Frontenac is upgrading our website!
Since the onset of the COVID pandemic and the subsequent change to all of our business models, we have been busily reworking our website to include the ability to sell our titles directly, online. We’re still working out final details, but we plan on offering significant reductions on shipping cost to you.
We are also adding author bio pages, so if you are one of our authors and think we might need an updated bio from you, please email neil@frontenachouse.com
Keep checking in, as we hope to have this exciting upgrade ready go live within a couple of weeks.
YYC POP ONLINE LAUNCH EVENT
YYC POP will be launching online in a live Zoom Gala event, spread over two days.
September 26-27.
Saturday
September 26
2-5 PM
Featuring readings by:
Sheri-D Wilson, Micheline Maylor, Erin Mouré, Sherry Schwartz, Michael Wahba, Clint White, Sophie Gowsell, Vivian Hansen, Natalie Meisner, Calvin Becker, Yvonne Trainer, Matt Blais, Cort Bulloch, Dale Lee Kwong, Josephine LoRe, Shannon Maguire, Ethan Collister, Rosemary Griebel, Carol MacKay, Brenda Johnson, Daniel Igbinosun, Mary Vlooswyk, Faye Reineberg Holt, A lot of Poetry, Pamela Medland, Erin Dingle, Yaiza Lopez Garcia San Roman, Danielle Paul, Madelaine Caritas Longman, Margaret Chandler, Richard Heyman, Dawn Bryan, Xam Eitsirhc, Kirk Miles
Saturday Meeting ID: 810 7145 9002
Passcode: 384928
Sunday
September 27
2-5 PM
Featuring readings by:
Sheri-D Wilson, Yvonne Trainer, Weyman Chan, Jenny Wong, Mohamad Kebbewar, Crystal MacKenzie, Shirlee Matheson, David Eso, Andrew Guilbert, Adrienne Adams, Heather Ramsay, Beth Everest, Doris Daley, Carrie Phillips Kieser, Gisele Villeneuve, Aritha van Herk, Joan Shillington, Catherine Welburn (Cassy), Karen Gallagher-Burt, Ryan Hurl, Audrey Lane Cockett, Diana Hayes, Vanessa Urschel, Lori D. Roadhouse, Anne Sorbie, Sebastien Wen, Michelle Owusu, Sandra Sutter
Sunday Meeting ID: 822 5014 9674
Passcode: 776697
Quartet 2020 online launch!
We will be launching Quartet 2020 on October 22, time TBA. We’ll be putting up a registration page soon. Join authors Alex Williamson, Joan Shillington, Lisa Richter, and Tyler B. Perry as they launch their new titles.
Quartet 2020 online launch!
We will be launching Quartet 2020 on October 22, time TBA. We’ll be putting up a registration page soon. Join authors Alex Williamson, Joan Shillington, Lisa Richter, and Tyler B. Perry as they launch their new titles.
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COVID-19 UPDATE
Frontenac House has launch events planned in March and April for Borderlands by Mark Vitaris, Impact Statement by Bob Stallworthy, and the poet laureate project YYC POP by Sheri-D Wilson. Unfortunately, due to the ongoing instability caused by the coronavirus pandemic, we have been forced to postpone these launches indefinitely, as our venue has cancelled all events.
We will be reevaluating our event calendar at the end of April, and are keeping our collective fingers crossed that this situation has settled down favourably by then. Our hope is that we will be able to launch these titles in the fall, if not sooner.
To all our authors, friends, and patrons, we wish you all well as we work our way through this.
Wash your hands, people!
Frontenac Stands With You
Since 2000, we have endeavoured to publish literary works from authors who come from all walks of life. We have published authors of colour, Indigenous authors, LGBTQ+ authors, academics, and street writers. We try to make a space for new writers who might otherwise be unable to find a venue, and we take pride in our many authors who have returned to us for a second, third and even fourth book. We take even more pleasure when our authors receive accolades in the form of awards and positive reviews.
Frontenac will not publish hate or discriminatory writing, and we strongly condemn the bigotry and racism we see rising around us. We stand in solidarity with those who fight racism and intolerance wherever it may be found. In these very trying times we all must stand up and make our voices heard. Not just people of colour, or LGBTQ+ people, or young people, we ALL have to Just. Say. No More.
Neil Petrunia, Terry Davies, & Micheline Maylor
Sheri-D Wilson named a Member of the Order of Canada.
Sheri-D was named “… for her contributions as a spoken word artist and for her leadership in the community.”
For more details, see https://www.gg.ca/en/media/news/2019/governor-general-announces-120-new-appointments-order-canada
Natalie Meisner is to be Calgary’s next Poet Laureate
Natalie follows in the footsteps of two other Frontenac House authors, Micheline Maylor and Sheri-D Wilson as Calgary’s Poet Laureate. We congratulate her on this honour, and know she’ll do an excellent job. For more information, visit https://calgaryartsdevelopment.com/resources/calgary-poet-laureate/
Pressure Cooker Love Bomb shortlisted – twice!
Sharanpal Ruprai’s Pressure Cooker Love Bomb is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Poetry. For more details, see https://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/current-finalists/
Pressure Cooker Love Bomb is also shortlisted for the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry in the Manitoba Book Awards this year. For more details, see https://manitobabookawards.com/index.php/en/
Upcoming Launches
Recent Releases
News
Awards
Alberta is turning out fresh, grade-A poetic voices, thanks to the efforts of Calgary publisher Frontenac House.
Sonnet L’Abbe,
Globe and Mail
Frontenac House’s Quartet series is one of the best things happening in Canadian poetry.
Calgary Herald
Frontenac House has established itself as one of Canada’s finest poetry presses.
Rajinderpal S. Pal,
This Magazine
Frontenac House gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We would also like to thank the Government of Alberta Multimedia Development Fund for their support of our publishing program.
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