Publish with Kegedonce Press!

Dedicated Indigenous Publisher Invites Manuscript Submissions.

Kegedonce Press is seeking manuscript submissions from First Nations, Inuit and Michif/Métis creators based in the territories known as Canada.

We are seeking submissions in the following categories:

Fiction
Short Fiction
Graphic Novels
Memoir
Creative non-fiction
Children’s books

If you are an Indigenous writer or author/illustrator and have a manuscript you would like considered for publication, please see our manuscript submission guidelines.

Native-owned and operated, Kegedonce Press has been publishing beautiful books by Indigenous authors, artists and poets for nearly thirty years. We are dedicated to supporting the works of emerging and established authors, as well as the enterprises of Indigenous editors, artists and other partners in the publishing process.

We have published works by some of the most celebrated and widely known Indigenous writers and storytellers in Canada, including Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, Cherie Dimaline, Marilyn Dumont, Louise Bernice Halfe, Basil Johnston, Daniel Health Justice, Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch, Aaron Paquette, Sharron Proulx-Turner, Gregory Scofield, and Richard Van Camp, among many others.

Join the Kegedonce Press team! Submit your manuscript today.

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