Publishing the Pandemic
13 March 2025
A guest post by Michelle Lobkowicz, Acquisitions Editor Five years ago this week, after more than 118,000 cases in 114 countries and almost 5,000 deaths, the WHO declared COVID-19 a… READ MORE
Category: Guest Post
Dear Sir, I Intend to Ban Your Book
28 February 2025
A guest post by Elisia Snyder In February 2013, Lawrence Hill delivered a lecture as part of the annual CLC Kreisel Lecture series in which he shares the experience of… READ MORE
Frankfurt 2024
20 December 2024
A guest post by Cathie Crooks 30 years ago, a publisher I worked with hoped to send me to the Frankfurt Book Fair (Frankfurter Buchmesse/FBM). While it didn’t happen then, I’ve… READ MORE
SHY Contributor Releases First Book
22 November 2024
A guest post by Rona Altrows It’s an exciting moment when a contributor to one of our theme-based anthologies comes out with her first book. That is what has just… READ MORE
Hildebrand [delete]
1 November 2024
A guest post by Douglas Hildebrand As I prepare to leave University of Alberta Press to begin the next phase of my career at UBC Press in Vancouver, I will try to… READ MORE
Introducing Sosthenes Ekeh, PhD Intern
20 September 2024
A guest post by Sosthenes Ekeh Hello everyone! I am Sosthenes Nnamdi Ekeh from Nigeria. The pronunciation of my first name has always posed some difficulty to people in my… READ MORE
Ká dúpẹ́! Time’s Up at the Press
26 April 2024
Guest post by Olajide Salawu My interesting time at University of Alberta Press has come to an end. Goodbye is hard to say! But I am not leaving the world… READ MORE
Northerny: Growing Up in Canada’s Yukon
19 April 2024
Guest post by Dawn Macdonald My father died two weeks after my book, Northerny, came out. He’d had it in his hands but I don’t think he got to the… READ MORE
March 8, 2024 / Celebrating International Women’s Day through Books
8 March 2024
Guest post by Anindita Mukherjee On March 8, International Women’s Day, University of Alberta Press celebrates the achievements of women around the world and renews its commitment to gender equality… READ MORE
All Sky, Mirror Ocean: Foreword by Natalie Loveless
19 January 2024
Guest post by Natalie Loveless There Is a Way through the Heart…And/Or, How to Read This Book The process of conducting this research, creating the art, and writing this book… READ MORE
