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The Toronto Small Press Group has a Small Press Directory on their website.

Check it out here: http://www.torontosmallpressbookfair.org/small-press-directory.html

BookThug is an Independent publisher of chapbooks and trade books of poetry and poetically minded literature. They also publish BafterC, a journal of new writing.

Coach House Books

Tucked away on Toronto’s historic bpNichol Lane, Coach House Books has been publishing and printing high-quality innovative fiction and poetry since 1965. Coach House is Canada’s most venerable literary press and has, during the past forty years, published books by Michael Ondaatje, George Bowering, bpNichol, Nicole Brossard, Christian Bök, Guy Maddin, Steve McCaffery, Gail Scott, Jonathan Goldstein, Anne Michaels, Michael Redhill and hundreds of others. A refuge for the refined, an asylum for the aesthete, a sanctuary for the scribe.

The Mercury Press publishes poetry, fiction, murder mysteries, and culturally significant non-fiction by Canadian authors.

Véhicule Press has been publishing prize-winning books for over thirty years: poetry, fiction, social history, Quebec Studies, Jewish studies, jazz history, and restaurant guides.

ECW Press is one of the fastest growing and most diversified independent publishers in North America. ECW Press has published close to 1,000 books that are distributed throughout the English-speaking world and translated into dozens of languages.

ECW Press supports a vibrant list that includes poetry and fiction, pop-culture and political analysis, sports books, biography, and travel guides. Books by writers whose names you know and love — and by those who we’re very pleased to introduce for the first time.

Chaudiere Books originally came together between Jennifer Mulligan and rob mclennan in late 2004. Mulligan had been listening to mclennan grumbling for years about the lack of a solid Ottawa-based literary publisher actively seeking the work of writers around town to help develop and foster the writing the way Arsenal Pulp in Vancouver, Turnstone Press in Winnipeg and Vehicule Press in Montreal had already been doing for decades. With the help of Anita Dolman, and later, Carmel Purkis, they hammered together a series of ideas and a business plan to get the press moving, with the idea that their press, named Chaudiere Books to keep links not only historically and geographically but literary, would publish four books a season of poetry, fiction and eventually non-fiction starting fall 2006. Currently the press is headed by Mulligan and mclennan, who both have strong ties not only to Ottawa itself, but to the Ottawa Valley, with one from Irish Pontiac in Quebec, and the other from Scottish Glengarry in Ontario, and the press currently has a large number of friends and family around to help with production, promotion, copy editing, distribution and general press business to keep the business afloat.

click here to visit the Chaudiere Books website
click here to visit the Cahudiere Books blog

Laurel Reed Books is a small and smaller literary press in southern Ontario. Poetry is our home. Situated as we are only miles from the Grand River, at the edge of town where the fields begin, somewhere between Brantford and the Six Nations Reserve, one hour from Toronto and one hour from Buffalo N.Y., we exist on the edge of various cultures seeding dos wimpled wind of eclecticism.

Read a review of Phil Hall's White Porcupine http://laurelreedbooks.bravehost.com/

  
Snare Books is an innovative literary press based in Montreal.
Snare Books sponsors the annual Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry.

click here to visit the Snare Books website
or here to learn about the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry

                              Anansi started as a small press with a mandate to publish only Canadian writers, and quickly gained attention for publishing significant authors such as Margaret Atwood, Matt Cohen, Michael Ondaatje, and Erin Mouré, as well as George Grant and Northrop Frye.
French-Canadian works in translation have always been an important part of the list, and prominent Anansi authors in translation include Roch Carrier, Anne Hébert, Lise Bissonnette, and Marie-Claire Blais. The company specializes in finding and developing Canada's great new writers of literary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction and in maintaining a culturally significant backlist that has accumulated since the house was founded 40 years ago.
House of Anansi Press was purchased in June 2002 from Stoddart Publishing by Scott Griffin, founder of the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize.

