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established in 1965 by Geoff Spencer, the Alcuin Society is a

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organisation founded for the

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arts. It is located in

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. It should not be confused with the Alcuin Club, an

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society. Among the other six founding members were Basil Stuart-Stubbs, Sam Black and Bill Duthie (founder of Duthie Books). The society is named after

Alcuin of York Alcuin of York (; ; 735 – 19 May 804), also called Ealhwine, Alhwin, or Alchoin, was a scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher from York, Northumbria. He was born around 735 and became the student of Archbishop Ecgbert at York. At the invita ...

Alcuin Award

Since 1981, the society has awarded an ''Alcuin Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada''. It is Canada's only national book design competition. Winners of the award are Canadian book designers whose books were published in the country in the previous calendar year. To qualify, a book must be designed by a Canadian designer and published by a Canadian publisher. The University of Saskatchewan Archives and Special Collections displayed books which had been distinguished with awards by the Alcuin Society.

Robert R. Reid Award and Medal winners

In 2007 the Alcuin Society inaugurated the annual Robert R. Reid Medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Book Arts in Canada, and named Read as the first recipient. The full list of winners is given on the Alcuin Society website. *2024 Michael Torosian *2023 Martin Jackson *2020 Odette Drapeau *2019 Tim & Elke Inkster *2018

Robert Bringhurst Robert Bringhurst Appointments to the Order of Canada (2013). (born 1946) is a CanadianWong (1999). poet, typographer and author. He has translated substantial works from Haida and Navajo and from classical Greek and Arabic. He wrote ''The El ...

*2017 Denise Lapointe & David Carruthers *2015 Rod McDonald *2015 Jan & Crispin Elsted, Barbarian Press *2013 William Rueter RCA MGDC *2012

Stan Bevington Stan Bevington is a Canadian book publisher who founded Coach House Books. Life and work In 1965, Stan Bevington, a typesetter, newly transplanted to Toronto from Edmonton, rented an old coach house and installed an antique Challenge Gordon pla ...

*2011 Glenn Goluska *2010

Jim Rimmer Jim Rimmer (April 1, 1934 – January 9, 2010) was a Canadian graphic designer, letterpress printer, proprietor of the Pie Tree Press and is especially notable as a designer of typefaces. Biography Jim Rimmer was born on 1 April 1934 and was ...

*2009 Frank Newfeld *2007 Robert R. Reid

Publications

*The society's

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is ''Amphora'' (ISSN 0003-200X) *''From Writer to Reader'' is an ejournal (ISSN 1911-7302) It is deposited with E-LIS.Eprints.rclis.org

Arms

References

External links

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