Elevating diverse voices, publishing multi-genre works

So many exciting things are happening at Renaissance! You can browse and purchase our entire book collection in our online Shop (powered by Square), and you can even download our Fall 2019 catalogue! You can also buy from us in person at launches and conventions. Check out our Events page because we are participating in awesome events in Fall 2019!

Featured releases!

Nothing Without Us, edited by Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson
The Wayward Spider, by John Haas
Everdome, by Éric Desmarais
Run J Run, by Su Sokol
A Congress of Ships, by Stephen Graham King
The Stealth Lovers, by Cait Gordon
Love and Lemonade, by jamieson Wolf
Skylark book cover
Skylark, by S.M. Carrière
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Latest news!

  • Bad Kid by Derek Newman-Stille

    December 25, 2019 by

    It’s finally here… The last story in this year’s holiday blog roll, Bad Kid, a moving story by Derek Newman-Stille about the Yule legend of Gryla. If you enjoy this story, check out the book Derek Newman-Stille edited to commemorate the 200 years of publication of Frankenstein, We Shall Be Monsters!  Content Warning for discussions… Read more

  • The Hunter and the Holly King by S. M. Carrière

    December 24, 2019 by

    With illustrations by the author! It’s Christmas Eve, and we are proud to bring you The Hunter and the Holly King, a beautifully illustrated, gorgeously written story by S. M. Carriere. This was supposed to be the very last story to our advent calendar of stories, but we’ve had a great last-minute addition. Stay tuned tomorrow for… Read more

  • The Death of Santa Claus by Bruce Gordon

    December 20, 2019 by

    Heartfelt and funny! We are already at the second-to-last story in our Holiday blog roll! We are proud to bring you The Death of Santa Claus, a delightfully funny story by Bruce Gordon. We will be bringing you these stories three times a week until the solstice instead of the originally planned twice a week!. Check out our original blog… Read more

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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. S.M. Carrière, author of Daughters of Britain and Skylark. Kaitlin Caul, author of Life After Redby. Éric Desmarais, author of A Study in Aether, The Sign of Faust, Parasomnia, Everdome, and A Case of Synchronicity. Jen Desmarais, creator of Blush. Nathan Caro Fréchette (writing as Caroline Fréchette), author… Continue reading Authors/Anthology Editors