Country of origin Canada Official website biblioasis.com Founder Dan Wells | Publication types Books Headquarters location Windsor, Canada Founded 1998 | |
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Biblioasis small publisher big success
Biblioasis is a Canadian independent bookstore and publishing company, based in Windsor, Ontario.
Founded by Dan Wells as a bookstore in 1998, the company began publishing books in 2004 with its first titles being poetry collections by Salvatore Ala and Goran Simić. The company has gone on to become one of Canada's most prestigious small press publishing houses; in 2015 alone, the company's titles included Anakana Schofield's Martin John and Samuel Archibald's Arvida, both of which were shortlisted Scotiabank Giller Prize finalists; Russell Smith's Confidence, which was a longlisted Giller Prize nominee and a shortlisted Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist; and Robyn Sarah's My Shoes Are Killing Me, which won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry.
Other writers published by Biblioasis have included Kathy Page, Terry Griggs, Kevin Hardcastle, Alex Boyd, Ray Robertson, Cynthia Flood, Stephen Henighan, Elizabeth Bachinsky, Rebecca Rosenblum, Alexandra Oliver and Chris Turner.