Luna Publications

Luna Publications is a literary publishing company located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 2006 by Goran Simic, a well-known writer of poetry, essays, short stories and theatre. His associates include business partner Vishja Brcic, editor Fraser Sutherland, and designer Shaun Tai.

Luna Publications' books address the cultural and intellectual attrition of the mainstream information flow, and work to compensate for the homogenization and commercialization of our literary experience. Its fiction attempts to be culturally conscious, fearless, edgy, and recognizable while its non-fiction strives to be iconoclastic and to give voice to some of the political complexities of our era. Simić says of Luna:

I believe that big publishers are dinosaurs with no sense of what’s going on in the Canadian literary scene. That creates opportunity for small presses. There is huge hyper-production of books by mediocre authors who have no idea what writing is all about. I started Luna because I wanted to give a chance to those authors who have something to say.[1]

On Wednesday, September 26, 2007, Luna Publications launched Ceasefire in Purgatory, Irish-Canadian poet and literary translator Colin Carberry's second collection of poetry, at The Dora Keogh Irish Pub. Previous Luna Publications titles include Making Bones Walk, by Canada's Alex Boyd (2007); and Chilean-US poet and publisher Mariela Griffor's Exiliana (2006). New releases by Iranian-US author Fereshteh Molavi, and Serbian-Canadian author Nenad Jovanovic were in the planning stages [1] but as of 2015 there is no indication these titles were published or that the company is still in business.

On June 21, 2008, at the League of Canadian Poets' Poetry Fest and Conference in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Toronto poet Alex Boyd was the winner of the Lampert Award for his book Making Bones Walk published by Luna Publications.[2]

New releases by Iranian-US author Fereshteh Molavi, and Serbian-Canadian author Nenad Jovanovic were in the planning stages but as of 2015 there is no indication these titles were published.