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#OpenAccessWeek is happening next week! To celebrate, we're turning to our community (you!) to find out what you think and know about open access. Take our survey here:

We are looking forward to joining our @concordiapress.bsky.social friends for this event! If you've ever been curious about open access, here's your chance to learn more!

Behind the Scenes | Events - Concordia University October 7: SGW Campus – all in-person classes and activities are cancelled.

Next week, join us and our colleagues from across Canada to learn about the challenges, processes, and joys of working in open scholarship. Register now for Behind the Scenes: A Collegial Workshop on Open Scholarship and Education Practices!

📆 October 24, 11 AM MST
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New review of Kyle Conway's HOW TO READ LIKE YOU MEAN IT. This candid and concise volume introduces readers to the idea that it is through ambiguity that we can gain access to new, profound worlds—those of texts and other people. www.aupress.ca/books/120316...

Behind the Scenes | Events - Concordia University October 7: SGW Campus – all in-person classes and activities are cancelled.

This #OpenAccessWeek, join us and our colleagues from across Canada to learn about the challenges, processes, and joys of working in open scholarship. Register now for Behind the Scenes: A Collegial Workshop on Open Scholarship and Education Practices!

www.concordia.ca/cuevents/off...

New review of NOT HOCKEY: CRITICAL ESSAYS ON CANADA'S OTHER SPORT LITERATURE. In this carefully curated collection of essays, contributors engage with the meaning of sport found in Canadian sport literature. www.aupress.ca/books/120318...

We already know you read Canadian authors—now, you can support Canadian-owned publishers, too! Look for the brand new Certified Canadian Publisher seal on the 49th Shelf website, and double your 🇨🇦support. #BuyCanadian #ReadCanadian🇨🇦 #CanLit

Lovely to see ABODE by Jun-Long Lee on last week's bestseller list! 💙

New review of Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online from @jofdl.bsky.social!

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We are proud to be a Certified Canadian Publisher. Look for the seal on our forthcoming books!

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation with Alberta Books - Read Alberta Book recommendations for National Day of Truth and Reconciliation and beyond. These titles feature Indigenous voices, histories, and hope.

This book list is just a small selection of books available, and we encourage you to continue to read books by and about these communities beyond today. See the book list here: buff.ly/kdX1ArY @aupress.ca @ucalgarypress.bsky.social #AlbertaBooks #ReadAlberta (3/3)

Happy publication day to ABODE! Jun-long Lee's debut collection of interconnected poems delves with vertiginous momentum into homes—both material and interior—lost and rediscovered from the inside looking in. www.aupress.ca/books/120340...

Ask the Chefs: What’s a Bold Experiment with AI in Peer Review You’d Like to See Tested? - The Scholarly Kitchen To kick off Peer Review Week, we asked the Chefs, What’s a bold experiment with AI in peer review you’d like to see tested?

Ask the Chefs: What’s a Bold Experiment with AI in Peer Review You’d Like to See Tested? scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/15/a...

Title "Bestsellers: August 2025". Featuring ten book covers from Alberta Publishers.

Check out what Alberta readers were picking up in August 2025! The latest Alberta Bestsellers list features titles from @durvile-shyba.bsky.social, @aupress.bsky.social, @newestpress.bsky.social, @ucalgarypress.bsky.social, and more! See the full list here: buff.ly/9ae8BSL #ABBooks #ReadAlberta

Abode - Athabasca University Press Abode is a debut collection of interconnected poems that delve with vertiginous momentum into homes—both material and interior—lost and rediscovered from the inside looking in: they are excavations of...

Place your pre-order over on the AU Press website at www.aupress.ca/books/120340...

Next month we release Abode, an extraordinary debut collection of poems by Jun-long Lee. Pre-order Abode today to be among the first to receive this exciting new book and stay tuned for details about the launch event coming up in October!

Bookworm, no. 108 Tim Ryan reviews Dennis E. Bolen’s “Amaranthine Chevrolet.” Margaret Boyce on “Challenging Borders.” Poetry by Sneha Madhavan-Reese. Inside the September issue.

Margaret Boyce reviews Challenging Borders in Bookworm for the Literary Review of Canada
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"The essay collection expands on a concept [...] that borders perpetually change through contestation and negotiation while shaping the selfhood of those nearby. The most piercing insights come from contributors who focus on the resulting friction.”

Alberta is home to a thriving literary community! Here are just some of our favourite Alberta-authored and Alberta-published books. #ReadABSummerReadingChallenge #ReadAlberta @aupress.bsky.social @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @durvile-shyba.bsky.social @edgesf.bsky.social @newestpress.bsky.social

From the great plains to Ukraine and back again, Myrna Kostash's Writing Ukraine explores Ukrainian Canadian identity through the life's work of one of Alberta's most notable authors.

Summer is all about road trips and travel destinations. Let the #ReadABSummerReadingChallenge inspire your next trip. #ReadAlberta #ABbooks
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We are so delighted to have this book by Lachlan MacKinnon and Andrew Parnaby shortlisted. Looking forward to the awards gala next month!

HEADER: "Read an Alberta Book with a teal and orange cover". TAGLINE: "Discover books published in your own backyard". Features four book covers from Athabasca university Press, Freehand Books, University of Calgary Press, and NeWest Press.

We thought we’d share some books with our favourite colours 😉 teal and orange. @aupress.bsky.social @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @newestpress.bsky.social #ReadABSummerReadingChallenge #ReadAlberta #ABbooks

As part of the Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online book (@aupress.bsky.social), @nadiajaramillo.bsky.social and I wrote a chapter titled "Care, Identity, and Empowerment in Emergency Remote Teaching". You can read it online or download the PDF:

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One, two, three, four! We have the books you’re looking for! Check out these amazing Alberta-published books with numbers in their titles. @durvile-shyba.bsky.social @newestpress.bsky.social @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @aupress.bsky.social #ReadABSummerReadingChallenge #ReadAlberta #ABbooks

Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online book

Hurray! Our chapter is published today by @aupress.bsky.social in Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online edited by @eromerohall.bsky.social and colleagues.
We wrote the chapter "Humanizing online learning with feminist pedagogy" as a mother-daughter team. Check it out!
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Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online - Athabasca University Press Instructors across higher education require inspiring and practical resources for creating, adapting to, and enhancing, online teaching and learning spaces. Faculty need to build collaborative, equita...

New #open access book on Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online available as part of the excellent Issues in Distance Education services from @aupress.bsky.social at www.aupress.ca/books/120334... #pedagogy #DigitalEducation

Two sharp new titles in the Distance Education series from @aupress.bsky.social — Troubles Online: Ableism and Access in Higher Education, and Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online. Available to read on Manifold at the link below.

The Alberta Book Publishing Awards Gala is September 18. We'll see you there! bookpublishers.ab.ca/programs/awa...