Ecw Press

publishers weekly recognized ecw press as one of the most diversified independent publishers in north america. ecw press has published close to 1,000 books that are distributed throughout the english-speaking world and translated into dozens of languages. in the next year, we’ll release 50+ new titles and will continue to support and promote a vibrant backlist that includes poetry and fiction, pop-culture and political analysis, sports books, biography, and travel guides. books by writers whose names you know and love — and by those who we’re very pleased to introduce for the first time. who are we? after three decades, we still get asked about our name, those three little letters: ecw. at first the acronym was self-descriptive: essays on canadian writing (the name of the journal of literary criticism we started in 1974). but as the company grew and changed, our name, in our minds, also changed. we’ve heard the company called essential canadian writing, excellent contemporary writing,