University of Alberta Press

10/08/2025

So delighted to see two of our "smartypants" authors on this Litfest panel: On Language and Meaning (a.k.a. The Smartypants Panel)!

Get your tickets now: it's going to be another fabulous festival!

What is conscious and unconscious in how we utilize language? How do we use language to create meaning? For anyone who has a love for the construction and utilization of […]

10/07/2025

We published Sarah Boon's MELTDOWN this year. Now, LitFest showcases her book with those of Vinh Nguyen and Dan Rubinstein in a special memoir hour, moderated by Jessica Truong. Join us to hear three stories of incredible journeys!

This year’s memoir hour panel features three stories of incredible journeys. Featuring: Vinh Nguyen, Dan Rubinstein, and Sarah Boon Moderator: Jessica Truong Tickets: $5 (student/low income), $15 (regular) Purchase tickets […]

10/06/2025

10/06/2025

The theme for Banned Books Week (October 5-11) is “Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights."
Resources: https://bit.ly/2NPHs6y

Watch for a video of honorary chair George Takei and honorary youth chair Iris Mogul in conversation on Youtube and Facebook, later this week.

And take action for Let Freedom Read Day, Saturday, October 11: https://bit.ly/3PGkuwt

We are proud to have published DEAR SIR, I INTEND TO BURN YOUR BOOK by Lawrence Hill, where he discusses book banning after he got a notice that someone planned to burn a copy of his novel, The Book of Negroes. Read our blog for more:
https://bit.ly/4h6rnD0

10/04/2025

Congratulations to our friends at Shelf Life Books in Calgary. They are celebrating their 15th anniversary today! 🎈🥂🎉
https://bit.ly/4757MRO

10/03/2025

From Taproot:
Edmonton’s Bearclaw Gallery will celebrate its 50th anniversary with an exhibition opening on Oct. 4 and running through Oct. 15. The exhibit will showcase works from Cree, Dene, Ojibway, Iroquois, Métis, and West Coast Nations, featuring renowned artists like Jane Ash Poitras, Jim Logan, and Joseph Sanchez.
https://bit.ly/3IW2JtP

Fifty years perched on the Edmonton map, you tend to outlast a few of your peers — but what explains Bearclaw Gallery’s longevity?

09/30/2025

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: a day for mourning and reflection. The University of Alberta Press is closed as staff continue their learning and work in support of the Calls for Action.

We bring your attention to Érudit's feature of the digital publishing platform RavenSpace, an initiative aimed at the systematic inclusion of Indigenous voices in the Canadian documentary ecosystem.

Our Director and Publisher, Darcy Cullen, is the founder of the RavenSpace project.

https://bit.ly/3W9og5f

09/29/2025

Our poetry window closes tomorrow!

Poets: We are seeking submissions this fall.
University of Alberta Press accepts poetry manuscripts between September 1 and 30. The Press will select up to three manuscripts for publication in 2026. We welcome submissions by poets from diverse and marginalized backgrounds, and are interested in seeing work from a broad range of experiences and aesthetics.
Note: All submissions must be from poets who are Canadians or landed immigrants.

More information, September 1 to 30: https://bit.ly/4lfXLoI

09/29/2025

Tyler McCreary's Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities won Scholarly and Academic Book of the Year in the 2025 Alberta Book Publishing Awards. Read more on our blog:
https://bit.ly/470UNk7

09/26/2025

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09/23/2025

Did you see that the High Level Bridge is going to be lit blue for International Day of Sign Languages today? (September 23)
And did you know that we have an amazing book, THE CANADIAN DICTIONARY OF ASL, edited by Edmontonians Carole Sue Bailey and Kathy Dolby and supported by the Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf?
It came out in 2002 and has been a steady seller and resource ever since.

Developed in conjunction with the Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf, this comprehensive new dictionary of American Sign Language (ASL) has over 8700 sign...

09/22/2025

In INDIGENOUS HEALING AS PARADOX, author Krista Maxwell uses the concept of ‘Indigenous biopolitics’ to highlight the ways that Indigenous communities have worked to improve the lives of their people, particularly with respect to the damage that the structural violence of colonialism has caused to health and well-being.
She documents this health activism work between 1965 and 2015, showing the long history of Indigenous people’s attempts to combine biomedicine and Indigenous medicine and how the Canadian state relates to Indigenous people.
https://bit.ly/4l6Smk4