Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond: Interfaces of the Oral, Written, and Visual Susan Gingell and Wendy Roy, editors

Borrowed Tongues: Life Writing, Migration, and Translation by Eva C. Karpinski

Crosstalk: Canadian and Global Imaginaries in Dialogue Diana Brydon and Marta Dvořák, editors

WLU Press is very pleased to announce that Herb Wyile's book Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature is a finalist for the 2011 Gabrielle Roy Prize awarded by the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures. The winner will be announced May 26 at the ACQL annual conference here in Waterloo.

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WLU Press is pleased to announce that Veronica Strong-Boag has won the 2012 Canada Prize (Social Sciences) for her book Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage. Considered a “benchmark for outstanding scholarly work,” the Canada Prize, worth $2,500 in each category, is awarded annually by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS).

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Weinzweig: Essays on His Life and Music edited by John Beckwith and Brian Cherney has been nominated for the 2012 Association for the Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.

The winners will be announced in August, and the awards will be presented during a banquet at ARSC's annual conference in May 2013. The goal of the ARSC Awards program is to recognize and draw attention to the finest work now being published in the field of recorded sound research. Additional information about ARSC, the awards, and this year's conference may be found on the ARSC website