Fernwood Publishing is an independent Canadian publishing company based in

Nova Scotia Nova Scotia is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada, located on its east coast. It is one of the three Maritime Canada, Maritime provinces and Population of Canada by province and territory, most populous province in Atlan ...

. The company publishes

non-fiction Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or content (media), media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real life, real world, rather than being grounded in imagination. Non-fiction typically aims to pre ...

books primarily concerning

social justice Social justice is justice in relation to the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society where individuals' rights are recognized and protected. In Western and Asian cultures, the concept of social justice has of ...

, politics, and economics. Fernwood was founded in 1991 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, publishing its first books in the spring of 1992. The Halifax office was moved to

Black Point, Nova Scotia Black Point (2021 population: 486) is a rural community of the Halifax Regional Municipality in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Black Point is the closest community in the Ten Beaches area to Metropolitan Halifax, just 30 minutes away, on ...

and, in 1994, a second office was opened in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In eighteen seasons, Fernwood has published over 300 titles. In 2006, Fernwood acquired Roseway Publishing, which is now their fiction imprint. Founder and co-publisher Errol Sharpe has been quoted as saying, "In an era when the restructuring of capitalism seems to be threatening to erase many of the gains that have been made by the oppressed in society, we think that our books have a part to play in bucking the trend."Hillary Lindsay
"Keeping a Body of Critical Literature Alive"
''Canadian Dimension Magazine'', May 2005 The Society for Socialist Studies has an annual book prize named after Errol Sharpe, the Errol Sharpe Book Prize. In 2018, Fernwood Publishing released ''There’s Something in the Water'' by Ingrid Waldron. In 2020, It inspired a documentary that premiered in Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and eventually in Netflix.

Notable releases

* ''Socialist Studies'' (series)

References

External links

Fernwood Publishing
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