In lush full colour, award-winning photographer Mike Grandmaison’s expert lens captures the vastness of sky and land that define the prairie landscape.
Read moreJenkins never dreamed he’d live long enough to be dating again. Hilarious, touching, and a little saucy, Dating proves that life is full of surprises no matter how old you are.
Read moreSouth Africa is long way from Canada. In 1899, two prairie boys throw themselves into the conflict of the Second Boer War looking for something their small-town lives cannot provide. With breathtaking grace, Leo Brent Robillard delivers an unstoppable story.
Read moreJoin Randy Craig for a roller coaster read with more twists than the Mindbender. Hang on to your hat for Hang Down Your Head. It’s Janice MacDonald at the top of her game. —Suzanne North, author of the Phoebe Fairfax
Read more"Sound the trumpets! Sally Ito’s Alert to Glory is a clarion call … A transformative book both salt and sweet." — Susan McCaslin
Read more"This witty meditation on manly manliness is a head-butt at academic pretension and the Sword of Damocles that is the PhD thesis. A new novel so good, you’ll actually finish it." - Al Rae, Artistic Director, CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival.
Read moreWhat the Bear Said is a marvellous collection of fables. The stories are immediate, the characters, both human and supernatural, crackle with life . . . —W. P. Kinsella
Read moreWinnipeg artist and designer, Robert J. Sweeney, captures Winnipeg’s urban landscape in this remarkable collection of sketches, Portraits of Winnipeg: The River City in Pen and Ink.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PROMISING WRITER VAN ROOY WINS JOHN HIRSCH AWARD
WINNIPEG - At Manitoba's literary version of the Oscars this past Saturday night at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Turnstone Press author Michael Van Rooy won the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Writer.
Ravenstone, an imprint of Turnstone Press, is pleased to announce the nomination of Talking to Wendigo by John C. Goodman, for the 2009 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.
The award, presented annually by the Crime Writers of Canada, will be handed out June 4, 2009 at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
For Immediate Release
“The characters of Fatted Calf Blues resonate long after the stories are over: a man in a streetcar proclaiming his genius, a couple who question one another after a love note is found taped to their door, a man at a truck stop who keeps a dream diary.They're curious, funny, wistful; we're sure we've met them somewhere before. With energy and wit, Mayoff shows us all that is familiar, and then tilts the world so it becomes surprising and strange. These are stories to relish-sink your teeth into this book.”
—Anne Simpson, author of Falling
Turnstone Press is proud to announce its shortlisted titles for the 2008-2009 Manitoba Book Awards.
Fear Not by Maurice Mierau has been shortlisted for both the McNally Robinson Book of the Year and the Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry/Prix Lansdowne de poésie. 
bush camp by Marvin francis has also garnered a Mary scorer Award nomination for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher. And Turnstone's own Michael Van Rooy has been shortlisted for the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Writer. We would like to congratulate our authors for their hard work and much deserved recognition.
Click here for more information about the Mantioba Book Awards.
A Fitting Addition to an Unmistakeable Idiom
“Marvin was a master at traversing boundaries, especially those of class and race and education. And because he moved so often between different worlds—from the Rez to the streets of Winnipeg to the halls of academe—he was able to produce a uniquely boundary-crossing art, one that situates his Cree culture very much in a contemporary, media-saturated, globalized and commodified landscape. This ability marks him as one of the most innovative and compelling recent voices in Canadian literature.”
—From bush camp foreword by Warren Cariou, author of Lake of the Prairies
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