Archive for June, 2010

Our busy May has segued into a busy June and this weekend five WLU Press employees will be jetting off to Salt Lake City to mingle with other university press professionals and learn as much as we can cram into one weekend about new trends in publishing, to share what each of us is doing well and swap tips about challenges. The AAUP conference is a great weekend, and I’m sure we’ll come back buzzing and raring to go. Thankfully, for me, anyway, it’s my last trip for a while. I’m looking forward to staying home and working at the office by day, enjoying the summer evenings by night.

The end of June brings the American Library Association conference in Washington, and Lisa Quinn, an acquisitions editor with WLUP, will be staffing our booth. Libraries are major buyers of our books and we look forward to showing off our new titles to the thousands of conference attendees.

Last but certainly not least, please stop by the launch of Covering Niagara: Studies in Local Popular Culture if you can. It is being held on Monday, June 21 at 3pm at Pond Inlet, Brock University, St. Catharines. Editors Joan Nicks and Barry Keith Grant will be on hand to sign books, which can be purchased at the event. Refreshments will be served and there is a cash bar. We hope you can make it.

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It’s hard to believe that another May has come and gone. It is one of our busiest months—first with the last-minute push to get our newest books out before the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences—and then with Congress itself. This year’s event was hosted by Concordia University in the heart of Montreal, and what a treat it was to spend the week there. We had marvelous weather for the most part, and the city night life is hopping. As for the book fair, we were run off our feet chatting to our current and prospective authors, talking up our books to interested academics and general public alike, and rushing from one event to the next.

Highlights: Two of our books were named award-winners in the Gabrielle Roy Prize for best book of literary criticism, granted by the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures. Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry, edited by Di Brandt and the late Barbara Godard, is the winning book in the English-language category, and Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic was named a finalist. Congratulations to all the contributors to both books!

The best-selling books of the fair were Troubling Tricksters: Revisioning Critical Conversations and the newly released The Gendered Screen: Canadian Women Filmmakers. They fairly hopped off the shelves!

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