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Thursday
March 14th
2013

Bedtime Stories Receives Award Nomination

Congratulations to authors Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, and designer Lisa Friesen. Their book, Bedtime Stories for the Edge of the World has been shortlisted for the Manitoba Book Awards’ Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year. The awards will be presented at the Manitoba Book Awards gala on Sunday, April 28, at the West End Cultural Centre. Doors open at 7:15 p.m., with the ceremony beginning at 8:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

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Wednesday
March 6th
2013

Naomi Klein Interviews Leanne Simpson

Naomi Klein speaks with writer, spoken-word artist, and indigenous academic Leanne Betasamosake Simpson about “extractivism,” why it’s important to talk about memories of the land, and what’s next for Idle No More. Visit Yes! magazine online to read the full interview.

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Monday
February 4th
2013

Simpson and Samson on Escape Velocity Radio

Listen to a discussion about the Idle No More First Nations movemen, the Canadian Artists Statement of Solidarity, and Indigenous resistance and resurgence with John K. Samsonauthor, storyteller, and academic Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on episode 7 of Escape Velocity Radio.

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Monday
January 14th
2013

Dempsey and Millan in Prairie Dog Magazine

Prairie Dog Magazine in Regina talks to Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan about their new book and their presentation Bedtime Story for the Edge of the World at Queer City Cinema’s festival of queer performance. An Unsleepy Reading: Dempsey and Millan have stories for you

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Wednesday
December 5th
2012

Mud and Water Interviews Shawna Dempsey

Karen Mackintosh from CKUW’s Mud and Water interviews ARP author Shawna Dempsey about her new book with co-author Lorri Millan.

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Monday
November 12th
2012

Red River Radio Interview with Shawna Dempsey

Heartbeat on Red River Radio interviews artist and author Shawna Dempsey. Listen online. Interview starts at 21:45.

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Thursday
October 18th
2012

LPG Releases New Strategic Plan, Announces Sales Partnership with Canadian Manda Group

The Literary Press Group of Canada (LPG), of which ARP is a member, has released a new strategic plan. A blueprint for the reinvention of the 37 year-old organization, the document proposes innovative new measures to strengthen Canadian literary publishers, promote Canadian-authored literary books, and embrace the diversity of the organization’s more than sixty members. The three-year plan will reinvent several of the LPG’s existing programs and enter some entirely new areas of business.

The most immediate change will be in the way the LPG provides sales representation to its members. Beginning January 1, 2013, the Canadian Manda Group will assume sales duties for the LPG. Working in partnership with the LPG’s marketing staff, Manda will represent a new collective of publishers to the Canadian trade. The LPG’s distribution arm, LitDistCo, will continue its current relationship with Fraser Direct.

You can read the entire announcement on the LPG blog site.

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Tuesday
June 26th
2012

“Whose War Was It, Anyway?” A Roundtable Discussion on the War of 1812

ARP author and editor Esyllt Jones participated in a roundtable titled “Whose War Was It, Anyway?” Organized by the Active History Canadian Historical Association (CHA) Committee and supported by The History Education Network/Histoire et Éducation en Réseau (THEN/HiER) and the CHA, the event brought together a handful of historians to discuss not only various perspectives on the War of 1812, but also the meanings that lie behind the most recent moment of commemoration. You can listen to a podcast of the discussion below and read more about it here.

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Thursday
June 7th
2012

LPG Statement on End to Canada Book Fund Support

In a body blow to Canada’s independent literary publishers, on Monday, June 4, 2012, the Literary Press Group (LPG) of Canada received word that the Department of Canadian Heritage (DCH) has ended its financial support of the LPG’s activities for the fiscal year that began on April 1, 2012. As a result, the LPG will be obliged to shut down its sales force, an essential operation that brings hundreds of new Canadian-authored books from 47 Canadian-owned publishers to bookstores and libraries every year. Without the LPG, authors and publishers lose their access to their readers, and Canadian readers lose easy and affordable access to Canada’s literary culture.

The DCH funding represented approximately one third of the LPG’s operating budget and was its single largest revenue source. While the LPG’s finances are otherwise strong, a loss of this size means that the LPG will not be able to continue operation in its current form. The LPG is committed to selling publishers’ fall 2012 titles, but it will have to lay off all field sales representatives as of August 31, 2012 and most head-office staff will be released on November 30, 2012. Beyond November 2012, the LPG will look to establish an agenting relationship with another sales force for publishers who wish to be a part of a new collective….

go here to read the full press release

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Friday
May 11th
2012

Red Man Laughing Interviews Author Leanne Simpson

“In this episode of Red Man Laughing we talk with author, scholar and artist – Leanne Simpson. Leanne is the author of the incredible “Dancing On Our Turtles Back” and having read the book (going on 12 times now, seriously), I decided that I NEEDED to have Leanne on the podcast to share her empowering and enlightening message. Her book changed my life and I not only wanted to thank her, but I wanted to dig a bit deeper in terms of decolinization and where that journey must start – with us, as individuals.”

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