University of Alberta Press

02/05/2025

It's Black History Month!

Thank you to these wonderful authors who trusted us with their work:

Wayde Compton
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
Tamari Kitossa
Valerie Mason-John
Dionne Brand
Juliane Okot Bitek
Esi Edugyan
Lawrence Hill

https://bit.ly/3Q4FiOY

02/05/2025

“Rarely has such an assortment of talented theorists and literary critics been collected to discuss feminist ethics. With essays arising from vigorous scholarly and artistic practices, [LIVING AND LEARNING WITH FEMINIST ETHICS, LITERATURE, AND ART] will engage feminists, literary scholars, poets, activists, and scholars of gender and critical race theory.” Deanna Reder, Simon Fraser University

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01/31/2025

In person or Zoom!

TONIGHT >> Friday, January 31, join us at Russell Books for featured poets Marita Dachsel and Trisia Eddy Woods, as well as our usual open mic. Doors at 7 pm, event starts at 7:30 pm.

Marita Dachsel is the author of the poetry books There Are Not Enough Sad Songs, Glossolalia, All Things Said & Done, and the play Initiation Trilogy. Most recently, she co-edited Sharp Notions: Essays from the Stitching Life with Nancy Lee. There Are Not Enough Sad Songs explores parenthood, love, and the grief of losing those both close and distant.

Trisia Eddy Woods is the author of A Road Map for Finding Wild Horses. Trisia’s writing has appeared in a variety of literary journals and chapbooks across North America. A Road Map for Finding Wild Horses is written as a response to the intersections of human, animal, and land that occur while exploring the Alberta foothills as a woman alone.

How to Attend:
Doors open at 7:00 pm, event starts at 7:30 and sign up for the open mic starts at 7:05 (and fills quickly!).
Can’t join us? Tune in via Zoom for the featured reader segment of the evening (starting approximately 8:00 pm Pacific time), using the following credentials:
Meeting ID: 494 660 4447
Passcode: 2129

We hope to see you tonight!

01/29/2025

“Tony Robinson-Smith and his wife, Nadya, paddle down the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea, traveling through a jungle environment inhabited by villagers and Raskols (threatening criminals). The resulting story, filled with anecdotes, entertains and educates. OF CANOES AND CROCODILES is a captivating read for armchair adventurers and explorers alike.”
—Ken McGoogan, whose latest book is Shadows of Tyranny
https://bit.ly/3YUpbJg

01/28/2025

LIVING AND LEARNING WITH FEMINIST ETHICS, LITERATURE, AND ART is “a groundbreaking collection redefines feminist poetics, offering timely provocations and sophisticated insights. Engaging with critical university studies, Indigenous studies, trans studies, disability studies, and more, it explores ethical encounters and practices of care and reciprocity not just among humans, but beyond the human as well. The diverse yet thematically cohesive contributions highlight poetry’s role in addressing urgent cultural and political issues.” —Sarah Dowling, University of Toronto

https://bit.ly/3Dmnwnp

01/27/2025

“The stories simultaneously ground themselves in the immediate, lived experience of the Jewish community in Toronto and leap beyond it into possible futures, following flights of imagination that curl back on the present, revealing its hidden dimensions. RUBBLE CHILDREN breaks what is essentially new ground for the Canadian short story. Urgent, topical, and contemporary, it makes for genuinely exhilarating reading.”
—Aaron Schneider, author of The Supply Chain

https://bit.ly/4bXHSzF

01/22/2025

Everyone is welcome at the annual Round Dance, held in the University of Alberta's Education gymnasium.

First Peoples' House warmly invites people of all ages to join its Annual Round Dance.

01/17/2025

Our latest blog post, Solving Wicked Problems with a Graduate Arts Education, is an excerpt from FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD: Reimagining Arts Graduate Programs in Canadian Universities by Loleen Berdahl, Jonathan Malloy, and Lisa Young.
https://bit.ly/3WhEXMh

They also have a great Substack: https://bit.ly/48Z2Ai1

01/15/2025

Travelling to Spain, or planning some armchair travel? Take a look at STORIES LEFT IN STONE: Trails and Traces in Cáceres, Spain:

“In this captivating travelogue, Nahumko illuminates the region's history, culture, and contemporary issues. His skepticism and wit add a refreshing authenticity, making this book a must-read for anyone intrigued by Cáceres or eager to venture beyond beaten paths.” Javier Torre, University of Denver

Stories Left in Stone explores the lives, histories, and artistic legacies of Cáceres and Extremadura. Author Troy Nahumko has lived in the old town of Các...

