{"id":7173,"date":"2019-04-01T16:05:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T22:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/?p=7173"},"modified":"2019-04-02T11:42:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T17:42:41","slug":"peter-midgley-leaves-ualberta-press-for-new-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2019\/04\/01\/peter-midgley-leaves-ualberta-press-for-new-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Midgley Leaves UAlberta Press for New Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After more than ten highly-accomplished years with University of Alberta Press, Peter is making a renewed investment in our community of writers and in his own writing. He has just been named the Festival Director for STARFest, otherwise known as the St. Albert readers&#8217; festival. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReadersFest\">@ReadersFest<\/a> hosted Esi Edugyan, Patrick deWitt, Eden Robinson, and many other writers. We look forward to seeing what transpires for 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peter also plans to edit, as well as to present workshops on writing, editing, and creativity. In fact, his latest volume of poems, <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Let Us Not Think of Them As Barbarians (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/newestpress.com\/books\/let-us-not-think-of-them-as-barbarians\" target=\"_blank\">let us not think of them as barbarians<\/a><\/em>, is being published by NeWest Press in September 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We wish Peter all the best in his new endeavours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After more than ten highly-accomplished years with University of Alberta Press, Peter is making a renewed investment in our community of writers and in his own writing. He has just been named the Festival Director for STARFest, otherwise known as the St. Albert readers&#8217; festival. In 2018, @ReadersFest hosted Esi Edugyan, Patrick deWitt, Eden Robinson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,60],"tags":[161,162,163],"class_list":["post-7173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-peter-midgley","tag-staff","tag-starfest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7173"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7183,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173\/revisions\/7183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}