Parent company | Fitzhenry & Whiteside |
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Founded | 1975 |
Country of origin | Canada |
Headquarters location | Leaside, Ontario |
Publication types | Books |
Official website |
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Red Deer Press is a Canadian book publishing company located in Leaside, Ontario. It publishes trade titles in children's fiction, literary fiction, poetry, drama, belles-lettres, and creative nonfiction focusing on the Canadian prairies.
Red Deer Press was founded in 1975 as a subsidiary of Red Deer College. [1] As of 2005, [update] Red Deer Press operates as a Fitzhenry & Whiteside Company.
Red Deer books have won several awards over the years, including the 2009 Governor General's Award for Children's literature (text) for Caroline Pignat's Greener Grass: The Famine Years.