Recent News

Forced migration is an urgent and complex global challenge that affects millions of people around the world. Today’s headlines tell stories of individuals and families setting out on perilous journeys to seek safety, and of the very limited protection they often receive.

There are now more than 117 million forced migrants in the … Read More >

“Like good theatre lighting, good copyediting should not draw attention to itself,” Robert Lewis tells me. The simile is apt, and not just because copyeditors are so often credited in authors’ acknowledgments for making the text shine. But the self-effacing nature of the discipline sometimes leads us to take it for granted.

So picture me in … Read More >

By Jack Hannan, MQUP Sales Manager

I began my life in bookselling at Browsers’ Bookshop in Montreal the year Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize, a while ago. There was a postal strike and on my second day, Abe Bonder, who owned Bonder’s Books, drove around to pick up four of us in his station wagon. … Read More >

MQUP is hosting a social media contest for a chance to win a copy of Howard Shubert’s new book, Architecture on Ice: A History of the Hockey Arena!  The book provides an in-depth review of the development of skating rinks from their humble beginnings to the multipurpose arenas we know today, and is … Read More >

HAPPY UNIVERSITY PRESS WEEK!

We’re proud to be one of 32 presses participating once again this year in the UP Week Blog Tour. Every day this week, presses will be blogging on a different theme that highlights the value of collaboration among the scholarly community. For the full Blog Tour schedule, click here. 

Editor in Chief Jonathan Crago writes about … Read More >

Here is a weekly round-up of news and events at MQUP – it’s been busy!

We’d like to congratulate Sandra Djwa once again on winning the Governor General’s Literary Award for Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page. The winners were announced on Wednesday, and an awards ceremony will take place at Ottawa’s … Read More >

It’s Day 2 of University Press Week 2013! And yes, that means it’s the second day of the University Press Week Blog Tour. All week long, presses will be blogging on a different theme that highlights the extraordinary work of university presses. For the full Blog Tour schedule, click here. We’ll also be … Read More >

It’s University Press Week! We’re excited to be one of 37 presses participating in the UP Week Blog Tour, where presses will be blogging each day about a different theme that relates to scholarly publishing. For the full Blog Tour schedule, click here.

For today’s Meet the Press theme, we’re featuring Kyla Madden and … Read More >