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Updated MPub Completion Pathways!
We’ve revised the Master of Publishing capstone: the old project report has been replaced with two options — a 2,000–3,000 word critical report based on internship or project work, or a 10,000 word research project.

Details are on our website: https://www.sfu.ca/publishing/master-of-publishing/completing-your-unfinished-MPub.html

Students who finished coursework but not the former project report will be able to re apply to complete one of the new capstone options under faculty supervision.

Re admission applications open Fall 2026, with the earliest start date in January 2027.

Spread the word! Maybe you know of folks who found a job before graduating but might like to complete their capstone in this new form — and receive thier MPub!

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Join us for The Greg Younging Conversation 2026!⁠
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Sunday, May 3rd 1–2:30 PST ONLINE over Zoom⁠

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Please join us this year for the Greg Younging Conversation, a dialogue honouring Greg’s legacy as both publisher, bridge maker, and advocate. ⁠
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Bree Duwyn, Shelagh Rogers, and Stephanie Sinclair will speak across generations, stage of life and profession, to explore the current state of literary arts in Canada, to celebrate the progress we have made, and to discuss the work still needing to get done.⁠
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⁠About Dr. Gregory Younging

Greg Younging was a nationally and internationally renowned expert on Indigenous publishing and a tireless voice and advocate for raising Indigenous voices in Canada. A publisher, professor, and Indigenous cultural advocate, Greg was a bridge-maker who brought together diverse voices, and his conversations were highly regarded by anyone who had the privilege to sit across from him. He was a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in northern Manitoba. In addition to his role as publisher of Theytus Books, the oldest fully Indigenous-owned publisher in Canada, Younging was an assistant director for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, the author of Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing By and About Indigenous Peoples, and an instructor in the Indigenous Studies Program at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.
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About SFU Publishing⁠
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The Publishing program offers education and professional development at all levels, from short professional Publishing Workshops to our Undergraduate Minor in Print and Digital Publishing and the graduate-level Master of Publishing program. ⁠
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SFU’s Master of Publishing (MPub) program, Canada's only Master's degree program in Publishing, is taught by publishing practitioners and research faculty, along with masterclasses from industry leaders, the program offers a blend of seminar and hands-on project courses that provide tomorrow’s industry leaders with the knowledge, skills and understanding needed for a successful career.⁠
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SFU Indigenous Student Centre
SFU Indigenous Studies
Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology

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Join us on Monday, April 27, 5-7pm, in the Ceremonial Hall at the First Peoples' Gathering House* on SFU’s Burnaby Campus, for a talk with the authors of Reconciling: A Lifelong Struggle to Belong.⁠
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A compelling fireside chat will be followed by an audience Q&A and a booksigning. Books will be available to purchase from .⁠
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This event is co-presented by and the Publishing Program at SFU. Register through linkinbio or at publishing/sfu.ca⁠
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When Larry Grant talks about reconciliation, he uses the verb reconciling, an ongoing, unfinished process we’re all going through, Indigenous and settler, immigrant and Canadian-born. “I have been reconciling my whole life, with my inner self,” Larry explains. “To not belong was forced upon me by the colonial society that surrounded me. But reconciling with myself is part of all that.”⁠
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It’s taken most of Larry’s long life for his extraordinary heritage to be appreciated. He was born in a hop field outside Vancouver in 1936, the son of a Musqueam cultural leader and an immigrant from a village in Guangdong, China. In 1940, when the Indian agent discovered that their mother had married a non-status man, Larry and his two siblings were stripped of their status. With one stroke of the pen, they were disenfranchised—no longer recognized as Indigenous.⁠
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“Working on this book, we walked the streets of Chinatown and Strathcona and went on road trips up and down the river. I learned so much about my home city, from a very different, very grounded perspective.” – Scott Steedman, co-author⁠
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Madelin shares what some of the 2025-2026 cohort is reading this week! Students in the MPub have different interests, and their love of the publishing industry brings them together. What are you reading this week? Let us know in the comments!

