Featured Manitoba Publisher

The AMBP represents a diverse group of Manitoba publishing houses. We strive to raise the awareness of this culturally dynamic industry. As part of this mandate, we would like to feature one or two of our members each month and highlight some of their unique characteristics.

This month we feature Signature Editions.

ABOUT US

Begun in 1986 as a student collective at Montreal’s Concordia University under the name Nuage Editions, the press became a sole proprietorship in 1991 and was relocated to Winnipeg in 1998. In 2001 the press name was changed to Signature Editions. It publishes, on average, seven titles a year in the genres of literary fiction and mysteries, non-fiction, poetry, and drama.

Signature Editions specializes in Canadian writing of literary merit, with a list that includes established writers as well as newcomers from across the country. The editorial team includes Karen Haughian, prose editor, Doug Whiteway, mystery editor, and Carolyn Souaid,  poetry editor.

Books from Signature Editions have been honoured with many awards and nominations, including Governor General’s Awards, Manitoba Book Awards, QWF Awards, the Jewish Book Award, the Atlantic Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, the Acorn-Plantos People’s Poetry Award, the ReLit Award, the John Glassco Translation Prize, and the CAA Awards.