ALICE MUNRO AND THE ART OF TIME by Laura Davis "is a well-researched work that offers a sustained account of how Munro manipulates temporality to challenge patriarchal structures, engages with memory and trauma, and rethinks the relationship between past and present." BCJS 2026 @csnrec.bsky.social

Hooray to @snowhydro.bsky.social on the nomination of Meltdown for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. Very exciting! More info on Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist here: ualbertapress.ca/978177212791... Congratulations to all the nominees!

Judging the Far Horizons Award for Poetry: Kevin Irie has a wide-ranging conversation with Kiran Bassi for The Malahat Review. Interview: https://bit.ly/48ftS4f You can buy EVACUATIONS by Kevin Irie for 30% off in April using code iP26 at checkout. https://bit.ly/3X9SmGi ##PoetryMonth

Capturing a fascinating and unique set of cross-border histories—Canadian and American—CROSSING INTO CANADA reveals that the courageous decision to flee militarism and war never follows the same path. https://bit.ly/4agkxLf ##History #OralHistory #Politics #War #Military #Conscription #Resisters

April 17, Another Story Bookshop presents the Toronto launch of SOUTH ASIAN FEMINISMS IN DIASPORA IN CANADA. Featuring a keynote by Sunera Thobani and discussion with Amina Jamal, Jane Ku, Maryam Khan, Ayesha Mian Akram, Safiyya Hosein, and Marshia Akbar. Hybrid event. Info: https://bit.ly/41sWoLW

I'm excited to announce that @lisarichter.bsky.social will be in Edmonton on May 1st to read from her wonderful new collection Sublunary, with support from Jordan Abel and Jason Purcell. Thanks in advance to @magpiebooks.bsky.social for hosting this great event. Please spread the word!

Toronto Friends! This wonderful launch taking place tonight.

"McCreary’s work excels in its unusually clear view of the complexities of interactions among Indigenous communities and resource extractive industry." Anna Willow, Histoire sociale / Social History https://bit.ly/4vlpCdN ##geography #books #pipelines #Wet’suwet’en @hssh1968.bsky.social

My latest on the state of Alberta democracy, where the UCP government seems intent on choosing their voters rather than the other way around. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

Poets, share your thoughts! forms.gle/pe7zHFEzDSLx... #poets #poetry

Happy Poetry Month! All @ualbertapress.bsky.social poetry is 30% for April - use code iP26 at checkout. ualbertapress.ca/search/?cate... Here are our gorgeous new volumes:

Only 8 days away, how is that even possible? So excited for my IN-PERSON Toronto launch at @anotherstoryto.bsky.social on April 9th! Free to attend, all are welcome. RSVP recommended, get there early if you want to get a seat!

Thanks for your time with the Press Sosthenes!

"[INDIGENOUS HEALING AS PARADOX debunks] the increasingly neoliberal 'healing' strategies that are in fact neocolonial attempts at erasing Indigeneity through the individuation of harm and the use of tort law. A must-read volume. Essential." S. Perreault, CHOICE Magazine https://bit.ly/4l6Smk4

Congratulations to Lisa Martin on the launch of her third poetry collection Nighthawks, and thanks to everyone who came out. Thanks also to Paper Birch Books for hosting and to Ben Hertwig for reading his own new poems and one from Lisa’s first collection. Wonderful night!

Happening next week in Toronto! RSVP at sublunary.eventbrite.ca Congrats Lisa! @lisarichter.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social

Happening tomorrow night in Edmonton!

@anotherstoryto.bsky.social presents the Toronto launch for SOUTH ASIAN FEMINISMS IN DIASPORA IN CANADA on the TMU campus. This hybrid event features a keynote by Sunera Thobani and a panel discussion with editors and contributors. Register here: https://bit.ly/4c0Ylp0 ##booksky #books #feminist

"I fear the violence of war but I also fear a future where nothing changes in Iran." Mehdi M. Kashani's first-person account. https://bit.ly/4bwT092 Watch for his book of short stories, out this August: A TEHRAN SO QUIET AND OTHER STORIES. https://bit.ly/4lPKxkK @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social

ICYMI: "My last poetry book, THERE'S MORE, was about migrant struggles and precarity, and what it meant to be an African immigrant in the West. " 12 or 20 questions with Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike: https://bit.ly/46MUnxr @uumez.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social

"The report sheds considerable light on the state of museology in mid-century America. It was the stated goal of McLuhan and Parker to disrupt conventional museological practices and to raise questions about the deeply held beliefs of museum officials." —Specters of McLuhan https://bit.ly/4rBPQGz

CROSSING INTO CANADA complicates our understanding of Canada as a safe place of refuge for war resisters by juxtaposing the stories of resisters from the Vietnam War with stories from resisters of later wars. https://bit.ly/4agkxLf ##History #OralHistory #Politics #War #Military #Conscription

Toronto book launch news! Please join me in celebrating the launch of my third book, SUBLUNARY, coming out soon with @ualbertapress.bsky.social! Featuring readings by yours truly + two guest poets I adore, and more. Thurs. April 9th at @anotherstoryto.bsky.social. Check out sublunary.eventbrite.ca

Thanks Kirby!

There simply aren't enough superlatives for the work of award-winning Japanese-Canadian poet KEVIN IRIE, including his latest, EVACUATIONS @ualbertapress.bsky.social I'm shook. "Year of the Fire Horse?" "Yes. It's Kevin Irie." - @itsakirby.bsky.social ualbertapress.ca/978177212853...

So happy to see my new book in such fine company on @49thshelf.bsky.social 's Most Anticipated Spring Poetry Preview!

Monday morning, grey sky, snow promised -- but my forthcoming book has its first review! www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-art-of...

