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Véhicule Press

Publisher of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, vintage Canadian noir, essays and translations. (See Swinging in Paradise: The Story of Jazz in Montreal).

Véhicule Press began in 1973 on the premises of Véhicule Art Inc., one of Canada's first artist-run galleries. The large space occupied by both the gallery and the press at 61 Ste-Catherine St. West was once the Café Montmarte--the renowned jazz club of the 1930s. Guy Lavoie (designer of the Véhicule Press logo), Annie Nayer, Marshalore, and Vivian Jemelka-White began using equipment inherited from Kenny Hertz's defunct Ingluvin Publications and an idle, ancient ATF Chief 20 printing press originally purchased by artist Tom Dean to print Beaux-Arts magazine. In 1975 the press became Coopérative d'Imprimerie Véhicule--Quebec's only cooperatively-owned printing and publishing company. Véhicule Press was the publishing imprint of the coop. In late spring 1977, Véhicule Press moved to 1000 Clark Street in the heart of Chinatown, and in 1980 moved to an industrial space located on Ontario Street East. In spring 1981, the coop was dissolved and Simon Dardick (who had joined the press during the summer, 1973) and Nancy Marrelli continued Véhicule Press from Roy Street East, not far from The Main (just around the corner from where the poet Emile Nelligan lived) in the Plateau area of Montreal. Since 1973 Véhicule Press has published award-winning poetry, fiction, essays, translations, and social history. Simon Dardick and Nancy Marrelli are the publishers and general editors, Patrick Goddard is Administrative Assistant, Jennifer Varkonyi is Marketing & Promotions Manager. Michael Harris was the founding editor of the Signal Editions poetry series in 1981. Carmine Starnino became Signal Editions editor in January 2001. Since 1981, over a hundred titles have been published in the series; one third of them by first-time authors. In late summer 2003, Andrew Steinmetz became editor of Esplanade Books, Véhicule's new fiction series. Andrew is the author of Histories and Wardlife: The Apprenticeship of a Young Writer as a Hospital Clerk. He was succeeded by Dimitri Nasrallah, author of the novels Niko and The Bleeds, in 2013.

09/22/2026

Four novels are among the French works in translation on Canadian publishers' lists this fall.

09/03/2026

We're thrilled to announce that Lorna Goodison's The Inferno is a finalist for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry!
Congratulations to Lorna, and to all the finalists (including past Véhicule author Evan Jones for his Carcanet poetry collection Men of the Same Name!)

Arrowsmith Press, in partnership with the Derek Walcott Estate and The Derek Walcott Festival in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, presents the annual Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry to be awarded to a full-length book of poems by a living poet who is not a US citizen (green card holders welcome) published in the previous calendar year. This year’s Walcott Prize judge is Rosanna Warren.

See the full list of finalists here:
www.arrowsmithpress.com/walcott

08/12/2026

On August 12, I’m Buying a Quebec Book!
Le 12 août, j’achète un livre québécois!

Today is a day to celebrate Quebec books!
Visit a local bookstore and check out the many enticing offerings from Quebecois authors and independent publishers across the country!

08/12/2026

It's a thrill to see THE COLOUR OF TIME, OR THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF MARY GALLAGHER on the CBC Books's list of Canadian fiction books releasing this fall!

THE COLOUR OF TIME, written by Eric Dupont and tanslated by Peter McCambridge, is a novel of magical realism featuring Montreal’s most famous ghost, Mary Gallagher.

Heather O'Neill says Dupont "has created a fantastical tale. One where girls born in watermelons cavort with murderers, priests, and s*x workers. It will make every reader fall in love with Montreal.”

Available September 2026. Pre-order now

08/02/2026

Looking for inspiration? Start here

07/25/2026

From our archives: Stephanie Bolster and Katia Grubisic at the launching of PENNED: ANIMALS IN ZOOS IN POEMS, 2009, which they edited with Simon Reader.

07/22/2026

We're thrilled to share that Valerie Bah's novel, SUBTERRANE has been longlisted for the 2026 Warland Award.!
Congratulations to Valérie, and to all the longlistees!

The Warland Award (administered and sponsored by Vancouver Manuscript Intensive), previously known as the VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award, recognizes titles that combine two or more genres, such as memoir and literary criticism, fiction and non-fiction, or memoir and poetry. This award honours Betsy Warland, a Canadian-American author, creator, and mentor, whose literary production and thinking about the writing life has supported writers across Canada and beyond. In recognizing Warland’s contribution to literary community the award celebrates the importance of the hybrid and unclassifiable.

07/01/2026

From our archives. Irving Layton, Frank Scott, and Louis Dudek in publishers Nancy Marrelli and Simon Dardick's living room, 1983, for the launching of CIV/n: A Literary Magazine of the 50s, edited by Aileen Collins. (Photo by Tim Clark)

06/26/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out last night to celebrate the brilliant work of Sadiqa de Meijer, Richard Greene and Bruce Taylor.
Special thanks to The Word Bookstore for hosting a full house!

06/19/2026

Kingston friends, don't miss this reading on June 24th at Novel Idea Bookstore!

POET LAUREATES UNITE!

That’s right: next Wednesday at Novel Idea, Vancouver poet laureate Elee Kraljii-Gardiner teams up with her Kingston counterpart Sadiqa de Meijer for an evening of reading, discussion and conviviality. Both will focus on their latest collections—Elee’s ‘sometimes, forest’; Sadiqa’s ‘Qaf’s People’—which will of course be available for purchase.

If you love poetry and people—and free refreshments—don’t miss this meet-up, right here at Novel Idea in downtown Kingston!

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http://www.vehiculepress.com/

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