Baraka Books
Baraka Books is a Quebec-based English-language book publisher specializing in creative and political non-fiction, history and historical fiction, and fiction. Our belief is that books are a haven of freedom and that they remain the foremost vector for change.
Bunim & Bannigan
Bunim & Bannigan Ltd, founded 2005, is an eclectic publishing house with offices in Charlottetown and Montreal. We offer original Canadian fiction and non-fiction and translated Russian and German literature.
Concordia University Press
Concordia University Press is a non-profit publisher of scholarly books that share substantiated, insightful, and nuanced information and arguments with diverse readerships. Specializing in the humanities, visual arts, and social sciences, we are a small press with a big impact.
Corner Studio
Corner Studio was created during the summer of 2020 as a place of design, print and paint … from traditional publishing via environmentally friendly print-on-demand poetry, memoirs, local history, and children’s books, to artist catalogues, limited edition or hand-bound bookarts including collaborations with artists and printmakers.
Daraja Press
Daraja Press is a not-for-profit publisher that seeks to reclaim the past, contest the present, and invent the future. “Daraja” is the KiSwahili word for “bridge,” and as our name suggests, we seek to build bridges of solidarity between movements and emancipatory struggles. Where possible, PDF versions of our titles are available for free download. We publish books, e-books, pamphlets, campaign materials, and video and audio content.
DC Books
Related to John Sutherland’s northern review (itself springing from the merger of the magazines Preview and First Statement) through the intermediary presses Contact and Delta Canada, DC Books embodies a tradition of literary innovation, dissent against convention, and artistic facilitation that is second to none. These connections extend beyond title and purpose.
Drawn & Quarterly
Drawn & Quarterly is the internationally renowned publisher of the world’s best cartoonists. D+Q has published many North American luminaries of the medium including Adrian Tomine, Lynda Barry, Chris Ware, Kate Beaton, Chester Brown, Julie Doucet, and Seth, as well as international authors including Tove Jansson (Finland); Guy Delisle (France); Tom Gauld (UK); Astrid Lindgren (Sweden); Yoshihiro Tatsumi (Japan); Rutu Modan (Israel); Shigeru Mizuki (Japan); and many more cartoonists from across the globe.
Guernica Editions
Established in 1978, Guernica Editions has published over five hundred titles from around the world that reflect its commitment to a social agenda with a special understanding of different cultures. Under new management since 2010, it has added two new imprints to its traditional series of prose, poetry, drama, and essays. The MiroLand imprint publishes other literary genres and the Guernica World Editions imprint publishes books from authors outside of Canada. After four decades, Guernica has maintained its long-held tradition of publishing translations of Quebec and international authors and creating ties between cultural groups.
InfiniPRESS
InfiniPRESS is Infinithéâtre’s in-house publishing press devoted to the publication of plays developed and produced here at Infinitheatre in Montreal, Quebec.
Kersplebedeb
Since 1998 Kersplebedeb has been an important source of radical literature and agit prop materials. The project has a non-exclusive focus on anti-patriarchal and anti-imperialist politics, framed within an anticapitalist perspective. A special priority is given to writings regarding armed struggle in the metropole, the continuing struggles of political prisoners and prisoners of war, and the political economy of imperialism. The Kersplebedeb website presents historical and contemporary writings by revolutionary thinkers from the anarchist and communist traditions.
Linda Leith Publishing
Linda Leith Publishing | Linda Leith Éditions was created in 2011 and launched its first titles in 2012. A trade publisher specializing in quality fiction and non-fiction, we have a special love of short books –novella-length fiction and essays–and controversial issues of the day. What we love most are good books that might not see the light of day if it were not for LLP| LLÉ.
Livres Agapé Books
Livres Agapé Books is an independent book publishing company and online bookstore. It was founded by Angela Kyparissis, Ph.D., a clinical and forensic psychologist, who is fascinated with people’s stories, whether true or invented.
Longbridge Books
Launched in 2008, Longbridge Books is an independent publisher whose mandate is to publish works of fiction and nonfiction that celebrate cultural diversity.
