Windsor & Essex County
Location
Canada
42° 9' 21.8664" N, 82° 43' 33.4272" W
Focus on: Windsor & Essex County
A Guide to Windsor & Essex County?s Literary Scene
Javascript is required to view this map. Windsor, Ontario's most southern city, has always had its own flavour and flair. Once a bootlegging port and a corridor for the Underground Railway, now a hub of cutting-edge literary activity, Windsor and the surrounding county of Essex have become the home of many outstanding writers, independent publishers, bookstores and reading series.
Windsor, ON
BookFest Windsor is an annual three-day festival of books and authors that takes place the first weekend of November at the Capitol Theatre in Windsor, Ontario. There are author readings and signings, panel discussions, Q&A sessions, dramatic monologues and dramatizations. The genres presented range from poetry to novels, graphic novels, biography, creative nonfiction and politics.
As well as presenting events on the main stages at the Capitol, BookFest sends authors to meet students in the schools and the public library.
Windsor, ON
Cranberry Tree Press Publishing Services is known for literary excellence, tasteful and attractive design, and quality printing and binding.
They publish a wide variety of genres, including poetry, novels, short fiction and all varieties of non-fiction. Recent books include The Road to Zeringet by Maggie Ziegler.
Kingsville, ON
Palimpsest is defined as a piece of writing on which the original text has been effaced to make room for later writing, but which traces remain. Metaphorically, it refers to something that is altered but still bears the visible traces of its history. Palimpsest Press is a publishing company that takes its inspiration from the new and the old in its production processes, combining the best of the modern digital age, along with historical techniques like letterpress printing and foil stamping.
Windsor, ON
Biblioasis is an independent literary press based in Windsor, Ontario. They were founded as a bookshop in 1998. In 2004, owner Dan Wells first turned to publishing, after which the bookshop gradually moved online; since 2007 publishing has been the primary occupation of the company. In their first eight years Biblioasis issued over 100 trade books, chapbooks and limited hand-bound titles.
Windsor,
Walkerville Publishing Inc.
716 Windermere Road
Windsor ON N8Y 3E1
519-255-9527
Walkerville Publishing Inc, has been publishing books in the Windsor area since 1999, with more than 30 titles to date. Their latest book, 500 Ways You Know You're From Windsor, quickly sold out its first run of more than 5,000 copies in only five months, making it a Canadian bestseller. A second edition is in the offing with new material and photos, as demand remains strong for this fun romp through post World War 2 Windsor and area.
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