Elevating diverse voices, publishing multi-genre works

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Latest News

The 2020 Prix Aurora Award nominees have been announced and they include Renaissance creatives! Nathan Caro Fréchette has been nominated for Best Artist for his 2019 Renaissance book covers, MJ Lyons’ Murder at the World’s Fair has been nominated for Best Young Adult Novel, Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson‘s Nothing Without Us has been nominated for Best Related work, Derek Newman-Stille‘s multi-award winning Speculating Canada has been nominated in Best Fan Related Work, Evan May and Brandon Crilly’s Broadcasts from the Wasteland podcast has been nominated for Best Fan Related Work, and Jen Desmarais’ Travelling TARDIS has been nominated for Best Fan Writing and Publications! Learn more about the ballot and voting process at the CSFFA website!

Featured releases

A Case of Synchronicity, by Éric Desmarais
The Unavoidable Quests, by John Haas
To Pluck a Crow Book Two: Death Stalks the House of Herbert, by Sue Taylor-Davidson
Death By Association, by Madona Skaff-Koren
Nothing Without Us, edited by Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson
A Congress of Ships, by Stephen Graham King
We Shall Be Monsters book cover
We Shall Be Monsters, edited by Derek Newman-Stille
(2019 Prix Aurora Award Finalist)
Run J Run, by Su Sokol

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From our Blog

Joel Balkovec

Having recently finished with school forever (for real, this time), Joel is proud to finally be using his powers for good. Works under his own name have appeared in the student journals and newspapers at Carleton University and Algonquin College. He also writes the Realmgard series of family-friendly Fantasy adventures under the name J.B. Norman.

Bruce Gordon

Bruce Gordon is the author of Dissatisfied Me: A Love Story (2021, Renaissance), a humorous mock memoir with pop-culture nostalgia woven throughout memory lane. Bruce’s love for writing was sparked by the challenge of NaNoWriMo in 2017, where he completed his first draft of his novel. Since then, he’s participated in NaNoWriMo each year with the goal of… Continue reading Bruce Gordon

Heather Chambers

Canadian author Heather Chambers dedicates her time to raising awareness through her writing. She’s made her first step with her debut apocalyptic novel, Earth Sucks, published at 19, which underlines how one only has to look outside to see horror resides not only in fiction.Now, armed with search histories that’d pique the FBIs attention if ever… Continue reading Heather Chambers

Who we are

Renaissance was founded in May 2013 by a group of friends who wanted to publish and market those stories which don’t always fit neatly in a genre, or a niche, or a demographic. We weren’t sure what we wanted to publish exactly, so like the happy panbibliophiles that we are, we opened our submissions, with… Continue reading Who we are

Acquisitions committee

The Renaissance Acquisitions Committee has the difficult (sometimes heartbreaking!) task of reviewing all the manuscripts which come our way and deciding which ones we will make an offer on. Decisions are reached by majority agreement between the members. The team is made up of two of our production team members and two of the members of… Continue reading Acquisitions committee

Authors/Anthology Editors

Meet our authors and/or anthology editors! ’Nathan Burgoine, author of Blurbed. Raluca Balasa, author of Blood State S.M. Carrière, author of Daughters of Britain and Skylark. Kaitlin Caul, author of Life After Redby. Heather Chambers, author of Death’s Lover Éric Desmarais, author of A Study in Aether, The Sign of Faust, Parasomnia, Everdome, and A Case of… Continue reading Authors/Anthology Editors