Distribution LitDistCo Official website www.palimpsestpress.ca Founded 2000 | Headquarters location Kingsville, Ontario Imprints Magpie Books Founder Dawn Marie Kresan | |
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Palimpsest Press is a Canadian book publishing company based in Kingsville, Ontario. Palimpsest publishes poetry in both trade and limited editions as well as select non-fiction titles that deal with poetics, the writing life, art, aesthetics, photography, design, cultural criticism and biography.
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- History
- Operations
- References
Magpie Books, Palimpsest's children’s imprint, publishes poetry in picture book format and juvenile and YA fiction.
History
Founded in 2000 by Dawn Marie Kresan, Palimpsest Press is distributed by LitDistCo, with sales representation through the Literary Press Group, and is a member of the Association of Canadian Publishers.
By publishing in a wide variety of formats, Palimpsest has attracted many critically acclaimed and award-winning authors such as Aislinn Hunter, Christian Bök, Elisabeth Harvor, Kate Braid, Shawna Lemay, and Steven Heighton.
Twice Palimpsest poetry titles were longlisted for The ReLit Awards and Shawna Lemay’s Calm Things was nominated for the Wilfred Eggleston Award for Nonfiction. In 2010 Ariel Gordon won the John Hirsch Award for most Promising Manitoba Writer and in 2011 her book Hump was nominated for the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book and the Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry, winning the latter.
Palimpsest marked its 10th anniversary in 2010 by launching Magpie Books, a children's imprint, and moving operations to a studio/office space in downtown Kingsville.
Operations
Palimpsest Press combines processes of the modern digital age with historical techniques like letterpress printing and foil stamping. Trade poetry titles are printed on richly textured zephyr laid and have coloured end sheets.
Besides its trade book production, Palimpsest also publishes hand-bound limited-edition chapbooks made with specialty papers. Chapbook covers and ephemera are handset on a Gordon old style platen press.