Red Deer Press
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| Parent company | Fitzhenry & Whiteside |
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| Predecessor | Red Deer College Press |
| Founded | 1973 |
| Founder | Gary Botting |
| Country of origin | File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada |
| Headquarters location | Leaside, Ontario |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | www |
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Red Deer Press is a Canadian book publisher located in Leaside, Ontario. It issues trade titles in children's fiction, literary fiction, science fiction, poetry, drama, belles-lettres, and creative nonfiction.
Red Deer Press was founded in 1973 by Red Deer College (RDC) English and creative writing instructor Dr. Gary Botting as a vehicle for aspiring poets in the college's fledgling creative writing program,[1] but it quickly expanded to publishing non-fiction titles[2] and children's books.[3] Initially subsidized by Red Deer College,[4] in 2005, Red Deer Press was acquired by Toronto-based Fitzhenry & Whiteside.
Red Deer Press' books have received several literary awards over the years. For instance, Caroline Pignat's Greener Grass: The Famine Years won the 2009 Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Lorne Daniel, The Hunting Hand and Other Poems (Red Deer: Red Deer College Press, 1973); Marion R. Smith, The Rubbing Rock and other Poems (Red Deer: RDC Press, 1973).
- ^ Gary Botting, Lydia Bubber, Jean Dawe and Sven Thorhallsen, Computer-Assisted Instruction of English As a Second Language (Red Deer: RDC Press, 1973; Tihemme Gagnon, ed., "Introduction" to Streaking! The Collected Poems of Gary Botting (Houston: Strategic, 2016), pp. xxvii-xxxii, 300.
- ^ Leanne Jones, The Book About Nothing (Red Deer: RDC Press, 1976).
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Boultbee, Paul G., "Vain Dream to Mainstream: The Growth of Red Deer College Press", Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada. 33(1):51-66, 1995.
External links
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