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Frontenac has deliberately pursued diversity among its writers in subject matter, writing technique, gender orientation, and social and political attitudes. Geographically, the company has published a relatively high number of Alberta-based poets, but has also produced books by writers living in
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by Shirlee Smith Matheson and Earl K. Pollon, a history of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam that went online in 1967 and subsequently started the erosion of the banks, loss of forestry, and damage to fish and wildlife habitats – effects that continue to be experienced.
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by Rick Sealock and Christina Vester featuring wild and wacky illustrations for Sealock’s clients as varied as Rolling Stone, Texas Monthly, The Washington Post, Natural Health Magazine, and GQ Magazine. The book Won the 2021 BPAA Book Illustration
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for over 20 years. He has designed most of Frontenac’s books. Terry Davies, Owner and Managing Editor, has been a professional writer, editor and college instructor for over 30 years. Acquisitions and Senior Poetry Editor, Micheline Maylor, was
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Frontenac House has been recognized for its contribution to Alberta publishing, winning Alberta Publisher of the Year in 2006, as well as the BPAA Robert Kroetsch Award of Poetry as recently as 2021 for work on
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by Mark Vitaris, a photographic discourse on the country that straddles the forty-ninth parallel from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains to the grasslands of Saskatchewan and to the western Dakotas.
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In recent years, Frontenac House has expanded their mandate beyond poetry to publish art books, aviation history, and political satire. Some of the recent titles published by Frontenac House include:
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won the BPAA Regional Book of the Year Award in 2021, and was a Finalist for the High Plains Book Award - Art & Photography that same year.
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Neil Petrunia, Terry Davies (Owners). Micheline Maylor, John Wall Barger (Editors).
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has also noted Frontenac’s role as an important Canadian poetry publisher.
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Owner and Publisher, Neil Petrunia, has a degree in Creative Writing from
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Shirlee Smith Matheson and Earl K. Pollon, Frontenac House, 2019,
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was the Winner of the Alberta Culture Non-Fiction Book Award.
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for her contribution to the Albertan literary scene.
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Imprints
https://www.frontenachouse.com/
publishing
Okotoks
Alberta
Canada
Canadian poetry
Barry Dempster
Keith Garebian
Lisa Richter
British Columbia
Saskatchewan
Ontario
San Francisco
Paris
Billy-Ray Belcourt
Griffin Poetry Prize
Gerald Lampert Award
Governor General Award for Poetry
Leslie Greentree
Shirlee Smith Matheson
Micheline Maylor
Calgary International Spoken Word Festival
Sheri-D Wilson
York University
Alberta University of the Arts
Calgary
Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal
""Books and Literature", Calgary Herald, September 15, 2008, D1"

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