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Discover Our Limited Edition Book Boxes - Read Local BC Each box features Canadian-authored titles thoughtfully curated by independent booksellers.

Discover our new limited edition book boxes! 🍁 🎁
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03.11.2025 17:19 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
We're hiring! Apply to be our Manager of Author Relations and Community Outreach • Figure 1 Publishing Figure 1, a leading Canadian publisher of illustrated books, is seeking an experienced, full-time Manager of Author Relations and Community Outreach. This is a newly created role that is critical to t...

👋 We're hiring! 💼

Do you have experience with book publicity, social media, event management, and author support?

Apply to be our MANAGER OF AUTHOR RELATIONS and COMMUNITY OUTREACH: www.figure1publishing.com/manager-of-a...

15.07.2025 23:30 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
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Rooted in Story: Indigenous History Month Reads • Figure 1 Publishing This month is National Indigenous History Month, and Saturday, June 21 marks National Indigenous Peoples Day—a day to celebrate the traditions, cultures, and contributions of First Nations, Inuit and ...

It's National National Indigenous History Month!

We believe storytelling is one of the most powerful ways to build understanding, preserve knowledge, and celebrate culture.

Here are our top book picks from our Indigenous Arts + Culture section this year📚

www.figure1publishing.com/rooted-in-st...

18.06.2025 18:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Out North • Figure 1 Publishing

While we're all sold out of copies, you can still get your hands on one in most libraries, some indie bookstores, and second-hand online retailers📚

www.figure1publishing.com/book/out-nor...

06.06.2025 20:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Author Q&A: Out North • Figure 1 Publishing Figure 1: How would you describe the process of writing Out North? Dr. Craig Jennex: This was a huge project, mainly because the collection at The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives, is so vast. We h...

🏳️‍🌈Happy Pride Month🏳️‍🌈

We're bringing back this Q&A with authors Dr. Craig Jennex and Dr. Nisha Eswaran, who reflected on the process of writing 'Out North: An Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada' (co-published with The ArQuives)

www.figure1publishing.com/author-qa-ou...

06.06.2025 20:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Place of Objects is available now!

John David Lawrence has amassed an idiosyncratic personal collection that includes ceramics, Indigenous art, jewelry, folk art, photography, and plant life, revealing the diverse talents in and around BC’s art scene.

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27.05.2025 17:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Space for Birds wins Next Generation Indie Book Award • Figure 1 Publishing

Figure 1 is proud to share that Space for Birds: Patterns and Parallels of Beauty and Flight by Dr. Roberta L. Bondar has won the Next Generation Indie Book Award in the Science, Nature, and Environment category!📚

Congratulations Dr. Bondar!

www.figure1publishing.com/space-for-bi...

13.05.2025 17:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Montreal, you're invited!

Join us in celebrating the Charles Gagnon exhibition opening and book launch this Saturday at the Galeries Bellemare Lambert📚

www.bellemarelambert.com/fr/exhibitio...

24.04.2025 22:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy #Earth Day! Are you tuned into The Wetland Project slow radio broadcast?

Check out the print component of the project, a book that immerses you in the sonic phenomena produced by this small patch of Earth through colour and sound:

www.figure1publishing.com/book/wetland...

22.04.2025 16:50 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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It's a Heather's Pick!📚

Delighted to see Space for Birds by Roberta Bondar, the first female Canadian astronaut and an accomplished professional nature and landscape photographer, added to the list of Heather's Picks at Indigo!

Grab your copy today:
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/space-...

17.04.2025 17:53 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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With essays by Susan Aglukark, Kyle Aleekuk, Mark Bennett, Napatsi Folger, Jamesie Fournier, Janice Grey, Jonas Laurent Henderson, Jessica Kotierk, Nicole Luke, Malayah Maloney, Jocelyn Piirainen, Krista Ulujuk Zawadski, and others, it presents a vivid record of stories long buried.

08.04.2025 16:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today's the day! Worlds on Paper by Emily Laurent Henderson is out now📚

This groundbreaking publication presents never-before-published drawings from artists in Kinngait, and we're proud to have co-published with @mcmichaelgallery.bsky.social

www.figure1publishing.com/book/worlds-...

08.04.2025 16:21 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
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Charles Gagnon: The Colour of Time, the Sound of Space, is out now!

Order your copy of this intimate perspective on one of Canada’s top 20th century artists, who was once described as “abstraction’s poet-philosopher,” or stop by an indie bookstore📚

www.figure1publishing.com/book/charles...

01.04.2025 18:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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To See What He Saw awarded Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize • Figure 1 Publishing We are delighted to share that Stanley Munn and Patricia Cucman have won the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia, administered by the UBC Library and the Pacif...

Delighted to share that To See What He Saw has won the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize🎉

“The impressive scholarship, beautiful design and splendid photography on display in this book are a testament to the authors’ intensely lived research”

www.figure1publishing.com/to-see-what-...

10.03.2025 20:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Book Picks: International Women's Day • Figure 1 Publishing Curve! Women Carvers on the Northwest Coast Curated by Dana Claxton and Curtis Collins Curve! features stunning photography of wood and argillite carvings by fourteen Indigenous women artists on the N...

In honour of International Women’s Day on Sat, we’re spotlighting books that celebrate the stories of women we’ve had the privilege of creating books with, from a fashion designer to an astronaut to a mixologist!

Check out our IWD book picks below📚

www.figure1publishing.com/book-picks-i...

07.03.2025 20:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We are proud to be the publisher of "Eppich House II: The Story of an Arthur Erickson Masterwork," and love to see Arthur Erickson's story told in new ways.

Check out this new @knowledge.ca documentary "Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between the Lines"

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Book📚 loom.ly/aLuEXJE

05.03.2025 17:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Canadian Photographs — A new book by Geoffrey James Alan Bulley speaks to Geoffrey James about his beautifully produced new book, Canadian Photographs.

My review of photographer Geoffrey James' new book from @figure1publishing.bsky.social , "Canadian Photographs," is now up on the @photoeditorial.bsky.social blog.

Have a read and let me know what you think!

#canada #canadian #photography

23.02.2025 17:40 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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