Freehand Books is a Canadian literary imprint started in 2007 by Broadview Press

Broadview Press

Broadview Press is an independent academic publisher that focuses on the humanities. Founded in 1985 by Don LePan, the company now employs over 25 people, has over 500 titles in print, and publishes approximately 50 titles each year...

, a Canadian academic publisher. Freehand publishes literary fiction, literary non-fiction, memoir and poetry.

Freehand’s most successful book to date is the novel Good To A Fault, by Marina Endicott

Marina Endicott

Marina Endicott is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Her second novel, Good to a Fault, won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Canada and the Caribbean and was short listed for the Giller Prize.-Personal life:...

, first published in the fall of 2008. The novel won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Canada and the Caribbean

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

Commonwealth Writers is an initiative by the Commonwealth Foundation to unearth, develop and promote the best new fiction from across the Commonwealth. It's flagship are two literary awards and a website...

 and was shortlisted for the 2008 Giller Prize.

Tangles, a graphic memoir by Sarah Leavitt, published in 2010, was the first graphic book shortlisted for the Writers' Trust of Canada

Writers' Trust of Canada

The Writers' Trust of Canada is a non-profit organization which provides financial support to Canadian writers.Founded by Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Graeme Gibson, David Young and Margaret Laurence, the Writers' Trust of Canada was registered as a non-profit organization in 1976...

 non-fiction prize.

Writers published by Freehand include Marina Endicott

Marina Endicott

Marina Endicott is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Her second novel, Good to a Fault, won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Canada and the Caribbean and was short listed for the Giller Prize.-Personal life:...

, Susan Olding, Stuart Ross

Stuart Ross

Stuart Ross is a Canadian fiction writer, poet, editor, and creative-writing instructor.Ross was born in Toronto's north end in 1959 and grew up in the Borough of North York. He began writing at a very young age and was first published at age 16 by Books by Kids . This book, The Thing in Exile,...

, Clea Roberts, Saleema Nawaz, Clem and Olivier Martini, Jeanette Lynes, Sarah Leavitt, Yasmin Ladha, Paul Hendrick, Joan Crate and Jesse Patrick Ferguson

Jesse Patrick Ferguson

Jesse Patrick is a Canadian poet, reviewer and academic. He was born in Cornwall, Ontario and now lives in Sydney, Nova Scotia. His poems and reviews have been published in ten countries, in both print and online formats, such as in Canadian Literature, The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, Grain,...

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Don LePan

Don LePan

Don LePan is widely known as a book publisher; he is the founder and president of the academic publishing house Broadview Press. He is also a painter and the author or editor of several books, most notably the dystopian novel Animals.-Biography:LePan grew up in Ontario, living variously in Ottawa,...

 is the publisher of Freehand Books. Sarah Ivany is the managing editor; Robyn Read is the acquiring editor.

Freehand Books is based in Calgary

Calgary

Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

, Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

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