ECW Press is a Canadian

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located in

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. It was founded by Jack David and Robert Lecker in 1974 as a

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named ''Essays on Canadian Writing''. They started publishing trade and scholarly books in 1979. ECW Press publishes a range of

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, and pop culture. In 2015,

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listed ECW Press as one of the fastest-growing independent publishers in North America. ECW Press releases around 50 new titles a year.

History

The company was founded by Jack David and Robert Lecker in 1974 as a

named ''Essays on Canadian Writing''. Five years later, ECW published its first books—trade and scholarly titles. It started with two principal series: the ''Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors'' (ABCMA) and ''Canadian Writers and Their Works'' (CWTW). Through the 1980s, ECW upgraded its typesetting facilities, published reference titles, and began to service third-party clients, creating books for corporations to use for promotional purposes and events such as anniversaries. In the 1990s, ECW re-commenced trade publishing and expanded its scholarly and reference lines for high school and public libraries. They started publishing a mix of commercial books alongside their literary books, such as pop culture books (the first being ''The Duchovny Files: The Truth Is in Here'' by Paul Mitchell, published in 1995, a biographical dossier on actor

David Duchovny David William Duchovny ( ; born ) is an American actor, writer, producer, director, novelist, and singer-songwriter. He is known for portraying FBI agent Fox Mulder on the television series ''The X-Files'' (1993–2002, 2016-2018) and as write ...

that includes episode guides of

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s books, and

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. Robert Lecker left the company in 2003.

Titles

Fiction

* Steve Stanton, ''Reconciliation, Retribution, Redemption, Freenet'' *Heather Tucker, ''The Clay Girl'' * Jen Sookfong Lee, ''The Conjoined'' *Anne Emery, ''Cecilian Vespers'', ''The Sign of the Cross'', ''Obit, Ruined Abbey, Death at Christy Burke's, Lament for Bonnie, Children in the Morning,'' and ''Barrington Street Blues'' *

Joey Comeau Joey Comeau (born September 26, 1980) is a Canadian writer. He is best known for writing the text of the webcomic '' A Softer World'', and for his novels ''Lockpick Pornography'' and '' Overqualified''. Career In 2003, Comeau co-created the we ...

, '' Overqualified'' *

Cordelia Strube Cordelia Strube is a Canadian playwright and novelist. Raised in Montreal, Quebec, Strube began her career as an actor. After winning a CBC Literary Award for her first radio play, ''Mortal'', she wrote nine more radio plays for CBC Radio before ...

, ''On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light'' *John McFetridge, ''Dirty Sweet: A Mystery, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, Swap: A Mystery, Tumblin' dice'' *

Kevin J. Anderson Kevin James Anderson (born March 27, 1962) is an American science fiction author. He has written spin-off novels for ''Star Wars'', ''StarCraft'', '' Titan A.E.'' and ''The X-Files'', and with Brian Herbert is the co-author of the ''Dune'' pre ...

, ''Clockwork Lives (with'' Neil Peart)'', Clockwork Angels (with'' Neil Peart)'','' editor of ''2113: Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush'' *

Amanda Leduc Amanda Leduc is a Canadian writer. She is known for her books ''Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space'' and ''The Centaur's Wife.'' Career Leduc's first novel, ''The Miracles of Ordinary Men'', was published in 2013 by ECW P ...

, ''The Miracles of Ordinary Men'' * Randal Graham, ''Beforelife'', ''Afterlife Crisis'', and ''Nether Regions''.

Non-fiction

* Neil Peart, '' Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road'', ''Roadshow, Far and Away, Far and Near, Far and Wide'' *

Darcy McKeough William Darcy McKeough, (born January 31, 1933) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1963 to 1978 who represented the ridings of Kent West and Chatham� ...

, ''The Duke of Kent'' * Maude Barlow, ''Boiling Point'' * George Bowering, ''The Hockey Scribbler'' *

Barry Avrich Barry Michael Avrich ( ; born May 9, 1963) is a Canadian film director, film producer, author, marketing executive, and arts philanthropist. Avrich's film career has included critically acclaimed films about the entertainment business including '' ...

