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
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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
An Approach to Poetics that Recognizes Diversity
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
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
Indigenous Politics Intersect with Contested Energy Developments in Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities
22 March 2024
The following edited excerpt is taken from the Introduction of Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities: Colonial Extractivism and Wet’suwet’en Resistance by Tyler McCreary. Dr. McCreary is a settler from Wet’suwet’en territory… 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
An Editor’s Note in the voice of Stan Lee
23 February 2024
In The Cancer Plot: Terminal Immortality in Marvel’s Moral Universe, authors Reginald Wiebe and Dorothy Woodman play with form and begin each section with an Editor’s Note. We thought you… 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
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
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
