Canadian Publishing Houses

This page is always under construction. If you know any names of publishing houses that I haven't listed, I'll be grateful for the tip. You may even add a publisher to the list (in alphabetical order) if you know it is Canadian. Just follow this format:

Publisher Name
City, Province/Territory
url their domain
Contact: url to contact info page
Submission Guidelines: url to submission guidelines page or a faq question specific to submission guidelines
Interests: What are they interested in publishing?

Not all publishers' websites give all this information, so just fill as many categories as possible. If you see any errors in what is already up here, first make sure you are correct, and then you may fix the errors.

There is also a directory of publishers' websites here:
http://writerscafe.ca/canadian_publishers/canadian_publishers.php

Verified Publishers

Altitude Publishing
Canmore, Alberta
www.altitudepublishing.com
Interests: Travel and tourism. Most famous for their Amazing Stories series (which is nonfiction).

Boston Mills Press
Erin, Ontario
www.bostonmillspress.com
Contact: www.bostonmillspress.com/contact.cfm
Interests: This is an independant small town press focused on Canadian tourism, nature, and local history. It appears to publish a little fiction, but mostly nonfiction.

House of Anansi Press
Toronto, Ontario
www.anansi.ca
Contact: www.anansi.ca/contact.cfm
Submission Guidelines: www.anansi.ca/submissions.cfm
Interests: "Anansi publishes Canadian and international writers of literary fiction, poetry, and serious nonfiction. We do not publish genre fiction (eg, mysteries, thrillers, science fiction, or romance novels), nor do we publish self-help nonfiction."

Key Porter Books
Toronto, Ontario
www.keyporter.com
Contact: www.keyporter.com/contact.aspx
Interests: No unsolicited manuscripts. Seems to publish just about everything except genre fiction.

McClelland & Stewart Ltd.
Toronto, Ontario
www.mcclelland.com
Contact: www.mcclelland.com/aboutus/contact.html
Submission Guidelines: www.mcclelland.com/resources/submission_guidelines.html
Interests: Currently the largest Canadian publisher.

Porcupine's Quill
Erin, Ontario
www.sentex.net/~pql
Interests: They love their poetry and short story anthologies, but also publish YA and children's fiction, literary novels, literary criticism, and some art books. They don't appear to have much genre work on their list, though.

Random House Canada
Toronto, Ontario
www.randomhouse.ca
Contact: www.randomhouse.ca/contact/index.html
Interests: Divided into Random House, Knopf, Doubleday, Vintage, Seal, Bond Street, and Anchor (none of which are currently accepting unsolicited manuscripts).

Toronto University Press
Toronto, Ontario
www.utppublishing.com
Contact: www.utppublishing.com/pubstore/contacts.ihtml
Submission Guidelines: www.utppublishing.com/pubstore/Getting_Published_with_UTP.ihtml#proposal
Interests: Nonfiction, just about anything you might read to get a BA in General Arts.

Tundra Books
Toronto, Ontario
www.tundrabooks.com
Contact: www.tundrabooks.com/about/tell_us.html
Submission Guidelines: www.tundrabooks.com/authors/submissions.html
Intrests: They'll publish any type of children's book.

Turnstone Press
Manitoba
www.turnstonepress.com under construction

Ethical Self/Vanity Publishers

Spider Thief Publishing
Orangeville, Ontario
www.spiderthief.com
Contact: www.spiderthief.com/contactus.htm
Submission Guidelines: Self-publishing info at www.spiderthief.com/writerspackages.htm
Interests: They're very new, but have so far published short story anthologies. They also hold a contest every year called the Short Story Search ( www.spiderthief.com/sss2006.htm ) which is not a scam requiring ridiculous payment.

Yet To Be Verified
Anchor Canada
Bond Street Books
Dance Collection Danse Press/es
DareArts Foundation
Firefly Books
Groundwood Books
Harper-Collins
Knopf Canada
McGraw-Hill Ryerson
Seal Books
SmithBooks
Vintage Canada
Wilfrid Laurier University Press

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