The team at Kegedonce Press deeply mourns the passing of our dear colleague and friend, Christy Telford who began her journey on July 23,2026.  Christy joined the press in the winter of 2013, bringing with her a wealth of expertise and a lifetime of dedication to financial and artistic administration. As our Administrative Assistant and Bookkeeper, Christy was the backbone of our day-to-day operations, seamlessly blending her talents across financial institutions into the world of publishing....

Kegedonce Press is proud to announce that our founder, publisher, and art director, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, is the recipient of the 2025 Ivy Award, a prize bestowed upon an individual who has made a substantial contribution to Canadian publishing.

A lot of (most? all?) art is cross-pollinating. Novelists have sough inspiration from music since day one. Here you get a chance to discover -- and hear -- the music that served as a soundtrack to Coltrane Seesequasis's creative process while he was writing The Threads of Time, which is the second part, after Secrets of Stone, of the A Wolf in the Sun tetralogy. Check it out right here!

Here young Aurora runs into Mama Nanuk, the polar bear—just one of the many inhabitants of Nunatsiavut she encounters on her travels. If you want to find out what happens, you’ll have to wait till September 27 when Aurora’s Journey launches! Folks who follow Kegedonce Press will notice that this release date is a few weeks later than previously announced, and that is because we decided that doing the book as a 22-page softcover edition, in no way, did justice to Kayla’s gorgeous illustrations....

Big congratulations are in order to Kelsey and Cole for this achievement. We’ll find out June 21, when the announcements will be made.

Kegedonce Press loves working with new authors. There’s something special about guiding a first book into print, and for the author, there can be no better feeling than breaking through into the publishing world. This year, we are proud to announce the début of author/illustrator Kayla Williams, from Happy Valley, Labrador. Kayla’s thrilling adventure story, Aurora’s Journey, comes out with us in August of this year and we couldn’t be more excited. Aurora’s Journey is the story of a young Inuk...

As 2024 draws to a close, we are excited to be working with some of your favourite Kegedonce Press authors, who will be launching books with us in the new year. If you’re looking for challenging poetry, stirring YA fantasy, and grounding Traditional stories, we have you covered.