Capital City Press
Capital City Press is a gathering place, both digitally and physically, for the exchange of ideas and education on the craft of writing. It gives EPL the opportunity to showcase and promote notable work from within our community, while also giving Edmontonians a chance to discover fantastic local writers and discuss their creations. Capital City Press aims to help support and grow writing in the community.
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Meet your new Capital City Featured Creators
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Meet your new Capital City Featured Creators
Enjoy Free Summer Concerts with Sounds from the Valley
Jasmina Odor is a Croatian-born Canadian writer, who emigrated to Canada in 1993. She is the author of the short story collection You Can’t Stay Here (Thistledown Press, 2017), winner of the Canadian Authors Association Exporting Alberta Award, and a novel, The Harvesters (Freehand Books, 2024). Her fiction and reviews have been widely published in magazines and anthologies, including The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Eighteen Bridges, Prism International, and the Journey Prize Stories. Her short fiction has won the Howard O’Hagan Award and been nominated for the Journey Prize and the CBC Short Story Prize, among others. She lives with her family in Edmonton, on Treaty 6 territory, where she also teaches English literature and writing.
Past Featured Writers
The Capital City Press Anthology is a new project from the Edmonton Public Library that publishes short stories, non-fiction, and poetry by local authors in a digital format. Our goal is to celebrate the creativity of our city and the Treaty 6 First Nations by providing opportunities for diverse, new, and thought-provoking voices to be heard. Volume 5 of the Anthology was released in June 2025.
Capital City Press Anthology Podcast
You can listen to stories from past volumes on the Capital City Press Anthology podcast! Episodes are available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Blogs & Book Lists
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Taking the Long Road to a Creative Life
It Was Never About Pink
The Songwriter Within: My Journey Through Music and Lyrics
Taking the Long Road to a Creative Life
It Was Never About Pink
The Songwriter Within: My Journey Through Music and Lyrics
Featured writers will host a variety of programs that are free for the community throughout the year. Annual events include the Capital City Press Book Festival and the Young Writers Conference. If you are a local author and interested in presenting a talk at EPL, apply for a local author talk.
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EPL also provides access to databases and online libraries that include works by local authors. Check them out here.