NeWest Press is a Canadian publishing company. Established in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1977,[1] the company grew out of a literary magazine, NeWest Review, which had been launched in 1975.[1] Early members of the collective that established the company included writer Rudy Wiebe and University of Alberta academics Douglas Barbour, George Melnyk, and Diane Bessai.[2]
The first title published by the company was Getting Here, an anthology of short stories by students in Barbour's and Wiebe's creative writing classes at the University of Alberta, which included Aritha Van Herk, Myrna Kostash, Candas Jane Dorsey, Caterina Edwards, and Helen Rosta.[2]
The company publishes literary fiction, non-fiction, poetry, mystery novels, and drama, with a particular but not exclusive interest in books by authors from Western Canada.[3] The company also publishes a separate line, Nunatak, devoted to work by first-time authors.[2] Its Writer as Critic series is devoted to non-fiction essays of literary and cultural criticism by noted Canadian writers,[2] while its Prairie Play series is one of Canada's oldest surviving lines of drama publishing.[4] Sharon Pollock's play Blood Relations remains one of the company's all-time bestselling titles.[4]
The company's board of directors includes Douglas Barbour (president),[3] Anne Nothof (vice-president), Don Kerr (treasurer), Jenna Butler (secretary), Diane Bessai (honorary member), Merrill Distad, Kit Dobson, Paul Hjartarson, Smaro Kamboureli, Nicole Markotic, Suzette Mayr, Michael Phair, Linda Quirk, Eva Radford, and Leslie Vermeer.[3]
^ abGeorge Melnyk, The Literary History of Alberta Volume Two: From the End of the War to the End of the Century. University of Alberta Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0888643247. p. 173.
^ abcd"A voice of the West turns 25". The Globe and Mail, April 4, 2002.
^ abc"Diving into the slush pile; NeWest president, fellow board member tackle arduous task". Edmonton Journal, August 22, 2014.
^ ab"NeWest Press cooked up in kitchen; Diane Bessai a driving force for 35 years". Edmonton Journal, May 27, 2012.
NeWestPress is a Canadian publishing company. Established in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1977, the company grew out of a literary magazine, NeWest Review,...
racing the ghosts of the Klondike rush. Internet Archive. Edmonton : NeWestPress. ISBN 978-1-896300-66-5. Smolkin, Rachel; Williams, Brenna (October 1...
Press. ISBN 978-1-77212-125-4. Pratt, Larry, ed. (1986). Socialism and Democracy in Alberta: Essays in Honour of Grant Notley. Edmonton: NeWestPress...
Of the Spirit, NeWestPress (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), 1977. (With Trevor Boddy) The Architecture of Douglas Cardinal, NeWestPress (Edmonton, Alberta...
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novelist and poet Fred Wah. The book was first published in 1996 by NeWestPress, based in Edmonton, Alberta. Diamond Grill is told through both prose...
Literaturee. Eds. Robert Kroetsch and Reingard M. Nischik. Edmonton: NeWestPress, 1985. 91-106. Whewell, William. An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics...
(2004). River time : racing the ghosts of the Klondike rush. Edmonton: NeWestPress. ISBN 978-1-896300-66-5. "BC Shipping News - October 2018 by McIvor Communications...
Dead White Men [1] The Wireless Room. NeWestPress. 2000. ISBN 978-1-896300-15-3. Holding Pattern. NeWestPress. 2002. ISBN 978-1-896300-60-3. Tengo Sed...
Someone to Kill the Doves: A Life of Sheila Watson. Edmonton, Alberta: NeWestPress. ISBN 978-1-896300-83-2. Gasher, Mike; Skinner, David; Lorimer, Rowland...
is available on the TransCanada Institute's web site. On the board of NeWestPress (Edmonton) since 1981, she is the founder and editor of The Writer as...
Garry. Blackbirds (2012) and Two Blackbirds (2014). Calgary, Alberta: NeWestPress. Schrader, Helena. The Lady in the Spitfire. Lincoln, Nebraska: iUniverse...
Broke City (NeWestPress 2019) is the final novel in McGrath's Santa Rosa Trilogy. The second novel in the trilogy, North East (NeWestPress 2014) was nominated...
recounted in her book The Long Trail - The Story of a Pioneer Family (NeWestPress). Baldwin, Gerald William. "Gerald William Baldwin". Parlinfo. Parliament...
Always Someone to Kill the Doves: A Life of Sheila Watson. Edmonton: NeWestPress. Gordon, W. Terrence. 1997. Marshall McLuhan: Escape into Understanding:...
collection of Glenbow Museum Dianne Meili, Those who Know: Profiles of Alberta's Native Elders (NeWestPress 1991); includes a profile of Maggie Black Kettle...
granddaughter and other stories. Edmonton: NeWestPress, 1992. Bridal Hands on the Maple. Calgary: Second Wednesday Press, 1992. Women dancing on rooftops: bring...
Ontario. p. H7. Nothof, Anne (1999). Ethnicities: Plays from the New West. NeWestPress. p. 95. ISBN 9781896300030. Retrieved 4 March 2019. Chan, Marty (1996)...
(later The Dinosaur Review), The NeWest ReView, and Arc Poetry Magazine, as well as of the chapbook press Sidereal Press. As a musician, he plays guitar...
ISBN 978-1-894864-62-6. Lisac, Mark (1995). The Klein Revolution. Edmonton: NeWestPress. ISBN 978-0-920897-83-6. Martin, Don (2002). King Ralph: the political...
in Sacred Ground: Illuminati in The Double Hook. Edmonton, Alberta: NeWestPress, 1988. Lovesey, Oliver. "The Place of the Journey in Randolph Stow's...
Dissent: The Shaping of Radical Thought in the Canadian West. Edmonton, Alberta: NeWestPress. ISBN 978-1-896300-08-5. Pratt, D. F. (1962). William Ives...
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