Join EFS emeriti Stephen Slemon and Susan Hamilton tonight from 7:00-8:30 pm at Audrey Books for a celebratory launch of Jo-Ann Wallace's arresting memoir, A Life in Pieces, which was published posthumously in August. Learn more: audreys.ca/events/9940202…

Join Dr. Conrad Scott and his co-editors at 8:00 MST for the Nov 20 book launch of the Routledge Environmental Humanities Series volume, Utopian and Dystopian Exploration of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown: Entangled Futurities Sociology@IOE ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/202…

Please join writer and translator Anindita Mukherjee at 2 pm MST on Friday, November 1 for the book launch of How Silkworms Break Their Eggs: Selected Poems of Mridul Dasgupta.

Join EFS Assistant Lecturer Erina Harris tomorrow from 3:00-4:30 pm MT at Audreys Books (10702 Jasper Ave) for the launch of her new poetry collection Trading Beauty Secrets with the Dead. Learn more: ow.ly/wGPq50TOTTF

Please join writer and translator Anindita Mukherjee from 2-4 pm today in Henderson Hall (Rutherford Library South 1-17) for the book launch of How Silkworms Break Their Eggs: Selected Poems of Mridul Dasgupta.

Join us on November 22 at noon in Tory 2-58 for "Making Kalyna Juice Together: Co-Creating Public History". In this talk, Chris Chang-Yen Phillips will share behind-the-scenes stories from his public history work, including the Let’s Find Out podcast.

Announcing a new course for Winter 2025: Shakespeare and Ecological Crisis. Interested? Please enrol as soon as you can and send any questions to [email protected]. #UAlberta @UofA_Arts

This holiday season we want to raise as many funds and food donations for the Campus Food Bank as possible! Please contribute what you can to the Faculty of Arts donation drive between Dec. 2 - 20. See the drop-off locations and make a monetary donation here:

Please join us for a talk by visiting Fulbright scholar Kanika Batra! Monday, February 10, 3:30 pm - 5 pm!

Announcing the 2025/26 Writer-in-Residence Cody Caetano! Cody will be arriving at the University of Alberta in September 2025.

Interested in learning to coach writers? Enrol in WRS 301/603: Intro to Writing Centre Practice | Writing Centre Theory offered in Fall Term 2025!

Why is writing so hard? Explore this question (and others) in WRS 601: Composition Theory offered in Winter Term 2026!

Running from June 4-7 at the U of A and online, the interdisciplinary SCSMI Conference features several free events including a screening of The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open with filmmaker Q&A and more! Learn more and register: scsmi-online.org/conference

Congratulations to Erina Harris, EFS assistant lecturer of Literature and Creative Writing (WRITE), for receiving the 2025 William Hardy Alexander Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching! ualberta.ca/en/the-quad/20…

The interdisciplinary SCSMI Conference begins tomorrow and features several free events including a screening of The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open with filmmaker Q&A and more! Learn more and register: scsmi-online.org/conference

Katherine Binhammer (Professor, EFS) and Theo Gray (PhD student, EFS) co-wrote a new article, “Why we still need a women’s prize for fiction”, with Kanika Batra (Professor, Texas Tech University) and Maryse Jayasuriya (Professor, Saint Louis University). theconversation.com/why-we-still-n…

Congratulations to Conor Kerr (assistant professor, EFS) who was recently awarded the 2025 Miller-Martin Award for Best Crime Novel by the Crime Writers of Canada for his novel Prairie Edge. Learn more: cbc.ca/books/conor-ke…

Join us for the inaugural SpokenWeb Listening Party, Friday, September 5th in the Salter Reading Room, HC 3-95!

Join us in one week for the inaugural SpokenWeb Listening Party on Friday, September 5 from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. in the Salter Reading Room, Humanities Centre 3-95!

Learn more about FS 203 - Television from Broadcasting to Screen Cultures offered in Fall 2025! ualberta.ca/en/folio/2025/…