The Douglas College Authors’ Celebration is a biennial College-wide event that publicly acknowledges and honours our faculty, students, staff, and alumni who have authored or co-authored a publication, or its equivalent, within the past two calendar years. This event is an opportunity to celebrate and recognize College authors, encourage discussion of their works, and ensure that they are available to our broader community through the Library's print and/or digital collections.
Submissions are now open and will be accepted until February 10.
Submit your work
Relevant dates and deadlines
- Monday, January 13, 2026: Call for Author Submissions Open
- Monday, February 10, 2026: Deadline for Author Submissions
- Wednesday, February 24, 2026: Deadline for Celebration Event RSVPs
- Wednesday, March 4, 2026: Douglas College Authors’ Celebration
Eligibility criteria
Items for submission should meet the following criteria:
- published between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2025
- authored, co-authored, edited or illustrated by current Douglas College faculty member, student, staff, administrator, or alumni
- published in print or digital format
Items may include:
- books or book chapters, including open textbooks
- musical compositions
- audio, film, or video recordings
- a theme-based special issue of a journal/supplement
- journal articles
- original translations
- substantive encyclopedia entries
- works of poetry (book-length)
Items may not include:
- reprints
- revised editions of works previously published
- newspaper, newsletter or magazine articles
- workbooks
- dissertations or theses
- blog entries
- book reviews
- research-based or non-fiction works which are not published in an edited or peer-reviewed format
Contact
If you have questions regarding the Douglas College Author's Celebration, please contact Katharine Shipley at shipleyk1@douglascollege.ca.