– FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / March 21, 2023 Edmonton, AB – Gavin Bradley, author of Separation Anxiety, is the winner of the 2023 Bridges of Struga International Poetry Award. This prestigious award is for a debut book of poetry by a young writer. The announcement will be made at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, on […]
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“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 […]
Read on to find out why we are so excited about publishing Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike’s volume of poetry, there’s more. And be sure to watch the video for Seagulls, which contains the stunning line about home being “anywhere we find something to love.” Praise for there’s more by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike “In these memory-infused poems, […]
After reviewing an earlier blog post, where we corrected his spelling of color to colour, Alex agreed to the change but left behind a comment in the Google Doc: “I refuse to believe that Canadian spelling is even a thing.” And thus, the gauntlet was thrown down. Doug: Apparently our friend, Alex, who spent a […]
Guest post by Elisia Snyder University presses rely on strong independent booksellers, and Edmonton is fortunate to have two hugely supportive and collegial bookstores: Audreys Books, the staunch matriarch, and Glass Bookshop, a relative newcomer. The strong book culture in our city is fostered by a remarkable writing community, locally-based publishers, excellent bookstores, and book […]