About Fifth House
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2007 Alberta Publisher of the Year!
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2008 Alberta Publisher of the Year!
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Fifth House Publishers, a Fitzhenry &
Whiteside company, is a proudly Western-Canadian press. Our publishing
specialty is non-fiction as we believe that every community must possess
a positive understanding of its worth and place if it is to remain vital
and progressive. Fifth House is committed to “bringing the West to the
rest” by publishing approximately twenty books a year about the land and
people who make this region unique. Our books are selected for their
quality and contribution to the understanding of Western-Canadian (and
Canadian) history, culture, and environment. |
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Who’s Who at Fifth House
Stephanie Stewart
Publisher
Fifth House Publishers is distributed by:
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
195 Allstate Parkway
Markham, ON
L3R 4T8
Direct ordering:
Toll free telephone: 1-800-387-9776
Toll free fax: 1-800-260-9777
Email: godwit@fitzhenry.ca
Customer Service: bookinfo@fitzhenry.ca
EDI: SAN# S1151444
Bestsellers
Fifth House Ltd, is best known for these best-selling books:
The Canadian
Weather Trivia Calendar,
The Land Is Our
Storybook,
The Rez
Sisters,
Inside Out,
A Hiker’s
Guide to Art of the Canadian Rockies,
Scoundrels
and Scallywags,
Park
Prisoners,
Amazing
Animal Adventures Around the World, and
Our “Gardening on the Level Series.”
We are now introducing
Gardening Eh! a Canadian gardening trivia calendar.
Awards
Fifth House has won Alberta Publisher of the Year two years running in
2007 and 2008.
We have published numerous bestsellers in areas including history,
biography, Native studies, gardening, weather, and natural history.
These publications have been shortlisted three times for the Governor General Awards,
most recently for Loyal till Death:
Indians and The Northwest Rebellion in 1997.
Fifth House books have won many Saskatchewan and Alberta Book
prizes and awards from the Canadian Authors Association as well as two gold
awards from Cuisine Canada for High
Plains: The Joy of Alberta Cuisine by Cinda Chavich.
Two titles, Lisa Christensen’s A Hiker’s
Guide to Art in the Canadian Rockies and Brian Brennan’s Scoundrels & Scallywags,
have been shortlisted for the Grant MacEwan Literary Award, and in 2004 Brian
became the first recipient of the Dave Greber Award for freelance writing for
an upcoming book (Fifth House, 2005).
Our children’s books The Scoop on Poop, The Nor’Westers, and Where the Meadowlark Sang
were selected as “Our Choice” books in 2003 and 2004 by The Canadian Children’s
Book Centre. The Scoop on Poop was also shortlisted for a Hackmatack Award and
Amazing Animal Adventures Around the World was on the 2005 Silver Birch
shortlist.
For awards and nominations from 2005 to now check the
Our Award Winning Books
page and look for the Fifth House logo.
FIFTH HOUSE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Fifth House Publishers is dedicated to celebrating the wide variety of voices, places, and ideas that make
Western Canada unique. We specialize in nonfiction titles in the following areas: Western Canadiana, history,
biography, art, current events, wildlife, natural history, gardening, environment, Rockies, and First Nations
titles.
Manuscript should be printed, double-spaced, on 8½ x 11 inch paper. Please number the pages.
Submission should include:
- A summary of the manuscript,
- Chapter outline,
- A number of sample chapters,
- Information on the number and nature of illustrations and/or photographs that you expect to include in your book, and
- A target completion date.
Please list other books on your subject and how your book differs from them. Who
is the audience for your book? Do you have any marketing ideas or contacts
(associations, organizations) that may assist in marketing your book?
A personal biography, including details of previous publications, background, education,
experience, etc., is also helpful.
Do not send original manuscripts or artwork.
Please allow six to eight weeks for a response.
Please enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope along with your submission. We otherwise assume that you do not
wish to have the material returned.
Indicate whether the manuscript is available
on disk and, if possible, a word count.
Send all inquiries to:
Managing Editor,
Fifth House Publishers
195 Allstate Parkway
Markham, ON
L3R 4T8
1-800-387-9776