Alice’s newest book, Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science, will be launched at Litfest, Edmonton’s non-fiction festival. This collection of essays is part memoir, part ars poetica, part wonder-journey, as she allows the two sets – the work of poets and the work of scientists –  to intersect like spots of coloured light overlapping to [...]

Memory’s Daughter has been awarded the 2011 Stephan G. Stephansson Award, given annually for a book of poetry by an Alberta writer. The award was presented at the Writers Guild of Alberta’s annual awards gala in Calgary on June 15. This award was established in 1982 in honour of Stephan G. Stephansson (1853-1927) who immigrated to [...]

Memory’s Daughter, Alice’s most recent collection of poetry, has been shortlisted for two awards. The first is the shortlist for the Pat Lowther award, given each year by the League of Canadian Poets for a book of poetry by a Canadian woman. Alice shares the 2011 shortlist with Dionne Brand, Di Brandt, Evelyn Lau, Pamela [...]

Alice Major and Rollie Pemberton are the faces for the Edmonton Public Library’s newest READ poster.  Alice was Edmonton’s first poet laureate, and Rollie is the current one.

Alice launched her new collection, Memory’s Daughter, on April 1 at Greenwoods Bookshoppe. Visit the University of Alberta Press blog for pictures. CKUA aired an interview with Alice about the new collection, in conversation with Ken Davis on its Bookmark program.  To hear the interview at the CKUA site, choose “Bookmark” from the “select a program” [...]

Alice Major received the 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award during the Mayor’s Celebration for the Arts on March 22. This is the 23rd year for this Edmonton event, which recognizes contributions to the city’s arts community. The Lifetime Achievement Award is given each year to an individual artist who has made such a contribution over an [...]

Alice Major will be the guet speaker at the Edmonton & Area Famous Five Society’s luncheon on Thursday, March 25, 2010. The Society hosts five luncheons a year in the ballroom of Edmonton’s historic Macdonald Hotel. The Enbridge Famous Five luncheon series features speakers from the business, academic and not-for-profit worlds — and at least [...]

A generous selection from Alice’s collection, The Occupied World, appears in a new anthology of Canadian poetry published in Ireland.

The Office Tower Tales was awarded the Pat Lowther Award at the annual conference of the League of Canadian Poets on June 13. The Lowther award is given annually for best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. The award was established in memory of Pat Lowther, a young B. C. poet who died tragically [...]

Alice Major’s The Office Tower Tales has been awarded the “Trade Book of the Year – Fiction” prize by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta. Not bad for a book of poetry. The jury said, “The award goes to a landmark volume that offers a wealth of superlative writing, humour and sharp social commentary. ” [...]