Archive for the 'Life Writing' Category

It’s buzz, buzz, buzz around here these days as we pay for the lazy days of summer. Three new titles this week and a brand new catalogue to produce. Didn’t we just finish one? This weekend I’m involved personally in the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival, where I coordinate the authors who write for Young Adults. Eden Mills is an outdoor festival, so along with all the other stresses, we also worry about rain, but this year looks good so I’m hoping for a good turnout.

Next week WLU Press will have a booth at Word on the Street in Kitchener. That’s always a good day. I’m torn between wanting to be part of the big Toronto festival and thoroughly enjoying interacting with our smaller community in beautiful Victoria Park.

We recently exhibited our books at the American Political Science Association conference in Toronto, and coming up we will be attending, for both sales and acquisitions, the American Association for Religion conference in Montreal and the annual conference for the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) in San Diego. No, I am not lucky enough to be sent to San Diego in November, more’s the pity. That one goes to the boss.

Be sure to check out our new releases below and ask your favourite independent bookstore to stock them if they haven’t already.

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In 2007 WLU Press published 163256: A Memoir of Resistance, a book by Michael Englishman, a Toronto man who had survived the Holocaust in Europe in the Second World War. His story was moving and inspirational, and it was an honour to have met him and to have been a part of his quest to rid the world of prejudice. He was passionate about that subject and spent a large part of his time volunteering at Toronto’s Holocaust Centre and going out to schools to talk to children about the war and about racism. Michael passed away in the summer of 2007, just months after his book was published and launched to a large crowd at Israel’s Bookstore.

Recently the Canadian Jewish News reported that his great-granddaughter, Morgan Kaufman, had completed the March of the Living and delivered two copies of the book to the Auschwitz Jewish Center in Poland. We’re so pleased that Michael’s book will reach such a wide audience in this center. You can read the entire story here.

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