01/13/2025

The authors of FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD lay out the problems with Arts graduate education cohesively and present viable solutions. The rubrics in the book provide an excellent starting point for conversations about improving Arts education, while also guiding institutions through the difficult task of making change.

About the book: https://bit.ly/3R5Uo7H
Substack: https://bit.ly/48Z2Ai1

01/12/2025

We can't resist sharing rob mclennan's blurb for Dennis Cooley's "Love in a Dry Land" (Turnstone Press).

"There isn’t anyone beyond Cooley able to offer such wild, prairie vernacular, let alone one riffing off a singular work by Sinclair Ross. "From Country Music" to "The Bentleys" [UAlberta Press!] to love in a dry land, Dennis Cooley playfully provides lyrics as pure gesture, intellectual wordplay and spinning puns in a magical articulation and expansion of open form. Okay, cool it, krazy mclennan, I hear Cooley say, but he can’t deny any of it. love in a dry land is an absolute delight."

Interview with Dennis on the arrival of Love in a Dry Land: https://bit.ly/405jqHG

Turnstone Press

01/10/2025

Our wonderful PhD intern, Anindita Mukherjee, is part of the Stroll of Poets' Fresh Verse on Sunday afternoon (Audreys Books, 2 to 3:30 pm):
Come out to see fledgling writers soar, come out to hear rising voices roar, enjoy open mic, good company and more. Come out to see some new faces, hear some new voices, and appreciate fresh verses presented by several of Edmonton’s emerging young poets, Ashleigh Wiggins, Janel Lope, Amy Bacon, Ashley Alton, Anindita Mukherjee, Natasha Riddell, Joshua Querijero, and Zachary Jickling. As usual, an open mic will follow the featured readers. Our mic host will be Max Vandersteen.

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12/23/2024

RUBBLE CHILDREN is a book of great range: at once political, communitarian, empathetic, funny, revolutionary, touching, and hopeful. This is a work that is essential for our moment.” —Saeed Teebi, author of Her First Palestinian

https://bit.ly/4bXHSzF

12/20/2024

Staff member Cathie Crooks attended the Frankfurt Book Fair as a first-timer in October 2024. She recaps her experience in our latest blog post.
https://bit.ly/4fpz6LC

12/17/2024

FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD is a groundbreaking book advocates for the transformative potential of Arts Graduate Education in serving the public good.

Loleen Berdahl, Jonathan Malloy, and Lisa Young introduce impactful rubrics for setting attainable goals in Arts graduate education with the EDITS plan—Efficient resource allocation, Deliberate programming, Inclusive programs, Talent development, and Student focus.

Authored by Canada's foremost experts in postgraduate career planning and professional development, FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD addresses the challenges of the declining academic job market and aligns graduate education with the evolving Canadian labor market, offering pragmatic solutions and transformative visions.

About the book: https://bit.ly/3R5Uo7H
Substack, "Reimagining Arts Graduate Education": https://bit.ly/48Z2Ai1

12/09/2024

Why read OF CANOES AND CROCODILES? The Sepik is the longest river in Papua New Guinea and one of the great tropical waterways of the world. In 2018, Tony Robinson-Smith and his wife Nadya bought local dug-out canoes and spent five weeks paddling its length from a tributary close to the Indonesian border to the Bismarck Sea, a distance of about a thousand kilometres. Hiring Papuans to accompany them and staying in tribal villages along the way, they ate smoked piranha and sago pancakes, heard tales of river gods and sorcerers, trained their binoculars on Rainbow Bee-Eaters, sank in a tropical storm, got lost in mosquito-filled swamplands, and hid from pirates in mangroves near the sea.
https://bit.ly/3YUpbJg