October 21, 2005 Source: University of Regina:
http://www.uregina.ca/news/releases/2005/october/21.html CPRC Press, faculty members nominated for book awards Release: October 21, 2005
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University of Regina and First Nations University of Canada faculty received five nominations, while the U of R’s Canadian Plains Research Center (CPRC) Press received seven for the 13th annual Saskatchewan Book Awards. The nominations announced Wednesday included: -Time’s Body, by Kathleen Wall, published by Hagios Press, is a finalist for the Award for Poetry, and the Regina Book Award. Wall is an associate professor of English at the University of Regina.
-Neal McLeod, a professor at First Nations University of Canada, was nominated in three categories: Book of the Year, Award for Poetry, and the Award for Publishing in Education. His collection of poems, Songs to Kill a Wihtikow, was published by Hagios Press. McLeod is a former doctoral graduate student in the Canadian Plains Studies Program at the University of Regina’s Canadian Plains Research Center (CPRC). CPRC Press garnered seven nominations in four categories: -Nine years in development and representing the efforts of 30 editors and more than 800 writers, The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan was honored with a total of three nominations, recognizing achievements in writing, editing, content, design and production as finalists for the Award for Scholarly Writing, the Award for Publishing and the Award for Publishing in Education. As an edited book, the encyclopedia was technically ruled to be ineligible for the Book of the Year Award.
-Cree: Language of the Plains by Jean Okimasis was nominated for the award given in the First Peoples Publishing category. Cree: Language of the Plains is used as a textbook in schools and universities in Saskatchewan and across Canada.
-Saskatchewan Premiers of the Twentieth Century, edited by Gordon L. Barnhart, was recognized in two categories: The Award for Publishing, and the Award for Publishing in Education. This collection of essays provides an in-depth look at each of Saskatchewan’s premiers.
-Letters Home is the latest in CPRC’s Wartime Lives and Letters series, and is a collection of letters written by Edwin Gardiner, son of Jimmy Gardiner, who like so many others lost his life in WWII. This compilation, edited by David Smith is a finalist for the Publishing in Education Award. Winners will be announced at the Saskatchewan Book Awards Gala on Nov. 25 at the Delta Hotel in Regina. For more information about the Saskatchewan Book Awards, please contact Glenda James, executive director, by phone at
(306) 569-1585. To order tickets for the Gala, please email: tickets@bookawards.sk.ca or at director@bookawards.sk.ca. For more information about CPRC publications, please contact Anne Pennylegion by phone at (306) 337-2365 or email anne.pennylegion@uregina.ca. -30-
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