Memorial University Press

12/05/2025

Our annual Open House & Book Sale is just ONE week away! We're thrilled to host Nigel Markham (Performance and Protest) and Dave Paddon (Nurse Fortescue and Doctor Paddon) for book signings! Drop by for great deals, coffee, tea, treats, and lots of good cheer.

🗓 Friday, December 12th
🕚 11:00am - 2:00pm (drop in anytime)
📍 297 Mount Scio Road

12/02/2025

Join Memorial University Press at our annual Open House & Book Sale! Big savings on new releases & backlist favorites, author signings, coffee, tea, treats, parking, and lots of good cheer.

🗓 Friday, December 12th
🕚 11:00am - 2:00pm (drop in anytime)
📍 297 Mount Scio Road

Don't miss our featured author signings:
📚 Nigel Markham, Performance and Protest: 11:30–12:30
📚 Dave Paddon, Nurse Fortescue and Doctor Paddon: 12:30–1:30

All are welcome—see you there!

Our annual Open House and Book Sale is back! By MUPress Staff Date: November 24, 2025 Share this: Join Memorial University Press at our annual Open House & Book Sale! It’s our biggest sale of the season—the perfect chance to pick up gifts for the readers on your list (and treat yourself to so...

12/01/2025

Enormous congratulations to our very own managing editor Alison Carr, on being named one of Memorial's Centennial 100! The Centennial 100 celebrates students, alumni, faculty, staff and supporters who have made a world of difference at Memorial.

"There are stories here that need to be told. And so Memorial University Press is about cultural preservation and knowledge preservation of a particular place."
- Alison Carr

Read the full story at: https://www.mun.ca/100/centennial-100/alison-carr/

11/27/2025

Dr. Sonja Boon wears many hats, including adjunct professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Memorial University and RSC College Member – but above all, she is a storyteller. In this interview, she shares insights into her new novel, Dear Mr. Smallwood, which explores the years following New...

11/25/2025

Happening TOMORROW!!
Come celebrate 'Dear Mr. Smallwood' with Sonja Boon, Vicki Hallett, and some of the book’s fantastic contributors!
Hear the letters at the heart of the book; there'll be laughs, games, good chats, prizes, and refreshments. Books will be available too!

Nov 26 - 7pm - Queen's College

11/24/2025

Tune in to CBCNL's The Signal with Adam Walsh at 12 noon — editors Sonja Boon and Vicki Hallett will be joined by contributors Jasmine Paul, Kate Lahey, and Jennifer Morgan to talk all things 'Dear Mr. Smallwood' ahead of Wednesday's launch!

11/23/2025

A fascinating study of Inuit resilience and agency in the late 19th century, Nigel Markham's 'Performance and Protest' tracks the experiences of Inuit from Labrador at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Subjected to poor living conditions and forced to play a role popularized by early Arctic explorers, they took their employers to court, challenging stereotypes and public perceptions in a landmark case.

Available at: memorialuniversitypress.ca/Books/P/Performance-and-Protest

11/20/2025

"The spoken-ness of the texts stay vibrant and from that energy, the success of this book stems from the many voices it collects. This breadth and scope, wide and deep, encourages an out-of-order reading of the text, a hopping from talk to talk based on a reader’s own curiosity and the throughlines woven between the texts."

Read Aaron Tucker's full review of The E.J. Pratt Lectures, 1968-2025 in Riddle Fence.

The E.J. Pratt Lectures: 1968-2025 Edited by Andrew Loman Breakwater Books Oct. 28, 2025 | $27.95 The Pratt Lecture with Madeleine Thien will take place at the LSPU hall Nov. 10 at 8pm Reviewed by Aaron Tucker Where does the lecture live in the contemporary attention span? It is tempting to say that...

11/17/2025

Dear Mr. Smallwood is available TODAY from Memorial University Press!

Edited by Sonja Boon and Vicki Hallett, and featuring writing from more than 30 outstanding contributors, Dear Mr. Smallwood explores the lives and stories of everyday Newfoundlanders and Labradorians at the time of Confederation — through letters written to J.R. Smallwood.

Available at:
memorialuniversitypress.ca/Books/D/Dear-Mr.-Smallwood

11/13/2025

For more than fifty years, the E. J. Pratt Lecture Series has invited eminent critics and artists to speak on the topics that lie at the heart of their work. Introduced and edited by Andrew Loman, a selection of the E.J Pratt Lectures are collected together for the first time in this special edition, filled with a half-century of luminous writing and trenchant insights into poetry and poetics.

Find it at: https://memorialuniversitypress.ca/Books/T/The-E.J-Pratt-Lectures-1968-2005

With Breakwater Books Ltd.

11/12/2025

Join Sonja Boon, Vicki Hallett and contributors of Dear Mr. Smallwood at the official book launch!

📅 November 26
🕖 7:00 pm
📍 The Great Hall – Queen’s College, 210 Prince Philip Dr.
🚙 Free parking in the Queen's College parking lot (19)

Readings · Snacks and refreshments · Merriment · Prizes · Books for sale · Everyone is welcome!

Dear Mr. Smallwood considers the lives and stories of everyday Newfoundlanders and Labradorians as they navigated what was arguably the biggest political transition of their lifetimes: the entry of the former nation of Newfoundland into Confederation with Canada. Drawing on one of the province’s richest archival treasures, the letters written to J.R. Smallwood before and during his time as premier, contributors unearth the hopes, dreams, discontents, and desires of ordinary people living in an extraordinary time.

Hope you can join us!