Happy University Press Week 2019! We are thrilled to be participating in the annual blog tour. This year’s #UPWeek theme is Read. Think. Act. From posts on how to be…
The second annual Alberta Book Day will be taking place on 6 November 2019! This day is meant to celebrate the importance of the publishing industry and highlight the diversity…
It’s time for your annual reminder that spring is not that far away. Our spring catalogue cover will remind you of yellow daffodils, tulips, and warm sunshine. We always look…
And just like that, the holidays are over and we’re back to our routines of reading, writing, researching, editing, teaching, and learning. To celebrate the start of a new year…
Resources for City Officials and Informed Citizens Living in an urban space means being part of a community, multiple communities, in fact. From your apartment building to your neighbourhood, and…
June 21 marks National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada. This day is an essential celebration of the contributions of Indigenous peoples and an acknowledgement of their experiences, stories, and culture….
Alberta boasts twenty-eight active book publishers who contribute significantly to Alberta’s culture and GDP. You’ll find university presses, trade publishers, and publishers of learning resources and guidebooks in Edmonton, Calgary,…
*according to our forthcoming book Writing the Body in Motion. Forthcoming from AU Press in May 2018, Writing the Body in Motion considers Canadian sport literature in the context of…
On International Women’s Day (March 8), we celebrate the achievements of women and we take a hard look at what still needs to be done to achieve gender parity and…
Musings from the Desk of the Intern My supervisor suggested I rifle through the AU Press archives and pick three books I’d like to read, then write about them for…