University of Regina Press

02/14/2025

Thanks for featuring our terrific books to read for Indigenous Storytelling Month, Black History Month and beyond! We couldn't be more proud to be the publisher of these excellent book and to spread the word about these brilliant authors including Marie Carter, Habiba Diallo, Marcus Ware , Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson, as well as Solomon Ratt, Blair Stonechild, and Garneau!

Follow the link to read the full story: https://www.uregina.ca/stories/2025/02/hot-off-the-press-celebrating-black-history-and-indigenous-storytelling.html

02/10/2025

Thank you to the Josiah Henson Museum of African Canadian History and Ontario Heritage Trust for hosting a sold out event for In the Light of Dawn: The History and Legacy of a Black Canadian Community.

We were joined by author Marie Carter, series editor Afua Cooper, and the descendants of Josiah Henson himself (pictured with Afua Cooper), who talked about sharing their family history with Marie Carter, their neighbour and friend as she researched the book. More than 100 people came from far and wide and made this a very memorable Black History Month event.

In the Light of Dawn: The History and Legacy of a Black Canadian Community is available at your local booksellers and our online store:

https://uofrpress.ca/Books/I/In-the-Light-of-Dawn

02/07/2025

Next week UR Press is excited to publish Stitching Our Stories Together: Journeys Into Indigenous Social Work! Edited by ing
and Jeannine Carriere, the book showcases emerging scholars who, by centering their own nations, communities, and individual realities, demonstrate how Indigenous knowledges can challenge settler ideas and point toward a future where Indigenous ways of knowing and being take their rightful place in higher education and social work practice—a necessary intervention in a discipline that has historically been complicit in colonialist harm.

Join for a book launch next Thursday, October 13th in Ottawa
at 7pm. If you're not in Ottawa, you can pre-order the book on our website or anywhere fine books are sold, and if you will be in town please RSVP:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/stitching-our-stories-together-journeys-into-indigenous-social-work-tickets-1225279537079

02/05/2025

Homegrown Radicals: A Story of State Violence, Islamophobia, and Jihad in the Post-9/11 World is available now! This incredibly timely book tells the story of how the author’s university friends disappeared without a trace, purportedly to join Al-Qaeda, how intelligence agencies descended on their tight-knit Muslim Winnipeg community, and how the ensuing media frenzy sowed the seeds of fear and hate.

Pick up your copy at your local bookshop, where fine books are sold like McNally Robinson Booksellers who will host a book launch at their Grant Park location on Saturday February 15th, and our online store: https://uofrpress.ca/Books/H/Homegrown-Radicals.

02/04/2025

Happy Pub Day to Marie Carter author of In the Light of Dawn: The History and Legacy of a Black Canadian Community (Foreword by Afua Cooper) that tells the story of the Dawn Settlement from it's founding, to the refugees from the Underground Railroad who built up the community, to the area's history of civil rights activism (currently the #10 bestseller in Canadian History and the #14 bestseller in Black & African American History on Amazon). We're looking forward to hosting a launch for this book on Saturday, February 8th at 1pm at the Josiah Henson African Canadian History Museum! Look for details on our events page.

If you can't make the event but are intrigued by the book, check out Marie Carter on CBC in conversation with CBC Afternoon Drive guest host Josiah Sinanan, about her experience researching the remarkable history of her hometown (and the two times Rosa Parks visited Dresden, Ontario)

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-80-afternoon-drive/clip/16125732-southwestern-ontario-along-path-underground-railroad.-well-meet

01/27/2025

Navigate over to the Winnipeg Free Press to read an excellent review of Prison Born: Incarcerated Motherhood in the Colonial Shadow. The reviewer appreciates that the author followed one mother's experience in the penal system, describing the book positively: “Hansen carefully and patiently walks readers through automatic [mother-infant] separation [in prison]. . . the writing is accessible and will appeal to readers . . . It provides a reformist approach, demanding that the law work to protect, not only to punish.” —Serenity Joo, The Winnipeg Free Press

Prison Born: Incarcerated Motherhood in the Colonial Shadow is available everywhere fine books are sold and at our online store:
https://uofrpress.ca/Books/P/Prison-Born

01/11/2025

University of Regina Press Author, , whose award winning memoir Trust The Bluer Skies dazzled critics and readers alike is currently serving as the Virtual Writer in Residence. He will be teaching the SWG's virtual facilitated writer's retreat from Feburary 6-9th, which is ideal for writers who are just starting out as well as those who are experienced. The deadline to apply is coming soon on Monday January 13th at midnight so there is still time!

Details on how to participate are available here: https://skwriter.com/retreats/virtual-writing-retreat.

01/10/2025

Former Books Editor of The Winnipeg Free Press, Morley Walker, whose read as many books as anybody, raves about actor and director Layne Coleman's moving memoir of life after the loss of his wife and the theatre folks who kept him going in this "meditation on grief". He describes An Open Ended Run: A Memoir as "a lovely little book."

