{{Short description|Independent Canadian publisher}} {{Infobox publisher | image = File:Fernwood Publishing logo.png | parent = | status = Active | founded = 1991 | founder = Errol Sharpe | successor = | country = Canada | headquarters = Nova Scotia | distribution = Brunswick Books | keypeople = Errol Sharpe, Wayne Antony, Beverley Rach | publications = Books | topics = politics, public policy, social sciences, aboriginal issues | genre = | imprints = Fernwood (non-fiction), Roseway (fiction) | revenue = | numemployees = 7 | nasdaq = | url = {{URL|https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/}} }}
'''Fernwood Publishing''' is an independent Canadian publishing company based in Nova Scotia. The company publishes non-fiction books primarily concerning social justice, politics, and economics.
Fernwood was founded in 1991 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, publishing its first books in the spring of 1992. The Halifax office was moved to Black Point, Nova Scotia and, in 1994, a second office was opened in Winnipeg, Manitoba.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/index.php/member-publishers/associate-members/fernwood-publishing-co/ |title=Profile - Association of Manitoba Book Publishers |access-date=2009-11-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107041414/http://www.bookpublishers.mb.ca/index.php/member-publishers/associate-members/fernwood-publishing-co/ |archive-date=2010-01-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In eighteen seasons, Fernwood has published over 300 titles.<ref>fernwood Publishing, [http://www.fernwoodpublishing.ca/page/About-Us "About-Us "]</ref> In 2006, Fernwood acquired Roseway Publishing, which is now their fiction imprint.
Founder and co-publisher Errol Sharpe has been quoted as saying, "In an era when the restructuring of capitalism seems to be threatening to erase many of the gains that have been made by the oppressed in society, we think that our books have a part to play in bucking the trend."<ref name=Lindsay>Hillary Lindsay, [http://canadiandimension.com/articles/1926 "Keeping a Body of Critical Literature Alive"], ''Canadian Dimension Magazine'', May 2005</ref> The Society for Socialist Studies has an annual book prize named after Errol Sharpe, the Errol Sharpe Book Prize.
In 2018, Fernwood Publishing released ''There’s Something in the Water'' by Ingrid Waldron. In 2020, It inspired a documentary that premiered in Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and eventually in Netflix.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/ellen-page-made-a-horrifying-discovery--and-it-sparked-a-film-about-environmental-racism/2020/03/25/a72b3940-6e95-11ea-aa80-c2470c6b2034_story.html|title=Ellen Page made a horrifying discovery — and it sparked a film about environmental racism|last=Geoff|first=Edgers|date=26 Mar 2020|newspaper=Washington Post|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>
==Notable releases== * ''Socialist Studies'' (series)
==See also== * Literature of Nova Scotia * List of writers from Nova Scotia
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/ Fernwood Publishing]
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Category:Book publishing companies of Canada Category:Companies based in Halifax, Nova Scotia Category:Left-wing book publishing companies Category:Book publishing companies of Nova Scotia Category:1991 establishments in Nova Scotia
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