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
The Mercury Press publishes poetry, fiction, murder mysteries, and culturally significant non-fiction by Canadian authors.
Véhicule Press
For over thirty years Véhicule Press has been publishing prize-winning books: poetry, fiction, social history, Quebec Studies, Jewish studies, jazz history, and restaurant guides.
Nightwood Editions
Nightwood is also dedicated to producing excellent Canadian non-fiction that helps support its literary list. Whether publishing poetry, sports, children's, or crossword titles, Nightwood Editions maintains the highest standards in all it undertakes, building on its growing reputation.
BookThug
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.
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.
Snare Books
Snare Books is an innovative literary press based in Montreal.
Snare Books sponsors the annual Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry.
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House of Anansi
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.