Book Publishers Association of Alberta

The Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA) is a provincial association of book publishing companies and is one of the strongest communities of regional publishers in North America. The BPAA was founded in 1975 to support the development of strong publishing houses, away from Canada's traditional centres of publishing. Today the BPAA has more than 35 members, all of which are owned and operated in the province of Alberta.

We are a regional affiliate of the Association of Canadian Publishers (ACP).

The BPAA responds to all questions from its members, the public, media and industry, on matters to do with publishing.

Alberta Book Publishing Awards

The deadline for submissions for the 2010 Alberta Book Publishing Awards has now passed. Our thanks to all our publishers for your entries and participation in the 2010 Awards. The Awards Gala will take place in partnership with the Writers' Guild of Alberta on May 14, 2010 at the Delta Edmonton South Hotel.

Please stay tuned for information on the gala and the short list in the near future.

Best of the West 2009

Our 2009-2010 Best of the West catalogue is now available for download. Approximately 180,000 copies have been distributed to retailers, libraries and magazines throughout western Canada. This year's guide to great new books from the prairies contains 70 titles from Prairie authors and publishers. When you visit your local library or bookstore please keep an eye out for this guide to Prairie books. You can download the file by clicking on the image to the left.

The file is about 1.1 MB and will require Acrobat Reader which is available at no cost from the Adobe website.

Alberta Readers' Choice Award

In partnership with Edmonton Public Library, the BPAA are sponsoring a $10,000 Literary Award. The award recipient will be announced at the annual book awards gala on May 14, 2010. For more information please visit the Alberta Readers' Choice Award website.

Alberta Author

As part of some information gathering the BPAA was doing, we have compiled a list of Alberta authors published by our members. Please visit here to see that list.

We would like to thank all of our sponsors for their very generous support of the Book Publishers Association of Alberta!

Podcasts on Publishing

The Book Publishers Association of Alberta is delighted to announce the complete series of Podcasts on Publishing is now available! For more ...

BOOKMARK

Starting Sunday, February 3 at 12:30 pm, Alberta's own CKUA Radio Network will begin airing BOOKMARK, a weekly show devoted to all things Alberta books.

Host Ken Davis will bring listeners up-to-date with author interviews, book reviews, and feature length stories on the past, present and future of Alberta books.

You may listen to the show through a live stream through the station's website, or the old-fashioned way, on the radio (94.9 FM throughout Alberta).

Davis has covered a huge cross-section of Alberta books so far this season, with interviews with Sheri-D WIlson, David Finch, Jalal Barzanji, Ted Ferguson and Rob McLennan, among many others, as well as two two-part series on mountain man Sid Marty, and the granddad of all Alberta authors, W.O. Mitchell.

Ken has also started a blog for the show: http://bookmarkckua.blogspot.com/

New Title Preview

The New Title Preview section has been updated! Take a look at some exciting new releases from member companies for the Spring of 2009.

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