Category: Uncategorized

Featured Reviews of “Crow Never Dies”

“…informative, insightful, thoughtful, thought-provoking, and consistently compelling from beginning to end…. Crow Never Dies is unreservedly recommended for personal, community, and academic library Canadian Aboriginal Culture reference collections…” John Burroughs, Reviewer’s Bookwatch “The author writes with obvious delight, indeed lyricism, about the people and the environment… To potential readers who have a love for the Arctic, its […]

Darryl Raymaker Launches Trudeau’s Tango in Calgary

June 14, 2017 was an auspicious day for Darryl Raymaker’s launch of Trudeau’s Tango: Alberta Meets Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968–1972. The sun shone as some 200 guests shared a celebratory evening at The Ranchmen’s Club. The room was full and Darryl was in fine form, with daughter Nicole and son Derek there to help mark his […]

2012 Alberta Book Publishing Awards Finalists

The 2012 Alberta Book Publishing Awards finalists have been announced and the University of Alberta Press has nine nominations: five in the Book of the Year category, three in the Book Design category, and one for the Lois Hole Award for Editorial Excellence. Congratulations to all! Trade Non-Fiction Book Award The Grads Are Playing Tonight! by M. […]

Introducing the New Intern at UAP

Let me introduce our new Intern, Tanya Ball. She’ll be learning about publishing, while completing her Masters of Library and Information Studies. Her first blog entry gives you many more interesting details about her: I received my BA and MA at the U of A. For my BA, I was a double major in history (focusing […]

Featured Reviews of “The Home Place”

“Cooley makes important use of the evolution of some of the major poems by reference to the manuscripts and typescripts of drafts and makes an especially fruitful case for Seed Catalogue.” Anne Burke, Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature “…[The Home Place] builds a magnificent bridge across the coulee between writer and reader… Comprehensive and intense, The Home […]

A Reception in Honour of Linda Cameron

Some time ago, University of Alberta Press Director Linda Cameron announced her plans to retire at the end of August 2017, and despite her objections to a big celebratory party, her colleagues organized a reception on May 11. Co-workers, authors, friends and family members arrived in large numbers, and the Saskatchewan Room in the Faculty Club filled up […]

We Miss You Fiercely: Robert Kroetsch

Rudy Wiebe called us with terrible news this morning: Robert Kroetsch was killed in a car accident on his way home from a literary festival. ***************** Robert has had an amazing year, replete with readings and awards, including the Lieutenant Governor’s Alberta Distinguished Artist award and the WGA Golden Pen Award (just two weeks ago). […]

The Writing Stick: Sharing Indigenous Stories

By Tanya Ball With less than a month before the Writing Stick Conference, we are excited to announce that our programming is in place and over 100 people have registered already. As mentioned on our website, we have three days of programming lined up including keynote speakers, film shorts, panel sessions, food, and much more! […]

Queen’s University's New ebook Agreement

The following news release appeared in the Queen’s News Centre, the official online Queen’s University publication. Library users will benefit from increased access to Canadian scholarship Queen’s University is among the early adopters of a new ebook collection that will see books from Canada’s university presses made available online. The new collection of ebooks has been […]

Featured Reviews of “One Child Reading”

“The habit of reading is most frequently acquired in childhood: it is as children that we first acquire our love of losing ourselves in other worlds and other lives, and our imaginative capacity to respond emotionally to the abstract symbols that make up a text-based narrative. .. [In Margaret Mackey’s] new volume, she turns inward to recall […]