DISTRIBUTION CHANGE

Important information for booksellers As of March 01, 2013 Caitlin Press is distributed by Publishers Group Canada. We have made changes to our retailer ordering process. We want to make this transition as smooth as possible for our customers, so if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact vici@caitlin-press.com. Retailers can no longer order our titles through Harbour Publishing. [...]

Radio Interview with Adrienne Fitzpatrick

Listen in as Adrienne Fitzpatrick chats with Joy Gugeler about her latest book, The Earth Remembers Everything, on Vancouver Island University’s “Be the Media,” broadcast on CHLY.

Luanne Armstrong shortlisted for Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize

The Light Through the Trees: Reflections on Land and Farming, by Luanne Armstrong, has been shortlisted for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. The recipients of this year’s BC Book Prizes will be announced on Saturday, May 4, 2013, during the 29th Annual Lieutenant Governor’s BC Book Prizes Gala at Government House in Victoria. From the BC [...]

Call for Submissions: Short Fiction

Caitlin Press is currently seeking contemporary short story collections from emerging writers. We’re interested in quality writing that pushes boundaries and may include magical realism, flash fiction, LGBTQ or literary speculative fiction. Surprise us with something we haven’t seen before! Stories must fit our mandate of writing by BC women or stories about rural BC [...]

Marking International Women’s Day

Today, Friday, March 8, is International Women’s Day, first marked as National Women’s Day in the US 1909 and globalized in 1911. The occasion was born of the suffrage movement, and indeed by 1940 all Canadian women had gained the vote, but more than one hundred years on we still face inequality and injustice. At [...]

Books now available for Kindle

We’re pleased to announce that our ever-growing list of ebooks is now available through Amazon for Kindle. Get your short fiction fix, dive into an inspirational memoir, read up on some true facts or feast your eyes on some longform fiction, all without leaving the comfort of your home. Now all I need to achieve the [...]

Journeywoman is a BC Bestseller!

Kate Braid’s memoir of her experiences working as a carpenter, Journeywoman, is #7 on the ABPBC’s list of BC Bestsellers this week. Tom Wayman praised the “crisply paced, lucid, page-turning account,” and Dennis E. Bolen called the book “comparable to the best of literary autobiographies.” It seems BC agrees! Get your copy at your local bookstore, [...]

New video poem from Al Rempel

Al Rempel has released “Right Through the Earth,” a video interpretation of a poem from his forthcoming collection, This Isn’t the Apocalypse We Hoped For.

<em>Journeywoman</em> in the <em>Vancouver Sun</em>

Journeywoman in the Vancouver Sun

Dennis E. Bolen gave Kate Braid’s memoir Journeywoman a rave review in the Vancouver Sun this weekend. Calling the book “comparable to the best of literary autobiographies,” Bolen writes, The author’s poetic background is a major plus here as she wields an eloquent concision, useful in crafting a candid memoir that is as much technical descriptive as [...]

Announcing our list for Spring 2013

Announcing our list for Spring 2013

Here at Caitlin we’ve been working away on a new batch of BC books to enlighten, entertain and delight you. So without further ado, allow us to present the Spring 2013 list! Drawn to Sea by Yvonne Maximchuk | Memoir | $24.95 | March Seasons of a Fly Fisher by Brian Smith | Nature, Non-fiction, [...]