Insomniac Press is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 independent book publisher.

Founded in 1992 and based in London, Ontario

London, Ontario

London is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, situated along the Quebec City – Windsor Corridor. The city has a population of 352,395, and the metropolitan area has a population of 457,720, according to the 2006 Canadian census; the metro population in 2009 was estimated at 489,274. The city...

, Insomniac began as a publisher of poetry chapbook

Chapbook

A chapbook is a pocket-sized booklet. The term chap-book was formalized by bibliophiles of the 19th century, as a variety of ephemera , popular or folk literature. It includes many kinds of printed material such as pamphlets, political and religious tracts, nursery rhymes, poetry, folk tales,...

s. The company has since evolved into a publisher of a wide variety of fiction, poetry and non-fiction work by emerging Canadian writers. Authors published by Insomniac have included Natalee Caple

Natalee Caple

Natalee Caple is a Canadian author of novels and poetry who is based at the University of Calgary where she is working on a PhD.As a published author, her latest publication, Mackerel Sky, has enjoyed American distribution...

, Jon Paul Fiorentino

Jon Paul Fiorentino

Jon Paul Fiorentino is a Canadian poet, novelist and short story writer.Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he currently teaches at Concordia University, is editor-in-chief of Matrix magazine and founded Snare Books , a Canadian publishing Company....

, Jean Rae Baxter

Jean Rae Baxter

Jean Rae Baxter is a Canadian author. Her short stories have been included in such anthologies as Revenge and Hardboiled Love, both published by Insomniac Press. She also has her own collection of short stories entitled A Twist of Malice which was published in 2005 by Seraphim Editions. Her newest...

, Lynn Crosbie

Lynn Crosbie

Lynn Crosbie is a Canadian poet and novelist. She teaches the University of Toronto.-Life and career:Crosbie was born in Montreal, Quebec, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario....

, Stephen Finucan

Stephen Finucan

-Life:Finucan graduated from Trent University with a BA in literature and the University of East Anglia with an MA in creative writing. He is an instructor at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies and an English/Writer's Craft teacher at Martingrove Collegiate Institute, as well as...

, Sky Gilbert

Sky Gilbert

Schuyler Lee Gilbert, Jr. is a Canadian writer, actor, academic and drag performer. Born in Norwich, Connecticut, he studied theatre in Toronto, Ontario at York University and the University of Toronto, before becoming co-founder and artistic director of Buddies in Bad Times, a Toronto theatre...

, Lynnette D'anna

Lynnette D'anna

Lynnette D'anna is a Manitoba-born writer and author of contemporary urban Canadian literature, currently living in Toronto, Ontario.She was a finalist for the John_Hirsch Most Promising Manitoba Writer Award in 1992 following the publication of her first novel, sing me no more, published by...

, Howard Hampton

Howard Hampton

Howard George Hampton, MPP is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He has served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada, since 1987 as the Member of Provincial Parliament from the northern riding of Kenora—Rainy River. A member of the Ontario New Democratic Party, he was also the party's...

, R. M. Vaughan

R. M. Vaughan

Richard Murray Vaughan is a Canadian poet, novelist and playwright.A graduate of the creative writing program at the University of New Brunswick, Vaughan currently lives in Toronto. He was playwright-in-residence at Buddies in Bad Times in 1994-95, and has published numerous works, including...

, Jane Rule

Jane Rule

Jane Vance Rule, CM, OBC was a Canadian writer of lesbian-themed novels and non-fiction.-Biography:Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, Jane Vance Rule was the oldest daughter of Carlotta Jane and Arthur Richards Rule. She claimed she was a tomboy growing up and felt like an outsider for reaching six...

, Anne Stone

Anne Stone

Anne Stone is a Canadian writer.Primarily an underground literary figure, Stone alleged in 2000 that she ghostwrote the majority of Nega Mezlekia's award-winning memoir Notes from the Hyena's Belly. Mezlekia responded that Stone's role in the book's publication was strictly that of a copy editor,...

, Anthony Bidulka

Anthony Bidulka

Anthony Bidulka is a Canadian writer of mystery novels. His books feature gay detective Russell Quant. His 2004 novel Flight of Aquavit won the 2005 Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Mystery Novel. Bidulka received a Lambda Literary Award nomination again in 2009 for Sundowner Ubuntu...

 and A.F. Moritz.

The company has also published a number of books by musicians, including Matthew Good

Matthew Good

Matthew Frederick Robert Good is a Canadian rock musician. He was the lead singer for the Matthew Good Band, one of Canada's most successful alternative rock bands in the 1990s, before dissolving the band in 2002...

, Jann Arden

Jann Arden

Jann Arden is a Canadian singer-songwriter.-Life and career:Arden was born and raised near Calgary in Springbank, Alberta and attended Springbank Community High School. Her breakthrough came with her critically acclaimed 1993 debut album Time for Mercy and her first single "I Would Die For You"...

, Terri Clark

Terri Clark

Terri Lynn Sauson , known professionally as Terri Clark, is a Canadian country music artist who has had success in both Canada and the United States. Signed to Mercury Records in 1995, she released her self-titled debut that year...

, Lillian Allen

Lillian Allen

Lillian Allen is a Canadian dub poet, reggae musician, writer and Juno award winner.-Biography:Born in Spanish Town, Jamaica in 1951, she left that country in 1969, first moving to New York City, where she studied English at the City University of New York...

, Damhnait Doyle

Damhnait Doyle

Damhnait Doyle [DAV-net] is a Canadian pop singer. The phonetic spelling of her first name also serves as the title of her 2003 album. Her most recent album, Lights Down Low, is a collection of covers...

, Michelle Wright

Michelle Wright

Michelle Wright is a Canadian country music artist. She is one of the country's most widely recognized and awarded female country singers of the 1990s, winning the Canadian Country Music Association's Fans' Choice Award twice...

 and Ra McGuire

Ra McGuire

Ramon McGuire is a Canadian singer and songwriter, known for being a founding member of the rock band Trooper...

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Insomniac Press was founded by Mike O'Connor, who is still the current publisher. Editorial staff for the press has changed over the last decade but has included several Canadian writers such as Paul Vermeersch

Paul Vermeersch

Paul Joseph Vermeersch is a Canadian poet.Born in Mississauga, Ontario, he grew up in Southwestern Ontario and lives in Toronto.His first collection, Burn , was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award...

, Stephen Cain

Stephen Cain

Stephen Cain is a Canadian poet and academic.In his three books of poetry Cain demonstrates an interest in various poetic forms including sound poetry and concrete poetry, as well as constraint-based writing and procedural poetics...

, Emily Schultz

Emily Schultz

Emily Schultz is a Canadian-American fiction writer and the author of Black Coffee Night, a Danuta Gleed nominated 2002 collection of stories. A story from that collection was adapted by Lynne Stopkewich, director of Kissed. In 2005 Schultz published her first novel, Joyland...

, and Jon Paul Fiorentino

Jon Paul Fiorentino

Jon Paul Fiorentino is a Canadian poet, novelist and short story writer.Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he currently teaches at Concordia University, is editor-in-chief of Matrix magazine and founded Snare Books , a Canadian publishing Company....

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