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Simon & Schuster Canada is a loyal supporter of SFU’s Master of Publishing Program, and we are grateful for their recent, generous gift to the Gregory Younging Graduate Memorial Endowment. Their support will fund a full scholarship for an Indigenous Master of Publishing student. ⁠
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Gregory Younging was the first Indigenous student to graduate with a Master's in Publishing from SFU. An editor and professor, he was also the author of the groundbreaking book: Elements of Indigenous style: a guide for writing by and about Indigenous Peoples. ⁠
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Simon & Schuster Canada's support, we are creating more space for Indigenous writers, designers, publishers, and editors in Canada. We look forward to seeing the impact this gift will have on future Indigenous students.⁠
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Simon Fraser University | MPub | Indigenous Publishing in Canada

Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology
SFU Faculty of Graduate Studies

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Join Massy Books Events, SFU Indigenous Studies, Michelle Cyca, and Julian Brave NoiseCat for the launch of "We Survived the Night”!

Thursday, October 30 | 7PM | SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts

Sign up at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/we-survived-the-night-an-indigenous-reckoning-tickets-1720785478689?aff=oddtdtcreator

The Book:
Julian Brave NoiseCat’s childhood was rich with culture and contradictions. When his Secwépemc and St’at’imc father, an artist haunted by a turbulent past, abandoned the family, NoiseCat and his non-Native mother were embraced by the urban Native community in Oakland, California, as well as by family on the Canim Lake Indian Reserve in British Columbia. In his father’s absence, NoiseCat immersed himself in Native history and culture to understand the man he seldom saw—his past, his story, where he came from—and, by extension, himself.

Drawing from five years of on-the-ground reporting, We Survived the Night paints a profound and unforgettable portrait of contemporary Indigenous life, alongside an intimate and deeply powerful reckoning between a father and a son. A soulful, formally daring, and indelible work from an important new voice.

The Author:
JULIAN BRAVE NOISECAT is a writer, filmmaker and student of Salish art and history. His first documentary, Sugarcane, directed alongside Emily Kassie, follows an investigation into abuse and missing children at the Indian residential school NoiseCat’s own family was sent to near Williams Lake, B.C., and won the prize for best direction of a documentary at the 2024 Sundance film festival. NoiseCat is a proud member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq'escen and descendant of the Lil'Wat Nation of Mount Currie; his journalism has appeared in dozens of publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Walrus and Canadian Geographic and has been recognized with many awards including the 2022 American Mosaic Journalism Prize. Before turning full-time to writing and filmmaking, NoiseCat was a political strategist, policy analyst and cultural organizer. We Survived the Night is his first book.

The Moderator:
MICHELLE CYCA is an award-winning journalist and editor from Vancouver, Canada. She is the bureau chief of conservation and fellowships at The Narwhal and a contributing writer to The Walrus. You can also find her recent writing in Maclean’s, Chatelaine, The Globe & Mail and many other places. She is a member of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Treaty 6, Saskatchewan, and lives and works on the ancestral, unceded homelands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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PKP Development News Webinar | September 2025 Join PKP's webinar to explore the development of our scholarly publishing software. This webinar is open to all our community members.

Join us live online for 2025 Jim Douglas Lecture | Mosab Abu Toha: Voices From Under the Rubble. ⁠
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The ONLINE Streaming of our sold out in-person event, September 4 will begin at 7PM PT. Register to receive the link by email. Link in Bio.⁠
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SFU Publishing presents the 2025 Jim Douglas Lecture, Voices from Under the Rubble, an evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian poet and essayist Mosab Abu Toha.⁠
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Abu Toha's searing writing, asking for the world's attention on what has been unfolding for himself and his people in Gaza over many years, has appeared in New Yorker and the New York Times. He is the author of two books of poetry, including Forest of Noise --named one of NYT’s 100 Notable Books of 2024.⁠
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Mosab Abu Toha's readings from his books and his reflections, will be followed by a Q&A, guest moderated by Stephen Collis, Vancouver poet and Chair of SFU’s English department.⁠
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Mosab Abu Toha has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, on CBC Radio, Democracy Now and many mainstream and online channels and podcasts, including Jon Stewart’s The Weekly Show, to share his timely observations and make a clear and compelling plea for the world to bring our attention to what is unfolding for Palestinian people in Gaza and what it means.⁠
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We may ask, what is the role of the Artist in the face of horrific conditions. In the lead up to this event, Mosab Abu Toha has told us already that, “...part of being a poet is being a journalist.” We look forward to hearing more from him on September 4.⁠
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We hope you will join us. For more see our website. Link in bio.⁠
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Our thanks to the Atkins-Douglas Fund, SFU’s Centre for Muslim Studies, Department of English and School for Communications, and Penguin Random House Canada⁠
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Masters in Publishing | Minor in Publishing | Simon Fraser University⁠
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