NeWest Press
NeWest Press is a not-for-profit Canadian publishing company. Established in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1977, the company grew out of a literary magazine, NeWest Review, which had been launched in 1975. Early members of the collective that founded the company included writer Rudy Wiebe and University of Alberta academics Douglas Barbour, George Melnyk, and Diane Bessai.
NeWest Press
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- NeWest Press
- Founded
- 1977
- Headquarters
- Edmonton
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NeWest Press is a not-for-profit Canadian publishing company. Established in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1977, the company grew out of a literary magazine, NeWest Review, which had been launched in 1975. Early members of the collective that founded the company included writer Rudy Wiebe and University of Alberta academics Douglas Barbour, George Melnyk, and Diane Bessai.
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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. Contributors included Aritha Van Herk, Myrna Kostash, Candas Jane Dorsey, Caterina Edwards, and Helen Rosta. 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. Press also publishes a separate line, Nunatak, devoted to work by first-time authors. Its Writer as Critic series features non-fiction essays of literary and cultural criticism by noted Canadian writers, while its Prairie Play series is one of Canada's oldest surviving lines of drama publishing. Sharon Pollock's play Blood Relations remains one of the company's all-time bestselling titles. The company's board of directors includes Leslie Vermeer (president), Anne Nothof (vice-president), Wendy McGrath (treasurer), Jenna Butler (secretary), Diane Bessai (honorary member), Kit Dobson, Smaro Kamboureli, Nicole Markotic, Suzette Mayr, and Michael Phair
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• Name — NeWest Press • Founded — 1977 • Country — Canada • Headquarters — Edmonton, Alberta • Genre — fiction, non-fiction, poetry • Imprints — NeWest, Nunatak
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The following is established of the heading itself. Recorded from 1977. It is also recorded that neWest Press is associated with Canada.
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- Jennifer Bowering Delisle. The Bosun Chair. Edmonton: NeWest Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1-92645-587-7, Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, 2019
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- 1.George 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. . p. 173.
- 2."A voice of the West turns 25". The Globe and Mail, April 4, 2002.
- 3."Diving into the slush pile; NeWest president, fellow board member tackle arduous task". Edmonton Journal, August 22, 2014.
- 4."NeWest Press cooked up in kitchen; Diane Bessai a driving force for 35 years". Edmonton Journal, May 27, 2012.
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Jennifer Bowering Delisle. The Bosun Chair. Edmonton: NeWest Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1-92645-587-7, Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, 2019Crossref registry
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