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!

  • Matti McLean

    September 25, 2019 by

    Matti McLean is a creative artist and writer from Northern Ontario. He is continually pursuing new creative endeavours from body painting to game design and always seeks to keep his projects challenging and his pursuits eclectic. He loves challenging accepted social norms and has the radical belief that people are human and we should all… Read more

  • Robert Hamilton

    September 8, 2019 by

    Robert has called Vancouver home since 1982, but grew up in the small town of Northern, New Brunswick.  As he reaches his golden years, it feels like he’s been writing forever – poetry, short stories, scripts for stage and film, and journaling his gay life since 1988.  He is a past Canadian Film Centre Writer… 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