[1] Heyday publishes around twenty books a year, as well as the quarterly magazine News from Native California.
[2] In 2016, Margolin retired from Heyday, and Steve Wasserman, previously editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times Book Review and an editor-at-large at Yale University Press, became Margolin's successor as publisher and executive director.
[3] Since 2020, the company has been co-led by Wasserman, publisher, and longtime staff member Gayle Wattawa, now general manager.
In partnership with the Inlandia Institute at the Riverside Public Library, Heyday published books on the Inland Empire in Southern California.
The press—which was founded in 2002 and is one of the few in the United States operated by a community college—publishes journals and books, most of which have a focus on the Sierra Nevada region.