| This is a tougher call than you would think for a city this size, but two small presses stand out as finalists in the category of best literary publisher in Calgary.
Both Frontenac House and Brindle and Glass share a sense of mission and a flair for inventive promotions. And they’re both already award winners – at this year’s Alberta Book Awards, Frontenac won the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s poetry award for Weyman Chan’s Before a Blue Sky Moon, and Brindle and Glass won as Emerging Publisher of the Year.
Frontenac has the guts to publish mainly poetry (it also does some historical novels) and B & G emphasizes Western Canadian history and culture. With two admirable, creative presses as finalists, the only possible tiebreaker can be B & G’s affecting Web page tribute to Paddy, its semi-eponymous Catahoula Leopard hound. So it’s Brindle and Glass by a cold, wet nose. (See the tribute at www.brindleandglass.com.) |
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