Guernica Editions

Guernica Editions An independent Canadian publisher with a keen eye for daring, border-breaking literature. Founded in 1978, Guernica is a unique experience in world literature.

On Monday, April 26th, 1937, the bells of Santa Maria tolled, warning of the inhumane aerial raid that would reduce the Spanish city of Guernica into ruins. Men, women, children and animals were destroyed under the weight of the fiery nationalist bombs. Picasso immortalized the victims of this terrible moment in history with his painting Guernica and the image has become a plea for peace. We named

our press Guernica with the hope that the books we publish will make this world a better place in which to live and love. Established in 1978, we have published over three hundred titles and five hundred authors from around the world. Guernica is grateful to the Canada Council of the Arts, the Ontario Arts council, the Ontario Media Development Centre and the Government of Ontario. Without their support Canada's cultures would remain silent and Guernica's message go unheard. Guernica acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities. Guernica's eCommerce functionality has been built thanks to a grant from the Ontario Arts Council's Arts Investment Fund. Guernica Editions acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. The Ontario Arts Council is an agency of the Government of Ontario. As well, Guernica acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the National Translation Program for Book Publishing for its translation activities.

We're delighted you're here for it Junction Reads and Writes. 🤩😍 FAB review below.
01/07/2026

We're delighted you're here for it Junction Reads and Writes. 🤩😍 FAB review below.

Reading STAN ON GUARD I felt a twinge of excitement that in creating Ishtanu, an immortal “born in the Hittie Empire in the fifth year of the reign of King Muwattali the Second…about 1200 B.C. by current reckoning,” has opened a pandora’s box of juicy historical potential. I am here for it.
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The second in the Stan books, STAN ON GUARD has richness of detail matched with the perfect dose of exposition that fills in any blanks a reader may have if they don’t read CALL ME STAN – but I don’t think you’ll feel like you’re missing anything.
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While I urge anyone who hasn’t read CALL ME STAN to do so, once you’ve arrived in modern-day Toronto, where Tróán (another immortal) stalks Ishtanu, the man who killed her son 3000 years earlier - and whom she thought she’d murdered - and then once you’ve followed Tróán back to Ancient Greece, The Khanate, Lithuania and then Paris at the start of the last century, you will feel as though you belong to Tróán (she does have a way of pulling people into her circle). And then as you go back in time with Stan, you’ll be grateful for all you learn about Nietzche and the Great War, and you’ll be as surprised as I was at the lengths Stan takes to not return to the battlefields, as conscription is still in full swing.
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With what I think now must be Wilson’s characteristic intelligent historical humour, he’s given us a sequel to CALL ME STAN that is somehow funnier – how is that possible? When we get the asides describing the first book as Stan’s big mistake – that in allowing K.R. Wilson to write his story from a police interview, Tróán learns all she needs to find him and kill him once and for all, it just feels as though there wasn’t any other way to perfectly blend these two sagas.
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Capturing unique moments in history that make the reader feel as though they’re walking the streets of Paris or trudging along the unpaved roads of ancient times, Wilson has given us (once again) an epic historical novel that is a thoroughly enjoyable read.
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SO many great reads! 🍁📚 We recognize SEEKING SPIRIT by 🙏
01/07/2026

SO many great reads! 🍁📚 We recognize SEEKING SPIRIT by 🙏

01/07/2026

Please join us for the Zoom launch of The Nuances of Love on Saturday, January 31 from 2:30-3:30 PM ET.

01/07/2026

Many of you are making travel plans for the year and have asked when, exactly, Kingston WritersFest 2026 will take place. No one wants to miss out!

We are happy to report that we’ve been able to move the Festival a little later in the fall, which will mean more authors available to us, and more programming for school children. So mark your calendar:

𝗞𝗪𝗙𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 — 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭, 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟰, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.

And watch for news through the coming months of more great events! Downtown Kingston Visit Kingston Kingston Arts Council Novel Idea Bookstore City of Kingston - Municipal Government

Happy reading, Wayne Ng!/ Junction Reads and Writes River Street Writing
01/05/2026

Happy reading, Wayne Ng!

/ Junction Reads and Writes River Street Writing

✨Coming March 1, 2026✨ Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive by Alison Gadsby, published by Guernica Editions

Request a review copy:

http://www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-street-reads

Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive blurs the lines between horror, catastrophic speculative fiction, and psychological realism in a collection that might best be described as weird fiction. These connected stories offer dark reconstructions of lives brimming with desperate loneliness. They allow us to bear witness to the life-altering love of sisters, brothers, mothers… the life-altering love that buoys them as they struggle to stay afloat in the wake of childhoods they merely survived.

Alison Gadsby lives and writes in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her short fiction appears in Blank Spaces, The Temz Review, The Ex-Puritan, Blue Lake Review, and many other literary journals in Canada and abroad. She holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia, and a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing from York University. She is the founder/host of Junction Reads, a prose reading series in the west end of Toronto where she lives in a multigenerational home that includes several dogs. She enjoys writing novels, but is always writing weird, dark and strangely funny short stories. You can find links to her work at www.alisongadsby.ca and more information about Junction Reads at www.junctionreads.ca
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✨Do you want to write a short story? Guernica author Jerry Levy (The Philosopher Stories) can help you. See below for de...
01/02/2026

✨Do you want to write a short story? Guernica author Jerry Levy (The Philosopher Stories) can help you. See below for details. ✨

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Guernica Editions is an independent publisher of diverse #CanLit. No Borders. No Limits.

Picasso's Guernica took a terrible moment in history and turned it into a plea for peace and understanding. Established in 1978, Guernica Editions aims to publish books that push limits and tear down borders in the hope of making the world a better place. From margin to mainstream, this is writing that does it right.

On Monday, April 26th, 1937, the bells of Santa Maria tolled, warning of the inhumane aerial raid that would reduce the Spanish city of Guernica into ruins. Men, women, children and animals were destroyed under the weight of the fiery nationalist bombs. Picasso immortalized the victims of this terrible moment in history with his painting Guernica and the image has become a plea for peace. We named our press Guernica with the hope that the books we publish will make this world a better place in which to live and love. Guernica is grateful to the Canada Council of the Arts, the Ontario Arts council, the Ontario Media Development Centre and the Government of Ontario. Without their support Canada's cultures would remain silent and Guernica's message go unheard. Guernica acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities. Guernica's eCommerce functionality has been built thanks to a grant from the Ontario Arts Council's Arts Investment Fund.