Northern Quill Publishing

13/08/2024

Northern Quill Publishing is excited to announce our new distribution branch! And we couldn't think of a better book to launch our newest adventure!

"We Are A River" $38.50
by: Paul Andrew ONWT and Patrick Scott PhD
Order here:
www.northernquillpublishing.ca/bookstore/p/we-are-a-river

More about the book:
Explores the rich tapestry of Treaty 11 and its enduring impact on the Dene people in the Northwest Territories. Authored by Shutoatine broadcaster and former chief Paul Andrew, alongside longtime northerner and former land claims negotiator Patrick Scott, this compelling book delves into the heart of the treaty's oral and written histories.

"We Are A River" draws on hundreds of photographs taken by Native Communications Society reporters during the 100th-anniversary Treaty 11 gatherings along the Mackenzie River in the summer of 2021. These images, paired with insightful narratives, portray commemorations and reflections on Treaty 11.

Published by the Native Communications Society of the NWT, and distributed by Northern Quill Publishing.

Key Features:

Over 100 evocative photographs from Treaty 11 commemorations
Accessible history and maps of Treaty 11
An insightful narrative exploring the oral and written histories of the treaty
Specifications:

Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 156
Trim: 11.25 x 9 inches
ISBN: 978-1-7389856-0-9

"We Are A River" is not just a book; it's a journey into the heart of Dene culture and the complex legacy of Treaty 11. Perfect for historians, educators, and anyone interested in Indigenous histories and stories.

Retailers! Please email [email protected] to request more information on wholesale orders.

Discover the powerful story of Treaty 11 through "We Are A River" by Paul Andrew ONWT and Patrick Scott PhD. Featuring evocative photographs and insightful narratives, this book explores the deep meanings and legacy of Treaty 11 in an accessible format. Treaty 11, Dene culture, Indigenous

30/07/2024

Northern Quill Publishing is excited to announce our new distribution branch! And we couldn't think of a better book to launch our newest adventure!

"We Are A River" $38.50
by: Paul Andrew ONWT and Patrick Scott PhD
Order here:
https://www.northernquillpublishing.ca/bookstore/p/we-are-a-river

More about the book:
Explores the rich tapestry of Treaty 11 and its enduring impact on the Dene people in the Northwest Territories. Authored by Shutoatine broadcaster and former chief Paul Andrew, alongside longtime northerner and former land claims negotiator Patrick Scott, this compelling book delves into the heart of the treaty's oral and written histories.

"We Are A River" draws on hundreds of photographs taken by Native Communications Society reporters during the 100th-anniversary Treaty 11 gatherings along the Mackenzie River in the summer of 2021. These images, paired with insightful narratives, portray commemorations and reflections on Treaty 11.

Published by the Native Communications Society of the NWT, and distributed by Northern Quill Publishing.

Key Features:

Over 100 evocative photographs from Treaty 11 commemorations
Accessible history and maps of Treaty 11
An insightful narrative exploring the oral and written histories of the treaty
Specifications:

Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 156
Trim: 11.25 x 9 inches
ISBN: 978-1-7389856-0-9

"We Are A River" is not just a book; it's a journey into the heart of Dene culture and the complex legacy of Treaty 11. Perfect for historians, educators, and anyone interested in Indigenous histories and stories.

Retailers! Please email [email protected] to request more information on wholesale orders.

Northern Canadian children's books written by author Lana de Bastiani in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. The Fox and My Boot and Nick the Northern Special are written by Lana de Bastiani and illustrated by Janet Pacey. Northern Special Books is owned and operated by Lana de Bastiani.

10/07/2024

📢 Exciting Publishing Opportunity for NWT Schools! 📚✏️

This important branch of Northern Quill Publishing deserves a post of its own!

Attention schools, teachers, and school boards! Northern Quill Publishing is happy to offer availability this fall to help you build and publish new classroom materials.

If you have creative lesson plans, engaging activities, unique teaching resources or stories you think should be told in classrooms across the NWT, we want to hear from you. This is your chance to showcase your work and contribute to the local educational community.

Email us to set up a meeting at: [email protected]. Let's inspire the next generation together! 🌟

05/07/2024

Northern Quill Publishing has many services to offer the NWT.
In addition to traditionally publishing your work, we can also:

Distribute your books to retail outlets across the NWT
Coach you through the self publishing process
Mentor you through your writing process
Find contractors to design, edit or illustrate your literary babies
or project manage your self-publishing project.

We are a lot of good things!

Email us at [email protected] with your questions or to ask for a quote.

