Cherie Dimaline made several appearances at Calgary’s ever-brilliant WordFest this year, including one titled Group Therapy, starring Alexandra Auder, Cherie Dimaline, Susin Nielsen, and Mary L. Trump. So, we thought it appropriate to excerpt a short passage from the beginning of her 2023 book, An Anthology of Monsters: How Story Saves Us from Our Anxiety, […]
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The theme of University Press Week 2023 is #SpeakUP. We decided to take this literally and celebrate a number of oral history titles that we have published. There are so many voices that are unheard, silenced, or marginalized. This is an area where publishers across our global industry are striving to do more and do […]
In September, the publishing industry came together to celebrate another year of wonderful writing and books. There were so many remarkable books shortlisted! A highlight of the evening was remarks from Minister Tanya Fir (Arts, Culture, and Status of Women) and the presence of numerous officials from the government of Alberta and the City of […]
Kasia Van Schaik is one of twelve authors longlisted for the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize for her debut collection of short stories, We Have Never Lived On Earth. “This is the first time that one of our authors has been longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. We knew that Kasia’s book was spectacular, and we are proud […]
Seasonal catalogues! Many publishers, for many years, organized their “lists” of books into seasons, usually Spring and Fall. Sales reps, including our wonderful Ampersand Inc. folk, would take the printed catalogues to bookstore buyers and they would sit together and mark them up to make their orders. The catalogues included frontlist titles (new books, coming […]
University presses have the capacity to bring new voices to a conversation or raise up voices that are not widely heard. University of Alberta Press has been privileged to publish several authors who share their experiences and research about Palestine. Here are some of the recent publications. Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question […]
A guest post by Dr Sandeep Agrawal, Professor and Inaugural Director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Alberta, excerpted from Chapter 3 of his edited collection, Rights and the City: Problems, Progress, and Practice. This chapter presents a broad inquiry into the changes that occurred on the rights front […]
Our in-house designer, Alan Brownoff, does almost all of our covers, but every now and again we ask one of our terrific freelance book designers to create a cover. We thought it would be fun to share some of the behind-the-scenes conversations that led to our selecting this cover, produced by Natalie Olsen of Kisscut […]
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 […]
Alan Brownoff has won another international award, this one from the AUPresses Book, Jacket, & Journal Show for the cover design of You Might Be Sorry You Read This by Michelle Poirier Brown. Alan thinks of cover design as being a matchmaker, putting words and images together in unexpected ways. Both the designer and the […]