Navigate over to the Winnipeg Free Press to read the full review and don't forget to buy the book today from your local bookseller or our online shop: https://uofrpress.ca/Books/A/An-Open-Ended-Run.

01/09/2025

An insightful interview with Candace Brunette-Debassige, author of Tricky Grounds: Indigenous Women's Experiences in Canadian University Administration, was published in the Canadian Association of University Teacher's Bulletin about the gendered dimension of indigenization efforts. This book is a must read for all those working to drive change in higher ed!

https://www.caut.ca/bulletin/2024/11/interview-candace-brunette-debassige

Tricky Grounds: Indigenous Women's Experiences in Canadian University Administration is available for sale on our website and everywhere good books are sold:

https://uofrpress.ca/Books/T/Tricky-Grounds.

11/20/2024

The Globe and Mail has published a powerful Op-Ed by author LJ Slovin, "Don’t forget that trans life is beautiful, too", on the Trans Day of Rememberance that considers how important advocacy work to protect trans people "also risks perpetuating the paternalistic idea that we are little more than vulnerable victims."

Navigate over to the Globe and Mail to read the article by the author of Fierce, Fabulous, and Fluid: How Trans High School Students Work at Gender Nonconformity, which is available at URP's online store and everywhere good books are sold.

11/14/2024

University of Regina Press is honoured that editor Cheryl Troupe and contributors Allyson Stevenson and Dr. Jade (J. D.) McDougall to the book Métis Matriarchs: Agents of Transition will be featured as part of the Louis Riel and Métis Veterans Honour Day events at the Batoche National Historic site this Saturday, November 16th, speaking about the book and how Matriarchs are vital to Métis resistance.

♾️Louis Riel and Métis Veterans Honour Day ♾️

📆Saturday, November 16, 2024
🕚11 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
📍Batoche National Historic Site

Join us as we pay our respects to Louis Riel, to the Métis Veterans, and to all veterans who have served and sacrificed to maintain our rights and freedom. The honouring ceremony will include a procession to the cemetery, where a wreath will be laid. Transportation to the cemetery will be available for those who need or want it. We will celebrate our freedom with entertainment from Donny Parenteau and Joseph Desjarlais.

The celebration will include the launch of “Métis Matriarchs Agents of Transition” edited by Cheryl Troupe and Doris Jeanne MacKinnon. “Métis Matriarchs” examines the impact of prominent Métis women from across Western Canada from the late 19th to the m id-20th century. It provides a rare glimpse into the everyday lives of these remarkable figures who were recognized as Matriarchs and who were respected for their knowledge, expertise, and authority within their families and communities.

Hosted by Parks Canada, Friends of Batoche, and the Gabriel Dumont Institute

Everyone Welcome!

11/12/2024

The holidays are around the corner and it's the perfect time to shop for all the bookworms on your list (and grab a new 📖 for yourself, too). Take 30% off sitewide when you purchase 3 or more books. All the details including discount code, shipping cut off dates, and terms are on our site where you can shop now at the link in below 🎁:

https://uofrpress.ca/node_69431

11/06/2024

Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Fo****in by Jonathan Allan one of 49th Shelf's most anticipated non-fiction titles of 2024 is finally in stores just in time for Movember!

This is the first book about this tiny organ that is the subject of so much controversy and it's fascinating. Writer Meredith Jones says of Uncut, “Angst around the fo****in and its removal, on babies or adults, crosses cultural and national boundaries. Jonathan A. Allan cuts through the debates in this excellent book."

Order now at the link below!

https://uofrpress.ca/Books/U/Uncut

10/24/2024

Check out an excerpt from bestselling writer Alice Kuipers' guide to writing for the young and young at heart, Spark, exclusively in Quill & Quire by navigating over to their homepage!

This section on how to hone your inner ear and find your voice is essential, as Kuipers puts it, "In a world with AI-generated text available to all of us as writers if we choose to use it, the art of reading becomes even more important. Knowing how you want words to sound, knowing what works for you, helps you hone a text as you craft."

If you like what you read you can order Spark: Alice Kuipers on Writing for Kids & Young Adults at the link below:

https://uofrpress.ca/Books/S/Spark

10/23/2024

We're less than a week away from the publication of Layne Coleman’s forthcoming memoir, An Open-Ended Run, about a father struggling to raise his daughter alone after the loss of his beloved wife and the theatre community that helped him find his footing.

The launch party in Toronto at Theatre Passe Muraille will be on Monday, October 28th at 7pm. There will be a band (it's a real party), so make sure to RSVP at the link below:

https://www.facebook.com/events/933041191967109

And if you can't make the event pre-order this book Foreword Reviews' critic raved about: “With a performer's gift of seeming to see himself as actions unfurl, An Open-Ended Run is a memorable memoir about life’s messiness and the beauty that emerged despite and because of the pain.”