With a need to bring boundary-pushing Canadian literature out of the woodwork, Harrison Livermoore started Pariah Press in the spring of 1981 with little more than $700 and the badly lit basement of his parents Transcona home.
Over the past 20 years, Pariah has grown into a well-recognized and respected publishing house. As one of the only publishing houses in Canada to publish evocative, fresh and contemporary Canadian fiction, Pariah found its heart in the marginal, the obscure, and the delightful. Our focus on contemporary fiction has allowed us to progress with the times and to stay one foot a head of the more established publishing houses in this country.
The constant search for the cutting edge and the new has lead us to many a great emerging new writers and has allowed us to amuse and intrigue an audience which spans a multitude of readers across Canada and the globe. Our continued commitment to push the envelope has spanned beyond fiction to include our provocative and telling non-fiction works and creative non-fiction as well. Our fresh and innovative cookbook collection in the Pilot Series rounds out our ambitions to improve our cultural communication through our common means of living. Our inventive outlook has helped to give us the opportunity to carve out a niche in the vast world of publishing.
Regardless of the changes over the last 22 years, our quest for the most evocative writing in Canada has not. This quest to fill the contemporary void of Canadian literature and our taste for the askew has lead us from the basement on Caroline St. and onto the bookshelves of readers around the world.
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