Over 100 people joined the party for the online launch of The Bad Wife. After a year of pandemic events, audience members know how to bring energy to the event. For those who couldn’t be there, you can get the flavour of the evening from the chat, reproduced below. You will have to imagine the […]
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Our 2020 poetry titles have received widespread praise. As we look ahead to Poetry Month in April and the launch of three more poetry collections, we celebrate Valerie Mason-John, Kat Cameron, E. Alex Pierce, and Angeline Schellenberg. I AM STILL YOUR NEGRO, Valerie Mason-John “I Am Still Your Negro takes no prisoners. With sheer brilliance, […]
Last night, Carissa Halton’s book, Little Yellow House: Finding Community in a Changing Neighbourhood, received a 100% approval rating from all 17 members of an Edmonton book club. Her book introduces readers to a cast of diverse characters in her Alberta Avenue neighbourhood and invites them to consider the social and economic forces that shape […]
A photograph by James Jerome appears on the cover of our newest book, Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidandài’ Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih: Stories from the People of the Land. For this post, we invited the book’s co-author Leslie McCartney to tell us about Jerome, his work and importance, and […]
Our Spring 2021 catalogue is available for download, featuring exceptional books in the areas of Indigenous Studies, Gender Studies, Black Studies, Oral History, Canadian Literature, Poetry, and Psychology. We are grateful to report that our distributors have not missed a beat and books are available to order. Be sure to support your local indie booksellers […]
Welcome to UAlberta Press’s first-ever holiday sale. We know people love giving books as presents, and are giving all of our friends and fans an opportunity to buy books at 30% off. We have created a new page on our website that suggests titles in all manner of categories, from Bestsellers to CanLit to Sports. […]
Please join us for an event celebrating University Press Week featuring a quartet of Canada’s scholarly presses, moderated by one of our acquisitions editors, Michelle Lobkowicz. Emphasizing the role that university presses play in elevating authors, subjects, and whole disciplines that bring new perspectives, ideas, and voices to readers around the globe, the Association of […]
Thank you to all the wonderful poets who sent in manuscripts to the Press this past September while our poetry submission window was open. After removing ineligible authors, those who were not Canadian, there are 87 manuscripts to evaluate – a tremendous response! I have been doing a first pass of all the submissions with […]
University of Alberta Press is accepting poetry manuscripts between September 1 and 30 this year. At the end of the submission period, the Press will select up to three manuscripts for publication in 2022 in the Robert Kroetsch Series of Canadian creative writing. Note: the submission period is only one month long this year and all submissions must […]
What a tumultuous time this is, with lots of information and many changes to process. Through the summer months, our team here at the Press has embraced different workflows and entered into a new and very productive rhythm. With September on the horizon we thought we’d update you on how we’ve weathered the past few months […]
