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 […]

Hi Kathryn, We met so briefly at the Barbours’ 50th commemoration, which was a shame as I had lots of questions to ask about Edmonton’s gardening history. Well, now having read the book, you have certainly answered the big question [Why grow here?] and settled numerous other issues. I wanted to write you a fan letter, to […]

By Machno’s Wagon: A Meditation on Public Museums by Roger Epp St. Petersburg is a city founded on Russian imperial ambition and filled with the museums to prove it: the Hermitage, with its throne rooms and art treasures; Peterhof, the summer palace on the Baltic, with its fountains and gardens; St. Isaac’s Cathedral, with its […]