Let me introduce our new Intern, Tanya Ball. She’ll be learning about publishing, while completing her Masters of Library and Information Studies. Her first blog entry gives you many more interesting details about her: I received my BA and MA at the U of A. For my BA, I was a double major in history (focusing […]
Author: Monika Igali
“Cooley makes important use of the evolution of some of the major poems by reference to the manuscripts and typescripts of drafts and makes an especially fruitful case for Seed Catalogue.” Anne Burke, Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature “…[The Home Place] builds a magnificent bridge across the coulee between writer and reader… Comprehensive and intense, The Home […]
Some time ago, University of Alberta Press Director Linda Cameron announced her plans to retire at the end of August 2017, and despite her objections to a big celebratory party, her colleagues organized a reception on May 11. Co-workers, authors, friends and family members arrived in large numbers, and the Saskatchewan Room in the Faculty Club filled up […]
By Tanya Ball With less than a month before the Writing Stick Conference, we are excited to announce that our programming is in place and over 100 people have registered already. As mentioned on our website, we have three days of programming lined up including keynote speakers, film shorts, panel sessions, food, and much more! […]
The following news release appeared in the Queen’s News Centre, the official online Queen’s University publication. Library users will benefit from increased access to Canadian scholarship Queen’s University is among the early adopters of a new ebook collection that will see books from Canada’s university presses made available online. The new collection of ebooks has been […]
“The habit of reading is most frequently acquired in childhood: it is as children that we first acquire our love of losing ourselves in other worlds and other lives, and our imaginative capacity to respond emotionally to the abstract symbols that make up a text-based narrative. .. [In Margaret Mackey’s] new volume, she turns inward to recall […]
The University of Alberta Press celebrated another successful Literary Cocktails as part of the Edmonton Poetry Festival. Our director, Linda Cameron, emceed the event that featured five superb readers. An audience of more than 80 enjoyed readings from Rising Abruptly [Gisèle Villeneuve], Listen. If [Douglas Barbour], Little Wildheart [Micheline Maylor], Believing is not the same […]
The University of Alberta Press co-published War Paintings of the Tsuu T’ina Nation with University of Nebraska Press in March 2015. This beautiful book showcases a unique set of little known hide paintings that offer valuable insights into one of the lesser-studied Plains Indian societies. It has received attention from book lovers as well as those interested in native history […]
This year’s Alberta Book Awards Gala was a wonderful event, with over 250 people attending. The banquet room at the Delta Edmonton Centre Suite Hotel was festive and welcoming. Mayor Stephen Mandel’s opening remarks were followed by the engaging keynote address of Shelagh Rogers, CBC host of “The Next Chapter.” The event’s emcee, Todd Babiak, kept us […]
This Spring has been very good to the University of Alberta Press and to our authors. The expected warm weather with sunshine and green grass did not arrive, but the news of winning and shortlisted book and of bestsellers sure made us smile! 100 Days [Juliane Okot Bitek] won not just one, but two design […]