University of Regina Press

10/02/2025

Join us for an evening of conversation during Saskatchewan Book Week!

📖 On Settler Colonialism in Canada: Lands and Peoples
with Emily Grafton (editor) and Jérôme Melançon (chapter contributor)

🗓 Monday, October 6 at 6:30 PM
📍 mâmawêyatitân centre

Emily and Jérôme will lead a discussion on the settler colonial present that continues to shape Canadian society and its relationships with Indigenous Peoples. Drawing on their recent publications, they will explore the importance of decolonial and reconciliatory practices.

This free public event is part of Saskatchewan Book Week. All are welcome.

09/29/2025

The event is just around the corner!

Join us for a thought-provoking book talk with Editors Emily Grafton and David B. MacDonald on their new collection On Settler Colonialism in Canada: Lands and Peoples. The book features contributions from some of Canada’s foremost thinkers and storytellers, including Solomon Ratt, James Daschuk, Michelle Stewart, and Chris Lindgren.

📍 Location: University of Regina’s Dr. John Archer Library & Archives (Regina and Wascana Rooms)
📅 Date & Time: Thursday, October 2 at 12:00 p.m.
📲 RSVP NOW: https://www.facebook.com/share/17RSEJz4Lx/

Moderator Merelda Fiddler-Potter will lead a rich conversation about settler colonialism—how it has shaped identities, racialization, and multiculturalism.

Following the discussion, refreshments will be served, books will be available for purchase, and the editors will be pleased to sign copies. Don’t miss this opportunity to take part in a timely and lively conversation!

09/27/2025

Is the Canadian government contributing to its own underperformance? Join us for the launch of A New Blueprint for Government with authors Kevin Lynch and James Mitchell as they share an insider’s guide to steering our nation toward greater efficiency.

With 50 years of combined leadership experience, Lynch and Mitchell unpack systemic failures in Canada’s governance, from stalled growth to scandals like ArriveCan and Phoenix, offering practical solutions to restore accountability and rebuild a culture of excellence.

📅 Date & Time: October 28 at 4:30 PM
📍 Location: Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School, University of Regina – College Avenue Campus, 2155 College Avenue (CB 308), Regina, SK

This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

RSVP Here: https://www.facebook.com/share/15WaAVbV99/

09/26/2025

Join us for a book talk with author Ken Wilson about his new memoir Walking the Bypass about his experiences walking alongside the decidedly pedestrian-unfriendly Regina Bypass, all while situating the highway within the ongoing history of settler colonialism in southern Saskatchewan.

Fellow author Trevor Herriot will talk with Ken Wilson about how his journeys on foot allowed him to reflect on the profound transformations to the land since the arrival of settlers and helped him to form a connection with the land through walking—even on the gravelly edge of the freeway—the kind of place we think of as "nowhere".

The authors will be appearing at the Regina Public Library Central Branch on Thursday October 30th at 6:30pm. After the book talk ends, refreshments will be served and books will be available for sale. The author will be pleased to sign copies. Don't miss out on what promises to be a lively discussion!

RSVP Here: https://www.facebook.com/share/19tnPxTS1R/

09/25/2025

The event is just around the corner!

Join us for a book talk with author Ken Wilson on his new memoir Walking the Bypass, where he shares his experiences walking alongside the pedestrian-unfriendly Regina Bypass and situates the highway within the ongoing history of settler colonialism in southern Saskatchewan.

Fellow author and professor Jesse Archibald Barber will join Wilson in conversation about how walking these landscapes allowed him to reflect on profound transformations to the land since the arrival of settlers, and how even the gravelly edge of a freeway can become a place of connection.

📍 When & Where: Tuesday, October 7 at 12:00 PM, University of Regina’s Dr. John Archer Library & Archives (Regina and Wascana Rooms).
Greetings will be provided by Dean of Libraries Brett Waytuck, with an introduction by Marcel DeCoste, Editorial Director of University of Regina Press.

After the talk, refreshments will be served, books will be available for purchase, and the author will sign copies.

Don’t miss what promises to be a lively discussion!
📌 RSVP Here: https://www.facebook.com/share/16ewjdN7cF/

09/18/2025

Join us on Thursday, October 2nd at 4PM for the University of Regina Press Wayzgoose: a term from the past for a publisher’s seasonal party.

This evening reception celebrating our Fall 2025 Books will allow us to ring in the new season with authors, peers (researchers, librarians, journalists, publishing professionals, teachers, booksellers), the SK writing and reading community, and students (our future peers). Our books wouldn’t have the impact they do without the support of our collaborators.

This gathering is free and open to the public. Appetizers and drinks (cash bar) will be served from 4pm to 6:30pm on campus at 3737 Wascana Parkway (College West Building, Room 215). We hope to see you there! Feel free to share this invitation with your friends, mentees/mentors, and any big readers in your life.
RSVP is required for entry.

Books will be available for sale and authors will be pleased to sign your copy.

