Month: March 2017

“Farm Workers in Western Canada” Launch in Kelowna, BC

The third week of March is Canadian Agricultural Safety Week, aiming to raise awareness about the importance of farm safety. The editors of Farm Workers in Western Canada: Injustices and Activism worked hard to get the word out about, well, injustices and activism. Editor Shirley A. McDonald organized a book launch in Kelowna, BC on February 24. She […]

Rudy Wiebe Launch

The Old Timer’s Cabin was filled with friends and fans who came out to celebrate the arrival of Rudy Wiebe’s collected short stories with the man himself. Gail Greenwood did a fantastic job organizing the launch and was there with a wide selection of Rudy’s books. Myrna Kostash, whose launch of Prodigal Daughter is tonight, […]

Letters to a Young Reader of Reviews by James Gifford

Dear Young Reader, or Old(er) for that matter. We hope you’ll enjoy James Gifford’s musings about how to deal with reviews of a more negative nature. James is a UAP author; we published two of his books, Personal Modernisms and From the Elephant’s Back. Boring, Risible, and Execrable, and Those are Just Its Good Qualities I was […]