Tell me your winter story!!!!!!!

“CROSSING INTO CANADA shows the courage of war resisters and the importance of collective resistance and organizing and also raises profound questions about how we might collectively respond to violence and war in the future." Jennifer Ridgley, Carleton U https://bit.ly/4agkxLf ##History #War

Open to all Afro-Canadian poets or Black poets in contiguous locations, such as the United States, invested in winter imaginaries of Canadian life/Black diaspora. olongoafrica.com/call-for-poe...

UNMASKING ACADEMIA explores how faculty and students managed increasing demands for EDI committee labor, coinciding with the pandemic's weight and continued exposure to racialized violence. Who belongs, and who is tasked with fixing the system? https://bit.ly/3M7SJPe ##RacialJustice #HigherEd

SOUTH ASIAN FEMINISMS IN DISAPORA features 17 scholars at different career levels and ranging in geopolitical and cultural affiliation from Parsi, Indo Caribbean, North India, Bengal, Pakistan, South India, Bangladesh, and Hakka Chinese. https://bit.ly/4hnuhVH ##Decolonization #AntiRacism

SHELTER IN TEXT: ESSAYS ON DWELLING AND REFUGE asks crucial questions about our built world and the stories we tell. How does narrative shelter us—or leave us exposed—amid the housing emergency, encampments, and mass dislocation? ##HousingCrisis #CanLit #SpaceAndPlace https://bit.ly/4p4eXQ4

Grounded in long-term ethnographic work around the globe, TERRITORIES OF LIFE draws on research from places colonially known as Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Paraguay, and Taiwan. https://bit.ly/4qXUhew ##DecolonialStudies #IndigenousTerritories #PoliticalEcology #Geography #Collectives

Are you a cycling enthusiast? An armchair traveller? We are following the journey of our author, Tony Robinson-Smith. He and his wife, Nadya, are 71 days into their trans-Euro bike tour from Turkey to England. Read their blog: https://bit.ly/3M4sLfU See his travel books: https://bit.ly/4q0nCU9

Here is a wonderful treat! It's the Spring 2026 Poetry Preview from @49thshelf.bsky.social. Congratulations to Kevin Irie (EVACUATIONS), Lisa Martin (NIGHTHAWKS), and @lisarichter.bsky.social(SUBLUNARY) and the other wonderful poets on the list. https://bit.ly/4kzjKs3 ##poetry #poets #readers

Call for Afro-Canadian or Black poets! Black Psalms of the Shivering Ones seeks new works and fresh voices on the seasonal life of Black Canada to join the already thriving canon of Afro-Canadian poetry. Submit to osalawu[at]torontomu.ca

Do you review books? Host a book or book adjacent podcast or radio show? Have a bookish blog? Join us to uplift the amazing literature being published by small, independent presses in Canada! Visit the link below to learn more: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... #canlit #books

So many of my favourite #YEG poets are doing THE COOLEST thing on Thursday, and I have the honour of introducing them all to the stage! Please come for something beautiful, creative and magical in a time when we all need it. 💖

Join Sharmin Sadequee, the editor of SECULARISM, RACE, AND THE POLITICS OF ISLAMOPHOBIA, and a panel of experts at a virtual event this Friday at 9 am MT / 11 am ET. Host: CASIM Panelists: Dr. Jahangeer, Nakita Valerio, Dr. Jackson-Best, and Dr. Diab. Registration: https://bit.ly/4rptLdJ

Great review of Meltdown in BC Studies, by Michele Koppes bcstudies.com/book_film_re... @ualbertapress.bsky.social

"The concept of 'territories of life' highlights the struggles of collectives to sustain themselves within liberal settler colonial societies where a modern ontology relies on a separation between the human and nature." Juanita Sundberg, UBC https://bit.ly/4qXUhew ##PoliticalEcology #Geography

"Sarah Boon and a student alone on an Arctic glacier, hours from help, the student repeating “I don’t want to die.” In such remote places a small misstep can rapidly become life threatening." albertaviews.ca/meltdown-sar... #Booksky @ualbertapress.bsky.social @snowhydro.bsky.social

Margaret Christakos has won the 2025 Nelson Ball Award for THAT AUDIBLE SLIPPAGE. Congratulations, Margaret! The judges' citations and a conversation with Margaret are found here: https://bit.ly/4qfLiEf ##poetry #awards #books

Congratulations to Margaret Christakos - winner of the Nelson Ball Prize for 2025, awarded to a published work that features "poetry of observation." Woot! nelsonballprize.blogspot.com/2026/01/marg...

Edmonton, the Olive's February Poetry and Prose Open mic will feature two local poets: Nisha Patel & Matthew James Weigel! Join us on February 11th and as always, a chapbook will be available on a first-come first-serve basis.

We're hiring a publicist! We're looking for someone dynamic, bilingual, and eager to help MQUP books reach the widest possible audiences. This is for a six-month, full-time contract, based at our Montreal office. For more details and to apply: buff.ly/zFYjMcu #READUP #JobsInBooks

Are you a cycling enthusiast? An armchair traveller? We are following the journey of our author, Tony Robinson-Smith. He and his wife, Nadya, are 56 days into their trans-Euro bike tour from Turkey to England. Read their blog: https://bit.ly/3M4sLfU See his travel books: https://bit.ly/4q0nCU9

Nice! congrats @yukondawn.bsky.social

SHELTER IN TEXT weaves poetry, nonfiction, and essays to show the commonalities, contradictions, and tensions between finding physical refuge and creating narrative safe harbor. A vital read for anyone interested in how we dwell and what we read. https://bit.ly/4p4eXQ4 ##Literature #HigherEd