12 June 2006
Gaspereau Wins CBA's Small Press Award

This weekend the Canadian Booksellers Association (CBA) announced the winners of its 2006 Libris Awards. For the second year in a row, Gaspereau Press was named Small Press Publisher of the Year. Fellow nominees in this category were Brick Books and Drawn & Quarterly. The announcement was made at the association’s reception on Sunday evening, during the BookExpo Canada trade show in Toronto.

The Libris Awards were created to recognize and celebrate the achievements of all those who create, promote and deliver great books to Canadian readers: the authors, editors, publishers, distributors, sales representatives and booksellers. Awards are given in fifteen categories that recognize excellence in literature, book design, sales and publishing, among others. For more information about the awards, please visit www.cbabook.org

Gaspereau Press is a literary publisher and printer based in Kentville, Nova Scotia. The press is committed to literature and the book arts, incorporating a range of modern and antique forms of printing and binding to create books that are distinctive in manufacture and design. Its publications have won numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Alberta Book Award for fiction, the A.M. Klein prize for poetry and the Alcuin Award for excellence in book design.

For more information contact
Beth Crosby at Gaspereau Press
47 Church Avenue, Kentville, NS, B4N 2M7
902-678-6002, info@gaspereau.com