Award Winning Publications
PEI Book Awards
Home is Where the Water Is by Hung-Min Chiang
(2022 Winner Non-Fiction)
My island's the house I sleep in at night by Laurie Brinklow (2022 Winner poetry)
Mammals of Prince Edward Island and Adjacent Marine Waters by Rosemary Curley et. al
(2020 Winner Non-fiction)
Atlantic Book Awards
Listening for the Dead Bells by Marian Bruce
(2020 Shortlist)
New London: The Lost Dream by John Cousins
(2016 Shortlist)
Those Splendid Girls: The Heroic Service of Prince Edward Island Nurses in the Great War by Katherine Dewar
(2015 Shortlist)
PEI Museum and Heritage Awards
Time Flies: A History of Prince Edward Island from the Air (2023 Publication of the Year Award)
We'll Meet Again: Prince Edward Island Women of the Second World War by Katherine Dewar
(2022 Publication of the Year Award)
Listening for the Dead Bells by Marian Bruce
(2020 Publication of the Year Award)
Scholarly Book Awards
Time Flies: A History of Prince Edward Island from the Air by Joshua MacFadyen (2023)
Crossing Troubled Waters: Abortion in Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Prince Edward Island
edited by Colleen MacQuarrie et. al (2018)
Island Studies Press is the publishing arm of the Institute of Island Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island. Our mandate is to publish books that focus on Island culture, economy, and environment. We produce scholarly books for a popular audience, along with poetry and creative non-fiction. We publish 2-4 titles a year.
We welcome manuscript submissions. Contact us at ispstaff@upei.ca or 902-566-0386 for further information.
Laurie Brinklow
Director of the Institute of Island Studies
Publications Committee
Booksellers, writers, academics
Lori Cheverie, Lori Mayne, Laurie Brinklow, Dave Hickey, Simon Llyod, and Irene Novaczek
Say Hello
Image from The Cove Journal by JoDee Samuelson
Find us at the office
550 University Avenue, Charlottetown, PE, C1A 2K8
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Bren Simmers
902-566-0386
Mon - Wed, 10:00-4:30
ispstaff@upei.ca