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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 Stephenson's helicopter-accessed alpine fieldwork retraced 1927 survey photos, aligning landscapes, observing climate change, and finding enduring scree.

"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

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We are so excited for We Survived Until We Could Live . . . .part of Quill & Quire's 2026 Spring Preview!

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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.

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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!

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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

Contents | Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World | Manifold at UCalgary Press to be added

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.

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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, American ex-pat poet Katie Ebbitt was good enough to interview me recently, newly up at the Cleveland Review of Books ! That's pretty cool,...

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Power House Cliff Jeanine Rhemtulla's journey led to rephotographing Jasper landscapes, revealing colonial fire suppression, lost Indigenous stewardship, climate change, and ecological transformation.

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

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Jamie Tennant had me up on his podcast to talk about the book of sentences! / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social ;
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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

Instructional Manual for Good Writerly Practice: An Interview with rob mclennan - Cleveland Review of Books Write one thing. Write the next thing.

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 ;
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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!

The cover of the book of sentences, by rob mclennan. It's a solid bright blue. Towards the bottom-right corner, there is a large photo of an orange, with one black ant visible on it

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

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