Red Deer Press is a Canadian book publisher located in Leaside, Ontario. It issues trade titles in children's fiction, literary fiction, science fiction, poetry, drama, belles-lettres, and creative nonfiction.
Red Deer Press was founded in 1973 by Red Deer College (RDC) English and creative writing instructor Dr. Gary Botting as a vehicle for aspiring poets in the college's fledgling creative writing program,Lorne Daniel, The Hunting Hand and Other Poems (Red Deer: Red Deer College Press, 1973); Marion R. Smith, The Rubbing Rock and other Poems (Red Deer: RDC Press, 1973). but it quickly expanded to publishing non-fiction titlesGary Botting, Lydia Bubber, Jean Dawe and Sven Thorhallsen, Computer-Assisted Instruction of English As a Second Language (Red Deer: RDC Press, 1973; Tihemme Gagnon, ed., "Introduction" to Streaking! The Collected Poems of Gary Botting (Houston: Strategic, 2016), pp. xxvii-xxxii, 300. and children's books.Leanne Jones, The Book About Nothing (Red Deer: RDC Press, 1976). Initially subsidized by Red Deer College, in 2005, Red Deer Press was acquired by Toronto-based Fitzhenry & Whiteside.
Red Deer Press' books have received several literary awards over the years. For instance, Caroline Pignat's Greener Grass: The Famine Years won the 2009 Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature.
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Further reading Boultbee, Paul G., "Vain Dream to Mainstream: The Growth of Red Deer College Press", Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada. 33(1):51-66, 1995.
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