University of Guam Press
The University of Guam Press (UOG Press) publishes an array of academic and literary books and journals with a specific focus on the unique history, environment, peoples, cultures, and languages of the islands that make up the Western Pacific region. The University of Guam Press strives to increase the availability of exceptional scholarly and literary texts that can be used as learning resources about Guam and Micronesia for people and institutions in the region and throughout the world.
UOG Press is an integral part of the Richard Flores Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center (MARC), which holds the most extensive repository of information about Guam and Micronesia. UOG Press extends the MARC’s mission of collecting, preserving, and providing access to reliable and accurate information about the peoples and cultures of the Western Pacific, thereby advancing scholarship and learning in and about the region.
UOG Press has two major publishing components – MARC Publications and Taiguini Books.
The University of Guam Press regularly contracts dependable and experienced freelance writers, copy editors, translators, graphic designers, illustrators and photographers, including writers, editors and translators who can provide these services in CHamoru and other languages of Micronesia. If you are interested in being added to UOG Press’s talent pool, kindly email a letter of interest, resumé and digital portfolio featuring a minimum of five (5) relevant work samples to victorialola@triton.uog.edu.
In the letter of interest, be sure to include:
The University of Guam Press is a launching A Borrowed Land by master storyteller and CHamoru educator, Peter Onedera.
UOG Press is promoting youth literacy with bookshelf competition among village mayors' offices.
UOG Press inviting youth ages 5-18 to submit poetry, short stories, creative essays, photographs, art, and music for publication
The resource features images and conversation starter prompts that reflect the experiences of people from Guåhan.
The book launch and signing with authors John Payne II and Catherine Payne will be held on Sept. 17, at the Hagåtña library.