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 […]
Category: Thank yous
We want to thank all of our authors, particularly the scholars who continue to write and teach through difficult times. We recognize your amazing dedication and hard work. We asked three scholars who we are currently working with to send us a photo of themselves in their varied work spaces. We could have done so […]
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 […]
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 […]
It was another powerful day of conversations about book publishing in the province on Alberta Book Day in the concourse of the Federal Building. Honourable Leela Aheer, Minister of Culture, Multiculturalism and Status of Women joined the celebration. In her speech she underscored how the book publishing industry has a significant economic impact, creating jobs […]
University of Alberta Press celebrated both poetry and our 50 years in publishing on April 25 with three remarkable readers: Apostrophes VIII: Nothing Is But You and I by E.D. Blodgett (read by Astrid Blodgett) There Are Not Enough Sad Songs by Marita Dachsel Magnetic North: Sea Voyage to Svalbard by Jenna Butler Our Chief […]
Sandra Semchuk’s first presentation in a series across Canada took place on January 31. Despite wintry conditions, more than 40 people came out to St. John’s Institute in Edmonton to hear about Sandra Semchuk’s work of 15 years, travelling to the locations of all the internment camps in Canada and talking to descendants of internees. […]
What a stellar evening! I was delighted to see such a large audience; more than 100 people in attendance. I believe there were over 100 people there, which is a rare thing for a book launch. Rod’s work on Sam Steele drew people from many different communities. Some of the highlights for me included greeting […]
The University of Alberta Press celebrates 50 years of publishing in 2019. In anticipation of this milestone, we embarked on a project to re-imagine our visual identity. Our goal was to honour our legacy while reflecting our current publishing program, which is increasingly diverse, urban, and multidisciplinary. We worked with Susan Colberg (Visual Communication Design […]
On March 1st we launched Welcome to the Anthropocene at the University of Alberta Conservatory with great success. More than 70 eager readers gathered to celebrate Alice Major’s 11th poetry collection; they were welcomed by Sharon Morsink, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science – Physics. Peter Midgley, Senior Editor at UAP said a few words about Alice […]
