Borealis Press

The press publishes most genres but specializes in Canadian authored or oriented material.

Multiple submissions and unsolicited material are not accepted - please query first, including synopsis and/or outline and a sample chapter or equivalent, together with return postage or international postal coupons, and adequately sized return envelope or package. Material arriving without such pre-paid return is scrapped.

It is recommended that authors, before any query or submission, research the market in the writer´s market periodicals available in the reference section of most libraries, and also look through the latest Borealis / Tecumseh Catalogue - available from the address below. Do not query or send material unless you are reasonably certain that it is consistent with what the publisher usually produces. Forty-eight pages in length is minimum for publication.

Normally, we take three to four months to reply, publish by contract, pay a ten percent royalty on net price annually, or for some editorial projects a flat fee. We usually publish within one to two years of receipt of an approved contract.

The press accepts for appraisal material that seriously involves the human situation, in a mature, skilful manner and interesting, well written style.

Borealis Books, a division of Borealis Press Ltd., was founded in 1972 to encourage and publish new Canadian writers who demonstrate talent and potential for significant growth (e.g. Carol Shields, Giorgio Di Cicco, Cyril Dabydeen, Kenneth Radou, Guy Vanderhaeghe, among others). As this Press grew, established authors were published as well (e.g. Jan Drabek, Fred Cogswell, Hugh Garner, among others). New needs in Canadian Literature were addressed when the Press expanded to include "series" such as New Canadian Drama and The Journal of Canadian Poetry (annual). The Press has met the on-going need for critical works on established early Canadian writers such as Archibald Lampman, L.M. Montgomery, Isabella Valancy Crawford, E.J. Pratt, Susanna Moodie, among others. Attention is also paid to aboriginal peoples through books on Northern Canada (Northern Studies), the Dogrib (Tale Spinners in a Spruce Tipi), Inuit People (Inuk), Cree People (Payuk and the Polar Bears), Indian Legends(Peter and the Water Manitou, an Indian legend of Lake Superior), Micmac People (From My Vantage Point), Algonkin People (Menominee, The Wild River People), the Metis (The Riel/Real Story), among many others.