Presses Renaissance Press

Presses Renaissance Press Renaissance Press is a Canadian publisher of diverse Canadian fiction, nonfiction and table-top game

Renaissance Press is a brand new Canadian publisher, specializing in fiction but open to nonfiction. We prefer to work with books that have an element of the fantastic and/or which fit in one or more of these genres: historical, fantasy, romance, and horror, though all quality submission are considered. As of May 2015, we also have a table-top gaming department, looking for awesome projects!

Happy Boxing Day! Today is a day of giving back, after receiving plenty. It's a bit like publishing these anthologies: w...
12/26/2025

Happy Boxing Day! Today is a day of giving back, after receiving plenty. It's a bit like publishing these anthologies: we receive plenty of short stories and essays, and we share them back with our readership!

Featuring:
There's No Place, edited by H.E. Casson
AfriCANthology, edited by A. Gregory Frankson
Mighty, edited by Emily Gillepsie and Jennifer Lee Rossman
Nothing Without Us, edited by Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson
Nothing Without Us Too, edited by Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson
Choices, edited by Diana Gunn
and Out on the Spectrum, edited by Akosua Joy Brown

Merry Christmas! A time for family, either by birth or by choice. Family also plays it's role in literature, fiction and...
12/25/2025

Merry Christmas! A time for family, either by birth or by choice. Family also plays it's role in literature, fiction and non-fiction alike, such as in these books!

Featuring:
Samantha's Sandwich Stand, by Sonia Saikaley
Little Joe, by Stephanie Kast
Turn to Burn, by M.F. Stewart
and Ballet is not for Muslim Girls, by Mariam Pal

Today is Christmas Eve. A day of mysteries and thrills; what will tomorrow bring? Perhaps more mysteries and thrills in ...
12/24/2025

Today is Christmas Eve. A day of mysteries and thrills; what will tomorrow bring? Perhaps more mysteries and thrills in written form, like with these books!

Featuring:

A Study in Aether, by Eric Desmarais
Esther Pinkerton and the Case of the Heretic Blood, by Evan May
The Ground that Grows Roses, by Elizabeth Hirst
A Killer Match, by Joan Donaldson-Yarmey
and Unstable Graves, by the late Betty Guenette

If Capricorn was a book, its genre would be classic novels, foundational literature, and anthologies. Check out “AfriCAN...
12/23/2025

If Capricorn was a book, its genre would be classic novels, foundational literature, and anthologies.

Check out “AfriCANthology” by published in 2022!

Get it here: books2read.com/u/4Nw0O9

As the year is coming to a close, and we have no more in person events until 2026, we are pleased to announce that our b...
12/22/2025

As the year is coming to a close, and we have no more in person events until 2026, we are pleased to announce that our best in-person selling title of the year was Mrs. Victoria Buys a Brothel. Congratulations, !

December is almost over, and it’s time to start thinking about how you can show your loved ones how much you care. Somet...
12/21/2025

December is almost over, and it’s time to start thinking about how you can show your loved ones how much you care. Sometimes, it’s a gift of your time, playing a board game, baking together, or even giving a lift to a friend. Other times, you may want to give a gift of imagination: a book. This holiday, follow along with us as we showcase our amazing authors and books. Check out young adult fiction like “Crushing It” by Jen Desmarais, “Part Time Girl” by Adriaan Brae, and “Coffee Shop Between the ‘Verses” by Éric Desmarais.

December is almost over, and it’s time to start thinking about how you can show your loved ones how much you care. Somet...
12/20/2025

December is almost over, and it’s time to start thinking about how you can show your loved ones how much you care. Sometimes, it’s a gift of your time, playing a board game, baking together, or even giving a lift to a friend. Other times, you may want to give a gift of imagination: a book. This holiday, follow along with us as we showcase our amazing authors and books. Check out thrillers like “Life After Redby” by Kaitlin Caul, “The Other Face of Sympathy” by R. Haven, and “The Face in the Marsh” by Elizabeth Hirst.

If Sagittarius was a book, its genre would be graphic novel and adventure. Check out “Hunting a Sea-Glass Heart” by .car...
12/19/2025

If Sagittarius was a book, its genre would be graphic novel and adventure.