RSVP Here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/university-of-regina-press-wayzgoose-celebrate-our-new-fall-2025-books-tickets-1712202256039?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

09/16/2025

Today is publication day for Bloodied Bodies, Bloody Landscapes: On Settler Colonialism in Horror, a book Jesse Wente describes as “the book I’ve waited my whole movie-geek life for.”

This morning, Laura Hall was interviewed on CBC Morning Edition about horror movie’s disturbing relationship with colonialism, and why Indigenous viewers may feel both seen and sidelined.

Navigate over to the CBC to listen and don’t forget to grab the book from our online store here: https://uofrpress.ca/Books/B/Bloodied-Bodies-Bloody-Landscapes

09/15/2025

Join us for a book talk with author Ken Wilson about his new memoir Walking the Bypass about his experiences walking alongside the decidedly pedestrian-unfriendly Regina Bypass, all while situating the highway within the ongoing history of settler colonialism in southern Saskatchewan.

Fellow author and professor Jesse Archibald Barber will talk with Ken Wilson about how his journeys on foot allowed him to reflect on the profound transformations to the land since the arrival of settlers and helped him to form a connection with the land through walking—even on the gravelly edge of the freeway—the kind of place we think of as "nowhere".

The authors will be appearing at the University of Regina’s Dr. John Archer Library & Archives (Regina and Wascana Rooms) on Tuesday, October 7th at 12PM. Dean of Libraries Brett Waytuck will provide greetings and Editorial Director of University of Regina Press, Marcel DeCoste will introduce a book that's being heralded as “original, unsettling, and provocative.”

After the book talk ends, refreshments will be served and books will be available for sale. The author will be pleased to sign copies.

Don't miss out on what promises to be a lively discussion!

📌 RSVP Here: https://www.facebook.com/share/19gRTFD1x1/

University of Regina Press (URP) publishes books that exemplify its motto: "A gathering of many voices."

09/15/2025

Join us for a book talk with Editors Emily Grafton and David B. MacDonald on their new collection, On Settler Colonialism in Canada: Lands and Peoples, which brings together some of Canada’s foremost thinkers and storytellers including Solomon Ratt, James Daschuk, Michelle Stewart and Chris Lindgren who will discuss their contributions to the book.

The editors and contributors will be appearing at the University of Regina’s Dr. John Archer Library & Archives (Regina and Wascana Rooms) on Thursday October 2nd at 12pm. Moderator Merelda Fiddler-Potter will lead a conversation about Settler Colonialism—how settlers understood themselves as servants of empire, how settler identities came to be predicated on racialization and white supremacy, and more recently, how they have been constructed in relation to multiculturalism.

After the book talk ends, refreshments will be served and books will be available for sale. The editors will be pleased to sign copies. Don't miss out on what promises to be a lively discussion!

📌 RSVP Here: https://www.facebook.com/share/1Ck7B8yjwn/

University of Regina Press (URP) publishes books that exemplify its motto: "A gathering of many voices."

09/03/2025

Happy Pub Day to Something for the Dark, a poetry collection from Randy Lundy that centres Indigenous knowledge to probe the limits of what we know, confront the unknown, and reckon with our place in the world.

Windspeaker News profiles the book’s inspiration, and the journalist who spoke to Lundy about the book described it as "a powerful offering to readers”. Read more here:

https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/poets-reciprocity-dark-its-gifts-completes-trilogy

Get your copy of Something for the Dark by heading to our online shop or your local bookstore.

08/14/2025

Eric Cline author of Squandered from UR Press, penned a timely piece for The Walrus about one of Canada's most precious resources—potash—and it's value in our ongoing trade war.

He writes, "Potash isn’t just a commodity. It’s a pillar of the planet’s food system. . . That makes Saskatchewan, home to the world’s largest potash reserves and eleven operating mines, one of the quiet power centres of modern agriculture. And nowhere is that dominance more obvious than in the United States, where farmers are deeply reliant on Canada—nearly 80 percent of their supply comes from us. In any serious conversation about economic leverage, this material should be near the top of the list."

Navigate to thewalrus.ca to read, "Potash Companies Are Getting Rich. Saskatchewan, Not So Much". And don't forget to pick up Cline's deep dive into the issue, Squandered, while the book is 20% OFF during our Late Summer Sale.

08/13/2025

Norm Ravvin author of Who Gets In: An Immigration Story published an op-ed in the Globe and Mail. In this moment of heated debate, Ravin reminds readers that historically, "Popular narratives associated with immigration are often based in moral panic, prejudice or lies. . ."

This relates to Ravvin's family immigration story, his grandfather (pictured) was Jewish and alongside Asians and other minorities was subject to bureaucratic hurdles and "quotas" in his journey to Canada in the 1930s. But if he hadn't left Poland, his family may have perished under N**i rule. Navigate to the Globe and Mail opinion page to read this moving op-ed and pick up the book at uofrpress.com while it's 20% during our late summer sale.

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