11 October 2024
Edmonton, AB – University of Alberta Press is seeing some staff changes this fall. On November 1, Douglas Hildebrand, Director and Publisher, departs to become the Director of UBC Press…. READ MORE
27 June 2024
Guest post by Elisia Snyder The Association of University Presses (AUPresses) held its annual meeting from June 11 to 13 at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth in Montréal. Self-described as the… READ MORE
12 April 2024
Guest post by Olajide Salawu Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics by Wayde Compton is the latest title in our CLC Kreisel Lecture Series. Themed around anti-racism, literary cultures, and language, Compton… READ MORE
28 April 2023
Another spring poetry event has come and gone. The Press’s first hybrid event saw about 80 people in attendance, evenly split between the listening party in Henderson Hall (adjacent to… READ MORE
26 March 2021
Guest post by Stephen Ullstrom, indexer for Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidandài’ Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih. There is a welcomed and long overdue movement… READ MORE
5 February 2021
Naomi K. Lewis continues to win awards and earn five-star reviews for her book, Tiny Lights for Travellers. The book has won three awards—the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction, the… READ MORE
23 January 2021
Last night, Carissa Halton’s book, Little Yellow House: Finding Community in a Changing Neighbourhood, received a 100% approval rating from all 17 members of an Edmonton book club. Her book… READ MORE
13 November 2020
In today’s contribution to the University Press Week Blog Tour (November 9-13), we share a poem from I Am Still Your Negro: An Homage to James Baldwin by spoken-word poet,… READ MORE
30 October 2020
What You Take With You, Therese Greenwood’s memoir of the Fort McMurray wildfire has made the shortlist for the upcoming Alberta Reads Book Club for November / December. What You Take… READ MORE
2 October 2020
We are honoured to have earned the Mel Hurtig Publisher of the Year award from our publishing peers, recognizing our activities in 2019. Here are some of the highlights from… READ MORE
