Tonight! Join the WGA and special guests Uche Umezurike & Tracy Dawson for a fascinating panel discussion moderated by Rosemary Griebel - followed by an audience open mic. Kensington Legion, Calgary AB.

Join Uchechukwu Umezurike, author of the forthcoming We Survived Until We Could Live, with Rosemary Griebel and Tracy Dawson for a lively discussion during Freedom to Read Week 2026! Followed by an audience open mic where you will be invited to read from your favoured banned books!

"The Ancient Wall" by Eleanor Stephenson is our latest featured excerpt from Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project and a Century of Change in Western Canada, part of our book series with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/02/10/t...

We are so excited for We Survived Until We Could Live . . . .part of Quill & Quire's 2026 Spring Preview! https://ow.ly/27Jk50Y0XyR

This is coming up! Join Uchechukwu Umezurike, author of the forthcoming We Survived Until We Could Live, with Rosemary Griebel and Tracy Dawson for a lively discussion during Freedom to Read Week 2026

On the Quill & Quire 2026 Spring Preview: We Survived Until We Could Live. Coming April 15! https://ow.ly/k3kB50Y0Xxy

The Alberta Writer's Guild presents Uche Umezurike, author of the forthcoming We Survived Until We Could Live, as part of Freedom to Read Week 2026. February 26 at the Kensington Legion!

Subtle encounters, small gestures, often funny, and filled with empathy - Blaine Newton's Rag Pickers makes the reader feel. Reviewed at Alberta Views Magazine: https://ow.ly/ItE150Y0WtV

Join Uchechukwu Umezurike, author of the forthcoming We Survived Until We Could Live, with Rosemary Griebel and Tracy Dawson for a lively discussion during Freedom to Read Week 2026! Followed by an audience open mic where you will be invited to read from your favoured banned books!

Proud to be a 'Brave & Brilliant' poet. Big thanks to the team at @ucalgarypress.bsky.social for their belief in, and support of, What is Broken Binds Us. #poetry #newbooks

Keep warm with great reads and a great excuse to stay inside! Grab a blanket and borrow an amazing read from @durvile-shyba.bsky.social, @ucalgarypress.bsky.social, @albertaviews.bsky.social, @renegadeartsent.bsky.social, @tychebooks.bsky.social, @ualberta.bsky.social and more! buff.ly/JsqyvsJ

rob mclennan's book of sentences brings together citation and observation with equal degrees of attentiveness. Reviewed at the Winnipeg Free Press: https://ow.ly/RLQQ50XScls

Tonight! Join the WGA and special guests Uche Umezurike & Tracy Dawson for a fascinating panel discussion moderated by Rosemary Griebel - followed by an audience open mic!

Join Dr. Paul Chastko as he recounts how ambition, hype, and deceit shaped Alberta's oil politics, economy, and culture in the fascinating story of the 1914 Turner Valley oil frenzy and George Edward Buck. January 18 at the Central Library - register today! https://ow.ly/ALj250XNt6A

A 'best of' list of 2025 Canadian Poetry from Dusie - including Recombinant Theory and Bonememory! https://ow.ly/T1jB50XSc7T

Calgary! On January 18, join Paul Chastko at the Central Public Library for History Matters: Alberta's Fist Oil Boom. Hear how ambition, hype, and deceit shaped the birth of Alberta's oil culture: https://ow.ly/JHi150XNt0Z

Our literary series forwards bold and lively voices that entertain and engage. Discover Brave & Brilliant poetry. https://ow.ly/fOzG50XNrhE

Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World, edited by Susanna Barnes and Laura S. Meitzner Yoder - wonderful new book entirely FREE in open access from @ucalgarypress.bsky.social series on Global Indigenous Issues. ucp.manifoldapp.org/read/colonia...

Check out what Alberta readers were picking up in December 2025! Featuring titles from @thenewpress.bsky.social, @ucalgarypress.bsky.social, and more! See the full list here: buff.ly/zJeBNH9

rob mclennan's the book of sentences is rooted in close attention to the matter that makes quotidian life and to the semantic components of language. Reviewed at the Winnipeg Free Press: https://ow.ly/M9uZ50XSckb

George Edward Buck was a revival preacher who came to Alberta to found Zion in the Rockies. How did he end up the face of fraud in an international inquiry? The Boom is an oil history that returns the wildcatters and charlatans to the record and traces the oil culture of Alberta to this day.

Join Dr. Paul Chastko as he recounts the frenzy of Alberta’s 1914 Turner Valley oil rush. Hundreds of companies, thousands of brokers, and George Edward Buck’s fraudulent “salted” well sparked a manhunt and new regulations around Alberta’s oil. Register Free: https://ow.ly/ub1F50XNt5O

The Mohawk Institute was Canada's first residential school. It operated from 1828 to 1970 in Brantford, Ontario. This book looks behind the bricks to uncover and recover the lives of the students and teachers irrevocably shaped by the model for the residential school system.

Cleveland Review of Books, Jamie Tennant + Winnipeg Free Press, / @clereviewbooks.bsky.social @ucalgarypress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/01/clev...

Today we have "Power House Cliff" by Jeanine Rhemtulla, the latest excerpt highlight from Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project and a Century of Change in Western Canada, published in collaboration with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social & the Alpine Club of Canada niche-canada.org/2026/01/01/p...

