EXILE EDITIONS
Presitigious Publishers of Fine Literature

April 15, 2013 - Update. In the coming months, we will be moving this site to a dynamic new platform/integrated design, with a multiplicity of links and features that will allow you to enjoy all of what Exile has to offer. Until this is complete, you can continue to use this site to find our current and recent releases, and to purchase books direct from the publisher (shipping and taxes no extra charge). Just click on a cover to buy!

Our new site will also offer over 100 eBook titles, as well as purchase options (available through 2013-14) for over 350 titles. Additional information on launches and events, literary competitions, current news, and how to submit writing, can be found at: TheExileWriters.com
• Inquiries of any nature can be directed to our Publisher, Michael Callaghan, at: Email Exile Editions, or telephone 519 334 3634. Our main offices mailing address is: Exile Editions, 144483 Southgate Road 14-GD, Holstein ON N0G2A0.

Sales and Distribution of Exile Editions books takes our vibrant list of fiction, poetry, translations, drama and nonfiction throughout North America, and into the U.K., Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, and the Caribbean:
• Independent Publishers Group handles - with cataloguing and full client services - all international sales and world distribution (Chicago: 1 800 888 4741)
• The Canadian Manda Group is our Canadian sales representation, using our Canadian-specific catalogue. (Toronto: 416 516 0911).
• Canadian returns go to Fraser Direct in Georgetown, Ontario (905 877 4411).

Spring 2013 releases, along with 2012, 2011 and 2010 Titles, and selected Backlist Releases.
If you do not find what you are looking for please email a request to: Book Orders.

2013 Spring Fiction
The Exile Book of Yiddish Women Writers: An anthology of stories - in translation; edited by Frieda Johles Forman - that looks to the past so we might see the future. 13 Yiddish women writers, 8 of whom would come to call Canada their home. In translation to English.
Mathieu Blais and Joel Casseus Zippo: a dark fururistic novel: More than just a science fiction thriller, this story is a striking testimonial to the stormy beginning of our new century. Translated from French to English by Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo.
Marc Seguin Poacher’s Faith : Marc Morris is many things, but principally a hunter, who is on an obsessional journey to find that something "ellusive" to believe in. Translated from French to English by Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo.
Pierre Gobeil The Death of Marlon Brando : A young boy. An anonymous farmhand. A touching, disturbing, contemporary Heart of Darkness story. Translated from French to English by Steven Urquhart.

2013 Spring Poetry
Lawren Harris - Contrasts: In the Ward. A book of his poetry and paintings
We Wasn’t Pals: Poetry and Prose from the First World War
Vladimir Azarov Night Out
Vladimir Azarov and Barry Callaghan Strong Words


 

 

2012 Fiction
Leon Rooke Wide World In Celebration and Sorrow: A fantastic collection of subversive, edgy, and wildly entertaining stories.
Gloria Vanderbilt The Things We Fear Most: Stories that are touching, surprising, and told in a beautifully calibrated prose, from narratives of passionate love through enigmatic truths of defeat.
Darlene Madott Stations of the Heart: A startling sequence of interconnected love stories that explore the personal journeys women take.
Philip Graubart Rabbis and Gangsters: A murder/suspense mystery novel rooted in the textures and complexities of modern Jewish life, set in a desert suburb of the United States.
CVC Anthology Book Two: The 12 shortlisted writers from the annual Vanderbilt/Exile Short Fiction Competition appear in this anthology of great stories.
The Complete Stories of Morley Callaghan Volumes 1-4: Four volumes collect and present the short fiction of Morley Callaghan. Part of the Exile Classics Series, with Introductions, and on-end sections featuring Q&As, Related Reading, and online resources.



2012 Non-fiction
James Clarke The Kid From Simcoe Street: In this moving World War II era memoir the author recounts growing up in the poor and alcohol-ridden neighborhood of a small Ontario town. The book also contains a selection from his seven books of poetry.
Norman Snider How To Make Love To A Movie Star: This book discusses the art of writing a screenplay: instructions and insights based on the author’s 25 years as a screenwriter, and the lectures he offers at the University of Toronto.
Eric Weissman Dignity In Exile: This insightful book draws on video documentation, photography, field notes and correspondences to present a powerful photo-ethnographic journey about homelessness. Photographs by Nigel Dickson.

2012 Poetry and Drama
Marilyn Bowering Soul Mouth: Writing that will renew one’s faith in the simple strength and beauty of well-crafted poems, or even that such writing still exists.
Daniel David Moses A Small Essay on the Largeness of Light and Other Poems: This collection is imaginative, illuminating and a delightful feast of poems that explores nature, mythology, perception, desire, youth, aging and the self. Lawrence Jeffery Frenchtown: A cerebral drama on family and the power of a nation, exploring the disquietude of Shanghai and its residents in the time between Tiananmen Square and the return of Hong Kong to mainland China.

