Recent News

McGill-Queen’s is thrilled to announce that Ryan Manucha is the 2022 Donner Prize Winner for his brilliant book Booze, Cigarettes, and Constitutional Dust-Ups.

From The Donner Prize jury –

This book skillfully weaves together an understanding of international and domestic trade policy, a review of legal cases, history and, refreshingly, consideration of the actual practical … Read More >

McGill-Queen’s is honoured, and delighted to announce that Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth has received the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language NonFiction!

Congratulations to Eli Baxter, and all the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Awards winners, & finalists!

A full list of the 2022 GG recipients.

Aki-wayn-zih is a story … Read More >

McGill-Queen’s University Press is thrilled to announce that Gregory Forth’s A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in an Eastern Indonesian Society is the winner of The Bookseller’s 2020 Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. Forth is the first Canadian author and … Read More >

We are proud to announce that three McGill-Queen’s University Press authors have officially been nominated as finalists for the 2020 QWF Awards!

The Quebec Writer’s Federation (QWF) provides English-language programs, services, opportunities, and community for aspiring, emerging, and established writers and the wider community. QWF plays a prominent role in Quebec’s English-language community as … Read More >

As a press dedicated to publishing work that engages in public debate, current events, politics, contemporary thought, and the arts, McGill-Queen’s University Press is honored to share the many ways in which our book list shapes the world around us. Recent awards and accolades, earned by our authors and publishing partners, demonstrate how MQUP’s mission … Read More >

As the dust settles from another fantastic Congress, MQUP would like to acknowledge all of our prize-winning authors announced at the conference. We also extend our congratulations to the other winners and nominees of all of the prizes announced at Congress. Thank you to UBC Press for hosting us in beautiful Vancouver—we look forward to … Read More >

MQUP congratulates Thomas J. Courchene on being awarded the 2018/2019 Donnor Prize for his book Indigenous Nationals, Canadian Citizens: From First Contact to Canada 150 and Beyond. Courchene is professor emeritus in the School of Policy Studies and an adjunct professor in the economics department at Queen’s University. This … Read More >

The selections for the 2019 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show have been announced. Attracting more than 600 submissions overall, MQUP is honoured to have five covers in the Jackets and Covers category. Congratulations to our industrious production team, to the masterful David Drummond (Salamander Hill Design), and to … Read More >

We are pleased to announce two MQUP authors are finalists for the 2019 Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Elaine Craig, Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal System, and Marlene Goldman, Forgotten: Narratives of Age-Related Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease in Canada.

The Canada Prizes are awarded annually to … Read More >

We are pleased to share that MQUP poet Margo Wheaton is a Canadian Authors Association 2017 Literary Award-winner.

The Unlit Path Behind the House (Spring 2016) won the Canadian Authors Fred Kerner Book Award. It was also a finalist for two other 2017 awards: the League … Read More >