Happy University Press Week! Help us celebrate university presses Nov. 9-15. Since 2012, members of the Association of University Presses have participated in an annual celebration of University Press Week. Following the example of the first University Press Week, proclaimed by US President Jimmy Carter in the summer of 1978, this event recognizes the impact that a global community of university presses has on every one of us.

The #UPweek blog tour today features Creative Voices. Visit the following press blogs to learn how they are celebrating creative voices:

Northwestern University Press: An excerpt from Art Is Everything by Yxta Maya Murray

University of Notre Dame Press: A post about the value of university press publishing from our Notre Dame Press colleagues

University of Michigan Press: Highlighting voices in the music and performance studies spaces in new and exciting ways

Athabasca University Press: A discussion about the importance of publishing creative work alongside scholarly monographs

University of Toronto Press: Charlotte Corden is the illustrator of Light in Dark Times, a new graphic novel from UTP written by Alisse Waterston and and she writes about the creative process involved in creating this stunning and important new book

Bristol University Press: Author Rob Kitchin on on research creation and creative practice in critical data studies

Bucknell University Press: One of BUP’s most prolific authors, Kevin Cope, will share his thoughts on creative approaches to studying and writing about 18th-century literature

University of Toronto Press Journals: Guest blogger Thalia Gonzalez Kane is an Online Features Editor for Candian Theatre Review and she writes about how creative production in theatre has endured and triumphed during the 2020 pandemic

UBC Press: Q&A with Gerilee McBride, Catalogues and Advertising Manager, about the design behind our open-access book, It’s All Good