Gaspereau Press is pleased to announce that Paul Headrick’s novel, That Tune Clutches My Heart, is a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. The prize is awarded to the best work of fiction by a B.C./ Yukon resident. The prize is supported by Friesens, Transcontinental and Webcom. The winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, along with the other B.C. Book Prize winners, will be announced on April 25th at the Lieutenant Governor’s B.C. Book Prizes Gala in Vancouver.
Gaspereau Press is pleased to announce that author Robert Bringhurst has been named winner of this year’s American Printing History Association (APHA) award for distinguished achievement in the Individual category. The winners of the 2009 awards will be recognized at the Association’s annual meeting, to be held Saturday, January 24 at the New York Public Library in New York City.
The awards are intended to recognize "a distinguished contribution to the study, recording, preservation or dissemination of printing history, in any specific area or in general terms." Previous laureates of the Individual Award include Henry Morris (2008), printer and publisher of Bird & Bull Press; Ruari McLean (1993), typographic designer at Penguin; and John Dreyfus (1984), typographic advisor at Monotype. The Association cited Bringhurst’s many publications, including his highly influential manual The Elements of Typographic Style (1992, now in its third edition), The Solid Form of Language (GP, 2004) and most recently, The Surface of Meaning: Books & Book Design in Canada (2008).
The winner of this year’s Institutional Award is Whittington Press, for its publication of the renowned journal Matrix: A Review for Printers & Bibliophiles, since 1981. The Press was started in 1971 by John and Rosalind Randle in Whittington, England.
Book title: The Muskwa Assemblage
Author: Don McKay
Publisher: Gaspereau Press
Genre: Poetry
Details: $59.95 / 9781554470655 / trade hardcover
Gaspereau Press is pleased to introduce its new blog: gaspereaupress.blogspot.com
We open our printshop doors for our annual Wayzgoose each October, now it’s your chance to see what happens here all year long. Stop peering through our windows and step right in. Catch our books when they’re least expecting it – sneak a peek at the galleys on the editor’s desk, browse at the binder, get a glimpse of the covers rolling off the letterpress – they don’t mind.
Check in regularly for updates and photos of our printshop activites and publishing adventures. That way, when you buy Gaspereau titles at your local bookshop, you can tell everyone you knew these books back when they were just manuscripts.
March 12, 2009
That Tune Clutches my Heart shortlisted for The Ethel Wilson
Fiction Prize
January 22, 2009
Robert Bringhurst wins American Printing history Association Award
February 10, 2009
New From Gaspereau Press
In spring the willows’ black bark is oiled stone
Its color soaked by the snowflakes’ whiteness –
“Barry? Barry, is this you?” The telephone call was from Nairobi, Kenya, the caller his Aunt Jane, and she had bad news.
March 12, 2009
That Tune Clutches my Heart shortlisted for The Ethel Wilson
Fiction Prize
January 22, 2009
Robert Bringhurst wins American Printing history Association Award
February 10, 2009
New From Gaspereau Press