 

 

2011 Fiction
Beverly Akerman with her story collection of redeeming and redemption The Meaning of Children
Claude Tatilon’s bittersweet tale of a childhood in Provence under Nazi occupation A Pinch of Time
Greg Kearney’s twelve pretty stories of decidedly un-pretty lives Pretty
and Jesus Hardwell’s powerful prose collection, Easy Living - stories
And, recent nonfiction with Larry Zolf’s memoir The Dialectical Dancer
CVC Anthology Book One : The 10 shortlisted writers from the inaugural Vanderbilt/Exile Short Fiction Competition appear in this anthology.

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Recent releases of fiction by D.O. Dodd with the provocative novel JEW
Jonathan Papernick’s vibrant story collection There Is No Other
and Leon Rooke’s novella which takes place in Scotland and written in Glasweigian slang, Pope and Her Lady

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The Exile Book of.... anthology series, and, The Exile Silver Screen Series:

Native Canadian Fiction and Drama and Priests, Pastors, Nuns and Pentecostals.

The original screenplay of Casino Jack which also includes the Director’s photo library and introction, film stills, and more.

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Recent poetry: Traumatology, by Priscila Uppal, Downriver by M.T. Kelly (also includes a short memoir and story)
Meaghan Strimas’ A Good Time Had By All, Antony Di Nardo’s Soul on Standby and Tattoo Land by Kathleen McCracken


 

A new Poetry CD from Daniel David Moses, featuring eleven works in compact disk format.

 

Released in 2009, Three Anthologies in the new The Exile Book of... Series:

Canadian Dog Stories featuring 28 Canadian fiction authors, edited by Richard Teleky
20 Canadian Poets Take On the World is a multilingual collection with original language faced by the translation
Canadian Sports Stories features two dozen sports fictions presented by 26 writers, edited by Priscila Uppal

 

Three distinctive Novels that build upon Exile’s long tradition of presenting the best in fiction

This novel draws the reader in page by page... it is a masterful epic in its approach... Melissa Hardy’s Broken Road
An international tale that jumps continents, paced by greed, family obsesion, passion, and winner-take-all obsession! Gale Zoë Garnett’s Savage Adoration
Martha Bátiz reveals the delicate entanglements of the stage, love and deceit that is the foundation of a performer’s life in The Wolf’s Mouth

 

Seven recent releases build up the increasingly popular Exile Classics Series

Morley Callaghan’s Governor General Award winnerThe Loved and the Lost
Gerard Bessette’s provocative tale Not for Every Eye
M.T. Kelly’s A Dream Like Mine was a Governor General Award winner
Marie-Claire Blais’ fifth and sixth books in the series are Anna’s World,
and her Governor General Award winner The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange
(which incorporates for the first time Durer’s World, her intended third book in this trilogy)
Gwendolyn MacEwen’s masterful translation of Euripedes’ classic, tragic play Trojan Women
The Montreal Automatist’s groundbreaking manifesto, translated into English, with 28 B&W photos: Refus Global/Total Refusal



 

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RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
Fiction • Nonfiction/Drama/Memoir • Poetry

FICTION
Lauren B. Davis - AN UNREHEARSED DESIRE • Mark Paterson - A FINELY TUNED APATHY MACHINE • Edward Brown - PLAYING BASRA • Lisa Foad - THE NIGHT IS A MOUTH • Matt Bissonnette - SMASH YOUR HEAD ON THE PUNK ROCK • Marie-Claire Blais - A SEASON IN THE LIFE OF EMMANUEL • Marie-Claire Blais - THE WOLF • Austin Clarke - IN THIS CITY • Austin Clarke - THERE ARE NO ELDERS • Morley Callaghan - THE NEW YORKER STORIES • Jon Papernick - WHO BY FIRE, WHO BY BLOOD • Seán Virgo - BEGGING QUESTIONS • Leon Rooke - OH! TWENTY-SEVEN STORIES • James Bacque - OUR FATHERS' WAR • Matt Shaw - THE OBVIOUS CHILD

 

NONFICTION • DRAMA • MEMOIR

Norman Snider - THE ROARING EIGHTIES AND OTHER GOOD TIMES • Morley Callaghan - A LITERARY LIFE: Reminiscences and Reflections 1928-1990 • Joe Rosenblatt - THE LUNATIC MUSE • Daniel David Moses - THE INDIAN MEDICINE SHOWS • Morley Callaghan - THAT SUMMER IN PARIS

 

POETRY
Lawren Harris - IN THE WARD • Zoe Whittall - PRECORDIAL THUMP • James Clarke - DREAMWORKS • Robert Colman - The Delicate Line • Kathleen McCracken - MOONCALVES • Troy Jollimore - TOM THOMSON IN PURGATORY • Pablo Neruda - 100 LOVE SONNETS • Gwendolyn MacEwen - THE SELECTED GWENDOLYN MACEWEN • Marilyn Bowering - GREEN • Sandy Shreve - SUDDENLY, SO MUCH • Tana Runyan - ARITHMETIC OF SURRENDER • Janice Kulyk Keefer - MIDNIGHT STROLL • Priscila Uppal - ONTOLOGICAL NECESSITIES

 

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We thank the Canada Council for the Arts, The Canada Book Fund, The Ontario Media Development Corporation, and the Ontario Arts Council for their financial support toward our publishing efforts. (logos to be updated by April 28)