05/06/2024

Hello NWT Writers!
NQP is pleased to open our submission process to NWT writers with work ready to go! (work from writers with strong connections to the NWT will also be considered. Further detail on our submission form)

We are currently seeking authors with exciting manuscripts in the following genres:

📚Fiction of any genre (for example, literary fiction, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, etc.)
📚Non-fiction of any genre (for example, history, biography, nature guides, science, etc.)
📚Young adult novels of any genre
📚Children’s picture books
📚Children's chapter books of any genre
📚Graphic novels (all ages)

To begin the submission process, please click on this link and fill out our submission form: https://forms.gle/R3BrJTh3daCUtzu58

If you have a book that is currently out of print and you'd like us to consider it for our reprint services, please click on this link and fill out the submission form. https://forms.gle/Wuzp6pyq9LxnUdVZ7

Please remember, we are looking for completed work. We strongly recommend having your submissions edited and beta reader approved before you share it with us.

Our submission portal will close on August 31st. It will take us a few months to review the material submitted, at which time we hope to let authors know either way if their work has been accepted.

If you have a project you'd like some coaching or mentoring for, we're open all year round! Email us at [email protected]

We are so excited to see what you've been working on!

Publisher

30/05/2024

The NorthWords festival is here!
There are so many great events happening over the next four days... Was it as hard for you, as it was for us, to choose which events to attend?

We're so excited to attend this festival AND to meet you! If you have questions about what we do at Northern Quill Publishing, ask! We want to hear from you.

Enjoy your time with this wonderful community and keep an eye on us here as we work to move forward in our publishing journey!

If you'd like to see NorthWords schedule, find it here: www.northwordsnwt.com/en/2024-festival -events

23/05/2024

Get to know the hopes and dreams of our Project Managers a little better as we wait to open our submissions.
And remember..... we love surprises too!

01/05/2024

Northern Quill Publishing has a full range of services for writers and educators in the NWT.

Book Project Services - Now accepting queries
📚 Assistance to authors publishing their own work with all aspects of production, including editing, graphic design, illustration, printing and distribution.

Traditional Publishing
📚Through a formal submission process, we review, select and publish NWT stories in various genres and through local distribution channels and beyond, we share your work.

Reprint Services
📚 Through a formal submission process we will facilitate the re-release of selected previously published works, ensuring they reach new audiences.

Classroom Materials - now accepting queries
📚 We will work to help develop a wide range of educational resources that cater to the diverse needs of students from kindergarten to high school, with an updated Northern focus and guided by the needs of teachers in the territory.

To enquire about our open services please email [email protected]
If you hope to submit something through our reprint or traditional publishing streams... stay tuned, information and dates are coming.

If you are a graphic designer, illustrator or editor and would like to be included on our contact list, please email us at: [email protected] (Please include your contact details, samples of your work and resume/CV)

28/04/2024

Say, hello to Rachel.
Rachel acknowledges that she lives and works on Chief Drygeese Territory, the Traditional Lands of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation, the North Slave Métis, and the many other Nations that have travelled here for millennia.

She is originally from St. Catharines, Ontario, and is a grandchild of Dutch settlers. She moved to the NWT in 2007 to volunteer at Deh Gáh School in Fort Providence. Rachel hold a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and earned her teaching degree in 2010. Since then, she has spent many years advocating the benefits and joys of reading and storytelling through her work there, then later with the NWT Literacy Council, the Yellowknife Playschool Association and, most recently, Bushkids.

As she taught in Fort Providence, Rachel noticed a gap in the resources available to educators. The students often did not see themselves reflected in the material they were reading and, in addition, they were not reading that material in their traditional language. She took a step to change this when she wrote "A Journey Down River." It won the SSDEC story writing contest, which allowed for it to be published in four languages. The book won the Northwords’ Youth Book Award in 2018 and, that year, was translated into a fifth language, Dene Zhatie, the local language of Fort Providence.

While raising two beautiful children, Rachel has continued her learning journey, becoming a Forest and Nature Practitioner. This inspired the recently released, "The Land Outside My Window", which is illustrated by the very talented artist, Elaine Landry.

Then Judith called! New friends, new opportunities, new vision!

Northern Quill Publishing is an exciting new venture of which Rachel feels privileged to be a part. Her hope is to help create content that all children of the North can connect with and be inspired by.

24/04/2024

Myranda Bolstad holds a B.A. in English from the Augustana University College (now Faculty of Augustana, University of Alberta) and an MSc in Creative Writing from the University in Edinburgh in Scotland. While her day job is as a communications professional, she’s also continued to pursue her love of literature through participating in the NorthWords Writers Festival and taking on freelance editing opportunities (not to mention a fixture at the local Indie bookstore as part-time staffer and long-time customer). She primarly enjoys working on fiction, particularly fantasy and romance, but her experience also includes children’s picture book editing, including Jessie Wilson’s “Gabby the Magic Poodle”, Amber Henry’s “Northern Princess”, and Rachel VanderVeen’s “The Land Outside My Window”… as well as writing one herself! With Sarah Kalnay-Watson, she published “If the Northern Lights Could Speak” in June 2023.

Myranda resides in Yellowknife, part of the traditional lands of the Yellowknives Dene First Nations from time immemorial and then the homeland of the North Slave Métis, and which are within the Mǫwhì Gogha Dè Nı̨ı̨tłèè lands of the Tłı̨chǫ. She invites people belonging to marginalized groups to know you are welcome and safe with her; she is happy to work with anyone regardless of age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, disability, and ethnicity.

