The winners of the 2021 Alberta Book Publishing Awards will be announced in a virtual presentation, premiering on the BPAA YouTube channel on September 17, at 3PM MT. Follow along and join in the conversation using the hashtags #ABPubShortlist and #ABPubAwards on Facebook and Twitter as we highlight all the featured categories and titles. Download the
The Book Publishers Association of Alberta is pleased to announce an upcoming webinar: Supporting Mental Health in the Workplace with Tiana Field-Ridley. In this presentation, Tiana will provide practical strategies to support mental health in the workplace. She will focus on the following topics: coping strategies for change, managing workloads and creating balance, returning to
The Book Publishers Association of Alberta is pleased to announce an upcoming webinar, Read Alberta: Telling Alberta’s Story with Anna Boyar and Heather Lohnes. Read Alberta is a website dedicated to celebrating Alberta’s book community and the people who tell Alberta’s story. It is a hub where Alberta’s readers, authors, publishers, booksellers, and libraries can
The Book Publishers Association of Alberta is pleased to announce an upcoming webinar: CBC Books with Erin Balser. In this presentation, Erin will provide an overview to literary coverage at CBC Books and the CBC more generally. She will offer tips and advice as to how publishers can work with the CBC and get coverage
The Book Publishers Association of Alberta is pleased to announce an upcoming webinar: How did we end up here?: An overview of the book design process, featuring Alan Brownoff, Derek Evernden, Kate Hargreaves, and Natalie Olsen. Through case studies focusing on fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and comic collections, this panel of design professionals will guide us
The Book Publishers Association of Alberta is pleased to announce an upcoming webinar: Diversity of Reading: Accessing, Reading and Navigating with Assistive Technologies Workshop presented by the National Network for Equitable Library Service (NNELS). Since 2016, NNELS has provided accessibility audits and workshops for independent Canadian publishers, to assist them in creating EPUB files that
The Book Publishers Association of Alberta is pleased to announce an upcoming webinar: ELending: A Case for Endorsement presented by Sharon Day. The presentation examines the “ELending Position Paper: A Case for Endorsement” compiled by Readers First. Neither libraries nor publishers are satisfied with the license terms currently applied to books in eFormats. We are
The Book Publishers Association of Alberta is pleased to announce an upcoming panel webinar: What’s the deal? What have we agreed to?: Exploring publisher agreements and contracts, featuring Glenn Rollans (Brush Education), Karen Clark (University of Regina Press), Marilyn Biderman (Transatlantic Agency), and Matt Williams (House of Anansi). This panel of industry professionals will give
Join author Cheryl Foggo for the Alberta Reads Provincial Book Club to discuss her memoir Pourin’ Down Rain: A Black Woman Claims Her Place in the Canadian West. Register here for the Zoom event taking place on Wednesday, February 24 at 3 pm MST, where you’ll be able to join the conversation and ask Cheryl
The Book Publishers Association of Alberta is pleased to announce an upcoming webinar: Social Media Branding, presented by Joe Whitbread of Jo(e) Social Media. Social media communication and public relations has never been more important for professionals, yet so many are just there without motive or skill. So many channels, so little time. Joe Whitbread