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Esplanade Books


Esplanade Books is the fiction imprint of Véhicule Press. Edited by Andrew Steinmetz, Esplanade publishes novels and short story collections--books that fall between the cracks, works of unusual structure and form, short sharp monologues. Click here for information on submissions.


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Our latest release

We're pleased to announce the release of three new short story collections: Out of Cleveland by Lolette Kuby, Pardon Our Monsters by Andrew Hood, and Blood Pudding by Art Corriveau.



Coming soon

This spring we will publish two novels, Orfeo, a translation of Hans-Jurgen Greif's French novel of the same name (translated by Fred Reed), and Chef, the new novel by Jaspreet Singh, author of Seventeen Tomatoes.




Our titles

Pardon Our Monsters

Hood, Andrew
Pardon Our Monsters


Out of Cleveland

Kuby, Lolette
Out of Cleveland


Pardon Our Monsters

Corriveau, Art
Blood Pudding


A House by the Sea

Karmali, Sikeena
A House by the Sea


Dead Man's Float

Maes, Nicholas
Dead Man's Float



Seventeen Tomatoes

Singh, Jaspreet
Seventeen Tomatoes

Optique

Bailey, Clayton
Optique


A Short Journey by Car

Durcan, Liam
A Short Journey by Car



Out of Cleveland

Kuby, Lolette
Out of Cleveland


The Rent Collector

Rotchin, B. Glen
The Rent Collector



Garbage Head

Willard, Christopher
Garbage Head



Andrew Steinmetz

About the editor

Andrew Steinmetz became the editor of Esplanade Books, the fiction imprint at Véhicule Press, in 2002. He is the author of a memoir, Wardlife: The Apprenticeship of a Young Writer as a Hospital Clerk (Véhicule Press, 1999), and two collections of poetry, Histories (Signal Editions, Véhicule Press, 2001) and Hurt Thyself (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005). Wardlife was shortlisted for the 2000 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction as well as for the 2000 Quebec Writers Federation (QWF) First Book Award and Mavis Gallant Prize for non-fiction. Histories was shortlisted for the 2001 QWF A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. His essay "Monolog mitt Gott" was nominated for a 2004 National Magazine Award.


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