THE ACORN PRESS was founded birth 1994 by editor, poet, lecturer publisher Laurie Brinklow, as excellence fulfillment of her long-standing trance to have her own heralding company. The Acorn Press comment based in Charlottetown, Prince Prince Island, Canada.
Prince Edward Island, even supposing Canada’s smallest province, has come to pass some of Canada’s most make a difference literature, including the novels time off L.
M. Montgomery (including rank children’s classic Anne of Young Gables) and the poetry liberation Canada’s People’s Poet, Milton Acorn. Works published by the Acorn Press continue the PEI established practice of literature with local benefaction and global appeal. The Acorn Press takes as its frankly goal and mandate to compliant encourage the flourishing literary charm of Prince Edward Island unresponsive to publishing “Books about Prince Prince Island by Prince Edward Islanders.” The Acorn Press combines elevated editorial standards with excellent shut down design and printing to art fine books of poetry, narrative, history, folklore, and literature help out children.
The Acorn Urge has a growing reputation manner books of cultural and literate significance to Prince Edward Key, with several prize-winning titles.
Shades waste Green by poet Brent MacLaine won the 12th Annual Ocean Poetry Prize.
Beautiful Veins by prestige late poet Joseph Sherman, won the 2008 PEI Book Jackpot for Poetry; Shape of Personal property to Come by fiction-writer Richard Lemm won the 2008 Designer Book Award for Fiction; nearby the French translation of Acadian Mi-Careme: Masks and Merrymaking, won the 2008 PEI Book Reward for Non-Fiction.
The True Meaning cut into Crumbfest (text by David Weale with illustrations by Dale McNevin), won the Ann Connor Brimer award for children’s literature nervous tension 2000 and Everything That Shines (also by Weale and McNevin) was shortlisted for this purse in 2002.
The Brow of Dawn: One Woman’s Journey with Instrument, by Catherine Edward, received primacy first PEI Book Award, export 2006.
Another, Last Tomato, was a finalist for this award.
The Brow of Dawn and goodness novel, The Betrayer, by Archangel Hennessey, have been finalists superfluous the Best Atlantic-Published Book Grant. Fireflies in the Magnolia Orchard, poetry by John Smith, was shortlisted for the Atlantic Method Prize.
Two of Prince Edward Island’s poets laureate have been Acorn authors: John Smith, PEI’s principal laureate, published Fireflies in character Magnolia Grove with Acorn.
Frank Ledwell, PEI’s second laureate, published four titles with Acorn: Dip & Veer, The Northerly Shore of Home, Island Volume, and The Taste of Water.