Elevating diverse voices, publishing multi-genre works

Cover of the the: Advert featuring the book cover of a watercolour of a brick wall with graffiti that says Nothing Without Us Too, Edited by Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson. Beside it is the Prix Aurora Award winner logo.

“Thanks to Renaissance for believing in us with Nothing Without Us and then Nothing Without Us Too. And Cait and I… we put [this anthology] together through a pandemic, which when disabled in a pandemic is not the easiest thing. And most especially to our writers. Because without the quality of the stories we received it would have been impossible to put together.”

From Talia C. Johnson’s acceptance speech at the Prix Aurora Awards, August 19, 2023

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Niamh Norwood

Niamh Norwood is a self-proclaimed geek with a constellation of interests. She obtained her M.A. in English Literature from Carleton University in 2017. She has published short fiction, poetry, novels, and comics. Iris, Niamh’s first superhero comic, was released on International Women’s Day in 2017. In her free time, she can be found playing the…

Akosua Joy Brown

Akosua Joy Brown has worked in the publishing industry for over 25 years. She started out working on academic science titles within the UK’s University of London where she edited and wrote books about human exposure to toxins. Since moving back to Canada, she worked with Canada’s largest educational publisher on K-12 non-fiction products. Following…

Dominic Bercier

Artist, writer, designer, PopTerra and SIGNAL Saga creator – Dominic Bercier – has dreams of mental health for all, which he broaches in The Hope Book, and documents in battles against evil in his 24 hour comics – Like Never Before and Like Never Again (adapting La Chasse-Galerie), and The Ballad of Jimmy and Rose,…

Who we are

Renaissance was founded in May 2013 by a group of authors and designers who wanted to publish and market those stories which don’t always fit neatly in a genre, or a niche, or a demographic. Like the happy panbibliophiles we are, we opened our submissions, with no other guideline than finding a Canadian book we… Continue reading Who we are

Acquisitions committee

Once we receive a full manuscript, we send it in the direction of our wonderful readers. They carefully read the manuscripts, then rate them using an in-depth questionnaire which goes over aspects such as story structure, character development, style, and how closely this manuscript matches our goal of publishing diverse Canadian voices and stories which… Continue reading Acquisitions committee

Authors/Anthology Editors

Meet our authors and/or anthology editors! Raluca Balasa, author of Blood State Dominic Bercier, author and artist of SIGNAL Saga: The Good Akosua Joy Brown, editor of Oops – We Actually Wrote a Book in the End! S.M. Carrière, author of Daughters of Britain, Sky Road Walker, Skylark, and Human. C. L. Carey, author of… Continue reading Authors/Anthology Editors