Pedlar Press is an independent Canadian literary press that publishes beautiful, innovative and progressive novels, poetry collections, and art books by diverse renowned, less-known or unknown and emerging Canadian writers and artists. Pedlar Press publishes four to five titles per year. Pedlar Press's mission is to work supportively and in close collaboration with its writers, artists and designers, to produce the highest literary and format quality possible within the reach of its resources. Works are intelligent, experimental, bold, radical. The books are made of fine quality paper, use carefully considered cover artwork by Canadian artists who encourage fresh ways of seeing, and consistently challenge the literary imagination.

Pedlar Press, PO Box 26, Station P, Toronto, M5S 2S6

Talonbooks is an award-winning publisher of multicultural drama, fiction, poetry, French translations, political non-fiction, and First Nations Studies. 2003 marked its 40th anniversary as one of Canada's premier literary publishers.

above/ground press is an Ottawa-based poetry chapbook and broadside publisher; publisher of stanzas magazine, for long poems/sequences; edited/published by rob mclennan

Insomniac Press is a medium-size independent Toronto press that publishes fiction, poetry and non-fiction titles.

Nomados Literary Publishers
Publishers of Fred Wah, Jay MillAr, Margaret Christakos, Lisa Robertson and many others.

DC Books Canada is a literary press specializing in Canadian fiction and poetry located in Ville St Laurent, Quebec

Biblioasis is committed to publishing the best fiction, poetry, criticism and non-fiction in beautiful editions. We intend, as our name suggests, to be an oasis for booklovers, a centre for a community of writers and readers.

Arsenal Pulp Press is a book publisher in Vancouver, Canada of poetry; literary fiction and non-fiction; cultural and gender studies; gay, lesbian, and multicultural literature; cookbooks; and guidebooks. We are interested in literature that traverses uncharted territories, publishing books that challenge and stimulate and ask probing questions about the world around us.

Anvil Press is a Vancouver publisher of Canadian contemporary, progressive literature

Wolsak and Wynn is a literary press dedicated to publishing clear, passionate Canadian voices in poetry and non-fiction and anthologies of these two genres. We believe that poetry has the power to crystallise and express the diverse life of this country in the most concentrated form, while non-fiction unfurls experiences for the reader.

Mansfield Press, with a strong focus on poetry, is dedicated to nurturing a new generation of writers and introducing them to the world.

Frontenac House, located in downtown Calgary, is a small literary press on the lookout for bold new work. Frontenac’s mandate is to publish as wide a range of poetic expression, from as varied and diverse a group of poets, as we can find. Primarily a poetry press, Frontenac intends before long to include other literary forms in its repertoire.

New Star Books publishes in the areas of social issues and politics; literary prose, both fiction and non-fiction, and poetry; and culture and history of British Columbia and the West.

Borealis Press publisher of modern literature, which begins in the early 1920s, contains all literary movements expressed in the English speaking literary world, in all genres, and continues to post-modernism and contemporary writing.

Proper Tales Press, books and chapbooks
edited and published by Stuart Ross

Quattro Books, founded in 2006, is a publisher that wishes to reflect the unique cultural character and dynamism of Canada now: what it has been and what it is in the process of becoming. 21st-century Canada is international: its writers are influenced by our national experience, surely, but also by literatures brought here by immigrants and newcomers.

red nettle was founded in 2007 with the intention of publishing emerging and innovative poets living in and around Edmonton, Alberta.  As a small chapbook press, we are dedicated to bringing attention to poetry we believe deserves a wider audience.  We publish limited run, saddle stapled or stitched chapbooks, that are inexpensive, yet original and lovingly made.

Pooka Press is an “experimental” press located in Vancouver, BC.
Many Pooka Press items are formed from a single sheet of paper.

Pooka Press works are distributed freely, handed out to friends and people met in passing.

The subject matter of Pooka Press is varied: poems, quotations, stories, and short essays.

Trainwreck Press publishes chapbooks of poetry by contributors to ditch, poetry magazine.