Scirocco Drama is a Winnipeg-based drama press established in 1993 that publishes plays for adults and for young audiences. It’s authors include many of Canada’s most critically acclaimed playwrights: Morwyn Brebner, Dave Carley, Brian Drader, Maureen Hunter, Daniel MacIvor, Adam Pettle, Ian Ross, and more.

More than a few Scirocco plays have won or were short-listed for literary awards. Scirocco winners of the Governor General’s Award for Drama include Ian Ross for fareWel and Djanet Sears for Harlem Duet, and finalists include Maureen Hunter for Atlantis, David Young for Inexpressible Island, Daniel MacIvor and Daniel Brooks for Monster, Betty Quan for Mother Tongue, Theresa Tova for Still the Night, Paul Civfo for Reverend Jonah, and Beverley Cooper for Innocence Lost: A Play about Steven Truscott.

The Muses’ Company is a poetry press. It was started in Quebec in 1980 and later moved to Winnipeg where it is based today. It continues to publish fine Canadian poetry under the direction of its editor, poet Clarise Foster.

Muses’ poets include Robert Moore, a finalist for the Atlantic Poetry Prize for So Rarely in Our Skins, Patrick Friesen, winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Award for st. mary at main, George Amabile, finalist for the Manitoba Book of the Year Award for Tasting the Dark, Melanie Cameron, finalist for the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award for wake, and many other exceptional writers.

Watson & Dwyer Publishing is a respected Canadian social history press based in Winnipeg that was established in 1977. The company publishes social history of the Canadian Prairies and Northern Canada. It has published books about fur trade history, the Arctic, and Inuit and Aboriginal peoples and their art. Many of its titles have been become timeless classics, bestsellers for many years, including The Home Children by Phyllis Harrison, Inuit Art: An Anthology by Alma Houston, and Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society.

In 1998, J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing Inc. began publishing general trade titles as J. Gordon Shillingford. These titles fall under a wide variety of subject areas including politics, religion, true crime, humour, biography, education, and social science.

Recent titles include They call me Chief: Warriors on Ice by Don Marks, and Acting Alone: A drama teacher's monologue survival kit by Demetra Hajidiacos.