This was the first time that the University of Regina hosted the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The university, city, and province did a wonderful job of putting on the conference, right down to offering free city bus service to delegates. Highlights, beyond the bookfair of course, included: The theme: Gathering Diversities. An […]
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We have some great news to share! Norma Dunning has won the prestigious Danuta Gleed Literary Award, given to the writer of the best first short story collection in Canada. The stories in Annie Muktuk and Other Stories portray the unvarnished realities of northern life via strong and gritty characters. Jury members praised Dunning for crafting “spellbinding narratives” […]
Our newest catalogue—Fall 2018—is hot off the press! A list of award winners are on page 2, and you can find our Open access titles on page 22. Along with our new releases, recently released titles, and top sellers, it features the newest books published by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, on pages 14 and 15. We […]
I saw this post last year – A Bookstore Is Displaying All Books By Men Backward – and thought it to be a great post to share this year for International Women’s Day. It is a strong visual aid that illustrates the gender gap in publishing. So today, Cathie and I turned all male-authored or […]
Registration for the 2018 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is now open! The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the University of Regina invite you to Saskatchewan from May 26 to June 1 to take part in the largest academic gathering in Canada. Take advantage of the University of Regina’s Graduate […]
Dr. Colleen Skidmore—author of Searching for Mary Schäffer: Women Wilderness Photography—gave a talk about the subject of her new book at the University of Alberta’s Mountain Festival on December 7, 2017. The event was hosted by Dr. PearlAnn Reichwein, author of the award-winning Climber’s Paradise. Mary Schäffer was a photographer, writer, botanical painter, and mapmaker from Philadelphia, […]
Gisèle Villeneuve’s new short story collection continues to win major awards. Most recently, Rising Abruptly was announced as the winner of the Mountain Fiction & Poetry category at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival. The book also won the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction [Writers’ Guild of Alberta], the Trade Fiction Book of the Year […]
The organizers of The Writing Stick: Sharing Indigenous Stories welcomed over 200 people to participate in a conference dedicated to conversations about respectful ways to publish Indigenous stories. The conference took place at the University of Alberta from June 8 to 10, 2017. Organizer Linda Cameron noted, “With cultural appropriation in the news once again, […]
I’m not sure that many of you working in offices have ever received an email like this on a Friday morning. Or any morning, for that matter. But around our offices this happens from time to time. I’ve been here for more than six years now and had the pleasure of watching squirrels, jack rabbits, […]
Co-Editor Shirley A. McDonald and contributor Jennifer Koshan, along with MLA Dr. David Swann, organized an event to honour the many faceless/invisible/unrecognized workers whose labour puts food on our tables. A celebration of Farm Workers’ Day and the launching of Farm Workers in Western Canada: Injustices and Activism in Calgary on August 21 exceeded their expectations. Even before the […]