AU Press is excited to announce an innovative and interactive way to read our freely accessible ebooks! As a leader in open access publishing, AU Press is constantly striving for…
Wheat farmers hate gophers. The little critters cut the stalks and run off with the grain—particularly when the year is dry and the crop is light. Furthermore, to the disgust…
This week’s #AUPBookOfTheWeek is a backlist gem. Published in 2011, Goodlands: A Meditation and History on the Great Plains by Frances W. Kaye is at once an ode to West…
This week’s #AUPBookOfTheWeek is Hobohemia and the Crucifixion Machine: Rival Images of a New World in 1930s Vancouver by Todd McCallum. This monograph explores Vancouver’s “hobo jungle,” and forces us…
Indigenous History Month is an essential celebration of the contributions of Indigenous peoples and an acknowledgement of their experiences, stories, and culture. At AU Press, we work with stories and…
We are pausing our Book of the Week programming to focus on the important discussions and work happening around the globe in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. Here…
This week’s #AUPBookOfTheWeek is Mark McCutcheon’s debut collection of poetry, Shape Your Eyes by Shutting Them. In this inventive collection of poems, Mark A. McCutcheon engages in sophisticated literary play…
Feature image by City of Edmonton In 2018, DIALOG Design approached AU Press a unique permissions request. They wanted to reproduce a poem from E.D. Blodgett’s Poems for a Small…
Over the next few weeks, we will be reading Amma’s Daughters by Meenal Shrivastava, a book about ordinary women who were quietly extraordinary in their lifelong commitment to freedom and…
In this inventive collection of poems, Mark A. McCutcheon engages in sophisticated literary play and deploys the Surrealist practices of juxtaposition, cut-up, and defamiliarization. Moving from eroticism to the macabre…