Jamie Tennant had me up on his podcast to talk about the book of sentences! / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social ; www.jamietennant.ca/index.php/20...

Start the new year off well with Open Access titles from Bighorn Books. Read for free online, with no cutoffs and no limits. Featuring Where Histories Meet, an essential history of Indgienous-settler relations in the Toronto region: https://ow.ly/lfpO50XAo81

hey! Katie Ebbitt interviewed me on the book of sentences + above/ground press for Cleveland Review of Books! / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @caitlinpress.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social ; clereviewofbooks.com/rob-mclennan...

Happy Holidays from the University of Calgary Press! We wish you a wonderful new year and are looking forward to so many great books in 2026!

Read @lethejerome.bsky.social's review of @robmclennan.bsky.social's the book of sentences (pub. @ucalgarypress.bsky.social) in Issue 33! The writing here is so incredibly intentional, each sentence uttered as a sentence – even the one-word sentence feels full www.thetemzreview.com/melanccedilo...

#5 Bestseller in November among books by Alberta publishers. Thanks so much to readers, to the great independent bookstores who have stocked What is Broken Binds Us, and to the 'Brave & Brilliant' crew at University of Calgary Press. @ucalgarypress.bsky.social readalberta.ca/articles/bes...

Everyone's heard of the multiverse. But where does the idea come from? And could it be real? Jeremy Butterfield introduces the multiverse in philosophy and physics for newcomers, providing a clear explanation of leading theories that does not require prerequisites to understand.

Kyle Flemmer subjects Wikipedia to chance operations and poetic constraints, random number generators, arbitrary limits, and hyperlink jumps and creates a core sample of an ever shifting network, a poetic bricolage of the paratactic leap. A bold step forward in digital poetics. Coming June 2026.

Kathryn MacDonald presents What Is Broken Binds Us by @lornedaniel.bsky.social in the Temez Review! www.thetemzreview.com/macdonald-da...

CKCU's The Lit Room welcomes book of smaller author rob mclennan to talk poetry, family, and so much more. https://ow.ly/Hlwf50XGzb1

Chiam Frydman survived the Holocaust. He was the only member of his family who did. In Sole Survivor his son Avi traces the Frydmans to their roots in Poland and follows their footsteps to homes and synagogs, to ghettos and camps, on death marches, in a memoir that will resonate for years to come.

Thanks rob @robmclennan.bsky.social for this, and for your (seemingly tireless) promotion of all things can-lit! #canlit #canadianpoetry #literaryblog #poetrycommunity @ucalgarypress.bsky.social

the recording of the recent (zoom) conversation between Renée Sarojini Saklikar and rob mclennan on above/ground press is now online, / @reneesarojini.bsky.social @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/the-record...

rob mclennan's book of sentences hits the CBC Books Best Poetry of 2025 list! https://ow.ly/c9p650XIzif

Paul Chastko talks The Boom on CBC Calgary Eyeopener! https://ow.ly/lTIE50XHGaX

A delight and honour to talk about What is Broken Binds Us with Victoria Poet Laureate Kyeren Regehr. And listen to Zoe, Tracy and Jeremy. So many talented creatives here in Victoria. @ucalgarypress.bsky.social

Over on Linkedin, Bill Whitelaw makes a case for inviting Alberta's most notorious historical oil grifter into your home this holidays: tinyurl.com/4f9ewu7h

When the Dingman Well began operation in Turner Valley it unleashed a frenzy of greed and excess. This just-published book tells the story of larger-than-life promoters, wildcatters and oil evangelists, and a fever of free-market capitalism that built the foundation of Alberta s we know it today.

Today! Brecken Hancock johns host Susan and guest @robmclennan.bsky.social to talk the book of sentences on @ckcufm.bsky.social The Lit Room! cod.ckcufm.com/programs/666...

Seren was doomed to a country club cage and a leash of pearls until, one night in 1969, she said no. Now, more than fifty years later, she looks back on her life and each choice that followed, beautiful and tragic and completely her own. A new novel from the author of An Honest Woman. May 2026.

Listed to a special talk from the editors of Behind the Bricks presented by the Ontario Historical Society discussing the ways this unique project has brought togeter historians and community to create this important new book. https://ow.ly/NxvJ50XAoVK

Want to read local? Check out Alberta Views' Book Guide for a year of books from Alberta authors and publishers. albertaviews.ca/guide/books-... #BookSky @newestpress.bsky.social @renegadeartsent.bsky.social @durvile-shyba.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social @aupress.ca @ucalgarypress.bsky.social

In this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, I interview Lorne Daniel about his beautiful poetry collection, What is Broken Binds Us (U of Calgary Press, 2025). We talk about addiction, surrender, writing directly and with tenderness, and much more. newbooksnetwork.com/what-is-brok...

Behind the Bricks is one of the Seaboard Review's Top Books of 2025! https://ow.ly/a8K950XBrJE

Who survives war? What does survival mean? What does survival cost? In poetry by turns lyrical and intense, We Survived Until We Could Live tells the story of a father, a mother, and a son living in a life scarred, psychologically and physically, by the aftermath of war. Coming in April 2026.