Publishing News & Views

Linda Leith reflects on her career in the local literary scene as her eponymous publishing company celebrates its 10th anniversary.

It’s a crowded literary landscape for fantastical beasts and thrilling whodunits, but Renaissance Press, a small and independent Gatineau-based publishing press, isn’t afraid to roll up its sleeves and elbow its way in, armed with fresh voices and unique perspectives representing the intersectionality between queer and disabled voices.

The publishing industry across North America has faced a variety of pandemic roadblocks, but English publishers in Quebec are already in a unique situation with particular challenges, which the coronavirus pandemic only exacerbated.

With the relaunched Shoreline Press, Angela Leuck is nurturing and growing the literary community in the Eastern Townships.

Radical publishers hold up a megaphone to the voices that call us away from complacency and cynicism and lead us to activism and change.

Driven by a shared love of books, childhood best friends and Montreal natives Michael A. Occhionero and Luis Carlo Parga teamed up in 2020 to launch their own publishing company, Ace of Swords Publishing.

Quebec loves its own literature. But what’s the market for Quebec books translated to English? Some notable local publishers discuss.