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
Category: News
100 Days: The Rwandan Genocide
5 April 2024
In honour of Poetry Month 2024 and because of our grief regarding continuing global genocides, it seems appropriate to talk about Juliane Okot Bitek‘s debut poetry collection 100 Days, published… READ MORE
Black Excellence: Celebrating Our Titles for Black History Month
9 February 2024
This year’s Black History Month theme is “Black Excellence: A Heritage to Celebrate; a Future to Build.” In the spirit of Black Excellence, we celebrate the Black voices in our… READ MORE
Announcing our Benetech Certification
20 December 2023
We are pleased to announce that UAlberta Press is now a Benetech Global Certified Accessible™ (GCA) publisher. Benetech, a nonprofit that empowers communities with software for social good, issues this… READ MORE
Our New Website is Live!
8 December 2023
After months of work with Supadu, BooksoniX, and our distributors, our new website is live at ualbertapress.ca. To celebrate, we are offering a holiday sale with a 30% discount on… READ MORE
Introducing Anindita Mukherjee, PhD Intern
20 October 2023
A guest post by Anindita Mukherjee Hello, I am Anindita Mukherjee, a PhD intern, the fifth to join the cohort of doctoral students who have worked at University of Alberta… READ MORE
UAlberta Press Poetry Reading Season: September 2023
1 September 2023
University of Alberta Press is accepting poetry manuscripts between September 1 and 30. At the end of the submission period, the Press will select up to three manuscripts for publication… READ MORE
Publishers and Seasonal Catalogues
11 August 2023
Seasonal catalogues! Many publishers, for many years, organized their “lists” of books into seasons, usually Spring and Fall. Sales reps, including our wonderful Ampersand Inc. folk, would take the printed… READ MORE
University Press Week 2023: #SpeakUP about Palestine
14 July 2023
University presses have the capacity to bring new voices to a conversation or raise up voices that are not widely heard. University of Alberta Press has been privileged to publish… READ MORE
Human Rights and the City in the Pre-Charter Era
7 July 2023
A guest post by Dr Sandeep Agrawal, Professor and Inaugural Director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Alberta, excerpted from Chapter 3 of his… READ MORE