, ''Moguls, Monsters and Madmen'' *

Geri Jewell Geraldine Ann "Geri" Jewell (born September 13, 1956) is an American actress, stand-up comedian, diversity consultant, and motivational speaker, noted for roles on the 1980s sitcom '' The Facts of Life'' and the mid-2000s western '' Deadwood''. S ...

, ''I'm Walking as Straight as I Can'' *Liisa Ladouceur, ''Encyclopedia Gothica'' *Liisa Ladouceur, ''How to Kill a Vampire: Fangs in Folklore, Film and Fiction'' *

Emm Gryner Emm Gryner (born 8 June 1975 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a Canadian-Filipino singer, songwriter, recording artist, and author. She has released 20 albums as a solo performer, and has collaborated with artists including David Bowie and Chris Hadfie ...

, ''The Healing Power of Singing: Raise Your Voice, Change Your Life (What Touring with David Bowie, Single Parenting and Ditching the Music Business Taught Me in 25 Easy Steps)''

Poetry

Marilyn Dumont Marilyn Dumont (born 1955) is a Canadian poet and educator of Cree/Métis descent. Born in northeastern Alberta, she is a descendant of Gabriel Dumont.

, ''The Pemmican Eaters'' * Judith Fitzgerald, ''River'' *Ashley-Elizabeth Best, ''Slow States of Collapse'' * Robert Priest, ''Reading the Bible Backwards'' *Jamie Sharpe, ''Cut-up Apologetic'' *Patrick Woodcock, ''You can't bury them all'' * George Murray, ''Whiteout, Glimpse, Diversion'' *

Emily Schultz Emily Schultz (born 1974) is an American fiction writer raised in Canada and now living in Brooklyn, New York. Life and career During an onstage interview with Margaret Atwood, Schultz described how her own family settled in Canada from Michig ...

, ''Songs for the Dancing Chicken'' * R. M. Vaughan, ''Ruined Stars'' *

Paul Vermeersch Paul Joseph Vermeerschis a Canadian poet. His first collection, ''Burn'' (2000), was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award. His subsequent collections, ''The Fat Kid'' (2002), ''Between the Walls'' (2005), ''The Reinvention of the Human Hand'' ...

, ''The Fat Kid'' * Hawksley Workman, ''Hawksley Burns for Isadora'' *Gillian Sze'', "Fish Bones"

Sports

*Tim Hornbaker, ''National Wrestling Alliance, The Untold Story of the Monopoly that Strangled Pro Wrestling'', ''Capitol Revolution'', *Yvonne Bambrick, ''The Urban Cycling Survival Guide'' *Val James, ''Black Ice'' *Red Kelly, ''The Red Kelly Story'' *Pat Patterson (wrestler), Pat Patterson, ''Accepted'' *Dennis Hull, ''The Third Best Hull'' *Bruce Hart (wrestler), Bruce Hart, ''[ traight from the Hart'' *Heath McCoy, '' Pain and Passion: The History of Stampede Wrestling'' *Marsha Erb, '' Stu Hart: Lord of the Ring'' *Greg Prato, ''Sack Exchange'' *

Bryan Alvarez Bryan Alvarez (born June 12, 1975) is an American professional wrestler, martial artist, satellite radio host, podcaster, and journalist. Alvarez is the editor and publisher of ''Figure Four Weekly'', a newsletter that has covered professional ...

& R.D. Reynolds, ''The Death of WCW: 10th Anniversary Edition'' *Dylan " Hornswoggle" Postl, ''Life Is Short & So Am I''

Pop Culture

* Lindsay Gibb, ''National Treasure'' * Crissy Calhoun, ''Love You To Death, Spotted: your one and only unofficial guide to Gossip Girl'' * Jesse McLean, ''Wait For It'' * Graeme Burk and Robert Smith?, ''Who's 50, Who Is The Doctor, The Doctors Are In'' * Greg Renoff, ''Van Halen Rising''

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ecw Press Book publishing companies of Canada Small press publishing companies Publishing companies established in 1974