March

Launch of Catherine Hunter's New Book

Fri. Mar. 15, 2019 10:00 AM
Cover art by Cliff Eyland. Design by Melody Morrissette Catherine Hunter's new collection of poems, St. Boniface... Read More

Andrew Burke publishes on Winnipeg in The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema

Tue. Mar. 12, 2019 10:30 AM
Andrew Burke's chapter, "Stand Tall: Winnipeg Cinema and the Civic Imaginary," has been published... Read More

World Poetry Day: Poetry in Many Languages

Tue. Mar. 12, 2019 10:00 AM
Di Brandt, Winnipeg's inaugural Poet Laureate and a professor in Canadian Literature and Creative Writing in the Department of English at the... Read More

Talk by Dr. Jen Reid - Patrick and Social Identity at the End of Roman Britain

Sun. Mar. 10, 2019 11:00 AM
Next week, on Wednesday, March 13, at 12:30, in Room 2M73, Dr. Jennifer Reid will present "Patrick and Social Identity at the End of... Read More

April

Kathleen Venema's Bird-Bent Grass shortlisted for the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-fiction

Thu. Apr. 25, 2019 12:00 AM
Manitoba Book Awards 2019 Read More

Candida Rifkind Interviewed About Project GraphicBio

Mon. Apr. 1, 2019 10:00 AM
Professor Candida Rifkind was interviewed by Emily Lauer for the website Women Write About Comics about her... Read More

May

Kathleen Venema Publishes Essay in The Globe and Mail

Tue. May. 14, 2019 12:00 AM
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-my-mother-couldnt-choose-her-storys-end-this-needs-to-change/ Read More

Nora Decter's How Far We Go and How Fast Shortlisted for Rakunen Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

Thu. May. 2, 2019 10:00 AM
How Far We Go and How Fast, the debut novel by UWinnipeg English Instructor Nora Decter, has been nominated for the $10,000 Rakunen Kobo Emerging... Read More

BIPoC Student Symposium

Wed. May. 1, 2019 12:00 PM
https://uwinnipeg.ca/bipoc-student-symposium Read More

August

Candida Rifkind Works with UW Students to publish Indigenous Comics Annotated Bibliography

Wed. Aug. 28, 2019 12:00 AM
Candida Rifkind worked with University of Manitoba Librarian Camille Callison (Tahltan) and two UW students, Taylor Daigneault (Metis, BEd) and Amy... Read More

Patricia Robertson co-edits a special issue of Canadian Notes & Queries

Wed. Aug. 28, 2019 12:00 AM
Patricia Robertson has co-edited a special issue of CNQ entitled "Writing and Literature in an Age of Unravelling" with her... Read More

October

One Book UW Writer-in-Residence Jennifer Storm

Tue. Oct. 8, 2019 10:00 AM
Jennifer Storm is an Ojibwe writer from the Couchiching First Nation in Northwestern Ontario. She has authored a YA novel and a graphic novel and... Read More