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Freehand Books
Freehand Books is a Canadian literary imprint started in 2007 by Broadview Press, a Canadian academic publisher. Freehand publishes literary fiction, literary non-fiction, memoir and poetry. In its first season in 2008, Freehand published ''Good To A Fault'', by Marina Endicott. The novel won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Canada and the Caribbean and was shortlisted for the 2008 Giller Prize. ''Tangles'', a graphic memoir by Sarah Leavitt, published in 2010, was the first graphic book shortlisted for the Writers' Trust of Canada non-fiction prize. A 2014 Freehand book, Karyn L. Freedman's ''One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery'', was the winner of the $40,0000 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction in 2015. It was also longlisted for ''Canada Reads'' in 2017. In 2018, Freehand published ''Homes: A Refugee Story'', by Abu Bakr Al-Rabeeah and Winnie Yeung. It went on to become a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadview Press
Broadview Press is an independent academic publisher that focuses on the humanities. Founded in 1985 by Don LePan, the company now employs over 30 people, has over 800 titles in print, and publishes approximately 40 titles each year. Broadview's offices are located across Canada in Calgary, Peterborough, Nanaimo, Guelph and Wolfville. History In its early years, Broadview operated out of LePan's home in Peterborough, Ontario, publishing a small number of titles for both Trade and academic markets. With the publication of books such as ''The Broadview Anthology of Poetry'', ''The Broadview Reader'', and the first few titles in the Broadview Editions series in the early 1990s, Broadview began to focus exclusively on the academic market. In May 2008 Broadview's social science and history lists were sold to the University of Toronto Press. Michael Harrison (Broadview Vice-President 1992-2004, and President 2005-2008) and several staff members went on to form the Higher Education divis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |