StepUp: Appreciation for Our Freelancers
6 November 2024
For University Press Week 2024, we were asked, “Who StepsUP at, with, or for your press?” There are so many ways to answer this question! This year, University of Alberta… READ MORE
Category: Thank yous
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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
Award News for An Anthology of Monsters
25 September 2024
We are delighted to announce that An Anthology of Monsters by Cherie Dimaline is the winner of the 2024 Alberta Book Publishing Award for Trade Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Press… READ MORE
Finally! Our First In-Person Launch in Edmonton
10 June 2022
Last night was Gavin Bradley’s launch of Separation Anxiety, hosted by Glass Bookshop at Latitude 53 in Edmonton. This was the first launch that Press staff could attend and marked… READ MORE
A Two-Year Internship
29 April 2022
A Guest Post by Richard Costa When I first visited the Press in late 2019, it was located in Ring House 2. Our Associate Director and Manager of Planning and… READ MORE
Read Alberta: Telling Alberta’s Story on the Web
18 February 2022
We want to celebrate Read Alberta, a website launched in 2021. The brainchild of Annie Boyar, Heather Lohnes, and Karyn Wisselink, it is a welcome and much-needed initiative, beautifully executed… READ MORE
Round Up: Key Events of 2021
7 January 2022
It has been an amazing year for our authors. We wanted to celebrate a number of achievements before blasting into another new year. But first, we give a very sincere… READ MORE
Keely Shirt: Concluding My Digital Publishing Internship
17 December 2021
A Guest Post by Keely Shirt I began my internship near the beginning of my final year of university and it is now ending at the beginning of my final… READ MORE
Hiking the Pilgrims’ Way
5 October 2021
Ken Haigh launched his new book, On Foot to Canterbury: A Son’s Pilgrimage, at the end of September. The book is a finalist for the 2021 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust… READ MORE
Prizes: Thrilling News to Report
20 September 2021
This has been a wonderful week of award announcements, and we are proud to celebrate recent critical recognition for our authors and their books. Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for… READ MORE