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Established in 1969, about 1800 titles currently in print. Scholarly books and well-researched studies of general interest in the humanities and social sciences, including anthropology, especially North American native peoples; architecture; Arctic and northern studies; art history, Canadian studies; Canadian literature; classics; communication and media studies; cultural studies; economics; education, environmental studies; ethnic studies; film studies; folklore and material culture; geography; health and society; history; Irish and Gaelic studies; law; linguistics; literary criticism; medieval and renaissance studies; military history; native studies; philosophy; poetry; photography; political economy; political science; public administration; Quebec studies; religious studies; Slavic and Eastern European studies; sociology; theatre; and women’s studies.
Metatron
Metatron Press (est 2014) is a literary publisher that specializes in publishing contemporary writing (poetry and fiction) by debut authors. Brave and emotionally-resonant, the work we publish both challenges and informs a new direction and style of contemporary writing and publishing. Known for our edgy pocketbooks and for the platform we offer emerging writers, our publishing program also includes readings and various digital publishing projects. Since 2014 we have supported over 500 writers from all over the world through our various projects.
Metonymy
Metonymy Press publishes literary fiction and nonfiction by emerging writers. We try to reduce barriers to publishing for authors whose perspectives are underrepresented in order to produce quality materials relevant to queer, feminist, and social justice communities. We really want to keep gay book lovers satisfied.
Noon Books
Nahed AlShawa has been writing and publishing children’s books since 2000. Her aim was to get her children to read Arabic books that are creative, fun and beautifully illustrated. At the time, she did not find quality books for kids, and so published her first series “Saba’s Stories”, which sold out in less than a year. By 2010, she had published about 50 books, and that’s when she had decided to establish Noon Books Publishing House. It is a mission-based organization that aims to publish 1001 books to enrich the Arabic Library with high quality children’s books that are enjoyable and fun to read.
PAPP International
PAPP International is a dynamic, independent publishing company that creates fun and innovative books for children and adults. Over almost 20 years, we have become a recognized leader in our field in Canada with customers located around the world. We are home to five imprints and together publish more than 500 titles each year.
Phoenicia Publishing
Phoenicia Publishing is interested in words and images that illuminate culture, spirit, and the human experience. We publish book-length poetry, creative non-fiction, fiction, music, photography and art.
Pow Pow Press
Created in 2010, Éditions Pow Pow is a Montréal-based publisher which specializes in comics and graphic novels. Pow Pow Press has been translating some of these books from French to English since 2015 – making them available to a brand new audience.
Prince Chameleon Press
Christina Manolescu is the founder of Prince Chameleon Press. She has written, designed, and published children’s illustrated fiction and two novels, Baglady and Waldensong Saturnalia. Excerpts from both these novels were short-listed for the Eastside Stories Competition in London, U.K. She has also undertaken translation, ghostwriting, editorial revision, book design and print management for various clients, one of whose self-published books won a silver Ippy Award in 2009. She founded Invisible Cities Network in 2001 to support and showcase the work of independent artists and self-publishers.
Renaissance Press
Renaissance was founded in May 2013 by a group of authors and designers who wanted to publish and market those stories which don’t always fit neatly in a genre, or a niche, or a demographic. Like the happy panbibliophiles we are, we opened our submissions, with no other guideline than finding a Canadian book we would fall in love with.
Today, this is still very true; however, we’ve also noticed an interesting trend in what we like to publish. It turns out that we are naturally drawn to the voices of those who are members of a marginalized group, and these are the voices we want to continue to uplift.
Universitas Press
Universitas Press is a Montreal-based independent academic press, peer-reviewed, founded in 2014. Committed to publishing relevant work of academics and independent researchers in the field of humanities and social sciences, as well as to publishing books for the classroom, UP is dedicated to bringing students, instructors and researchers the best editorial and academic output.
Véhicule Press
Since 1973 Véhicule Press has published quality writing by Canadian authors, with a commitment to first-time authors—a third of our list. The press publishes poetry, fiction, translations, social history, and the occasional restaurant guide. Carmine Starnino is the editor of the Signal Editions poetry imprint. The fiction series Esplanade Books is edited by Andrew Steinmetz.