and internationally through the Texas A&M University Press Consortium.
The University of North Texas Press is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarly, academic, and general interest books for the Dallas-Fort Worth-Denton metroplex, state, national, and international communities as part of an outreach activity. As a part of the largest and most comprehensive research university in North Texas, UNT Press holds to the philosophy that university presses should be on the cutting edge of publishing and thus is not adverse to the different and unusual in its publishing agenda. We are committed to serving all peoples by publishing stories of their cultures and their experiences that have been overlooked. We seek to nurture the development of writers by publishing first books and by publishing poetry and short story collections. We strive to advance understanding and appreciation of the historical, intellectual, scientific, and cultural milieu through our publications. Through sales, advertisements, and reviews of UNT Press books nationally and internationally, we strive to enhance and support the University of North Texas as an academic presence in education and community life
Editorial Program
The University of North Texas Press publishes approximately fifteen books a year, with an emphasis on Texana, military history, and multicultural topics. Our mandate runs parallel to the mandate of any university, which is to teach, to support scholarly research, and to reach out to the community. We do that by publishing both academic and popular interest books useful to the student and general reader alike. To ensure the highest quality publications, everything we publish is peer reviewed and approved by a faculty Editorial Board. We welcome manuscripts from all authors that fit our editorial program:
Humanities and social sciences, with special emphasis on Texas history and culture, military history, western history, criminal justice, folklore, multicultural topics, music, natural and environmental history, culinary history, and women's studies. Submissions in poetry and fiction are invited only through the Vassar Miller and Katherine Anne Porter Prize competitions.
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As with nearly all university presses, the University of North Texas Press receives a measure of financial support from its home institution—in our case, through Academic Affairs under the Provost. With our core mission being to publish and disseminate scholarship, we naturally reach a smaller reading audience, one more focused than that reached by a commercial publisher. We sell limited print runs of quality academic and trade books in a nonprofit enterprise, with a typical scholarly monograph being published at a loss because of its limited market—but at a gain to the scholarly community who values publication of scholarship and resources for students.
To offset publishing academic work at a loss, we also publish quality trade books of more general appeal and with wider sales. Still, without university support and additional outside funding through grants and donations, the UNT Press would not continue to thrive.
Frances B. Vick, founding director of the UNT Press, was instrumental in securing a solid financial foundation for the Press and continues to support our publication program. A recent generous gift has allowed us to support specific projects in need of financial assistance on the road to publication.
By her example we seek additional funding to underwrite a series of books, a subject area of publications, or a specific title of interest to the donor. For example, a series of books may be named in honor of a donor (i.e., the Frances B. Vick Series) for books in Texas history, or in another subject area of interest. All such books published within the funded series bear the name of the donor in the series title. Outside of a series we may also wish to publish a specific book in need of grant assistance, and in this case a donor may choose to help subsidize that particular title with an acknowledgment of support inside the book and complimentary copies of the publication (i.e., our Meyerson Symphony Center).
If you wish to become a Friend of the Press to support general Press operations, or if you are interested in supporting a series of books or a specific title, please contact:
Ron Chrisman
Director
UNT Press
P.O. Box 311336
Denton, TX 76203
Theoria 15
John Ringo, King of the Cowboys: His Life and Times from the Hoo Doo War to Tombstone, Second Edition
See Sam Run
A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt 
Mister Martini
Twentieth-Century Texas: A Social and Cultural History
Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II
Captain John H. Rogers, Texas Ranger
Folklore in Motion: Texas Travel Lore
Wonderful Girl