Two small independent Canadian publishers looking for authors

Love and Other Disappointments
by Heather Paul
published by NON

NON {Now or Never} Publishing

901, 163 Street
Surrey, BC  V4A 9T8
Canada

http://www.nonpublishing.com/

NON is a small independent publisher that’s looking for Canadian fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The publisher is Chris Needham. Here’s what they have to say:

“Okay, so we’re ready to start looking at book submissions again. But we expect to fall behind almost immediately, so before you send anything, please make sure you’ve looked at (and maybe even read!) our other books.

“We will probably take forever to respond, and we do apologize for that. However, if you’re still interested, please send us the complete manuscript; it’s tough to consider sample chapters or poems when you’re just not that bright. We’ll see how it goes. Thanks for letting us see your work.

“Oh yeah, and we’re apparently a “literary publisher interested in contemporary Canadian fiction and poetry,” whatever the heck that means. It probably means that, at present, we only consider work by Canadian authors.”

Submit your manuscript to NON publisher, at: chris@nonpublishing.com

Full submission guidelines here.

Kaddish for My Mother
by Marsha Barber
published by Borealis Press

Borealis Press

8 Mohawk Crescent
Nepean, Ontario K2H 7G6

https://borealispress.com/index.php

Borealis Books, a division of Borealis Press Ltd., was founded in 1972 to encourage and publish new Canadian writers who demonstrate talent and potential for significant growth (e.g. Carol Shields, Giorgio Di Cicco, Cyril Dabydeen, Kenneth Radou, Guy Vanderhaeghe, among others).

As it grew, Borealis published established authors as well (e.g. Jan Drabek, Fred Cogswell, Hugh Garner, among others). The Press expanded further to include "series" such as New Canadian Drama and The Journal of Canadian Poe

try (annual). The Press has met the on-going need for critical works on established early Canadian writers such as Archibald Lampman, L.M. Montgomery, Isabella Valancy Crawford, E.J. Pratt, Susanna Moodie, among others.

Borealis also pays attention to aboriginal peoples through books on Northern Canada (Northern Studies), the Dogrib (Tale Spinners in a Spruce Tipi), Inuit People (Inuk), Cree People (Payuk and the Polar Bears), Indian Legends (Peter and the Water Manitou, an Indian legend of Lake Superior), Micmac People (From My Vantage Point), Algonkin People (Menominee, The Wild River People), the Metis (The Riel/Real Story), among many others. 

Borealis publishes most genres including both fiction and nonfiction, plus some books for children and young adults. But it specializes exclusively in Canadian authored or oriented material.

“The press accepts for appraisal material that seriously involves the human situation, in a mature, skilful manner and interesting, well written style.”

Please query first, including a synopsis and/or outline and a sample chapter or equivalent, together with return postage or international postal coupons, and adequately sized return envelope or package. Material arriving without such pre-paid return is scrapped.

Full guidelines here.

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