(She also doesn’t love photos of herself and debated submitting one of an owl instead, but better sense prevailed.)

22/04/2024

Say Hello to Amber

I came to the NWT in 2008 believing that Yellowknife would provide opportunities that would challenge and inspire… I have been fortunate in having those expectations met!

I published my first book, “A Ptarmigan in a Birch Tree’ in 2016 and fell in love with the process of mixing my words, with local art and meeting new people along the way. In 2019, I wrote a novella, under the pen name, Lilith Thorn, called “The Becoming.” And in 2021, my most recent children’s book was released with a story walk around Niven Lake trail, where “Northern Princess” takes place.

In addition to writing and producing my work, I spend time with new authors and guide them through the process, sharing resources and lessons I’ve gathered along the way. I hold space at William Mac, giving time for their grade 6, 7 and 8’s to write and publish a year end anthology for their school library, as well as the Yellowknife Public Library. I also sit on the NorthWords NWT board to help plan events focused on supporting local authors, including their spring literary festival.

My time with Northern Quill Publishing will be spent admiring the talent pool we have here in the NWT. Finding projects that I’m passionate about and feel embraces the Northern story and then sharing them as far and wide as I can!

My favourite books include: (the short list)
Children’s Books: Miss Rumphius, by Barbara Cooney. Lady Bug Girl, by David Soman. Stella Queen of the Sky, by Marie-Louise Gay.
Graphic Novel: The Sculpture, by Scott McCloud. Locke and Key, by Joe Hill.
Novel: The Probability of Everything, by Sarah Everett. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. Where the Forest Meets the Stars, by Glendy Vendereh
Poetry: by Tennille K. Campbell. Phantompains, by Therese Estacion.

18/04/2024

Say Hello to Judith!
I came to Canada as an immigrant to teach. Before moving north, I taught in Montreal and from there to Fort Simpson.
An opportunity presented itself to start a bookstore (not a life ambition but a place I had always felt at home from an early age). So, for 40 plus years I have worked in the book world.
About 20 years ago with a group of likeminded writers, readers, and other book fanatics we proposed a “Northern Writers Festival”. To our amazement and joy the idea clicked and it continues successfully today, showcasing, inspiring and supporting our writers.
In my years with books, I have had the chance to work with schools, libraries, non-profits, community governments and large corporations, on projects large and small. It is a privilege that I have so many friends and contacts here in the Territories and across Canada, connected by books!
For me it would round out my working life publishing northern stories at home.

17/04/2024

Say Hello to Lana!

Lana de Bastiani is a passionate advocate for children's literature and northern Canadian storytelling. With a Master's degree in Education, Lana has dedicated her career to developing relatable and engaging literature for children, particularly in the unique context of Canada's Northwest Territories. Lana was born and raised in Yellowknife, NWT and grew up reading Robert Munch, Jan Brett, and Michael Kusugak which fueled her inspiration to produce literature about the north.

In 2018, Lana self-published her first children's book, "The Fox and My Boot," which was followed by "Nick the Northern Special" in 2022. These works were born out of Lana's deep commitment to creating narratives that reflect the experiences and landscapes of northern Canada, fostering a sense of place and belonging in young readers.

In 2022, Lana founded Northern Special Books, recognizing the need for a dedicated platform to showcase children's literature from the North. Now, as part of Northern Quill Publishing, Northern Special Books continues to thrive as the children's book branch, maintaining Lana's vision of providing diverse and authentic stories for young readers.

Lana brings a wealth of experience in children's literature development, self-publishing processes, project management, educational materials, and funding applications to her role at Northern Quill Publishing. With her expertise and passion, Lana is committed to amplifying northern voices and celebrating the rich literary heritage of Canada's northern regions.

12/04/2024

Hello NWT!
Introducing Northern Quill Publishing 📚✨ - Where Northern stories come to life! We're thrilled to open the first chapter of our journey, bringing together a community of authors, dreamers, and book lovers.
We came together to publish books by Northern authors that ignite imaginations, stir emotions, and inspire conversations about the NWT across the globe. We’re looking for: page-turning novels, enlightening non-fiction, heart-warming children’s books and more! We're dedicated to adding unforgettable stories by NWT authors to bookshelves everywhere. - Submission details coming soon.

In addition to traditional publishing services, we also offer:
- Book project services - assistance to authors publishing their own work with all aspects of production, including editing, graphic design, illustration, printing, and distribution.
- Reprint services - through our expertise and network, we will facilitate the re-release of previously published works, ensuring they reach new audiences.
- Classroom materials - We will work to develop a wide range of educational resources that cater to the diverse needs of students from kindergarten to high school, with an updated Northern focus and guided by the needs of teachers in the territory.

To enquire about these services, please email: [email protected]

Keep an eye on us here as we turn the page to new adventures.