Author: Cathie Crooks

Congress 2023

Congress 2023 took place at York University in Toronto from May 27 to June 2. Over 10,000 scholars, graduate students, and practitioners in the humanities and social sciences gathered together and shared their research. University of Alberta Press was part of the Expo and had a major staff presence. Acquiring editors Mat Buntin and Michelle […]

Author Tony Cashman Turns 100

Tony Cashman has done so much to tell the stories of Edmonton, our province, and our institutions. He has won many awards and accolades and is “widely considered to be one of Edmonton’s most passionate, popular, and impactful local historians.” You can learn more about Tony Cashman’s life at Alberta.ca or read about his 100th […]

Literary Editions 2023

Another spring poetry event has come and gone. The Press’s first hybrid event saw about 80 people in attendance, evenly split between the listening party in Henderson Hall (adjacent to our office) and online. It was a pleasure to hear the three poets read from their new collections: Joe Bishop, Sonya Ruth Greckol, and Uchechukwu […]

Praise for Joe Bishop and Indie Rock

Joe Bishop’s debut poetry collection, Indie Rock, shows a writer at the start of a strong literary career. Indie Rock candidly focuses on a queer poet/musician’s life in Newfoundland, and his personal struggles with addiction, OCD, and trauma. The collection is steeped in musicality and the geographies and cadences of Newfoundland. Joe Bishop tells an […]

March 8, 2018: Excerpt from 10 Days That Shaped Modern Canada

“Viola Desmond was the catalyst for jumpstarting the modern civil rights movement in Canada.” Aaron W. Hughes, author “Eighteen years before the razing of Africville, and nine years before Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, one of Canada’s most notorious and publicized incidents of racial discrimination […]

Rights and the City

About the Book Cover Ruben, a font inspired by a civil rights march, is used on the cover of our book, Rights and the City: Problems, Progress, and Practice. “The end of August in Los Angeles has historically been a time of sad recollections for Latinos, especially activists who remember a triumphant civil rights march […]