Mailing License is a small independent Canadian publishing company located on the West Coast of British Columbia. Mother Tongue publishes a bold and beautiful book of BC. fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction and the series, The Unheralded Artists of BC , dedicated to recognizing the forgotten 20th century BC. artists (1900s-1960s) and open the door to their artistic and historical significance.
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History
Mother Tongue was founded in 1995 by B.C. poet and literary organizer Mona Fertig (who in 1978 opened in Vancouver, Canada's first literary center-The Literary Storefront). From 1990-1994 he published a small international literary publication called (m) ÃÆ'â € "thÃÆ'ªr TÃÆ'¸ÃÆ'  ± guÃÆ'  © s was inspired by his term as the BC representative of P.E.N. Canada. Preliminary issues are shown: Erin MourÃÆ' ©, Thich Tue Sy, bill bissett, Potiki Roma, Kim Morrissey, Yuki Hartman, Tsvetanka Sofronieva, Dorothy Livesay, Duo Duo, Ann Diamond, Mark Sutherland, Kim Chi-Ha, Memoye Abijah Ogu, Hans Raimund, Arturo Arias, John Barlow, Sigitas Geda, Liliane Welch, Marie Luise Kashnitz.
In 1994, Mona Fertig and her husband, Peter Haase, began publishing the Canadian edition of poetry in a beautifully conceived edition under the imprint of (m) ÃÆ'â € "thÃÆ'ªr TÃÆ'¸ÃÆ'  ± guÃÆ'  © Press with emphasis and type of letters obtained. MTP held the first poetry script contest in Canada. Judges included Daphne Marlatt, Brian Brett, Phyllis Webb, Susan Musgrave, Cathy Ford, Charles Lillard, P. K. Page, Robert Kroetsch and Marilyn Bowering. The first and second prize manuscripts were published in a beautifully-signed, limited edition. In 2007, twenty-eight (m) ÃÆ'â € "thÃÆ'ªr TÃÆ'¸ÃÆ'  ± guÃÆ'  © Press chapbooks and broadsides by Canadian writers available with; Stephanie Bolster, Lorna Crozier, Kate Braid, Cathy Ford, Maxine Gadd, Shirley Graham, Penn Kemp, Robert Kroetsch, Sylvia Legris, Peter Levitt, Sandi Frances Duncan, Patricia Young, Daphne Marlatt, Susan McCaslin, P.K. Page, Murray Reiss, Nadine Shelly, Peter Such and Phyllis Webb.
In 2008, after 18 years of operations as a private literary press founded on Salt Spring Island Mona and Peter decided to expand their publishing mandate, incorporate, and enter into the publishing of Mother tongue and Language publishing.
In 2010, MTP published their first novel by All Gurjinder Basran's Everything Was Good-bye by winning their first search contest for the Great BC novel contest. He went on to win the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize 2011. MTP sold Canadian rights to Canadian Penguin and Everything Was Good-bye was released in Canada in 2012 and the US in 2013. This is one of the Top Books 10 Canadians in BC and Yukon in 2012. The 2nd winner for the Great BC Novel is Kathy Para for Lucky. Lucky will be published, falling 2013.
MTP is honored as Publisher as the 2013 Galiano Literary Festival, is the 2012 Finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award and was selected for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, registered in 2011 for the ReLit Awards, Recipients in 2011 for Pandora's Collective Publishers Award and in 2011 MTP makes Honor Roll of Publishers by the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the American Society of Indexing.
The publication of Mother Tongue has published fifteen trade titles. The 3rd book in the Unheralded Artists series is The Life and Art of George Fertig based on the life of Mona Fertig's father and who took 14 years to research and write.
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References
Interview with Amphora interview
External links
- Maternal Publishing Website
- Comments
- The Tyee
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