April's best selling books are here! Find inspiration for your spring reading list with titles by NeWest Press, #BrushEducation , UCalgaryPress, RedBarnBooks.ca, UAlberta Press and Renegade Arts Entertainment!

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Panel discussion and book launch on campus this Tuesday: Graduate Education For the Public Good with Loleen Berdahl, Jonathan Malloy, and Lisa Young in discussion with Robert Wood, Tracy Raivio, and L. Maren Wood, PhD. Moderator is Jared Wesley.
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“The world becomes merciful, attentive, generous when you feed yourself to the practice of noticing, of being drawn to essential light in things...”
Tim Lilburn in NUMINOUS SEDITIONS

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#envhums #environmentaljustice RSC // SRC Bill McKibben

'The problem for primarily qualitative researchers, according to van den Hoonaard, is that a research ethics monoculture is expected to be applied to a research practice polyculture.' Udo Krautwurst​, CAUT, April 2024
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“The process of conducting this research, creating the art, and writing this book has been the most healing period in my life. This is a healing manifesto.”
—Brad Necyk, in ALL SKY, MIRROR OCEAN

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Brad Necyk filling Station #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth

“DEVIANT is the best kind of poetic debut—written to stand out, and in doing so subverting all expectation.” Jim Johnstone, author of The King of Terrors
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BC Federation of Writers TWUC #canadianpoetry #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth

Albert Braz, in THE RIEL PROBLEM, discusses the ambivalence of contemporary Métis about Riel, who seem to be simultaneously mesmerized by their historical leader and threatened by him.
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UofA MLCS University of Alberta Faculty of Arts U of A - EFS #literature #CompLit #highered

“INDIGENOUS LEGALITIES, PIPELINE VISCOSITIES tells us something about the Indigenous peoples resisting extractive projects and how these are related to larger, older dynamics of settler-colonialism.”
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NiCHE Canadian Geographic #Wetsuweten #CoastalGasLink

Register for the May 14 book launch of For the Public Good and a panel discussion on reimagining Arts graduate programs in Canadian universities with Loleen Berdahl, Jonathan Malloy, Lisa Young, Dean Robert Wood, Tracy Raivio, L. Maren Wood, PhD and Jared Wesley: bit.ly/3VT6l3Y

'Within THAT AUDIBLE SLIPPAGE each measure of the text invites a deeper hearing in an entrancing dance of sounds vividly musical and politically astute.' —Sheila Murphy, author of Permission to Relax
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Margaret Christakos Edmonton Poetry Festival League of Canadian Poets

Scholars who read the work of José Alaniz, Scott T. Smith, Ben Saunders, and Ramzi Fawaz will want to take a look at THE CANCER PLOT.
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#health University of Alberta Dr Christine Slobogin Shane Neilson
#MentalHealthAwarenessMonth

We are excited to see that Anindita Mukherjee, our PhD intern, will be doing a free public reading as a part of the Horizons Writers Program on Saturday, May 11, 7 pm at the Coast Edmonton Plaza Hotel, Glenora Room. All are welcome.

@writersguildab Jídé Salawu U of A - EFS

This week, BCBookLook highlights Patrick Grace (UAlberta Press), Andrea Fritz (@orcabook), Delreé Dumont (@orcabook) and Brian Douglas (@FriesenPress) for their latest books. Get a taste of their work via: bcbooklook.com/about/whos-who/

We have two selections in the 2024 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show!

THE CANCER PLOT for Scholarly Typographic and THIS IS HOW YOU START TO DISAPPEAR for Poetry and Literature. Congratulations to Alan Brownoff, Michel Vrana, and Natalie Olsen!
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May 11, 7PM
Coast Edmonton Plaza Hotel

Join us as we celebrate the end of another year for the WGA Mentorship and Horizons Programs. Mentee writers and their mentors will talk about what they worked on. Plus readings!

FREE event. Everyone welcome. Coffee & tea will be served.

Dawn Macdonald grew up in a cabin without electricity. She tells that story in her poetry collection, NORTHERNY, while questioning how it is that stories work.
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Ariel Gordon #poetry #cdnlit #canadianpoetry #Arctic #Subarctic #Yukon

“With a narrative poise that invites the reader in as an intimate witness, Patrick Grace lays down a mosaic of moments that capture the wonders and cruelties of queer being…” Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin, author of Fire Cider Rain
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The provocative concept of a “right to be rural” illuminates not only the challenges faced by rural communities worldwide, but also underappreciated facets of community resilience in the face of these challenges. ⁦⁦UAlberta Press⁩ #RuralFutures ualbertapress.ca/9781772125832/…

“In ALL SKY, MIRROR OCEAN... sits at the intersection between research and creative practices as a form of art. He asks readers to consider how they know.” —Natalie Waldburger, OCAD University
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Empathic Warrior Bellevue Literary Review #psychology #autoethnography

THE CANCER PLOT examines the prevalence of cancer in Marvel comics and enables an examination of power as it relates to citizenship and civic duty.
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The Conversation Canada University of Alberta Canadian Association for Health Humanities #health #disability