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Acquisitions Editor
@ualbertapress.bsky
.social. (she/her/they)
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University of Alberta Press
3 days ago
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
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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!
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University of Alberta Press
17 days ago
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
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University of Alberta Press
16 days ago
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
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University of Alberta Press
12 days ago
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
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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!
11 days ago
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Toronto Friends! This wonderful launch taking place tonight.
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Michelle Lobkowicz
University of Alberta Press
17 days ago
"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
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Jared Wesley
23 days ago
My latest on the state of Alberta democracy, where the UCP government seems intent on choosing their voters rather than the other way around.
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Drawing the Line Against Gerrymandering
Why the Alberta Government Should Reject the "Minority Report"
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Hollay Ghadery
23 days ago
Poets, share your thoughts!
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#poetry
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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:
24 days ago
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Lisa Richter (she/her)
24 days ago
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!
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Thanks for your time with the Press Sosthenes!
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University of Alberta Press
24 days ago
"[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
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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!
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Happening next week in Toronto! RSVP at
sublunary.eventbrite.ca
Congrats Lisa!
@lisarichter.bsky.social
@ualbertapress.bsky.social
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Happening tomorrow night in Edmonton!
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Michelle Lobkowicz
University of Alberta Press
about 1 month ago
@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
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#books
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Michelle Lobkowicz
University of Alberta Press
about 1 month ago
"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
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Michelle Lobkowicz
University of Alberta Press
about 1 month ago
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
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@robmclennan.bsky.social
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike [photo credit: Layne McKenna] is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the 2025-2026 Wayne O. ...
https://bit.ly/46MUnxr
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Michelle Lobkowicz
University of Alberta Press
about 2 months ago
"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
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Michelle Lobkowicz
University of Alberta Press
about 2 months ago
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
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Lisa Richter (she/her)
about 2 months ago
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
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Thanks Kirby!
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knife | fork | book
2 months ago
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." -
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Evacuations - University of Alberta Press
With Evacuations, Kevin Irie weaves a poetic documentary for readers, capturing the personal and political histories of the Japanese-Canadian internment in B...
https://ualbertapress.ca/9781772128536/evacuations/
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Lisa Richter (she/her)
2 months ago
So happy to see my new book in such fine company on
@49thshelf.bsky.social
's Most Anticipated Spring Poetry Preview!
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Theresa Kishkan
2 months ago
Monday morning, grey sky, snow promised -- but my forthcoming book has its first review!
www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-art-of...
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The Art of Looking Back by Theresa Kishkan
Reviewed by Michael Greenstein
https://www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-art-of-looking-back-by-theresa-kishkan
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Jídé Salawu
2 months ago
Tell me your winter story!!!!!!!
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Michelle Lobkowicz
University of Alberta Press
2 months ago
“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
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Jídé Salawu
3 months ago
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.
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Call for Poetry Anthology Contribution - Olongo Africa
Download as PDFSeasonality dictates the character of Canadian life, its tone, texture, and the pulses of its resilience. It tells its history ruthlessly and informs us of the roots of traditions that ...
https://olongoafrica.com/call-for-poetry-anthology-contribution/
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Michelle Lobkowicz
University of Alberta Press
3 months ago
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
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Michelle Lobkowicz
University of Alberta Press
2 months ago
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
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Michelle Lobkowicz
University of Alberta Press
2 months ago
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
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Michelle Lobkowicz
University of Alberta Press
2 months ago
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
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Michelle Lobkowicz
University of Alberta Press
2 months ago
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
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Michelle Lobkowicz
University of Alberta Press
2 months ago
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
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#poets
#readers
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Michelle Lobkowicz
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
2 months ago
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
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River Street
3 months ago
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...
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Kim Mannix
3 months ago
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. 💖
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Michelle Lobkowicz
University of Alberta Press
3 months ago
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
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Sarah Boon
3 months ago
Great review of Meltdown in BC Studies, by Michele Koppes
bcstudies.com/book_film_re...
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Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist | BC Studies
In Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist, Sarah Boon shares her fraught journey through academia, fieldwork, science, womanhood and struggles with mental and physical wellness. Blendi...
https://bcstudies.com/book_film_review/meltdown-the-making-and-breaking-of-a-field-scientist/
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Michelle Lobkowicz
University of Alberta Press
3 months ago
"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
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Alberta Views Magazine
3 months ago
"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...
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Michelle Lobkowicz
University of Alberta Press
3 months ago
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
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Congratulations to Margaret Christakos - winner of the Nelson Ball Prize for 2025, awarded to a published work that features "poetry of observation." Woot!
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Margaret Christakos wins 2025 Nelson Ball Prize
https://nelsonballprize.blogspot.com/2026/01/margaret-christakos-wins-2025-nelson.html
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Writers' Guild of Alberta
3 months ago
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.
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McGill-Queen's University Press
3 months ago
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
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University of Alberta Press
3 months ago
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
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Nice! congrats
@yukondawn.bsky.social
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University of Alberta Press
3 months ago
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
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