The Varsity profiles Coach House

Upon the purchase of the Coach House, Coach House Press was profiled in The Varsity, the University of Toronto's student paper. Journalist Charlotte Tombs spoke to head coach Stan Bevington and senior editor Alana Wilcox about the publishing house, located on the U of T campus.

Coach House helped launch the careers of such acclaimed authors as Michael Ondaatje and Anne Michaels, and every year it continues to choose unique and interesting writing by up-and-coming authors. In explaining the type of literature they seek, Wilcox mentions that they 'try to do stuff that’s a little more unconventional, not straightforward historical fiction or something. We try to do stuff that's a little more adventurous, experimental, avant-garde.'

'We look for novels that creatively use language to make a story that we would have never expected,' adds Bevington, “'whereas many publishers accept the narrative as the way to do a novel.'

Full article can be found at www.thevarsity.ca.