Check out “Hunting a Sea-Glass Heart” by .carolyn, published in 2023!

Get it here: books2read.com/u/3kONER

Happy Birthday to , author of the Aurora Award nominated space opera “Spaced!”. We hope you have a day that’s out of thi...
12/18/2025

Happy Birthday to , author of the Aurora Award nominated space opera “Spaced!”. We hope you have a day that’s out of this world!

12/18/2025

Exciting news! Two Renaissance authors have been nominated for Indie Ink awards!

Congratulations to Dissatisfied Bruce, Author and C.L. Carey! Bruce’s book Dissatisfied Me: West Coast Larry was nominated for “Best Morally Gray Character”. C.L. Carey’s book Spaced! was nominated for four awards: “Best book cover and cover artist”, “Writing the Future We Need: Disability Representation by a disabled author”, “Writing the Future We Need: LGBTQ+ Representation”, and “Writing the Future We Need: Neurodivergent Representation by a Neurodivergent author.”

Please go to the awards site and vote for these two books! We already know they’re winners, now everyone else gets to know. In order to vote you have to register, but it’s free and ensures voting is fair. Voting takes place from

Good luck to the two nominees!

Find out more about the awards here; https://indieinkawards.com/ and here: https://indiestorygeek.com/a/indie-ink-awards-2025

Vote for Dissatisfied Me: West Coast Larry here: https://indiestorygeek.com/story/10059

Vote for Spaced! here: https://indiestorygeek.com/story/9329

Happy Book-a-versary to “We Shall Be Monsters” by published in 2018! A 2019 Prix Aurora Award Finalist for Best Related...
12/17/2025

Happy Book-a-versary to “We Shall Be Monsters” by published in 2018!

A 2019 Prix Aurora Award Finalist for Best Related Work!

We Shall Be Monsters is one of three great horror books recommended by David Demchuk (author of The Bone Mother) on CBC Radio’s The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers.

"It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another." Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Mary Shelley’s genre-changing book Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus helped to shape the genres of science fiction and horror, and helped to articulate new forms for women’s writing. It also helped us to think about the figure of the outsider, to question medical power, to question ideas of “normal,” and to think about what we mean by the word “monster.”

Derek Newman-Stille has teamed up with Renaissance Press to celebrate Frankenstein’s 200th birthday by creating a book that explores Frankenstein stories from new and exciting angles and perspectives. We Shall Be Monsters: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Two Centuries On features a broad range of fiction stories by authors from around the world, ranging from direct interactions with Shelley's texts to explorations of the stitched, assembled body and narrative experiments in monstrous creations. We Shall Be Monsters collects explorations of disability, q***r and trans identity, and ideas of race and colonialism.

With stories by Day Al-Mohamed, Lena Ng, Ashley Caranto Morford Cait Gordon, JF Garrard, Andrew Wilmot, Evelyn Deshane, D. Simon Turner, Kaitlin Tremblay, Lisa Carreiro Eric Choi & Joseph McGinty, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Randall G. Arnold, Alex Acks, KC Grifant, Halli Lilburn, Kev Harrison, Corey Redekop, Arianna Verbree, Max D. Stanton, Victoria K. Martin, Priya Sridhar, Liam Hogan, Joshua Bartolome

Get it here: books2read.com/u/bW1Pxq

December is halfway over, and it’s time to start thinking about how you can show your loved ones how much you care. Some...
12/16/2025

December is halfway over, and it’s time to start thinking about how you can show your loved ones how much you care. Sometimes, it’s a gift of your time, playing a board game, baking together, or even giving a lift to a friend. Other times, you may want to give a gift of imagination: a book. This holiday, follow along with us as we showcase our amazing authors and books. Check out mysteries like “Easter Pinkerton and the Case of the Heretic Blood” by Evan May, “You Would Have Done It Too” by Heather Chambers, and “The Cypher” by Matti McLean.

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Diverse Canadian Voices

Renaissance Press is an Ottawa-based publisher of diverse Canadian fiction, narrative non-fiction, graphic novels, and games. We are multi-genre and tend to enjoy stories that do not neatly fit in one single genre; we are dedicated to publishing stories by and about people from marginalized communities first and foremost.