ECW Press
665 Gerrard Street East
Toronto, ON M4M 1Y2
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ECW Press publishes
an eclectic list of nonfiction, poetry, and fiction — but no books for
children. ECW accepts fiction
and poetry submissions by Canadians only; there are no
citizenship restrictions on writers submitting nonfiction. Each of the
acquiring editors has different interests. You might pitch your manuscript to
the best match. Click on the name for a link to details of what they’re looking
for:
Jack David, Co-Publisher. Acquires Business, mysteries & true crime,
biography & memoir, pop science
Michael Holmes, Executive Editor. Acquires literary fiction, poetry, nonfiction (hockey, wrestling, music & Canadian pop culture)
Michael Holmes, Executive Editor. Acquires literary fiction, poetry, nonfiction (hockey, wrestling, music & Canadian pop culture)
Susan Renouf, Executive Editor at Large. Acquires Literary fiction, creative nonfiction,
environmental & social issues
Jennifer Knoch, Senior Editor. Acquires fiction, nonfiction (memoir, environmental
& social issues, music, adventure, health)
Jennifer Smith, Acquisitions &
Business Development. Acquires Nonfiction
(business, memoir, illustrated, culinary, corporate & custom publishing)
Jen
Albert, Editor. Acquires science
fiction, fantasy, horror, YA fiction, nonfiction (social issues, pop culture,
and pop science)
David Caron, Co-Publisher. Mostly acquires fantasy and sci-fi, but other things, too.
David Caron, Co-Publisher. Mostly acquires fantasy and sci-fi, but other things, too.
Query ECW at: submissions@ecwpress.com
Put your manuscript’s
title in the subject line. Include a sample of the manuscript.
For poetry, approximately 10–15 pages. For fiction and non-fiction, 15–25
pages. For nonfiction, please also send an outline of the entire work. (For
tips on writing a good nonfiction proposal, check out this sample from author Michael Hingston.)
See full
submission guidelines here.
Call
for Submissions:
“You might be best known for writing about music,
politics, primates, or the adventures of made-up people, but ECW wants to give
you a chance to expound on something different. On that thing that makes an
evangelist of you, that makes you hold party guests hostage long after the
coffee has gone cold or has you giving a well-intentioned Skinny Puppy CD to
your grandma or Empire DVDs to your dad.
ECW staffers share your pop culture passion, and
we’re looking to expand our successful pop culture list with a new series that
gives you a soapbox to preach from. Pop Classics will offer
intelligent but accessible arguments about why a particular pop phenomenon
matters. Possible subjects include TV, music, books series/authors, film, and
video games. It can be something nostalgic (Babysitters Club novels) or
contemporary (Beyoncé), as long as it’s something meaningful: to you, to its
genre, to pop culture, and maybe even to society as a whole.
“Running between 20,000 and 40,000 words, Pop
Classics are short books that pack a big punch, and just might be the thing to
give your dinner companions some peace . . . or give you a legitimate reason to
keep on talking.”
To submit a Pop Classics proposal, send an email to
Jen Knoch at jenk@ecwpress.com
Put “Pop Classics Proposal: Friday Night Lights”
(or whatever your subject may be) in the subject line.
Your proposal should include the following
elements:
1. Who: A CV that details your writing
experience and includes links to previously published work
2. What: An outline of your proposed
book: Your central thesis and a proposed table of contents to show us how that
argument would develop
3. Why: Some basic information on the
subject, target audience and why the time is right for writing about this topic
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| Paige Sis;ley |
If you’re interested
in meeting an agent and in getting published, don’t miss our up[coming How to Get Published workshops Saturday, Oct 3, in Toronto with Evan
Brown of Transatlantic Literary Agency (see here)
and Saturday, Oct 24, in Guelph with Paige Sisley of the CookeMcdermid
agency (see here).
In the meanwhile,
though, the best way of upping your game as a writer may be with a weekly
course. This summer, Brian Henry’s offering an Introductory course and two
Intensive courses online and accessible anywhere in the world:
Online: Intensive
Creative Writing, Tuesday
afternoons, July 7 – Aug 25. First reading emailed June 30.
Details here.
Online: Intensive Creative Writing, Wednesday evenings, July 8 – Aug
26. First reading emailed July 1. Details here.
Come the fall, there will be a full
range of courses on offer, both in-person in Toronto and Burlington, and online
and accessible from everywhere.
For details, email: brianhenry@sympatico.ca
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| Moose at Arowhon Pines Resort, Algonquin Park |
Beyond
that, Brian’s post-lockdown workshop schedule continues to take shape:
July
Algonquin Park Writing Retreat: Join
me for a magical weekend at Arowhon Pines Resort, an outpost of luxury in the
middle of the wilderness, for a writing retreat. Thursday, July
9 – Sunday, July 12. Details here.
Burlington: Raising the Stakes: How to increase your story's tension,
Saturday, July 18. Details here.
Southampton Art School: Join me in this lovely beach town on Lake Huron for
two workshops: How to Build Your Story, Saturday,
July 25 (see here) and How
to Write Great Characters, Sunday, July 26 (see here).
August
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| Collingwood, Ontario |
Oakville: "You can write great dialogue,"
September
Alliston: Writing for Children and for Young Adults, with Anne Shone, Executive Editor, Scholastic Books, Saturday, September 12. Details here.
Alliston: Writing for Children and for Young Adults, with Anne Shone, Executive Editor, Scholastic Books, Saturday, September 12. Details here.
October
Toronto: How to Get Published with Evan Brown of Transatlantic Literary
Agency,
Saturday, Oct 3. Details here.
Guelph: How to Get Published with literary agent Paige Sisley of
CookeMcDermid,
London: How to Write Great Characters, Saturday, October 31.
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| Briars Resort |
November
Jackson's Point: Writing Retreat at the Briar's Resort on Lake
Simcoe,
Friday, Nov 13 – Monday,
Nov 16. Details to come.
See Brian’s complete
current schedule here, including writing workshops,
weekly writing classes, and weekend retreats in Algonquin Park, Alliston,
Bolton, Barrie, Brampton, Burlington, Caledon, Collingwood, Georgetown,
Georgina, Guelph, Hamilton, Jackson’s Point, Kitchener-Waterloo, London,
Midland, Mississauga, New Tecumseth, Oakville, Ottawa, Peterborough, St.
Catharines, Sudbury, Toronto, Windsor, Woodstock, Halton, Muskoka, Peel,
Simcoe, York Region, the GTA, Ontario and beyond.
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