The University of Alberta Press celebrated another successful Literary Cocktails as part of the Edmonton Poetry Festival. Our director, Linda Cameron, emceed the event that featured five superb readers. An audience of more than 80 enjoyed readings from Rising Abruptly [Gisèle Villeneuve], Listen. If [Douglas Barbour], Little Wildheart [Micheline Maylor], Believing is not the same […]
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The University of Alberta Press co-published War Paintings of the Tsuu T’ina Nation with University of Nebraska Press in March 2015. This beautiful book showcases a unique set of little known hide paintings that offer valuable insights into one of the lesser-studied Plains Indian societies. It has received attention from book lovers as well as those interested in native history […]
This year’s Alberta Book Awards Gala was a wonderful event, with over 250 people attending. The banquet room at the Delta Edmonton Centre Suite Hotel was festive and welcoming. Mayor Stephen Mandel’s opening remarks were followed by the engaging keynote address of Shelagh Rogers, CBC host of “The Next Chapter.” The event’s emcee, Todd Babiak, kept us […]
This Spring has been very good to the University of Alberta Press and to our authors. The expected warm weather with sunshine and green grass did not arrive, but the news of winning and shortlisted book and of bestsellers sure made us smile! 100 Days [Juliane Okot Bitek] won not just one, but two design […]
Family Day Weekend started with a bang with some terrific news. On Friday, we received news that three University of Alberta Press titles had won design awards from the prestigious AAUP Book, Journal & Jacket Show. Of 281 books submitted, only 46 books and journals are included in this year’s show. For covers, there were […]
The third week of March is Canadian Agricultural Safety Week, aiming to raise awareness about the importance of farm safety. The editors of Farm Workers in Western Canada: Injustices and Activism worked hard to get the word out about, well, injustices and activism. Editor Shirley A. McDonald organized a book launch in Kelowna, BC on February 24. She […]
The Old Timer’s Cabin was filled with friends and fans who came out to celebrate the arrival of Rudy Wiebe’s collected short stories with the man himself. Gail Greenwood did a fantastic job organizing the launch and was there with a wide selection of Rudy’s books. Myrna Kostash, whose launch of Prodigal Daughter is tonight, […]
Dear Young Reader, or Old(er) for that matter. We hope you’ll enjoy James Gifford’s musings about how to deal with reviews of a more negative nature. James is a UAP author; we published two of his books, Personal Modernisms and From the Elephant’s Back. Boring, Risible, and Execrable, and Those are Just Its Good Qualities I was […]
What is the real Alberta? Is it cowboys, blue skies, oil, all that larger-than-life stuff? It’s all that, and then some… Come celebrate the greatness and the craziness of Wild Rose Country in a special Rodeo-Week screening of the documentary film Will the Real Alberta Please Stand Up? by Geo Takach. Art Gallery of Alberta […]
There are many brilliant people out there who help others discover superb new books. Today, we would like to thank two reviewers who made Poetry Month 2012 really special. George Fetherling wrote about all of the fine work being done by poets and their Canadian publishers in the Vancouver Sun on April 5. In his […]