A guest post by Alex Ventimilla Greetings, readers! I am a second-year PhD student in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. I also hold an MA from this institution, as well as a BA in English Literature and Culture from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. And now, I am thrilled to […]
Author: Cathie Crooks
It has been an amazing year for our authors. We wanted to celebrate a number of achievements before blasting into another new year. But first, we give a very sincere “thank you” to everyone who supports our work: from editors and indexers, printers and distributors, booksellers and readers, granting bodies and the University of Alberta. […]
A Guest Post by Keely Shirt I began my internship near the beginning of my final year of university and it is now ending at the beginning of my final semester. I am finally here: finally writing my finals and finally saying goodbye, in the final hours of one chapter of my life. During this […]
Rona Altrows is a brilliant and painstaking editor, fiction writer, essayist, and playwright: the Press is proud to have published three theme-based anthologies with her. The latest is You Look Good for Your Age. With Naomi K. Lewis, she co-edited Shy, and with Julie Sedivy she co-edited Waiting. “I returned to the same respiratory therapist […]
A guest post, from the front matter of Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap Cheryl MacDonald and Jonathon Edwards have published their first book, an anthology titled Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap: Hockey’s Agents of Change. The book was included in Quill & Quire’s Best of Fall 2021 Non-Fiction list. But what is a neutral zone […]
Celebrating the many ways university press publishing has evolved and excelled over the last decade, the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) has chosen “Keep UP” as the theme. During the tenth annual University Press Week, November 8 to 12, we welcome you to #KeepUP with a decade of excellence and innovation. We were challenged to […]
Welcome to our holiday sale. We know books make great presents, so we want to give all of our friends and fans a chance to get some amazing titles for yourself and your loved ones at 30% off. We have created a new page on our website that suggests titles in all manner of categories, […]
A Guest Post by Richard Costa Description has a bad reputation. I imagine most of us have skipped ahead while reading a book because the dialogue and the action were more interesting than lengthy accounts of natural or man-made landscapes. But without some form of description, stories and histories exist in a kind of vacuum, […]
Memory and reality, homeland and settlement, life and death—uncovering sacrifices, secrets, and forgiveness. Fields of Light and Stone is a book of poetry in the Robert Kroetsch Series. Poet Angeline Schellenberg’s work has been recognized most recently by the jurors for the Kobzar Award: her volume is one of three shortlisted titles for this coveted […]
Ken Haigh launched his new book, On Foot to Canterbury: A Son’s Pilgrimage, at the end of September. The book is a finalist for the 2021 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Collingwood Public Library hosted Ken as part of its Simcoe Authors Talks. There was a fine online turnout and lively discussion after […]
